Re: [Rails-devel] Automatic route calculation

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

Hi Alex,

Of course there is much interest in handling routes.

To me, "route calculation" sounds ambiguous, as it could mean two different
things:
1. Route determination, for the purpose of selecting valid tile and token
lays. 
2. Revenue calculation.
I suppose you refer to the latter. Rails has neither yet.

If I would ever have the time and guts to turn my developments efforts to
the subject of routes, I would start with the former, which I guess is
easiest to start with, and also much needed.

In any case, Rails does not yet maintain a connection grid, but the bits and
pieces (tracks and stations) do exist as attributes of the Tile class. From
there it shouldn't be too difficult to compose a complete connection grid.

Feel free to download the source code and try sorting out where and how your
code might fit in.

Erik.

-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Tikhonov [mailto:al...@sh...] 
Sent: Sunday 21 March 2010 01:10
To: rai...@li...
Subject: [Rails-devel] Automatic route calculation

Hi all,

Per Brett Lentz suggestion I am moving this discussion here and reporting  
my message from 18x yahoo group.

This is my first post here, but I have been lurking for a while. I wonder
if there is an interest in adding automatic route calculation to Rails. I
am trying to create AI for some of the games (and no, it's not going
well), but as a side effect I have code that computes the routes. It
supports some of more widely used rules (various town treatment, city and
route bonuses, multipliers etc). It runs on an abstract connectivity
graph, so it should not be too hard to integrate.

Alex.

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