Re: [Rails-devel] 1835 playtest report - Rails 1.3

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

On 13 Jun 2010, at 18:01, John David Galt  
<jd...@di...> wrote:

> I tried a 4 player game last night.
>
> The initial round went as expected, though it was annoying that we  
> were
> compelled to float the By to allow the game to continue (if this  
> were not
> forced, the OB would have been left unpurchased for one round  
> because the
> only one who could afford it was the LD/Sx owner.  This is usual for  
> us).
>
> The map error near Dusseldorf/Essen is fixed now.
>
> The logic to limit which hexes you can lay tiles in seems correct --  
> except
> that (1) it still offers to let the Pfalz owner place Mannheim during
> yellow phase, and (2) it doesn't let you start the game by dropping  
> a token
> in Nurnberg and then build track north from there on turn 1 (which  
> some of
> us believe is legal).
>
> But while that logic "knows" about route connections, the tile  
> rotation
> logic doesn't.  That is, you're still allowed (and sometimes offered  
> as
> first choice) the ability to place a new tile rotated so that it  
> doesn't
> connect to your route.
>
> Also, the controls to place a tile seem annoyingly finicky -- you  
> have to
> click directly on the image of the tile you want to place, even  
> though its
> description takes up a larger space that looks like a button.

> The route calculation logic seems correct when it gives an answer at  
> all.
> But in most turns it did not even guess at a revenue number for By.
>
> I ran into a real show stopper, though, in the stock round when Ba  
> formed.
> I backed up (undid) a couple of turns to test "what ifs".  Then I  
> found out
> the hard way that when you undo the purchase of a Ba share, the  
> share seems
> to get put back on the bottom of the stack!  (That is, after two  
> players
> together bought 60% of Ba, undid two 10% purchases, and redid them,  
> I can't
> buy the seventh share -- it insists the next share I buy be 20%!)
>
This behaviour has already been logged as a bug, the stack order for  
IPO purchases can get strangely broken in certain scenarios.

> At this point I quit.
>
> I also tried out the "Cash Correction" mode just to see if it would  
> help,
> and found that once you select it you can't cancel it without changing
> anything.  Entering zero gets you an error popup.
>
You leave cash correction by selecting 'leave cash correction' under  
the moderator menu. There would never be a reason to enter a 0 cash  
correction.

Phil

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