Re: [Rails-devel] Automatic route calculation

[alexti <al...@sh...>]

Hi Erik,

I've meant (2), but (1) is also included. And I agree that (1) is much  
simpler.

Alex.

On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:48:58 -0600, Erik Vos <eri...@xs...> wrote:

> 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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