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From: srt@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.games.board
Subject: Re: Truly fair Rail Baron rules
Message-ID: <7872@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 4-Dec-85 14:13:38 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec  4 14:13:38 1985
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Reply-To: srt@ucla-cs.UUCP (Scott Turner)
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
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I have the same comment about normalizing the prices of the railroads as
I do about the Seattle rules.  Why?  The thought that perfectly normalizing
the prices somehow makes the game better is erroneous.  Part of the fun of the
game is that some railroads are "deals" and some are "turkeys".

And, incidently, this doesn't even cure the ill of which was spoken,
in as much as it now becomes a scramble to see if you can get $47K to buy
the PA.  The point is that the value of the PA is that it gets you a lot
of cities, not that it happens to be underpriced.  Over the course of the
game the difference in price is moot.

                                                        -- Scott