Re: [Rails-devel] Further 1835 testing

[Erik V. <eri...@xs...>]

> > > 3) Most people's definition of a "share" is such that the stock
> > > price chart gives the price of one share.  Therefore, a "share" is
10%.
> 
> That is definitely the best argument. for PR's share unit being 10%.
> Could someone remind me (as a newbie to 1856) how does it work for the
> Candian government railway if it issues 20 shares? Does the share price
> reflects still 10% or does it refer to 5%?

5%.

> Erik I even wondered how you got everything consistent with his definition
> PR's share unit being 5%?
> I suspect you created a variable that defines something like "stock is
quoted
> in multiples of 2".

Exactly: that's the variable shareUnitsForSharePrice in PublicCompany. It's
configurable:
	<ShareUnit percentage="5" sharePriceUnits="2"/>
for the PR. 
 
> > If a player sells two 5% certificates, what did he sell in terms of
shares?
> > One share?  Two 5% shares? Two half-shares?
> >
> 
> I prefer two "5% certificates". All other definitions end up being
ambiguous in
> some constellation. 

Yes, that's probably the best approach. 

> I would even use an ID for the certificate types instead of
> the 5% attribute, as there might come up a game with various certificates
> that have the same nominal but differ in some other properties.

Hmm, that might even enable consistent sorting of the details in the new
portfolio composition tooltip.

Erik.