Re: [Rails-users] v1.4 18EU load issue

[Stefan F. <ste...@we...>]

Actually there have two changes to the 18EU initial sale of minors:

1) A bug fix: Skipping the players who already passed in a started (English) 
auction. Different to other 18xx the 18EU rules explicitly define that passing 
players leave that auction. This potentially makes old save files invalid. 
Players should finish with Rails 1.3. 
 
2) A requested feature: Player, who have the sole option "pass" (due to 
insufficient funds remaining), have that action selected automatically. This 
does NOT impact old save files. 
This is implemented on the GameManager level, thus should also work on other 
occasions (but not in the StockRound as here the (manual) autopass option is 
available in addition to the standard pass).

To confirm that 2) was not the reason for the problem, I removed the 
superfluous passes from the save file and it is now loadable with Rails 1.4.
I have attached that Rails 1.4 compatible file, if Mike wants to continue with 
the new version.

Stefan

On Sunday, August 29, 2010 09:44:47 pm Erik Vos wrote:
> Ah good.
> 
> I just was investigating, and I noticed that the game you attached was
> saved with version 1.2.2, which is pretty aged by now. I suspect the
> problem was caused by a difference in handling players who have previously
> passed in an auction in later turns: in your saved game a 'pass' was
> recorded for each such player, whereas the new version just skips such
> players. So the new version got completely confused who's turn it was in
> the initial round.
> 
> It looks like that the acting player isn't checked in this (or perhaps any)
> initial round. That needs to be fixed.
> 
> Erik.
> 
> 
>   _____
> 
> From: Mike Deans [mailto:mi...@de...]
> Sent: Sunday 29 August 2010 21:04
> To: Mike Deans
> Cc: rai...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Rails-users] v1.4 18EU load issue
> 
> 
> Hi again
> 
> OK, resolved the issue. I was trying to share v1.3 and v1.4 in the same
> folder and I was getting a conflict. I'm going to have to split them off
> more.
> 
> Mike
> 
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