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dagibbs ([personal profile] dagibbs) wrote2009-09-30 02:47 pm

Gah!

Brass rules -- distant markets provide income steps, not cash.

http://www.warfroggames.com/brassfaq.html

I want to re-read that rule, and see how badly it was written that we interpreted it the wrong way.

[identity profile] ironphoenix.livejournal.com 2009-10-01 01:26 pm (UTC)(link)
" Distant Markets – if you sell to the Distant Market then the additional income shown on the Cotton Demand track is added to your income level, it is not taken as cash."

Yeah, that's news to me too... I'll check this weekend. That it required clarification on the web makes me suspect that the original text is pretty murky.

[identity profile] dagibbs.livejournal.com 2009-10-01 01:32 pm (UTC)(link)
From reading on BGG, we're not the only ones who misinterpreted it. The Brass rules are not the easiest to understand, and I'll bet, as you say, that one was extra murky.

[identity profile] ironphoenix.livejournal.com 2009-10-03 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
It says that "You then earn an additional amount of money for the sale as indicated at the side of the track." That really sounds like extra cash, not income steps!

[identity profile] dagibbs.livejournal.com 2009-10-03 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
It sure does. It the intention was income (as that faq suggests) then that was a very poorly phrased rule.