Re: [Rails-devel] Bugs fixed

[brett l. <wak...@gm...>]

> On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Erik Vos <eri...@hc...> wrote:
>>
>> Comments see below.
>>
>> 1. In the Map Display, Cincinati at the top of the board is cut off. I
>> think the whole position for 1851 is set too high in the Map Frame
>>
>> Correct. The problem is, that in the game as published the "A" row is the
>> row below Cincinnati. So I have given the Cincinnati hex the name "@18" as @
>> is the ASCII character below A. This works well, except that the map
>> placement code is not aware of this exception.
>> The best solution is, perhaps, to have the code create the map position
>> and window size based on the actual lowest and highest row and column
>> values. This is done in EWHexMap (and NSHexMap for the other hex
>> orientation). The map placement in its panel needs be refined anyway.
>>
>> 2. The L&N Starting Home Location in B16 should be the Northern City, not
>> the Southern City (based upon the board photo at:
>> http://boardgamegeek.com/image/126915?size=large.This can be fixed by
>> updating the CompanyManager.xml File under data/1851, line 38 (for the L&N
>> Public Company) to be <Home hex=B16", city="1">
>>
>> Correct.
>>
>> 3. When attempting to step through the game, I started L&N and GM&O in OR
>> 1, in SR 2 I sold GM&O so that it's stock value was below L&N, then in OR 2,
>> L&N Ran first, after completing that run, GM&O was not given a chance to
>> operate at all.
>>
>> Hmm, that is serious. I'll look at it later this week (if you haven't
>> fixed it before, of course...).
>> Erik.
>
>
> Erik,
>
> If you haven't seen what I sent to Brett, and posted, it might be worth you
> taking a look. I had started building up and 18XX Engine with the primary
> (initial) focus on the map and tiles. The application is not a complete
> implementation, but I feel it shows a much better Map and Tiles. It does
> allow the map to be scaled up or down via a slider. All of the information
> on the Map is drawn by the code, the cities, towns, track segments, blocked
> hexsides, river graphics, mountain graphics, port symbols, etc. I do have
> the desire to see about incorporating my code base in with the Rails Code
> Base over time. But I need to work out a plan to do so.
>
> Mark
>


Just to repost the link, here's Mark's engine:

http://rails.sourceforge.net/18XX_Engine.Sept_2008.zip

---Brett