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A token sink is a station capable of absorbing a large excess of tokens without becoming blocked. Major token sinks on the standard map include Aldwych?, Dollis Hill and other loop stations, Hammersmith, King's Cross and Ongar. |
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A token sink is a station capable of absorbing a large excess of tokens without becoming blocked. Major token sinks on the standard map include Aldwych?, Bank?, Dollis Hill and other loop stations, Hammersmith, King's Cross and Ongar. |
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A token sink can be a useful counter-play to an opponent's use of a holding station; holding stations are generally capable of storing an even larger stack of active tokens, while extracting tokens from a token sink frequently consumes more tokens than are released. |
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Token sinks are useful for countering holding stations; while holding stations can store more tokens than any token sink could absorb, the per-turn transfer limits only slightly favour the holding stations. By passing a stack over a token sink, almost all the excess tokens are absorbed and the otherwise overwhelming effects of a token cascade can be mitigated. For most practical purposes, tokens absorbed by a token sink are lost for good. Even where some tokens can be retrieved, this usually costs more than the value of the tokens in question. |
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The Fronsky diagram symbol for a token sink containing retrievable tokens is an underlined triangle with vertex pointing downwards. Empty token sinks of varying sizes are implicit to most stations and are not generally marked. |
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The Fronsky diagram symbol for a token sink containing retrievable tokens (a cache) is a solid underlined triangle with vertex pointing downwards. An empty token sink is marked by a hollow triangle with vertex pointing downward (no underscore). However, as token sinks of varying sizes are implicit to most stations they are not generally marked. |
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