[Rails-announce] Rails 1.2 is available.

[brett l. <wak...@gm...>]

The Rails team is pleased to announce the availability of a new
version of Rails.

You can download the latest version here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/rails/files/Rails/1.2/

Some highlights from this release are:

* No Map Mode  (for improved use as a table top game moderator)
- Replaces Token and Tile lay actions with a simple Operating Cost button
- Only supported for 1830, 1851, 1889, 18EU and 18Kaas
(1856 and 18AL have special Token Lays)

* Cash Correction in Moderator Menu
- Allows moderators to adjust the cash position of players and floated Companies
- When adjustments are made, a message is added to the Report Window
and a warning to the next Player will be displayed

* 1889 support
- Full implementation of the rule set
- Limitation in forced selling: Change of director in other companies is not
prevented by Rails (see rule 10.6.2), thus House rule to play that like 1830
is possible. Otherwise end the game at that point.
- Beginner Game includes all changes as defined in the rule book.

* Several bug fixes to the undo mechanism
- Undo of end of game conditions and from the end of game window is possible.
- It is (should) be possible now to cross round boundaries using the forced
undo mechanism.
- IMPORTANT: Undoing any action that moves tokens back on the same stock space
can cause the token stack to be mixed up. This can cause games being in a
corrupt state and save files to be unloadable.
(this is true for all previous Rails releases including 1.1.3)

* Many more bug fixes, especially to 1856, 18EU, 18AL.


---Brett.