Re: [Rails-devel] Buying trains

[Bill R. <ro...@gm...>]

On 2011-03-17, at 19:20 , Erik Vos wrote:
> For double-sided trains I would propose something like (for 18VA):
> 	<TrainCertificate name="2/1G" cost="100" quantity="6">
> 		<Train name="2" majorStops="2"/>
> 		<Train name="1G" majorStops="1">
> 			<Score towns="yes"/>
> 		</Train>
> 	</TrainCertificate>
> Perhaps one or more additional attributes could to be added to denote Mine
> and CMD access and scoring details, but actually I think these details are
> so game-specific that these might as well be hardcoded.  In any case, I
> leave that to Stefan Frey to decide and work out.
> 
> In the above case, the price is in the <TrainCertificate> tag, but in 18Scan
> it will be in the <Train> tags because there the two trains on one card have
> different prices.
> (And I would replace the ambiguous 'amount' by the explicit 'quantity'
> throughout. Perhaps also 'cost' by 'price'?).

As the person working on 1848 (I'm more or less done the XML), I would very much appreciate the ability to define two-sided trains in XML, since 1848 has trains of the form N / N+ where one side is a standard N train, but the other (slightly more expensive) side allows calling at one extra gauge change marker.  I agree with the notion that various special features (i.e. the fact that a + train in 1848 may make one extra stop at a gauge change marker) may as well be hardcoded into game-specific code.

Bill