Re: [Rails-devel] 1835 Bug

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

There's another set of scenarios to consider - some games distinguish
between the bank and the market (aka bank pool) when specifying where a
train may (or must) be purchased during emergency money raising.  The
question is usually framed "is a company that has used emergency money
raising required to buy a cheap train from the market, or may it buy a more
expensive train from the bank?"

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Chris

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On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 6:44 AM, Mike Bourke <com...@ip...>wrote:

> 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
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>
>
>
> -----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.
>
>
>
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