Re: [Rails-devel] Stockmarket type aka 1825 dev?

[Håkan K. <sou...@ha...>]

Hi there,

I had a few questions about rails development in general and 1825 in 
particular. Since I'm new here and the only name I recognize among the 
current developers is Chris 'The Cat' Shaffer I'll start with a small 
introduction before I get to my questions.

My name is Håkan König. I like to play 18xx and boardgames in general, 
something which has taken me to BoardgameGeek under the alias of 
hakko504. Right now I'm working as a consultant with android development 
in JAVA in an assignment about to end any day now. Unless we get a new 
customer, I will get laid off before the end of the month at which point 
I will have a lot of free time, and a need to improve my JAVA knowledge. 
As I've used the Rails app for a while to satisfy my appetite for 18xx I 
thought I'd come and see if you needed any development help here while 
at the same time expanding my knowledge in JAVA. I have downloaded the 
current repository from the CVS and started to look at the code and made 
sure it compiles in Eclipse. And then I came up with the idea of adding 
1825 support to the app since it's the 18xx I'm mostly familiar with 
which isn't already supported or in development. I started searching in 
the archives and the only thing I could find was a small references to 
1825, in the thread Stockmarket type where a discussion started about a 
linear stockmarket with multiple jumps. In the future I may also be 
interested in doing 1861 if 1825 turns out to be successful.

So, the question I'm trying to ask is: Do you need any help? I'm 
beginner in JAVA but I have by now close to 10 years of programming 
experience from mostly C & C++, and during the last 6 months I've been 
working with JAVA on android.
An of course, is there any interest in 1825, and has anything useful 
been done there? I can't find anything in the CVS main trunk, but Phil 
Davies posted here a while ago that he'd been looking at the 
possibility, but no specifics. I have quite a few ides but I'm not sure 
how to implement all of them. I forsee problems with supporting 
different combinations of Units/regionals/Kits (changing maps, available 
tiles, available trains, size of main bank etc.), as well as separate 
banks for players and companies.

Anyway, That's me, and my interest in Rails.
Håkan

BTW, my main sourceforgeid is hakko504 as well, but that is linked to a 
slightly different emailaddress, without the .rails before the @ sign. 
Don't be confused, as long as it says @hakko.eml.cc it's me ;)