Re: [Rails-devel] Design Question regarding Minors/Majors

[John D. G. <jd...@di...>]

On 2014-04-25 19:34, Chris Shaffer wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 7:11 PM, John David Galt <jd...@di... <mailto:jd...@di...>> wrote:
> 
>     A NationalCompany is a PublicCompany with these additional properties.
>     *  A list of the other companies (of any kind) which will merge, and
>     the shares to be exchanged for each.  If any of the predecessors is a
>     public company then there must be an exchange certificate for each one
>     of its share certificates.
>     *  The game phase that begins the period in which the NationalCompany
>     may form.  (The predecessor that converts to the president's share is,
>     by definition, the one that may form it.)
>     *  The game phase at which the NationalCompany must form.
>     *  The game phase at which all predecessors of the NationalCompany must
>     merge.
> 
> 
> I would encourage you to look at games like 18MEX, which don't quite fit this model. It would be nice if your new model would fit those games as well. In 18MEX, there are three minor companies which merge into two different major companies. Minors A and B merge into the NdM national railroad in exchange for 5% shares. Minor C merges into the UdY, which in all other respects is a regular major company. Further, shares of the NdM are distributed as:
> 
> 1) President 20% auctioned as a private company.
> 2) Six 10% shares may be purchased in stock rounds after phase 3.5 begins (on the sale of the fifth 3 train).
> 3) Two 5% shares exchanged for minor companies A and B when phase 3.5 begins.
> 4) One 10% share that can optionally be exchanged for the president's share of one of the CHI, MC, MEX, SPM, or UdY major company on the sale of the first 5 train.
> 
> The rules for 18MEX are available on the Deep Thought Games web site.

That's a good reason to generalize this bit:
>> [For grins I may even include the capability to have a predecessor
>> "decide" that it'll never merge after all, thus moving its reserved
>> trade-in share of the NationalCompany into the regular IPO.  This would
>> handle the growth companies in 2038.]
to allow a share to be "reserved" while putting off the decision of which
company gets to convert to it until a later phase.  I'll add that to my
class definition.