Re: [Rails-devel] 18EU minor initial sale round bugs

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

When we are playing face to face, we still say 'pass' when passing on a declining option and the whole process to is is called an auction. Both mine and Chris' approach is perfectly valid, it's just a semantic issue really.

Does the localisation functionality help us here?

On 25 Jun 2010, at 22:19, "Stefan Frey (web.de)" <ste...@we...> wrote:

> I wish you were right about implementation times ;-)
> 
> But what is more worrying is the long-time impact of such marginally improving
> changes that still potentially make the system more complicate.
> 
> I would not do that without a general use case (here I believe that there will 
> be other cases, where the backend can instruct the client that this action 
> type will have a different label for the user).
> Most likely it will already simplify the case of "select, no bid".
> 
> At least I can write those e-mails simultan to watch world cup, which is 
> unfortunately not possible for serious coding.
> 
> Stefan
> 
> On Friday 25 June 2010 22:51:02 Chris Shaffer wrote:
>> I get the feeling we've already spent more time discussing it than it would
>> have taken to implement it.
>> 
>> At any rate, if any of the developers other than Erik would care to make
>> the change, it would be appreciated.  I note that the UI is already
>> complicated by the implementation of the "select, no bid" option and this
>> would simply be extending that option to the following players.
>> 
>> --
>> Chris
>> 
>> Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.
>> 
>> On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Erik Vos <eri...@xs...> wrote:
>>> I consider it an immaterial difference in rules wording, that does not
>>> merit complicating the UI. But apparently opinions differ. I won't oppose
>>> such a change, but I have better things to spend my time on.
>>> 
>>> Erik.
>>> 
>>> ------------------------------
>>> *From:* Chris Shaffer [mailto:chr...@gm...]
>>> *Sent:* Friday 25 June 2010 22:22
>>> *To:* Development list for Rails: an 18xx game
>>> *Subject:* Re: [Rails-devel] 18EU minor initial sale round bugs
>>> 
>>>  [EV] Indeed. I don't actually see why "Pass" would not cover "Decline
>>> to
>>> 
>>>> bid" as well. I don't see any need to make that distinction.
>>> 
>>> It is problematic to explain rules when the interface does not match the
>>> terminology in the rules.  "Pass" has a specific meaning that is
>>> different from "decline to bid."
>>> 
>>> I'm not sure why there would be resistance to having Rails match the game
>>> rules?  What good reason could there be for desiring a conflict in
>>> terminology?
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Chris
>>> 
>>> 
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