Re: [Rails-devel] 1825 patches

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

Jim,

>> in 1825 companies always operate in descending par value order.
>> When two companies share the same par value, they always operate
>>  in the order they were formed.
>
> That's not right:  throughout the 1825, majors operate strictly in order of formation (NOT par value).

This amounts to the same thing for all scenarios I can think of and is
how it's written in the rulebook (the rulebook says companies operate
in order of 'face value')

In the case of 1825 unit 1 (which is all I've got added so far), the
LNWR MUST form before the GWR which must form before either the GER or
LSWR forms.  The tricky bit is catching which of those two forms first
and this IS currently handled.

> Only minors operate in descending par value.

SO far away from adding minor companies at the moment but I will bear
that in mind!

> Also, please review the bug incident I filed (I think Erik moved it to feature requests), enumerating many 1825 issues- it
> would be really helpful if this was surveyed again, before marking 1825 playable/experimental.

I will do, I 1825 up until the last week has been the map XML and
nothing more, absolutely nothing was written for it so I've not
bothered checking bug reports since I wasn't expecting anyone to try
launching it!  I'll review these and see if I need to add anything
else that isn't already on my list.  The goal for me at this stage is
to get Unit 1 playable on it's own, from start to finish with all
features covered in the core rulebook.  Once that is done I can start
thinking about mixing in other units/minors/tile packs etc.

> I'm curious whether you implemented the update to allow 1-4 steps on the stock-market, depending on the size of earnings.

Yep, all working

> Also, whether running 2 2-trains as 1 3-train works in the revenue-calc engine...

Currently no, in fact currently the route calculation is totally
broken for 1825 since it allows you to start and end at small towns
AND visit two stations on the same hex, both of which aren't allowed.
So for the moment I'm afraid anyone testing will have to revert to
manual routing.  Route calculation is either 2nd or 1st on my list of
things to fix...right after I work out how complicated receivership is
and which I fancy tackling first

Phil


On 15 September 2010 16:38, Jim Black <ji...@ko...> wrote:
>
> Phil wrote:
>
>> in 1825 companies always operate in descending par value order.
>> When two companies share the same par value, they always operate
>>  in the order they were formed.
>
> That's not right:  throughout the 1825, majors operate strictly in order of formation (NOT par value).
>
> Only minors operate in descending par value.
>
> Also, please review the bug incident I filed (I think Erik moved it to feature requests), enumerating many 1825 issues- it would be really helpful if this was surveyed again, before marking 1825 playable/experimental.
>
> I'm curious whether you implemented the update to allow 1-4 steps on the stock-market, depending on the size of earnings.  (That's really important..)   Also, whether running 2 2-trains as 1 3-train works in the revenue-calc engine...
>
> best,
>  - jim
>
>
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