Re: [Rails-devel] 1856 CGR Diesel upgrades

[John D. G. <jd...@di...>]

>> John David Galt 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).

> Erik Vos wrote:
>> 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.

brett lentz wrote:
> 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.

I don't buy it.  I believe this special "repayment round" has player
turns, not company turns.