RE: [Rails-devel] proposed structure for tile information

[John A. T. <ja...@ja...>]

On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Erik Vos wrote:

> I'll try to look into this in more detail later.
> 
> For now I would like to add, that I have been adding some
> additional preprinted tiles (for 1870 and 18AL) to the 
> Marco's TileDesigner database (and many more will follow).
> Such tiles have negative numbers, and I have been trying 
> to extend Marco's numbers sensibly. 
> Perhaps we should start to standardize these numbers too?

I have every tile for every game on Chris/John Galt's tile encyclopedia as
well as all of the tiles from Steve Thomas's PS18XX files, plus some other
tiles that are not currently in either.  The first problem is that what is
called "tile code" in TileDesigner is not unique (there are duplicates
across games), and that it is difficult to extend it usefully when merging
in all the other data.  I decided to have a unique serial key (32-bit
integer) which is sequentially assigned to each tile, in addition to the
code.  I also made the code alphanumeric, so it is easier to say "122/EU"
to mean the 18EU version of tile 122.  In addition, the number printed on
the tile is kept separately from the code (but defaulted from it) so the 
number can be printed differently.  In addition, each game can specify the 
orientation of a given tile separately (but I do not currently handle some 
of the issues where the same tile in one game may have multiple 
orientations or different printings have different orientations) as well 
as the number to be printed, since some identical tiles are printed with 
different numbers in different games.

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