Re: [Rails-devel] Bug reports

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

> 
> 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')

I'll look at it.

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

Yes, stock prices should drop, and I was unaware that Rails didn't
do that, but it seems so. This is clearly a bug, which I will try to fix.
 
> 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.

House rules aren't very difficult to add, 
but the trouble is that there might be no end to it. 
On the other hand, the customer is king...

Erik.