[Rails-devel] Playtest report: 1835

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

This is with the latest release, version 1.1.3.

I ran a four player game of 1835.  Most features seemed to work until the
stock round when the Ba presidency was purchased; then enough went wrong
that I gave up on it.

Specific problems:
-  It would be nice if game status window showed how much income a player's
privates produce each turn.  The rest of the info to calculate your income
is there, but that is missing.
-  Three letter abbrevs for companies are confusing for 1835.  Please use
two as the physical game does.
-  The announced feature that you're told what size certificate you will be
buying/selling doesn't yet happen.
-  I was president of By and owned Nurnberg-Furth.  However, I was not
allowed to lay the NF token until after the tile-laying phase of By's first
turn.  (There are conflicting rulings about whether that behavior is
correct, but most people play that the token may be placed first.)
-  I also owned Pfalz.  As a result, I was offered a free tile lay in the
Pfalz hex every time it was By's turn.  This should not happen in yellow
phase since the hex is preprinted yellow.
-  I was charged nothing when By placed a token in Dresden.
-  Selling shares caused the price to fall one space per share as in 1830.
(Should be only one space total per sale.)
-  Once the Ba presidency had been purchased, the next player attempted to
buy a Pr share from IPO.  This produced an error message: "<player> can't
buy 2 shares of Pru from IPO; Pru hasn't formed yet."  WRONG!!!