@host Why was grup.pe blocked? @[email protected] has been markedly useful and without abuse.
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J C Lawrence
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Maker of Makers, Questioner of Questions, These are a few of my favourite things.
@grayson @iain @jcl I've only played with smaller player counts, and suspect that past 4 the dilution of control will break player belief in coherence. Dunno, but seems about right. So much of the game sits as a sort of descending sequence of adding mortal edges to a toboggan course as you fall down it. Every so often a player may get to add a new fatal cutting edge to the course, but most of the dance is in trying to find and make spaces between the and-here-you-die lines as they rush impossibly fast past.
@tabletopgamesblog I go one further, and call/restart games when there's a categorical loser, not only when there's a categorical winner.
@tabletopgamesblog There are three ways 1860 can end, and yes, the bank breaking is one of them. In descending frequency, they are: nationalisation, topping the stock market, and bank breaking.
And at least here, or with nearby players, 1860 is prone to blow-out wins, most especially with 3 players due to the float-2-companies-in SR2 strategy (very strong, not dominant, but also hard to fight).
@markdennehy I generally find such biographies trying to substitute as claims for authority.
The double dits in 1813 haven't really been working. They're effectively single dits with noise, and that's not enough to justify their existence. So....now trying silly things with double dits.
3-player 1832. Tried something.
Bought the London Investment, Coal and Georgia Central presidency for $400, leaving me $300 cash -- just enough to float the GC using the London Investment.
SR2 sell a GC to buy into GM&O and L&N. OR2 the GC withholds (so the London Investment would keep paying $6 difference to me). SR3 tapped the GC again -- which setup 5 ORs of the GC with a CMV well below IPO and paying out with 40% paying to treasury.
Ended up with two systems: ACL+GC and SAL+N&W with, collectively, 6/6/10/12 and the ACL+GC at a $400 stock price.
