Re: [Rails-devel] 1889: tile upgrades

[Justin R. <jus...@gm...>]

Yeah John Tamplin's sheet shows a 14 upgrading to a 448 and that seems
not right...

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Stefan Frey <ste...@we...> wrote:
> Aliza:
> thanks for your test and your update. Two comments.
>
> A) Tile 57 upgrades
> I am a little surprised, because I thought that this is intentional. I think
> there are not many places, that cry for the straight city, but it allows some
> tragic tile lays.
> But I usually prefer tile manifests that only require visual inspection if one
> tile can replace the other (retain all connections and are of the same type),
> thus that change makes sense.
>
> B) Tile 448 upgrades all green cities
> Is that really true? How should that work. Tile 448 is a K brown tile. How can
> you place that on a green X (14)? Or the green windmill (13)? Rails would
> mark those upgrades as impossible, as not all connections can be maintained.
>
> If there is agreement on A) I will fix that. For B) I would like to have some
> confirmation that I fully understand the implications.
>
> STefan
>
>
>
> On Thursday 18 March 2010 16:50:13 Aliza Panitz wrote:
>> I was playing 1889 with a few of my imaginary friends, and noticed
>> that #57 (straight yellow city) does not upgrade to #205 or #206 (the
>> two obnoxious single-bang green Y shapes).
>>
>> This faithfully follows the tile upgrade sheet in the 1889 rules, but
>> I've confirmed with John Tamplin that this is an error; the upgrade
>> should be legal.
>>
>> He also mentions that "the 448 tile should be playable on any of the
>> green city tiles."
>>
>> I'm hesitant to call this a Rails bug, since Rails implemented the
>> printed rules, but it's something that should be changed.
>>
>> (This was in Rails 1.2, and I know that I need to upgrade to 1.2.1,
>> but I doubt it makes a difference.)
>>
>> Is it OK if I file a bug report based on my private conversation with John?
>>
>>  - Aliza
>>
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