Re: [Rails-devel] Test report: 1835 in Rails 1.5.1 (Windows XP)

[brett l. <bre...@gm...>]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 8:13 PM, John David Galt
<jd...@di...> wrote:
> Observations in playtest game of 1835 on Rails 1.5.1 on 2011-10-10.
>
> 1. I appreciate the changing of major company abbrevs to two letters, but
> the "Bay" president's share in starting packet seems to have been left out.
>
> 2. During a starting packet purchase round, if a player cannot take any
> action (has too little money to buy anything currently available) a popup
> appears "[name] cannot buy anything" with an OK button.  If two players are
> skipped they are combined on one popup.  That's cute, but I'd prefer the
> turns be silently skipped.
>
> Oddly enough, the stock round behavior is not the same.  If a player cannot
> take any action on his stock turn (he has too little money to buy anything
> currently available, and owns nothing that can currently be sold) he still
> gets a turn, even though "Pass" and "Autopass" are the only actions
> allowed.  Again, I'd prefer the turn be silently skipped.
>

My suggestion is that these behaviors should:

1. Be consistent.
2. Have a preference for whether the user wants to explicitly hit
"next" (or an equivalent) or automatically skip no-op actions.

---Brett.