[18FR] Rules implementation

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18FR is Alex Rockwell's prototype based on 1817. I volunteered to implement it.

General

• Trains (including 2P for Diligence private)
• Phases
• Stock market
• Map
• Tiles
• Money, cert limit
• Logos

Private auction

• Discard 3 random privates
• Auction the color of privates that has fewer privates
• Auction in 1822 style
  • unlimited (i.e. 7) cubes per player
  • one bid per turn
• Reverse the turn order
• Auction the other color
• Priority now is according to money spent (like in 1844)

Privates

• Blue

  • Diligence
  • Patience
  • Charity (replaces player's own Charity)
  • Kindness
  • Humility
  • Temperence
  • Chastity

• Red

  • Greed
  • Sloth
  • Wrath
  • Envy
  • Pride
  • Gluttony
  • Lust

• Purple

  • Charity (one for each player)

SR

• In SR1 only 2 share companies are available
• In next SRs 2 and 5 share companies are always available and 10 share never
• Lowest par price is 45 (so minimum bid 90)
• Corporations may not redeem shares in SR, but they make take loans
• In the final SR, presidents may own any % of their corporations
• At the end of SR, each player having at least on short has their cert limit increased by 1
• Priority in pass order (like in 1828)

Private/Money Rearrangement Phase

• After SR1, in priority order, players may freely rearrange money and privates between their companies as long as the value (privates + money - loans) stays the same

Share Redemption Round

• In share price order, each corporation with at least one share in the market not in acquisition may:

  • take any number of loans
  • redeem any number of its shares from the market

• At the end of SRR:

  • corporations with shares in the market go down one space per share in the market
  • fully owned corporations go up
  • in the final SRR, a corporation doesn't go down if the president owns at lest 50%

OR

• Tile lays:
  • yellow phase: one tile lay
  • from green phase: like in 1817
  • end game phase: skipped
• Routes:
  • in yellow phase, 2T may run in one city like an L train, but no more per city than there are tracks
  • from blue phase, ports no longer count towards train length
  • 6D trains double ports' value
• Train trading:
  • not between different players
  • minimum price is 0
• Export:
  • every time a train is exported, other trains of that type are discounted by 10% of the base price
  • if the train would be discounted too many times (see the table), instead export all trains of that type

M&A
TBD

Game end
TBD

Other

• Share price movement - marker always go to the bottom of the column, even if it stays in the same column

Game wiki

• Rulebook