Crushed origami cuts
- Dividends are always truncated (this got lost somewhere).
- The moving company always merges away and pays the special dividend
- Clarified already-connected merger case
- Double builds are only available to the clear plurality share holder
- Clarified mergers and new shares
- Removed the artistic extra dividend markers from the map
- Added income markers to the manifest
- Simplified London development to must always be the most valuable city
- Reduced double development cost to $3
- Cleaned up language in definitions
- Extended setup section to be more explicit
- Clarified that inactive company treasuries are not paid to shareholders
- Simplified and clarified game ending language
- Clarified that build expenses are always paid from company treasuries
- Clarified port expenses
- Added Dieter Danziger and Lokomotive Werks as inspirational
- etc
A few things I like here:
- The forced directionality plus the limitation on double builds of mergers makes poaching a bir more constrained and I think interesting. It also makes foreign ports a little more interesting as well as posing the nominal director’s interests in opposition with the minor shareholders.
- The simplified London value ruling makes London far touchier in the early game, triggering an explosion of development if it is developed. Nice.
- Inactive treasuries not paying out makes the first share of a secondary company pleasantly risky and asymmetric