Re: [Rails-devel] Start orientation of THB

[Erik V. <eri...@xs...>]

I forgot to add that *this* change will create a saved file incompatibility
for 1830/1856 games that already have passed a case where  the Erie/THB had
floated after the green OO tile had been laid on their home hex. Rails now
*requires* the extra player action to explicitly place that token on one of
the two cities, and it will be missing in older saved files. So for these
games, 1.1.4 saved files will be incompatible with 1.1.3 ones.

Erik.

-----Original Message-----
From: Erik Vos [mailto:eri...@xs...] 
Sent: Wednesday 03 February 2010 21:35
To: 'Development list for Rails: an 18xx game'
Cc: 'brett lentz'; 'Arne Östlund'
Subject: RE: Start orientation of THB

This has now been fixed.
If the 1856 THB (or the 1830 Erie, for that matter) 
starts, the token city is left undefined. 

If there is already a green OO tile on the home hex,
the player is asked to assign the home city at the
start of the first OR turn of the company.
This is irrespective of what the rules say about
when home tokens are laid.

Normally the home token is laid at the moment that the rules
prescribe (at start, at floating or in the first OR turn),
but in this case there is no easy way to accomplish that.

Erik.

-----Original Message-----
From: Erik Vos [mailto:eri...@xs...] 
Sent: Monday 01 February 2010 22:22
To: 'brett lentz'; 'Arne Östlund'
Subject: RE: Start orientation of THB

Arne,

You're right. This case is not covered yet.
I'll try to fix it later this week.

Erik.

-----Original Message-----
From: brett lentz [mailto:wak...@gm...] 
Sent: Monday 01 February 2010 18:53
To: Erik Vos
Subject: Fwd: Start orientation of THB

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Arne Östlund <arn...@gl...>
Date: Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 9:14 AM
Subject: Re: Start orientation of THB
To: rai...@li...


Hi Erik

We are playing an 1856 PBeM campaigne and discovered that THB has no
option to choose start position if the green #59 is already placed. In
our game #59 @ L15 has legs N and SW and Rails forces THB to start at
the towm with leg SW even though it would have been more natural to
start northwards. I have sent a save file to show the problem.

Yours,
Arne Östlund