Re: [Rails-devel] Info: trains and phases

[Chris S. <chr...@gm...>]

Another useful piece of information would be "coal token removed on phase
change" in 18AL or "privates close on phase 5 begin" in many games or notes
about changes to the way companies float in 1856.

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Chris

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On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Erik Vos <eri...@xs...> wrote:

> I have added "Trains" and "Phases" to the "Info" menu.
> For each train and phase a selection of its properties is displayed.
>
> Before going into the details, I should note that properties will
> only listed in relation to where these are currently defined,
> i.e. under either the "TrainManager" or the "PhaseManager" entries
> in Game.xml. I'm not going to mix or move the train and phase
> properties in any way.
>
> For each train type the following properties will be listed:
> - the Phase that is started,
> - any rusted train types,
> - any train types to be released (i.e. made available for
>  buying, such as the D-trains with the first 6-train in 1830).
>
> For each phase will be listed:
> - the tile colours that can be laid,
> - the number of ORs in that phase,
> - the off-board step (number).
>
> Phases have many more properties, but most of these only
> apply to a subset of games. If display of any such
> properties is wanted, I would prefer to display these only
> in games where the relevant values can change between phases.
> To make this happen requires rewriting the way the parameters
> per phase are stored, so I will skip this idea until it's clear
> what more properties should be displayed.
>
> An example might be 1835, where trains may only be traded
> between companies from Phase 3 on. In other games implemented
> so far, train trading is always allowed, so there is no
> reason to display that parameter value.
>
> What more properties would be useful to display, if any?
>
>
> BTW While doing this, I found and fixed a bug in 18EU that
> *might* have prevented grey tiles to be laid.
> Has anyone experienced that?
>
> Erik.
>
>
>
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