By the way, I think it is nice that your life is so exciting that you want your ames to be more like real life. I tend to want the opposite. -Bruce Good Lord...
Tom, When dividends drive multiple jumps (1846, etc) players cannot choose a stock value strategy. Since payouts translate to stock value, players must play a...
Tom, Selling privates to public companies is a major way of getting cash. I suspect it is possible to win a short, fast game of 1830 without every paying a...
for those of you who care, the 2nd 7-player 1861 concluded a week ago. Game 1 = 20,431R total value Game 2 = 23,741R total value So the average player...
JCL, paying (and getting paid) dividends (which is the PRIMARY, maybe ONLY, method for gaining personal cash in an 18XX game) is such an overwhelming part...
Tom's optional rule (companies must do connection runs if able) is OK with me, but companies should still have to wait for the end of their own operations to...
I think it is more to do with confusion over Allen Stancius' comments, intended (which I misunderstood) to suggest a rules clarification. Stancius (since...
Since this could be making reference to one of my comments, I'm assuming that it's alluding to an optional rule (that I proposed) where a Railroad in '18??'...
I can't say whether this version clarifies anything, because I can't see the rules through your eyes to understand how you came to the conclusion that you did....
mike, I'm just deriving questions to the rules as others that "think" the know them by reading this pdf could possibly interpret them differently than ...
well bruce, since you know that i "cannot" see the board, then your statement is irrelevant. but since Allen Sli has explained it, then you have your answer to...
just to note, how things are worded can be interpreted differently than what was intended. and there are people that think that they have read the rules, but...
I may have misundersttod your comment to Mike. I thought you were arguing that running multiple trains out of ?? destos was as easy and lucrative as out of 70...
Since I think that you know the answer, this appears to be a pointed question, but I don't know what it is pointed at. In 18?? the four corner red off-board...
All you say is true. I don't see what you are arguing about. Oh, you are talking to the other Allen! I'm not used to someone else having my name. Â Allen S. ...
If nothing is done after the current operation, placing the extra $100 station marker may be done at a future opportunity, just like the option of completing...
A decade ago I played with a group of very good 1870 players who taught me a lot. There priority rule of thumb was: 1) Get a number of cities + to your train...
No. Where did that come from? Â Allen So a company could be "forced" to destinate at a location they don't want? ... This is a message from the 18xx mailing...
In 1870, you can run 4 trains out of Dallas or Fort Worth or St. Louis, Allen. Can you run 4 trains out of SE, SW, or Denver? The destinations in ?? are off...
Companies don't get "extra destination runs." I don't understand your question, but here is a more wordy explanation of destination station marker limits....
The problem is not that simple. Your change makes dividends the dominant force, not stock appreciation. Multi-jumps reward dividends without regard for when...
OR, you'd want to destinate early, and get more multiple jumps. If a large destination run gave you a triple jump, that might allow your stock price to catch...
Just to add to Hecht's comment about the Vellani rule, IF you were playing with stock-price appreciation rules where it was possible to double or triple-jump...
Until four companies have made connection runs, and placed their tokens in four unique destination locations, no offboard red area may contain more than one...
Allen, Your willingness to make absolute (and fairly confrontational) statements on little experience is astonishing. You are also misquoting the rules. Based...
to clarify my comment. it may state that the destination is optional, but then is followed up with an option to buy that token for $100, and concludes with...
another point that needs more clarification is: When four or more companies have made their connection runs, one additional company may make a connection run...
