Functional 18XX Comparison

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Construction

Facets

• Triangle: none
• Square: Crisis
• Hexagon: rest

Map Type

• Void: Crisis
• Components: 18HEXX
• Fixed: rest

Number of Facets

• 1-24: Lummerland, 1876
• 25-49: Crisis
• 50-109: 1826, 1829, 1830, 1835, 1841, 1849, 1851, 1856
• 110+: 1831CB, 1837, 1853, 1862HO, 1862TL, 1898

Number of Upgrade Tile Colours

• 3: 1830, 1835, 1841, 1876
• 4: 1826, 1829, 1856, 1870
• 5: none
• 6: Crisis

Traditional Terrain Concepts

• None: Crisis
• Yes: rest

Network

• Oil: 1969
• Space: 2038
• Irrigation: Ur
• Railway: rest
• Other Transport: none

Game Flow

Major Opening Balance

• Routes: Crisis
• Auctions of Starting Order Places: Lummerland
• Auctions of Privates: rest

Rounds

• Rounds: Crisis
• Stock + Operating Rounds: rest

Sudden Game End

• Impossible: 1826, 1829, 1835, 1841
• Possible: 1830, 1856, 1870, Crisis

Concepts Possibly Accelerating Endgame

• Yes: 1826, Crisis
• No: 1829, 1830, 1835, 1841, 1856, 1870

Finances

Money

• Unlimited: Crisis
• Limited: rest

Responsible Person for Emergency Money Raising

• Bank: 1829
• Shareholders: Crisis
• Director: rest

Money Valuation

• Inflation: all
• Constant: none
• Deflation: none

Possible Dominating Medium Range Stock Market Developments

• Boom: all
• Stagnation: Crisis
• Recession: Crisis
• Crisis: Crisis

Possible Highest Percentage of Under-endowed Companies

• 100%: Crisis
• ca. 95%: 1841
• ca. 67%: rest

Trades

Players Owning Shares in Total

• Unlimited: Crisis
• Share Limit: none
• Certificate Limit: rest

Companies Owning Shares

• Used Own Shares: 1826, 1870
• Limited Foreign Shares: 1841, 1898
• Unlimited Foreign Shares: Crisis
• Neither: rest

Typical Limit for Shares in One Company and Owned by One Person

• Restricted: 1826, 1830, 1841, 1856, 1870, Crisis
• Unrestricted: 1829, 1835

Companies Regularly Selling Own Shares

• Yes: 1826, 1841
• No: rest

Unbalancing Trades

• None: Crisis
• Shares Controlled by Other Players: 1841
• Privates or Concessions Controlled by Other Players: 1830, 1841, 1856, 1870, 1898
• Tokens Controlled by Other Players: 1841, 1898
• Trains Controlled by Other Players: all except Crisis

Markets

Dimensions

• 1D: 1825, 1829
• 2D: 1830, 1837, 1835, 1841, 1856, 1870, Crisis

Facet Shape

• Hexagon: 1837
• Square: rest

Zones

• Lower: 1825, 1829, 1830, 1837, 1856, 1870, Crisis
• Upper: 1825, 1841
• None: 1835

Dropping Prices

• Per Share: 1830, 1841, 1856, 1870, Crisis
• Per Sale: 1835, 1837
• Neither: 1825, 1829

Topics

Heaviest Rules Topic

• Centralization: 1826
• Loans: 1856
• Routes: 1825, 1829
• Gauges: 1849, 1853
• Nationalization: 1835, 1856
• Mergers: 1841, 1898
• Combines: Crisis
• Connections: 1870
• None: rest

Heavy Pure Strategic Topic

• Tycoons: 1830, Crisis
• Bureaucracy: 1835
• Accelerated Inflation: 1841
• Business Crises: Crisis
• None: rest

Design

Easy Rules Understanding

• Yes: none
• No: all

Flaws

• Untreated Overwhelming Diplomacy: 1856
• Questionable Game Start Treated by House Rules: 1826, 1835, 1841
• Unknown: rest

Flavour

Historical Relation of the Playing Material's Surface

• Abstract: Crisis
• Fictional: Lummerland, 2038
• Real World: rest

Enjoying

• Fast Players: Lummerland, 1851, 1876, 18AL, 18GA
• Peaceful Construction Players: 1825, 1837, 1853, 1870, 2038
• Tough Traders: 1830, 1841, Crisis
• Strategically Mandatory Negotiations: 1856
• For other Reasons: 1826, 1829, 1835, 1856

Complexity

Construction

• Low: Lummerland, 1876
• Intermediate: 1826, 1830, 1835, 1841, 1856, 1870, Crisis
• Advanced: 1829, 1837
• High: none

Business Toughness

• Low: 1826, 1829, Lummerland, 1835, 1837, 1870, 1876
• Intermediate: 1830, 1856
• High: 1841, Crisis

Business Unpredictability

• Low: 1826, 1829, Lummerland, 1835, 1837, 1856, 1870, 1876
• Intermediate: 1830
• Advanced: 1841
• High: Crisis

Availability

• Easily Available: 1825, 1830, 1835, 1856, 1870, 2038
• Currently Not Easily Available: rest