Henning Kantner wrote:
>> The situation with the Bayern is utterly avoidable. If anyone puts himself
>> in a position where I as a president have 20% and two more people also
>> have 20% - well, if that is not asking for trouble, I do not know,
>> what is. As I for one have so eloquently put it (oh, the sheer
>> arrogance of that guy. ;-) ): Absolute money doesn't matter, relative
>> money matters.
JDG wrote:
> The stock position you describe happened during the initial stock round
> in a four player game, played with a variant rule (by Bill Stoll) that
> the By always floats even if it doesn't sell out. I was stuck with two
> bad choices: either buy two blue private companies knowing I'd never
> control the By (and needed to float the Sx), or wind up as the only
> player with no income in OR1. As it turned out, I had already lost the
> game either way.

Actually it was a 3-way game using the auction variant.

http://www.askwaltstollmd.com/bill/archive/1835zehn/index.html

I had never seen the "By small circle" done before - it never would have
occurred to me that buying that By share could be bad, and I would have played
the same way John did.

Anyway, it was an interesting game with three strong players, and was certainly
educational for me as an observer. Hmm, it has been too long since I hosted one
of these...

Bill Stoll



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