[Rails-devel] RE: Train ownership limits

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>    1. Train ownership limits (Brett Lentz)
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I'm feeling the need to step away from the stupid repaint issues with the Map for a while.
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> I was looking over the handling of train purchasing, and I'm not seeing any definitions in the XML for what the maximum number of trains a company can own.
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> Has this not been defined yet?   
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> I'm pretty sure I can add it in without too much hassle, but I just want to make sure I'm not duplicating efforts before I do.
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> I think just a  maxNumTrainsOwned="4"  property is all we need.  
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> Is there any 18xx game that bases the number of trains a company can own on something other than what trains are available?
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> Before we go inextricably tying these things together in the code, that might be handy to know. ;-)
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Train limits may vary both by company (or company type) and phase of the game. You probably have to encode a lookup table that takes company and pahse, and returns the train limit. Doing so in a fashion that can let you specify defaults/large ranges at one go may help those who have to produce definition files later.

A general note on my long silence: I have been very busy with my job over the last six months, and have had no time for out-of-hours coding. I've been following the mailing list, and it sound like things are progressing well.

Iain.