Re: [Rails-devel] 1825 half-tiles

[Stefan F. <ste...@we...>]

Could you not lay the half tile on Q11 and block the SW side
of hex tile Q11 using the existing mechanism?

On Friday, October 28, 2011 10:22:45 pm Erik Vos wrote:
> I'm including these half-tiles into 1825 Unit 1, and it basically works.
> As expected, it turns out, that adding these half-tiles makes the existing
> "open" attributes redundant. This attribute achieves the same thing: that
> track can be laid towards the board edge.
> 
> However, the question arises how to interpret the rule that "Tiles may be
> placed so that a railway terminates against the edge of the board or
> against the side of an incomplete hexag"  in some specific cases where
> laying track would not be allowed if the adjacent board was actually
> present.  For Unit 1, this refers to the Q row hexes, of which only the
> southernmost corner is just visible on the Unit1 game board.  If taken
> literally, the cited rule would allow track lays against all edges of the
> Q row hexes if Unit2/R3 are absent.
> 
> However, if both Unit2 and Kit R3 are present, hex Q11 (Wolverton) would be
> only reachable from the SE, and hex Q21 (The Wash, i.e. sea) not at all.
> And that is how I had implemented it also for the case that Unit2/R3 are
> absent (I only vaguely remember that we might have had some discussion
> about this issue).
> 
> My current preference is to use a half-tile on hex Q11 (to which therefore
> track can be laid from both the SW and SE directions), and to omit it on
> hex Q21 (which therefore cannot be laid any track against).  To replicate
> the current behaviour, I would have to omit the half-tile from Q11, and
> keep using the existing 'open' attribute instead, so that Q11 can only be
> laid track against from the SE.
> 
> Any opinions?
> 
> Erik.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Erik Vos [mailto:eri...@xs...]
> > Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 12:52 PM
> > To: 'Development list for Rails: an 18xx game'
> > Subject: Re: [Rails-devel] 1825 half-tiles
> > 
> > Thanks, Stefan. As you say, a visual cue might be helpful.
> > 
> > There hasn't been any significant development on 1825 after I created the
> > maps.  Most of the XML (except for Unit 1) still has to be done.
> > I did already prepare that to some extent by adding quantity increments
> > as
> 
> a
> 
> > configuration option.
> > 
> > Erik.
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Stefan Frey [mailto:ste...@we...]
> > > Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 10:39 AM
> > > To: 'Development list for Rails: an 18xx game'
> > > Subject: [Rails-devel] 1825 half-tiles
> > > 
> > > Actually I found this mail sitting in my draft folder.
> > > It intended to provide half hexes for 1825.
> > > I do not know if this is still required, I lost track on the progress
> > > of
> > 
> > 1825 lately
> > 
> > > (if there has been any).
> > > Stefan
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Some time ago I edited the SVG files of the empty hex to create the
> > > half
> > 
> > hex,
> > 
> > > but forgot to send them out. I know that the current support of 1825
> > 
> > already
> > 
> > > allows to lay track off the map, but there is no visual hint, where
> > > this
> > 
> > is
> > 
> > > possible. So I wonder if they could be added.
> > > My experience now that for small changes it is actually much easier to
> > 
> > edit
> > 
> > > the SVG directly than using Inkscape (the edit took hardly more time
> > > than writing this mail)
> 
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