by telengard
First off, just want to say this game is pretty dang fun so far, and there are lots of good decisions. I'm stuck on a couple of things and I'm sure it probably comes from not having playing a train game other than TTR. I get the feeling some of this may be standard fare for a 18xx game.Went through a few turns of my first solitaire game and eventually triggered a dividend. Do you start with the company value for that railroad on the "Company Value" sheet and then add to it the calculated value as described in the rules (i.e. looking at connections, etc)? Just wondering how the company value that is kept track of (adding to it when you upgrade your train etc) related to the calculated one.
The colors on the sheet are grey and yellow, given the prices on them they correspond to the black and grey in the manual?
Are the city upgrades kept in any specific order? I did notice another threat that said the train upgrades are kept in increasing bonus order.
How do you calculate "city size" as described in the Upgrade Company City action (2 pips x city size). Is it the number of cities the railroad connects to?
The examples for dividends mention $1 towns. Are the white hexes considered $1 towns? Also, how would you ever end up with a $2 city if they are all $3. I must be misunderstanding the city/town concept.
If from the 3 drawn items from the bag I get one each of a player's share, do they have to be done in any particular order?
I've also been playing that whenever a share is placed for the first time in a company, if there is a cube in that company's supply, you can place it on a black city if empty like you do @ the start of the game.