Re: [Rails-devel] Automatic route calculation

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

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Aliza Panitz <ali...@gm...> wrote:
> This is something we could implement incrementally:
>
> (1) Have a button that users can click to highlight every bit of track
> that their trains can reach from their tokens.  This will be useful
> even without route calculation, though it will require Rails to learn
> about track, routes, tokens, etc.
>
> The algorithm I'm thinking of would be a simple flood-fill that gets
> blocked by foreign tokens if the circles are filled.


I agree. This is a great starting point.

It provides useful information to players almost immediately, even
before route calculation is feature complete.

---Brett.