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