Re: [Rails-devel] 1856 CGR Diesel upgrades

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

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 3:39 AM, Erik Vos <eri...@xs...> wrote:
>           b)  There shouldn't be ANY dialogs asking "Select number of loans
> of
>               [company] to repay".  The decision for each company is all or
>               nothing, and each player should be presented with the
> decisions
>               for all his companies at once (in one dialog).
>
> The rules do not say or imply anything like "all or nothing".
> This aspect has been discussed beforehand in this list, and the
> outcome was that the user should be given all legal options,
> including partial repayment, however stupid that would be.
> However, I can see your point from a usability POV.
>
> The only real deviation from the rules is that each player now does not
> get a choice in which sequence company repayments will be handled;
> the program is imposing that sequence. So I can agree with the
> "in one dialog" part of your request - which, unfortunately,
> may not be so easy to do.
>
> Erik.

I disagree on this point.

The player is acting on behalf of the company.  Otherwise, the loans
are not the player's to repay. The player's responsibility to repay
the loans only exists insofar as that player is president of the
company that possesses the loans.

If I own companies A and B, and A has some number of loans, they can
only be repaid during company A's turn, not during company B's turn.
It is not legal to repay loans outside of the owing company's turn.

So, in this case, what rails does is correct.

However, that's not to say that the manner in which it's presented to
the user is ideal. There's always room for tuning the UI to make it
easier to work with.

---Brett.