Re: [Rails-devel] Hex trains support

[John A. T. <ja...@ja...>]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 2:18 AM, Stefan Frey <ste...@we...> wrote:

> I have implemented revenue calculation for hex trains (for 1826). Instead
> of a
> dynamic modifier I kept the (older) plan to add that to the revenue
> calculator
> directly. So I treat hex trains as "first-class" citizens of Rails and they
> should be supported directly via attributes in XML.
>
> What is your preference for the naming and type of such an attribute?
> I would currently prefer a simple boolean isHexTrain = "yes" and (mis-) use
> the number of majors as the number of hexes the train can travel.
>
> But maybe something like distanceType={stops|hexes} and then an integer
> attribute for hexDistance is preferable?
>

BTW, note that there are two types of hex trains -- in 1844 a 2H train runs
to two adjacent hexes, while in 18US a 1H train runs to two adjacent hexes
(ie, it has a range of 1 from the origin).  You can represent them
internally the same way, but you need to display them differently.

-- 
John A. Tamplin