From: Stefan F. <ste...@we...> - 2010-07-10 17:49:49
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After some time: The pass option at the bgeinning of the 18EU minor initial sale round is renamed to "decline to bid" for the first action of each player after the minor selection. After that "pass" is active (implying "decline to buy"). I took the opportunity to implement the long-standing feature-request for an autopass in the 18EU start round: Anytime a player has not enough money to bid or buy, he passes automatically (or declines to bid or declines to increase his bid). Exception is the player after the selection of a minor as the first bid is processed by the user interface instead of the backend. Here the player still has to select NoBid. This fix covers all game situations, where a player has only the option to pass. The other occasion I have tested is the 1830 type StartRound. The general StockRound is not effected (it allows both pass and autopass). And it does not effect those cases, where players/companies have to choose "Done" (e.g. after an action in the StockRound or during ORs). In principle this behavior could be generalized to those occasions above, but it might surprise players if their turn is skipped outside of the StartRounds. The 1835 StartRound has its own autopass method implemented, which has a pop-up message supplied. So far I have not added a pop-up message box. It can be easily added, but this works a little bit against the intention of a game speed up. (Here and in some other occasions it would be nice to have a non-blocking information panel). 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 > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >----- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate > > GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the > > lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo > > _______________________________________________ > > Rails-devel mailing list > > Rai...@li... > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rails-devel |