From: Mike B. <com...@ip...> - 2012-10-10 13:43:44
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It's not expressly forbidden. Neither is it expressly permitted. That generally leaves the question in the form of customary usage and house rules, which are necessarily local and not general. There are three common approaches to a company being forced to buy a train. The first is that a train may be purchased from any corporation that has one, or from the bank, provided that such purchases are not explicitly forbidden. The second restricts such purchases to non-government corporations and the bank. The third restricts the purchases to the bank only. All are equally valid under the rules, but can produce very different game play. That is why I suggested the possibility of this being an option (probably on the game configuration panel), with the first approach (the most universal / least restricted) being the default. So the game currently works correctly in that default mode except in the matter of the original bug reported. Mike Bourke Campaign Mastery http://www.campaignmastery.com Co-author, Assassin's Amulet http://www.legaciescampaignsetting.com -----Original Message----- From: Erik Vos [mailto:eri...@xs...] Sent: Wednesday, 10 October 2012 10:53 PM To: 'Development list for Rails: an 18xx game' Subject: Re: [Rails-devel] 1835 Bug > That's the two-company dump, which is expressly banned in nearly all 18xx > games, usually by requiring that any train purchase which involves > emergency money raising be from the bank or bank pool and not from > another company. If I'm correct, Rails does not prevent buying trains from other companies in emergency train buying. Certainly not in 1830 (where I have a test case). So that is a bug (except perhaps in 1830)? Erik. |