Re: [Rails-devel] Fwd: [ rails-Bugs-3013209 ] 1835 stack order from IPO can be messed up

[Phil D. <de...@gm...>]

On 11 June 2010 05:45, John David Galt <jd...@di...> wrote:
> On 2010-06-08 04:21, Phil Davies wrote:
>> Just raised the following bug on 1835 and thought it worth bringing up
>> for discussion.  I 'think' this is the only other supported game where
>> there are shares of a mixed type available for purchase (1856 has 5%
>> shares but I believe that the CGR is always either a 10% or 5% corp?).
>
> I'm hoping that 1837 will make the list fairly soon; it doesn't have too
> many differences from 1835, and most of those are 1830-like differences.
>
>>  The game status interface doesn't really have the facility for
>> displaying exactly what share is the next available.
>
> When you click on the button to buy from the initial offering, it does ask
> "Buy 2 shares of Wrt for 168?"  While this could be better phrased, it does
> get the job done (and after all, players are expected to own the physical
> game).

This is true, my point was that veteran rails users are used to
mindlessly clicking yes without reading the popup, this is probably a
user failing rather than a product failing :)

> I haven't tried buying such companies from the bank pool, though, and would
> want to have the choice to buy either size of certificate if they are there.
> (This can probably be limited to two sizes in the code -- I don't know of a
> game where any one company, once formed, ever has more than two sizes of
> certificate at one time, unless you count the bank-owned 50% certs in 1862.)

I will find out in the next SR I'm heading into in this 1835 game but
I believe there is a dropdown box that allows you to choose between
which share you would like to purchase, similar to the one that pops
up when you want to sell multiples.  I think it's really only an issue
with the IPO since they are in a predefined 'stack' which you can't
really see.

Phil