Re: [Rails-devel] Foreigners Buy Trains

[John A. T. <ja...@ja...>]

On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 4:28 AM, Scott Petersen <sc...@re...>wrote:

> Any ideas on how to implement the "foreigners buy a train at the end of the
> set of ORs" rules that some Double-O games use (at least 1824/1844)?  I am
> doing a workaround for my prototype by putting a well-funded company that
> starts in the bottom left space of the stock market.  That way it always
> runs last and is in the yellow zone so it doesn't count as a certificate for
> the President.  Luckily, it is an infinite bank, so no issue with cash
> movements.  It seems to work in the meantime until I finalize the design,
> but does anyone have a more elegant way of doing this?  It would be worth
> implementing this mechanism at some point.  I will probably work on 1824 as
> my next Rails project.
>
> For those that are not familiar, the "foreigners buy" rule is that at the
> end of a set of ORs, the top train on the stack is discarded from the game.
> This could trigger the start of a new phase.  18FR-RCE does something
> similar, but allows the foreigners to discard two trains if they are of
> different rank.  Another variant on this is to have the foreigners buy a
> train after every OR rather than set--I'm still experimenting with that.
>

I think it is going to require Java code to implement.  When implementing,
consider variations, such as 1861 where the Russian state railroad buys
trains as it has cash available.

-- 
John A. Tamplin