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From: cjsgro@watdragon.UUCP (Carlo Sgro)
Newsgroups: net.games.board
Subject: More Empire Builder
Message-ID: <343@watdragon.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 8-Feb-86 01:37:44 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb  8 01:37:44 1986
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More random questions:

How do you deal with picking up random loads (that you have no demand for)
   at a city and then dumping it later.  Since the (first edition) rules don't
   penalize it, it seems like it would be a good strategy (e.g. picking up sugar 
   in S.F. or wood in Portland) but it also seems a bit unrealistic (I can't 
   imagine the owner of the B&O railroad picking up oranges in Tampa in the hope 
   of possibly picking up a customer somewhere).  Does anyone have any house  
   rules about this?  Interesting house rules might involve:
    1) fixed penalities for dumping,
    2) variable penalties for dumping (depending on
       what the load is; i think that it would be far 
       easier to unload a shipment of fruit at a bargain 
       basement price (as long as they weren't rotten)
       than a shipment of wood,
     3) penalties for the amount of time you carry unwanted 
        loads,
     4) costs for buying unneeded loads ...