Re: [Rails-devel] 1835 Bug

[Mike B. <com...@ip...>]

I have seen some groups who don't permit the purchase of trains from
Government-owned corporations (the Prussian and CGR, specifically). This
might be yet another candidate for a game option. To the best of my
knowledge, these two would be the only operating companies that would have
been affected by this bug.

In a related issue, I do believe that some of the 18xx game rules forbid the
purchase of trains from corporations who have not *operated* yet, even if
they have floated, but I can't be more specific or more certain. This would
prohibit certain bootstrapping practices (float a corp, buy an about-to-die
train from another corp for most of the treasury, buy a train to trigger a
phase change, the corp which received the treasury then buys the new and
better train from the first at a pittance. The owner is then forced to sell
shares in order to raise capital for a train, dumping the company - and the
problem - on some other poor schmuck who bought shares in the company in
good faith).

Mike Bourke
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