[1841] Rules ambiguity: Should any shareholder should be allowed to buy up to a Presidency during a merge? about 18xx HOT 6 OPEN

I considered this, but the the third bullet specifically says "when a player...", so I specifically exclude corporations from this. It's not a terribly difficult change to make, but the rules seem pretty clear to me. Willing to be convinced otherwise. Have you asked the 18xx mailing list?

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LOL I have not. I suppose it can't hurt.

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The court of opinion has been polled. Let's see what they have to say.

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Steve Thomas responded to my inquiry on the mailing list.

The rule should say "shareholder" wherever it uses "player". That is,
companies owning shares may upgrade or downgrade an odd share, or upgrade a
holding of less than 40% to a presidency if the presidency is unclaimed, as
they (or, more precisely, their controller) wish. I concede that the rules
don't say that, and 18xx.games appears to implement correctly the rules as
written about presidencies. It is unclear to me how to implement the rule
as written about companies owning odd shares.

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@roseundy Any thoughts on this? Confirmation from Steve Thomas makes this worth changing in my book.

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I may wait to change this until there is another fix that will invalidate games. Once 41 hits Beta, then all those games can be pinned rather than archived.

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