RE: [Rails-devel] TokenHolders

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

> Brett Lentz wrote:
> > Is there any type of Token that isn't directly related to a Company?
> 
> The only one I can think of are the alpine-mountain tokens in 
> 18EU (which mean
> that it will cost money to play the second tile in each of 
> those hexes, even
> though the tiles aren't any different than those in 
> non-mountain locations).

Yes, I thought about these tokens too, but I don't think
we need to represent these with separate objects here.
As other people have stressed, we should display the upgrade cost anyhow.

I would propose to implement such upgrade costs internally as an array
(index = upgrade level). XML config for such hexes could be like
cost="120" for the standard case,
cost="120,60" for 18EU,

Upgrade cost tokens also exist in 1849 Sicily, where the same
fixed cost must be paid for *every* upgrade.
We could represent that with cost="160,*" (also "40,*" and "80,*"),
but there is a complication that the cost is different for narrow gauge:
25% of that for normal gauge (this is the incentive to build such gauge at
all).
Perhaps we'll have to create a special for this case!

Erik.