RE: [Rails-devel] M&H

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

>> Also note: If the swap is done before the president's share 
>> is bought, this swap sets the par value for the NYC.
>
>I don't think so. The free PRR share that comes with the C&A
>does not have a price either, until the PRR is opened by
>buying the presidency. AFAIK the same holds for the NYC.
> 


Hmm... I'll doublecheck the rule book.  I'd swear I remember encountering this with 1830 pc game, and seeing that it forces you to set the par value if it's unset.


>> I finally got a chance to check out your updates. I think the 
>> extra button in the status window is perfect. It's not 
>> intrusive, but it let's the player owning the M&H know that 
>> his ability is available.
>> 
>> I think we should do this same sort of thing for the other 
>> special abilities, especially the C&StL.  Right now, after a 
>> company purchases the C&StL, the UI inexplicably maintains 
>> the "Lay Tile" buttons after the lays it's normal tile, and 
>> doesn't give any sort of notification that we're allowing for 
>> the C&StL tile lay before moving on to laying tokens.
>
>Yes, I agree, but I have not yet found a good way to do that.
>
>Perhaps we should add a message line over the full width of the
>SR and OR windows in which we can show a one-line message about 
>what the player having the turn is supposed to do. Here we could 
>also add a reminder about special properties that can be exercised.
>

That would be helpful. 

Currently, I think we do just fine with the turn order flow. There's some minor UI cleanups I want to do, but overall I think we're doing well enough.  The only exception being that when we deviate, we need to tell the user why we're altering the normal turn order.  So, maybe a good thing to add is changing the text over the UpgradesPanel to indicate we're allowing for the C&Stl Optional Tile Lay. 

I think that, ideally, we should just provide a button for jumping outside the normal turn order, to activate the special ability, and then return back to the normal turn order at the same point we left.

Perhaps rather than a new message line, we should just set the Title on the JFrame to indicate the current stage of the turn.  That would be a bit less intrusive.  What do you think?


---Brett.