Re: [Rails-devel] Foreigners Buy Trains

[Chris S. <chr...@gm...>]

Many of the O&O games (e.g. 1844, 1880include an automatic train discard,
and other designers (e.g. 1817) are copying the mechanic.  I'd say it's
generic.

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Chris

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On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 4:05 AM, Erik Vos <eri...@xs...> wrote:

> There doesn’t yet seem to be a Correction mode option to shuffle or discard
> trains, so your special company probably is the only available workaround at
> this stage.
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> Implementing an automatic train discard action at some predefined point is
> pretty trivial in Java, the main question (again) is: should this be made
> configurable in XML, or can it better be hardcoded in some game-specific
> subclass?  To decide such questions, we would need an inventory of which
> variations exists, and in which games these occur.
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> Erik.
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> *Van:* John A. Tamplin [mailto:ja...@ja...]
> *Verzonden:* zondag 13 maart 2011 14:19
> *Aan:* Development list for Rails: an 18xx game
> *Onderwerp:* Re: [Rails-devel] Foreigners Buy Trains
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> On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 4:28 AM, Scott Petersen <sc...@re...>
> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> John A. Tamplin
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