Re: [Rails-devel] 1856 CGR Diesel upgrades

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

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:16 PM, John David Galt
<jd...@di...> wrote:
>>> 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.
>

Ah ha.  I see where I was confused.  You're talking about loan
repayment during CGR formation, not loan repayment in general.  My
mistake.

Yeah, in that case, I do agree... Loan repayment during CGR formation
goes player-by-player, not company-by-company. It's a special case.

I suspect we need two types of loan repayment classes. One for normal
play (during the course of a company's turn during an OR), and one for
government-run company formation (which happens outside the normal OR
turn sequence).

---Brett.