[Rails-users] Bugs in 1889 game

[Dave B. <da...@be...>]

Hi,

We used Rails alongside a face-to-face game of 1889 today and noted a 
couple of issues.  In case it is relevant, we were using the DTG 
edition of the game and playing the beginners' variant.

The first was quite difficult to work around.  One player, who has 
132 cash, wanted to buy the director's share of the IR at 65 
par.  When we clicked on the treasury shares, the pop-up dialog asked 
if he wanted to start the IR with a par price of 0.  If we cancelled 
the dialog and tried again, we got the same result.  If we clicked 
OK, another dialog popped up to say that this wasn't a valid par 
price!   As an experiment, if that player sold another share first, 
to get more cash in hand, and then tried to buy the director's share 
of the IR, we got the usual dialog offering the full range of par prices.

The second issue was that the green Takamatsu tile had only one 
marker space in Rails.  It should have two.

A less important issue was that the distribution of privates had to 
be entered using the normal auction dialog, rather than being 
randomly dealt.  This was easy to work around.  We just dealt the 
physical certificates and bought them in the appropriate order.

I also noticed that the set-up options for Rails listed an optional 
3rd 6-train.  I don't think this exists in 1889?

Best wishes,

Dave Berry.