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

[Phil D. <de...@gm...>]

Håkan,

Welcome :)

I'm also fairly inexperienced with Java but I've been playing around
adding in 1825 support to rails in my spare time.  None of the
functionality I've been putting in had been committed to the rails
project on sourceforge, it's all in my local files and really is a bit
of a personal learning project I was hoping one day I might get close
enough to opeational to commit to the main line.

I have a very sketchily working version of 1825 Unit 1 but most of the
more complex pre-printed tiles are not correct since they aren't in
the tile database, the map has a massive blank spot from row A down to
row R since Unit 1 starts row numbering later in the alphabet, and the
stock rounds don't even remotely work correctly...so I haven't made a
lot of progress but I'm happy to share what little I have done!

I can't speak for the administrators of the project but I'm sure any
and all support is fully welcomed!

Phil

2010/3/8 Håkan König <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 ;)
>
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