[Rails-devel] Getting Red Tiles to display correct values.

[brett l. <wak...@gm...>]

I've been looking at how to address this problem.

It seems that there's a limitation to our current XML definitions for
Tiles.xml .

Having "value" as a property of the station means that we can't
specifiy any deviations when there are two copies of the same tile
with differing values on the map.

I propose a change to our XML:

This is our current version:

  <Tile id="-901" colour="red">
    <Station id="city1" type="OffMapCity" value="-1" position="0"/>
    <Track gauge="normal" from="city1" to="side2"/>
  </Tile>

This is what I suggest to allow us to solve our red tile display issues:

  <Tile id="-901" colour="red">
    <Station id="city1" type="OffMapCity" value="-1" position="0">
        <Hex location=A9 values="30,50" upgradeTrigger="Trains
Available" upgradeWhen="5">
    </Station>
    <Track gauge="normal" from="city1" to="side2"/>
  </Tile>


I think we should keep the value parameter as deprecated just to allow
for a way to globally set the value of all tiles of that type.
However, we should add the Hex tag with parameters that can override
the global value for a specific hex on a specific map.

How does this sound?

---Brett.