RE: [Rails-devel] End Game Triggers.

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

> It appears that the game-over trigger of breaking the bank works on a
> basic level. I just successfully got the Game Over dialog when I ran
> the bank into negative figures.
> 
> However, no notice is given to the player that the bank has broken,
> and the game will end at the end of the current operating round.
> Ideally, we should remind each player during the beginning of each
> subsequent company's operation phase.
> 
> Also, we aren't currently handling the funds liquidation situations.
> If a player has no trains and not enough money to buy the train
> they've selected, we don't allow him to liquidate stock to generate
> the necessary funds.

Yes, this is one thing I had in mind to start working on.

> There's a few things we need for this to work properly:
> 
> 1. Require a company with no trains to purchase a train.
> 2. Create a "mandatory train purchase" dialog that informs the user of
> his required purchase.
> 3. Include in the "mandatory purchase" dialog a "No Valid Route"
> button that bypasses the purchase requirement. Companies with no
> routes to a destination are exempt from the mandatory purchase. This
> UI should exist until we implement route checking.
> 4. Add in ability to liquidate assets to purchase train if company's
> treasury doesn't contain enough money for the purchase.
> 5. Add in bankruptcy checking if player's total worth is less than the
> cost of the next available train.

Yes, I agree with all of that.
For step 4, I'm thinking of reusing the GameStatus window 
to do the mandatory share selling, as if it were a special kind of Stock
Round. 
Maybe a subclass of StockRound would work at the Model side. 

Erik.