Re: [Rails-devel] CVS and XCode

[John D. G. <jd...@di...>]

Mark Smith wrote:
> With regards to 1853, yes, the Rows have upper case letters, and the
> columns have lower case double letters. And I do account for that in my
> code. I have double-checked against my own copy of the game.
> 
> With regards to using "The Depot" Site as a map cell name reference, I
> have not used that before. Each of the maps I have encoded are based
> upon copies I actually own.

Sorry, I didn't mean to step on your toes, I've just run into these
conflicts in PBEM play.

> Erik's comment about the "non-functional land and water hexes"... Some
> games, like 1853 distinguish a difference between un-useable land
> hexes... some allow a railhead to connect to it, some do not. And
> regardless of that, the Water hexes are partly there to make the map
> appear "nicer", by more closely mimicing the actual printed board, but
> also it makes the verification of legal tile lays easier ... "You cannot
> dead-end into a hex side that is all water." Besides, if it really bugs
> you that much, internal Lakes (like in 1856) can be set as a Lake Type,
> and be drawn with a blue color, and Ocean hexes can be set as the
> default background color so they are drawn, but they won't change the
> background. And the goal is to have it configurable as a default setting
> (for all games), and a level for a specific game,  and at a level for
> the individual player prefered. It would be solely based upon how your
> color scheme files would be set up.

I'm not sure anyone has noticed since I haven't received any comments
on it, but the "map" link from http://www.18xx.net/1853.htm now points
to my own version of the map, with all eight company territories shown
by cross-hatching.  It's a bit messy, but it makes them more visible
than other versions I've seen, and I've shown all the build costs too.