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

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

Your proposal looks like a change to Tiles.xml, but that is 
definitely not the right place, as this file should
only contain game-independent tile features.
The off-board revenue values should be defined in Map.xml.

In fact I have this item high on my list of next-to-do things.

I would do it like this:

1. Put the values per step in Map.xml, e.g. like (for 1830)

	<Hex name="A9" tile="-901" orientation="0" values="30,50"/>

2. Put the change conditions in Game.xml per Phase.
The default would be step 1. Only the change point needs be
defined, e.g. like

	<Phase name="5">
		<Tiles colour="yellow,green,brown"/>
		<Privates close="yes"/>
	      <OperatingRounds number="3"/>
		<OffBoardRevenue step="2"/>
	</Phase>

If it's OK with you, I can do this after I have fixed token laying.

Erik.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rai...@li... 
> [mailto:rai...@li...] On Behalf 
> Of brett lentz
> Sent: 26 July 2006 23:08
> To: Development list for Rails: an 18xx game
> Subject: [Rails-devel] Getting Red Tiles to display correct values.
> 
> 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.
> 
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