Re: [Rails-users] Bugs in 1889 game

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

Thanks for the response, Erik!

Dave.


At 12:18 18/12/2010, Erik Vos wrote:
>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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