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

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

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Erik Vos <eri...@xs...> wrote:
> ________________________________
> From: John A. Tamplin [mailto:ja...@ja...]
> Sent: Wednesday 20 January 2010 23:57
> To: Development list for Rails: an 18xx game
> Subject: Re: [Rails-devel] Info: trains and phases
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> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Aliza Panitz <ali...@gm...>
> wrote:
>>
>> A very few games (18MEX, 18AL (or the sibling game with the civil war)
>> come to mind, I know there's at least one other) have half-phases --
>> the last or second-to-last train of one of the types triggers
>> something.
>>
>> For example, phase 3-and-a-half in 18MEX lets NdM shares be sold in
>> the SR, and kills the minors.
>>
>> I'm not sure how to indicate or code for that.
>
>
>
> That's not possible yet. Sometime someone will have to invent some trick for
> that...
>

I don't think this should be too difficult to handle.

We can add an attribute to the Phase class denoting whether the
current phase is a "full" phase, or a partial phase, and then add
conditional logic that runs the various parts of the turn based on the
XML's definition of what parts of a turn happen (or don't) during the
partial phases.

---Brett.