Re: [Rails-devel] Bugs fixed

[Erik V. <eri...@hc...>]

OH, and I have at least replicated the Phase 3+ problem of only one tile lay
allowed. Which brings up another point about the UI... The Map Display
should indicate, maybe in the Title Bar, what is the current Phase. This
helps to players familiar with the board games who know about Phases, and
are reading the rule-books, know which Phase the game think's it is within.

Good point.

 Looking at the the mutli-tile lay per turn, but only from Phase 3 forward,
it might make sense to include in the Phase Description a count of the
number of tiles that can be placed. 1851, Phase 3 and later 2. 1870 can
always lay 2 yellow tiles, or upgrade one already placed. Etc.
 

It's configured in CompanyManager.xml, because in games with minor and major
companies the number of tile lays may be different between these types. For
instance, in 18EU only minor companies may lay two yellow tiles, and only in
their first turn.
It's already defined for 1851, is just has stopped working...

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. 

Yes. I have seen it. It looks good, although I would prefer the usual pale
green background over a yellowish one, and I would have a few more quibbles.
As map and tile drawing is done in the few classes of rails.ui.swing.hexmap,
replacement shouldn't be too hard (personally I would prefer a choice of
styles, but that no doubt would make it harder). For the additional info
that you display, some extensions would be needed to Map.xml and the MapHex
model objects.
 
Erik.