September 2006
Major changes to political
cards and regional companies. Released gamekit rev.A for extended playtesting.
- playtesting #23 - pbem
game setup
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July
2006
Major changes to the regional
companies mechanism
- playtesting #21 - minor
rules clarifications
- playtesting #22 - introduced
the new FdC regional company, inverted the route for the FC, major changes
to the regional companies operating round, major changes to the SFM, removal
of Valigia delle Indie rule
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May 2006
Major rework aimed to
simplify the game and bring down the play time:
- playtesting #18 - minor
rules clarifications
- playtesting #19 - major
changes to the tile laying mechanism
- playtesting #20 - eliminated
single and double track, eliminated traffic factor, introduced rounded tokens
and simplified the train circulation system
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October 2005
2005 has been a very active
period on 18FB. In a nutshell:
- playtesting #12 - first
PBEM game concluded sucessfully
- playtesting #13 - verified
critical mechanisms
- playtesting #14 - first
playtesting outside the 18FB development team, removed different gauge and
designed new tiles
- playtesting #15 - major
issues identified, stock market dramatically changed
- playtesting #16 - major
issues identified, introduced Napoli's map, regional railroads and new SFM
rules
- playtesting #17 - most
successful playtesting so far
18FB website moved to
www.18fb.it
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September 2004
Major work on the graphic
- Published the new
18FB website
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June 2004
Finally some spare time
to work on the game
- Rules rev. PA17
- Hexagonal map rev.
PB2
- New web site planned
- New tiles produced
using Marco Rocci's tile generator
- Stock market rev.
PA3
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July 2003
Official Playtesting #
11. An attempt to conclude everything before moving to England
- Map rev. PA13
- Normalisation of the
traffic factor (phil-6)
- Rules rev. PA16
- Train cards semplified.
Fixed and variable costs eliminated.
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May 2003
Dramatic semplifications
introduced after a long period spent abroad:
- Map updated: added
background and colours.
- Earning calculation
semplified: traffic factor eliminated, trains like 1830
- Revenue calculation
modified
- Rules rev. PA15
- New rules for double
lines (towns do not count as stops)
- Mono dimensional stock
market introduced
- Sale/Buy has no effect
on share value in phase-6
- New tiles with lower
revenue values
- Opening stock values
beyond 150 eliminated
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July 2002
Official playtesting #10
with Lucio, Carlo e Davide brought to the following changes:
- Updated map: tunnels
along the borders, special squares, improved facilities and tables
- Costs for political
cards Valadous and Albano inverted
- Traffic factor for
towns eliminated
- New revenues values
introduced after accurate excel analysis
- Train cards updated
- New deposit rule for
the FdP railroad
- Rules rev. PA14
- New rules for double
lines
- Clarified rules for
frozen companies
- Financial step for
corporation introduced
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April 2002
Analysed and implemented
70 action points.
- Introduced rules for
deposit variable depending on the game phase
- Investigated mono
dimensional stock market
- Map updated: revenues
for Rome lowered, new port in Gioia Tauro, new routes to Rome from the Adriatic
side
- Two new corporations
introduced: FSTF and FSC
- Political cards: special
powers clarified; FdP concession assigned through political card
- Introduced the presidential
certificate in the bourbon phase and linked it with the railroad concession.
10% presidential protection from takeover attempt for the concessionaire
- Rules about the Commissione
dell'accomandata moved in the optional rules section
- New rules for double
lines
- New rules and costs
for tunnels and bridges
- Ports can be included
optionally in the route
- Simplified earnings
calculation. Maintenance and operational costs updated. Congestion table modified
- LT3 trains are not
permanent anymore
- Emergency money step
introduced if loans are not enough to buy a train for the company
- Introduced rules for
temporary or permament dismission of trains
- Newspecial tiles for
Capua, Caserta and coastal towns
- Clarified rules about
loans
- Eliminated the movements
of shares in the bank pool when 60% is sold
- Produced branch-line
concession for all the cities on the map
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January 2002
Official playtesting #7
- Developed a complete
new set of green and brown tiles. Bonds and tokens printed. Capua-Napoli pre-printed
line erased, Capua-Caserta line introduced instead. FC value for trains increased.
- Web-site updated and
published.
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October 2001
- A whole day spent
at National Library collecting historical information.
- Sarno river around
Napoli area and some mountain south of Salerno added.
- Tokens for Pontecorvo
and Benevento stations introduced in the game.
- The complete set of
rules rev. PA9 is now available.
- Tile replacements
table available.
- Rules for concession
drawback redefined.
- Connection from Napoli
to Avellino reserved for FP company.
- Rules for the security
payment of FP concession clarified.
- Sorrento port added.
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September 2001
- Rules defining when
a double line is valid have been introduced.
- Building costs for
tiles rearranged.
- Train cards modified
with a unique FC rather than a dynamic one.
- Loans introduced in
the game.
- Major changes to rules
for italian unification.
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August 2001
- Political cards special
powers revisited.
- Rules for tile placement
and upgrading deeply modified.
- Several missing green
and brown tiles designed.
- Brown tiles available
from LT5 instead than LT4.
- Salerno port added.
- Still some problems
when connecting single and double lines.
- Started intense playtesting
activity.
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April 2001
- Web site address registered
over geocities domain.
- Still writing rules
and developing playtest sw facilities.
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February 2001
- I started building
the 18FB web-site. Style, scope and contents defined. Most of the activity
regards playtesting and rules writing.