RE: [Rails-devel] Stepping back and taking inventory

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

A few more items to do:

- Emergency money raising
- Bankruptcy
- Normal game end 

Erik.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rai...@li... 
> [mailto:rai...@li...] On Behalf Of Erik Vos
> Sent: 14 December 2005 20:08
> To: rai...@li...
> Subject: RE: [Rails-devel] Stepping back and taking inventory
> 
> > I just wanted to take a moment to step back from the code and 
> > take stock of where the whole application is at and see what 
> > we've got left to do before 1830 is "working" well enough to 
> > release for wider public consumption.
> > 
> > Here's the things that I can see are left to do:
> > 
> > 1. Fix tile rotation bug.  Hex F20 (the double town north of 
> > NYC) doesn't allow all legal tile rotations.
> 
> Which tile does that apply to? I can't find any misfits here.
> 
>  2. Add tile upgrade restrictions. Currently there's nothing 
> > stopping upgrading to green tiles before the first 3-train 
> > has been purchased.
> > 3. Add private purchasing limits.  Similar to #2, there's 
> > nothing stopping purchasing of privates before the first 
> > 3-train has been purchased.
> > 4. Finish off the token playing UI. As we've discussed over 
> > the last day or two.
> > 5. Finish token drawing code. Relies on #4. We currently only 
> > handle single tokens in a hex.
> > 6. Add token blocking. We're not currently checking for space 
> > in a station before playing a token.
> > 
> > I'm not sure what the status of the private company's special 
> > abilities are, so that's a possible #7.
> 
> This is done, except for the special token lays and the M&H/NYC swap.
> 
> > Right now route counting requires looking at the tooltips of 
> > each hex to see the city's value. While cumbersome, it's not 
> > something that needs fixing just yet.
> 
> Restricting tile lays to extend existing routes also depends on that.
> However, I could pretty easily add a restriction that a new 
> tile should
> connect to some existing track, except on a home base.
> 
> Route determination is the biggest issue still left. Next year!
> 
> Erik.
> 
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