RE: [Rails-devel] Various comments

[Brett L. <wak...@ea...>]

For configuring options, I recommend taking a look at Colossus (=
 http://colossus.sf.net ). 

I think they do a good job of balancing in-game or pre-game options versus=
 specialties of variant game types. Granted, their game isn't going to have=
 quite the extent of "special rules" that we are, but I think it's a good=
 place to look at for some inspiration.

I agree that we're going to have to split out two classes of options:=
 *mostly* game-independant (e.g. Use an extra optional "6" train, or Bank=
 starts with X value, etc), and game specific (e.g. Formation of the=
 Canadian National Railway in 1856).

The other option is having a single catch-all user-defined game type where=
 the user can select the base ruleset (e.g. the user selects that he wants=
 to play a game with the 1825 ruleset) and from there, certain=
 customizations are then made available and tailored to what is reasonable=
 within each ruleset (e.g. an extra 6 train isn't reasonable for a game=
 that has no 6 trains at all.).

Off the top of my head, allowing for a randomly constructed map and=
 user-defining the total amount of cash in the bank are probably two out of=
 only a handful of options that is _truly_ game independant.


---Brett.


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On 3/2/2005 at 8:46 PM Erik Vos using eri...@hc... declared:

>
>There is one interesting idea that I would add, inspired on message #238
>from Gregor Zeitlinger: creating subclasses for game-specific processes.
>
>The question is to what extent we can configure options in a config file.
>At some point things might get so complicated or game-specific that we
>need to write special code. 
>The idea is to do that in game-specific subclasses of generic classes
>which handle the more common cases.
>
>A strong example is the Ferdinandea Secession in 1841, which I don't think
>we can make configurable - we will need game-specific code for that.


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