Re: [Rails-devel] Route and revenue calculation.

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

> >The UI code will need to be generated anyway, because we're going to
> >need to show the user the route we're selecting. This is just the
> >difference between programmatically selecting hexes and acting on the
> >user's selection of hexes.
> >  
> >
> So the user would have to click on hexes they want to use?  How would 
> you handle other things like which city circle to use if the 
> next hop in 
> the route being built could be either, or whether to pick up 
> something 
> for treasury money or for dividends?  It seems the most 
> straightforward 
> approach would be a listbox of legal routes, sorted by total 
> value.  For 
> games that require a maximal run, it could restrict the list, 
> and games 
> which have no other side effects and require a maximal run it 
> shouldn't 
> show the dialog at all.

My approach would be: always show the (or a) maximum value route.
In addition, only in games where the user can make a choice, 
show a listbox or enable a menu option to let him make the choice 
in some way or another.

As regards multi-city tiles: we can easily determine which city 
is closest to the click spot (measured from the city center).
(We will also need such a city selection mechanism for laying tokens 
on multi-city tiles.)
But if we have calculated routes beforehand, a listbox looks
a lot easier to implement indeed.

Erik.