On Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:10:20 -0000
mightyrickempire <rickcarson+yahoogroups@...> wrote:

> And at various times I've considered having "German game" style tracks
> around the outside of the board. E.g. you could have one for
> maintenance costs - every operating round after the first one is
> bought the counter for the 2 trains advances one spot on the track,
> with ever increasing maintenance (e.g. +10 per square).

Baltimore & Ohio, one of Winsome Game's new games for this year, does
several intereting things with trains:

1) The cost of a train is a function of its level and whether it is the
first, second, third etc of that level. The formula is

((L^2 + L + 8) * 10) - (L * N * 5)

Where L is the level of train and N is the zero-based index of the train
at that level.

2) There's no route tracing. Simply, all the trains the company owns
are summed (eg two 2-trains, a 3-train, and two 4-trains gives a total
of 15) and then that many cities connected by the company's track are
selected to generate the dividend (without regard for sequencing or
locality).

3) An operating company must pay maintenance on each of their trains,
equal to $10 multilied by the current phase/train number. Yeo, small
trains become uneconomic quite quickly.

3.5) All city revenues upgrade automatically when a new level of train
is bought, much like red off-board areas do in traditional 18xx.

4) Trains may be sold to the bank for a nomial sum ($20 times the train
level).

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