Re: [Rails-devel] Emergency train purchases

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

I'm pretty sure there are games where a company is not required to buy a
train from the pool, but may instead use emergency money raising to buy a
more expensive train from the bank.  I'm at work and don't have access to my
games and rules, so I can't verify this right now.

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On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 4:42 AM, Erik Vos <eri...@xs...> wrote:

> I'm working to get the emergency train buying rules right.  Currently, all
> Rails games follow the 1830 rules, and several people have already
> complained about that.
>
> In this stage I do not aim at getting all the details in all games
> completely implemented.
> However, I think I have identified the main options and sorted out how
> these
> apply to most of the games that we have been working on so far.
>
> The below only applies to companies that must own a train.  That excludes
> 1825.
>
> 1. If a company has no train, it can buy any train on offer from Bank, Pool
> or other companies (at any price) that is has enough cash for.
> It is always obliged to buy a used (Pool) train that it can pay for, if it
> cannot afford a new (IPO) train.
> It is never obliged to buy a train from another company.
> Only if no affordable train can be found this way, the President can and
> indeed must add cash, and the below rules apply.
>
> 2. Must buy the *cheapest* train from Bank or Pool:
> 1830/Kaas, 1856/70, 18AL/GA/TN, 1826: Yes.
> 1835, 18EU/VA/Scan: No.
>
> 3. May buy a train from another company (always up to list price):
> 1830/Kaas, 1835, 18EU/VA/Scan, 1826: Yes.
> 1856/70, 18AL/GA/TN: No.
>
> 4. President may add extra cash above the agreed price (up to list price)
> if
> buying from another company:
> 1830/Kaas: Yes.  It seems that this even applies if the company has
> sufficient cash for the agreed price.
> 18EU: Yes, but only if the company had exactly zero cash.
> All others: No or N/A.
>
> Any corrections to the above summary?
>
> Any more fine details for these games, and extensions to other games, are
> welcome, but will probably be end up in the for-later-study archive.
> I had a brief look into 1880, but it's not clear to me what the verdicts
> are
> for this game.
>
> Erik.
>
>
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