http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/18xx/ Railway Board Games based on 1829, 1830 Mon, 12 May 2008 04:06:47 GMT Beard, Bruce D. http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/18xx/message/21495 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/18xx/message/21495 First we had the crusades, then the inquisition, and now the 18XX chat group. One never knows where religious zealotry will occur next. Pay the privates Mon, 12 May 2008 03:41:04 GMT Chris Shaffer http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/18xx/message/21494 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/18xx/message/21494 I'm glad Steve has answered and told us how Ian plays, which is how I'll play in the future. However, I completely agree with Steve that neither Mon, 12 May 2008 03:01:17 GMT David G.D. Hecht http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/18xx/message/21493 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/18xx/message/21493 As is often the case, context is everything. The statements you quote from 6.2.1 must be read in the larger context of the rule as a whole. The "contractually Mon, 12 May 2008 02:19:16 GMT Beard, Bruce D. http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/18xx/message/21492 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/18xx/message/21492 Hey, Mike. Since David peruses this site, I am sure he will be able to answer you. Most games I have played the 3T is bought early in the 2nd OR. Mon, 12 May 2008 02:08:57 GMT Mike Monical http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/18xx/message/21491 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/18xx/message/21491 Having played 18West with several different rule versions during development I am sometimes confused as to the current rulings even when reading them. My Mon, 12 May 2008 00:57:02 GMT Ralf Dallmeier http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/18xx/message/21490 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/18xx/message/21490 Hi Spencer, unforturnatly you can't. If I interpretate the Rule page 14 last para of price prot. right. Greetings ... Nicht vergessen! Am Sonntag, den 11. Mai Mon, 12 May 2008 00:35:16 GMT Beard, Bruce D. http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/18xx/message/21489 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/18xx/message/21489 You may not in 1870 (assuming you mean in the same SR) but you can in one of Bill's other games--I think 1832. ________________________________ From: Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:23 GMT Spencer Hamblen http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/18xx/message/21488 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/18xx/message/21488 If you sell a share of a company of which you are president, are you later allowed to price protect shares of the same company? My intuition was no, but Bill Sun, 11 May 2008 23:18:18 GMT Beard, Bruce D. http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/18xx/message/21487 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/18xx/message/21487 I don't buy it. A game is an artificial construct and the rules are equally artificial. They don't follow Newton's laws. The designers struggle to write the Sun, 11 May 2008 22:59:04 GMT allen http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/18xx/message/21486 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/18xx/message/21486 beard, when an event happens, all other effects that it causes are always taken care of first unless the rules have stated otherwise! just because there's a Sun, 11 May 2008 22:33:41 GMT Beard, Bruce D. http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/18xx/message/21485 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/18xx/message/21485 Allen, Have you never before read an 18XX rule that did not seem logical? Or a section of rules that was confusing? Or even two rules that seemed to Sun, 11 May 2008 19:51:00 GMT Vesa-Pekka Palmu http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/18xx/message/21484 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/18xx/message/21484 ... As usual, you are plain wrong, page 16 of the rulebook says: 6.6.1 Russian State Railway: Reserved toke spaces; Place a marker in Moscow when it upgrades Sun, 11 May 2008 19:16:03 GMT allen http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/18xx/message/21483 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/18xx/message/21483 the RSR always has a token placed in moscow regardless of available token spots. so, if there's no token spot available in moscow when the RSR forms, it just Sun, 11 May 2008 18:57:25 GMT Maisnestce@... http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/18xx/message/21482 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/18xx/message/21482 ... According to way the designer plays, the minors get nationalised before the privates. In other words, RSR inherits the private only, not the private plus Sun, 11 May 2008 18:52:00 GMT Vesa-Pekka Palmu http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/18xx/message/21481 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/18xx/message/21481 ... M-B has always been started and been the most desirable of the second minors, as it is often necessery to merge some other minor with it. Also D gets