Re: [Rails-devel] Question regarding Handling of Map Hex blocking in 1837

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

John, I don't think you said anything that contradicts what Martin said.
You're both saying that the private companies do not need to be purchased
by the major companies for the special power (hex blocking) to be
abrogated. Both of you are saying that owning private + major will allow
major to lay track in the blocked hex.


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On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 5:55 PM, John David Galt <
jd...@di...> wrote:

> On 2014-09-04 05:06, Dr. Martin Brumm wrote:
> > the private companies in 1837 have the power to block access to their
> > hexes to anyone but the owner and the companies that the owner is
> > controlling, without the companies having to buy in the privates.
>
> This is wrong in two respects.
>
> (1) 1837's privates (AKA mountain companies) can never be bought in by
> other companies [Rule II].
>
> You use their power as in 1835, simply by being the president of both the
> private and the track-laying company that will benefit (which need not be
> a major).  This may be done in any phase of the game (until the purchase
> of the first 5-train, which closes all privates) [Rule V.14].  Using a
> private company's power does not close the private [Rule II.1].
>
> (2) Private companies do indeed initially block tile-laying in their hexes
> by any company whose president is not the owner of the private.  This
> restriction ends upon the purchase of the first 3-train.  After that time,
> other players' companies may lay tiles in the private company's hex but
> doing so will cost them 110K [Rule V.14].
>
>
>
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