Re: [Rails-devel] Playtest report: 1835

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

The version in 1.1.3 is indeed unplayable. I have started to look at 1835 a
week ago, and since I have encountered all your problems myself.
The fixes that I have announced have been checked into the current code base
and will be in the next version., and so will be those that I'm still
working on.

Further comments below.

-----Original Message-----
From: John David Galt [mailto:jd...@di...] 
Sent: Thursday 11 February 2010 07:17
To: rai...@li...
Subject: [Rails-devel] Playtest report: 1835

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.

[EV] Will be added to the Info menu. Perhaps a private income row can be
added as well.

-  Three letter abbrevs for companies are confusing for 1835.  Please use
two as the physical game does.

[EV] I have mainly followed the abbreviations used in Lemmi's moderator.
I don't find the two-letter ones very clear, but perhaps it is better that
way.
Other opinions?

-  The announced feature that you're told what size certificate you will be
buying/selling doesn't yet happen.

[EV] Not in 1.1.3, see above.

[EV] All of the below is known and either has been fixed or will be soon.

-  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!!!

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