Re: [Rails-devel] Bug reports

[Jim B. <jim...@ya...>]

On Nov 22, 2009, at 6:45 AM, Erik Vos wrote:
> Any better ideas?

Maybe...

I think there's a number of issues like this, that different expert  
player groups strongly believe should be played one way or another-  
where all the players I know, disagree with the way Rails is playing  
this.

An ideal way for Rails to tackle this might be to include a number of  
similar checkboxes in the "Options" panel for most games--

For example:

a) During privates auction, player must "pass or drop-out"  (YES/NO -  
default is 'NO')

b) When selling stock during enforced train purchase, stock price  
should drop just like SR sales.  (YES/NO - default is 'NO')

Generally, all the experts I know play this stuff differently than  
Rails does, and tell me that Rails is wrong.  It's kind of a no-win  
situation.    At the end of the day, I think there's no "correct"  
answer, so it would be nice if Rails was configurable on some of the  
basic rules like this.

best,
  - jim




>
> In addition, it might be a good idea to skip player turns  
> automatically
> if really nothing else can be done than just passing.
> To some extent this already occurs in Operating Round turn steps.
> In hot-seat play such turn skipping might be easily overlooked,
> so I guess a warning about skipping a player turn should be
> popped up (and added to the Report window) as well.
>
> Erik.
>
>> In terms of your first question (bid again or drop out), I've
>> verified
>> this with a number of players, but also- there's a popular FAQ for
>> 1830, that acknowledges that this is played differently across
>> different groups, and that this is a popular 'house rule' (an
>> odd way
>> of putting it, that just increases the ambiguity).
>>
>> I think, the moral is- that there is no definite answer agreed among
>> experts.
>>
>> The one deciding factor for me in filing this bug for rails
>> is this:
>> whenever this comes up in pbem play- players always WANT to keep
>> passing, and it typically up slowing everything down significantly
>> that rails keeps returning to that player.
>>
>> Other than that, I have no opinion or real preference, and I'd just
>> try to make sure players in any game I hosted understood how Rails
>> plays this, ahead of time, so that there's no unfortunate surprises.
>
>
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