Re: [Rails-devel] Teleporting Privates: Implementation issues

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

>
> I've always assumed "reserved" here means the broader, 1830 sense of
> the term: when a hex is "reserved" by a private, it means no railroad
> can lay a tile in the hex, except by using the private's power, so long
> as a player owns the private.  When the private closes, or is sold to a
> railroad, or a tile is laid there, the hex is no longer reserved.
> I also want to make the "reserved" attribute changeable during the game,
> because in 1837, the mountain company hexes are "reserved" only during
> yellow phase.  In later phases anyone can lay tiles there.


 Note that in some games, the private continues to reserve the hex even
after it is owned by a company. The release mechanism should have several
potential triggers.