Reply: Le Havre:: General:: Re: Somethings to keep in mind for my first game?

by grant5

Murr wrote:

grant5 wrote:

Murr wrote:

Compare it to how the description of the Bridge over the Seine building is written, and it's easy to make this mistake.

The player may sell as many goods as he wishes. He receives 1 Franc for each upgraded good and 1 Franc for any combination of 3 standard goods (they may be the same or different goods).

Both entries use the word "goods"

Yes, but the ship entry dictates specific quantities, while the bridge says "as many goods as he wishes." So I don't see where the confusion comes from.

You're right, it specifies a quantity, but it doesn't specify it's talking about tokens and not stacks. It can just as easily be read that they're talking about 2 types of goods in stacks, like a stack of fish and stack of bread, and not 1 fish and 1 bread.

The last sentence of the example "A player may ship several of the same good or different goods on a single ship." clarifies that they're not talking about stacks of goods but individual tokens. This should have been in the description of the building, not in the example of how it was used. Had they put it into the description, I don't believe we would have been confused about the building. That's all I was pointing out.

You're reading it and mentally inserting meaning that isn't actually there. It says X number of goods. A good is a good. A good is not a stack of goods. A good is not a type of goods. A good is a single, solitary good, and there's no reason to think otherwise. That's all I was pointing out. :)