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1835 VIER is a 4-player MEDIUM-paced game:
  1. Eyal Mozes
  2. David Reed and his alternative email address
  3. Mark Geary
  4. Joshua Lewis
In this game we are playing Todd Vander Pluym's auction variant. Todd's variant appeared in Vol. 1, no. 1 of the Train Gamer's Gazette. The rules are:
  1. The starting prices for start packet items are: NF 80M; minor 1 80M; LD 155M; minor 2 170M; minor 3 80M; minor 4 130M; BY presidency 150M; BS 100M; HB 125M; minor 5 80M; minor 6 80M; OS 95M; PF 120M.
  2. Each player in his turn either passes or selects one of the available items; availability is as in the normal game. The player must then bid the item's price or more, starting an auction on the item; other players in turn order can either raise the bid or pass, until all except one have passed; the item is then sold to the highest bidder. All bids must be sums divisible by 5. A player can never bid more money than he has. After each auction, the next player in turn order (after the person making the selection) makes the next selection.
  3. If all players pass on their turn before the entire start packet is sold, an OR is performed, with the purchased items operating or paying in normal fashion. The BY operates if the president's certificate has been purchased, even if less than 50% of it is in player's hands.
Rick Westerman's eight supplemental pbem 1835 rules are also in effect.

I'm the moderator, Bill Stoll. My email address is stoll@bcn.net.