Re: [Rails-devel] More about track-laying annoyances

[John D. G. <jd...@di...>]

On 2011-11-19 16:51, John David Galt wrote:
> I discovered this today from a game of 1835 in Rails 1.5.3.
> 
> Given track connecting M2 - Schwerin delta - NE Hamburg - Kiel - M6,
>    M2 will be shown a possible build on the "dit" hex NE of Schwerin.
>    M6 will not.
> 
> I suspect this is because the tile-suggesting logic assumes that a route which
> visits the same hex twice (as the route from M6 to Schwerin visits Hamburg
> again) is not considered a legal route for laying tiles.

Follow-up: This turns out not to be the real reason.  After laying tile 202 in
B12, the program still does not offer to let M6 build east of there.