Re: [Rails-users] Bugs in 1889 game

[Erik V. <eri...@xs...>]

In 1889, I have replaced tile #440 and removed the optional 6-train.
Erik.

-----Original Message-----
From: Erik Vos [mailto:eri...@xs...] 
Sent: Wednesday 15 December 2010 22:58
To: 'Dave Berry'; 'rai...@li...'
Cc: rai...@li...
Subject: RE: [Rails-users] Bugs in 1889 game

See comments below.
Erik.

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Berry [mailto:da...@be...] 
Sent: Sunday 12 December 2010 22:56
To: rai...@li...
Subject: [Rails-users] Bugs in 1889 game

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.

[EV] This is a bug: the UI doesn't correctly handle the case where there is
just enough cash available to start a company at the  lowest price only.
This has been fixed in the code base.

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

[EV] Tile #440 should be replaced. I will look at that later. 

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.

[EV] Random dealing has not yet been implemented in Rails.

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

[EV] I suppose this is caused by copy-and-pasting from 1830. Indeed the
rules don't mention an optional 6-train. 
If nobody objects, I will remove this option.



Best wishes,

Dave Berry.



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