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Cthulhu Dreams
Dec 11, 2010

If I pretend to be Cthulhu no one will know I'm a baseball robot.
I am keen as well.

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Cthulhu Dreams
Dec 11, 2010

If I pretend to be Cthulhu no one will know I'm a baseball robot.
I..bid 20 pounds on ENR FDR ENR

Known Lecher is up next

Cthulhu Dreams fucked around with this message at 01:58 on Dec 13, 2018

Cthulhu Dreams
Dec 11, 2010

If I pretend to be Cthulhu no one will know I'm a baseball robot.

Known Lecher posted:

One thing to keep in mind for Facker, since it's their first 18XX, is that (as shown on the stock chart) 54 is the absolute lowest share price that you can start a company at, meaning you need at least 54x5 = 270 (plus anything you might have bid) in order to be able to buy 5 shares and float a company. Since only companies that are floated can operate and earn money, that's pretty important. Other players could theoretically buy shares in your company and help float it but that's generally Real Bad to count on unless you have an explicit agreement with them.

Pass

Also basically never buy into someone's company to help them float it unless you have a really, really good reason why you might want to do that.

Cthulhu Dreams
Dec 11, 2010

If I pretend to be Cthulhu no one will know I'm a baseball robot.
Can I start another auction here?

Cthulhu Dreams
Dec 11, 2010

If I pretend to be Cthulhu no one will know I'm a baseball robot.
Nah, will bid 30 here.

Cthulhu Dreams
Dec 11, 2010

If I pretend to be Cthulhu no one will know I'm a baseball robot.
Yeah you can have it

P.S. gently caress you

Cthulhu Dreams
Dec 11, 2010

If I pretend to be Cthulhu no one will know I'm a baseball robot.
Pass

Cthulhu Dreams
Dec 11, 2010

If I pretend to be Cthulhu no one will know I'm a baseball robot.
Pass

Cthulhu Dreams
Dec 11, 2010

If I pretend to be Cthulhu no one will know I'm a baseball robot.

15

Cthulhu Dreams
Dec 11, 2010

If I pretend to be Cthulhu no one will know I'm a baseball robot.

Pass.

I think i get to start an auction then in which case NGC for 5

Cthulhu Dreams
Dec 11, 2010

If I pretend to be Cthulhu no one will know I'm a baseball robot.

Mr. Squishy posted:

I'm talking w/ Facker in the discord and have found a few missed rules. First off, as this is the start of the game, this is PR 1 of 2. We then found, casting around as to why that matters, the rule that someone who's won an auction may not start a new one (though they can still bid in and win auctions started by some one else).
I should also restate that £0 is a legal bid.

Oh gently caress, can I bid zero then unless anyone minds?

Cthulhu Dreams
Dec 11, 2010

If I pretend to be Cthulhu no one will know I'm a baseball robot.
Par at 58, buy 5 shares, will do the tokens soon.

Cthulhu Dreams
Dec 11, 2010

If I pretend to be Cthulhu no one will know I'm a baseball robot.
Bid 0£ on L&E

Cthulhu Dreams
Dec 11, 2010

If I pretend to be Cthulhu no one will know I'm a baseball robot.

If I pass here, you are completely hosed as I understand it, unless everyone else bails you out.

So I pass!

Cthulhu Dreams
Dec 11, 2010

If I pretend to be Cthulhu no one will know I'm a baseball robot.

Mr. Squishy posted:

I can sell a share to buy a share

Ohhh haha. Hrm. OK let me bid 15 then.

Cthulhu Dreams
Dec 11, 2010

If I pretend to be Cthulhu no one will know I'm a baseball robot.
Cool, I par at 58, buy 5 shares and pass until the SR

Cthulhu Dreams
Dec 11, 2010

If I pretend to be Cthulhu no one will know I'm a baseball robot.
Pass for the rest of the round unless someone sells something

Known Lecher is up

Cthulhu Dreams fucked around with this message at 02:35 on Dec 20, 2018

Cthulhu Dreams
Dec 11, 2010

If I pretend to be Cthulhu no one will know I'm a baseball robot.

Known Lecher posted:

We're into the regular stock round now right?

If so pass unless someone sells, same as Cthulhu

Yup - that puts FACKER in the hot seat.

Cthulhu Dreams
Dec 11, 2010

If I pretend to be Cthulhu no one will know I'm a baseball robot.
So the order of companies WNR- Known Lecher
ENR Mr Squishy
You&N - FACKER
NGC - Me
L&E - Me
WVR - FACKER

Cthulhu Dreams
Dec 11, 2010

If I pretend to be Cthulhu no one will know I'm a baseball robot.

Cthulhu Dreams posted:

So the order of companies WNR- Known Lecher
ENR Mr Squishy
You&N - FACKER
NGC - Me
L&E - Me
WVR - FACKER

So I got the operating order wrong - L&E formed 2nd, so it's 'ontop' of the stack, which means it operates first.

So L&E lays two track, but 2x 2Ls for 200, share price goes down.

NGC operates, lays two track, buys 2F trains for 400 and share price goes down.

@FACKER is up with WVR

I'm gonna auto pass for this stock round, despite possibly loving up massively LOL

Edit: We've also entered phase B, so you can now upgrade yellow tiles to green

Also, the tile mix in this game? Holy gently caress.

Edit: Man, I should read the rules in this game more LOL.

Cthulhu Dreams fucked around with this message at 07:18 on Dec 21, 2018

Cthulhu Dreams
Dec 11, 2010

If I pretend to be Cthulhu no one will know I'm a baseball robot.

Mr. Squishy posted:

Buy a share of NGC, onto Lecher.

Actually I will revoke my pass, Sell L&E and buy a share of NGC from the IPO.

Now I pass for the rest of the round.

Cthulhu Dreams
Dec 11, 2010

If I pretend to be Cthulhu no one will know I'm a baseball robot.

Known Lecher posted:

CD has £-1 on the spreadsheet for some reason.

This is because I'm a doofus and sold a share for 52 instead of 54. Fixed now.


quote:

I'll buy a share of WNR for £74 - I didn't see anything in the rules about limits on share ownership so I'm assuming that's legal.

To save time I'll do the same thing again next turn, and then autopass, leaving me with exactly £0. :smugdog:

Yeah it's legal to own more in this game, which is interesting/weird.

And yeah, you can only buy one share at a time.

Cthulhu Dreams
Dec 11, 2010

If I pretend to be Cthulhu no one will know I'm a baseball robot.

Mr. Squishy posted:

Yeah, I've just been getting ready to travel - expect things to slow down for a bit.
Buy another of cd's freight co


I updated the sheet - assuming noone sells you're the only one with cash, what are you buying? More freight?

Cthulhu Dreams
Dec 11, 2010

If I pretend to be Cthulhu no one will know I'm a baseball robot.
Done:


So the order of companies

WNR- Known Lecher
ENR Mr Squishy
Y&N - FACKER
NGC - Me
L&E - Me
WVR - FACKER

Cthulhu Dreams
Dec 11, 2010

If I pretend to be Cthulhu no one will know I'm a baseball robot.

FACKER posted:

And we repeat the OR as well right? But the order might be different depending on how stock prices change?

Yes

Cthulhu Dreams
Dec 11, 2010

If I pretend to be Cthulhu no one will know I'm a baseball robot.

FACKER posted:

Y&N Operates
Yellow N 790 on Ipswich.
Run 1F+1F from Great Yarmouth Port to Yarmouth to Lowestoft for 130. (80 port +30 hex +20 Lowestoft).
Pay dividend, price increases 58>>68.
Buy 2/3E train.

6 B trains have been bought so now we're in C

Don't we only go when the first C train is bought?

Cthulhu Dreams
Dec 11, 2010

If I pretend to be Cthulhu no one will know I'm a baseball robot.
NGC tokens London and runs for (100+20+3*20) 180 and pays in full, the share price triple jumping to 68.

L&E causes me to contemplate my navel for a bit

Cthulhu Dreams
Dec 11, 2010

If I pretend to be Cthulhu no one will know I'm a baseball robot.
L&E upgrades a tile and runs for 90 (20+50+20)

L&E withholds, then buys a C train.

This causes the A trains to rust but I'm not sure who has lost the warranties so I won't do that in the sheet.

Share price falls to 47.

Cthulhu Dreams
Dec 11, 2010

If I pretend to be Cthulhu no one will know I'm a baseball robot.

Mr. Squishy posted:

Everyone whose A train had completed a "run routes" bit of an OR

Which is everyone yeah, only company after L&E is WVR which only had B trains.

Cthulhu Dreams
Dec 11, 2010

If I pretend to be Cthulhu no one will know I'm a baseball robot.
Hey dudes

https://boardgamegeek.com/article/14020162#14020162

This designer 'clarification' says you *can* run freight train chain port to port as long as it's two different trains.. but they all need to touch s token.

This changes things a fair bit, so how do we want to play it going forward?
Edit: my vote is we play it the way we thought it worked i.e a chain of trains cannot go red to red

Cthulhu Dreams fucked around with this message at 13:47 on Dec 23, 2018

Cthulhu Dreams
Dec 11, 2010

If I pretend to be Cthulhu no one will know I'm a baseball robot.
Yeah red to port or port to red has to be fine. Will do my turn in a bit.

Cthulhu Dreams
Dec 11, 2010

If I pretend to be Cthulhu no one will know I'm a baseball robot.
NGC lays two track and runs for 180 and pays in full, share price increases to 82.

Mr Squishy up.

Cthulhu Dreams
Dec 11, 2010

If I pretend to be Cthulhu no one will know I'm a baseball robot.

FACKER posted:

Y&N operates
.
Run 3F from Beccles to Great Yarmouth Port for 220= 30Beccles+100Port+90(3hexes).


Shouldn't this only be plus 30+100+60 as the destination square doesn't count for the distance bonus?

Cthulhu Dreams
Dec 11, 2010

If I pretend to be Cthulhu no one will know I'm a baseball robot.

Mr. Squishy posted:

Could someone check the rules for token placement - isn't it an option in the tile-laying action?

ENR operates
Upgrades Norwhich
Run 2/3E, port-cromer-norwhich ignoring cromer, for 150
Pay out, share price double jumps from 62 to 74

e: screw it, withhold, drop to 58, buy a 3E.

Only for london, otherwise you can lay track and place a station marker. (You can build a village instead of laying track)

Cthulhu Dreams
Dec 11, 2010

If I pretend to be Cthulhu no one will know I'm a baseball robot.
L&E runs for 170, pays in full, buys its share out of the bank pool. Stock triple jumps.

It's a new Parliamentary round. I bid 0 pounds on EUR

Cash situation

Cthulhu Dreams £285
Known Lecher £214
Facker £215
Mr. Squishy £183

Cthulhu Dreams fucked around with this message at 01:05 on Dec 24, 2018

Cthulhu Dreams
Dec 11, 2010

If I pretend to be Cthulhu no one will know I'm a baseball robot.

I think I should probably pass... but 15

Cthulhu Dreams
Dec 11, 2010

If I pretend to be Cthulhu no one will know I'm a baseball robot.
Par it at 62, but the directors share.

Cthulhu Dreams fucked around with this message at 13:24 on Dec 27, 2018

Cthulhu Dreams
Dec 11, 2010

If I pretend to be Cthulhu no one will know I'm a baseball robot.

FACKER posted:

CD starts the next stock round right?

yeah I hosed up last round so I'm trying to figure out my turn lol - didn't realise I couldn't just flip a share.

Buy a share of NGC from the IPO, then two NGC shares. Then I'm just going to buy two shares of EUC in the next two stock actions, then pass from here.

Cthulhu Dreams fucked around with this message at 02:40 on Dec 31, 2018

Cthulhu Dreams
Dec 11, 2010

If I pretend to be Cthulhu no one will know I'm a baseball robot.

Known Lecher posted:

The rules state that stock actions are sell then buy, so you can't buy a share of NGC and then immediately dump it in the same turn.

Whoops. Just buy then!

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Cthulhu Dreams
Dec 11, 2010

If I pretend to be Cthulhu no one will know I'm a baseball robot.

FACKER posted:

Don't you need to sell shares in order to afford to float your new company?

Yeah, I'll sell them on a subsequent stock action.

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