... It is a product of the rules. If you are blocked from making your first two length route by yellow track you can use a green (or brown) tile to get out...
Rick, Sorry for the delay in my response. I appreciate learning of your 1832 Civil War experimental games. I haven't had a chance to try it myself yet. (Too...
... Didn't it used to be that capitalisation rule you use in your own games? E.g. that only the president's share purchases capitalise the company? I am...
... For 1856, the capitalize rule works, too (strategic consequences differ though). But for the purpose of just solving the 1856 design bug, the may not sell...
Robert, Doesn't your capitalisation rule lead to the possibility of other players ganging up to prevent a company reaching its full capitalisation? E.g. if...
Hi-- Are there any games other than the super-rare (and enormous) 1831 that feature common and preferred stock? Recent US government share dealings have ...
I also thought there was a mapboard change; something about a city/town that hadn't been printed on the mapboard? Was this perchance Shide (which is actually a...
... This is indeed possible and it involves new kinds of strategies. What the effects are depends on the nature of the game and its other rules. Presumably...
In 1826 companies have some of their shares marked "Preferred Stock" but this chiefly indicates that they are 40% and 20% certificates. The distinction is...
... My 1831 Game Review at http://home.earthlink.net/~gamecorner/1831revw.html should answer your questions about the 1831 game in a general way. The ...
... Really? You don't think the attacked player would be continuing to buy shares in the company he's opening so that he doesn't wind up buying a train for it...
... Dave your proposal is deeply flawed. Firstly, if you have that kind of collusion going on, then what you have is an [redacted] problem, not a rules...
... I know that in 1835 the other players seem to _prefer_ to nationalize the 20% shares off me... (Not the answer you wanted I'm sure) If I recall in real...
... It depends on how much cash he has available, of course. If he cannot afford to buy also other shares, then he might as well just float and suffer. ... ...
... Although I considered such things, I would find other things more interesting and would design them first. Among them are: - auctioning of shares (the only...
... No worries. :D Thanks for answering my other questions, sounds like the rules got a bit more polished in later versions which is good for everyone. ... ...
... [redacted] problem, not a rules problem. Which is to say that if a group of players all decide to collude to 'take out' another player there is no...
... [snip] Under original [1856] rules, two or more players collude to cross-finance their new companies in the stock round they are floated - while such ...
... Its degree of effect can be reduced a bit but always winning chances of the colluding players increase dramatically. We have tried every conceivable...
Mightyrick, I have not played 1832 a lot but the player taking the London almost always buys a CoG on SR1 and sells it to buy something else on OR2. The CoG...
... My understanding is that the aim of Robert's rule is to disallow collusion, in the form of "ultimate capitalisation". If collusion can happen in one...
I love this discussion. It goes to the heart of the matter of what makes a good train game. --Worst case scenario on the right is that there is so much...
... I do not want to prohibit collusion like Adam Romoth's gentlemen's agreement for 3-player games "no deals" would. Rather my aim is to make the strategic...
... Don't you mean 1-dimensional stock chart? I've never understood why the 2 dimensional aspect is so appealing. A game can drop the share price when shares...
... a) company turn order strategy b) yet greater (a) on deep 2D markets with diagonally constant values c) fine value-dependent strategies on 2D markets with...
On Mon, 04 May 2009 19:49:38 -0000 ... It adds the ability for different shares to follow different value sequences, as well as localised features such as...
... It allows you to easily model reducing the effect of sales on stock price depending on how well it has paid out and how much it has been trashed in the...
I have found that the more majorRRs and/or players in a game, the more interaction and/or 'collusion' you'll need to have -in particular this is one of the...
... In the real world, preferred stock is "preferred" because it carries a right to higher precedence in getting paid off if the company dissolves. In most ...
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