Re: [Rails-devel] Further 1835 testing

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

I'm working on share selling right now because of bugs reported by Stefan,
and I'll will also pick up these problems.

One remark for now: selling any mixtures of 5% and 10% shares in one action
has been deliberately omitted for the sake of simplicity. Two separate
actions are required.
The default behaviour of Rails is (was? In any case: should be) that in 1835
the price will NOT fall again in such a case (and that the selling price
remains the same). 
I will check what actually happens.

Erik.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John David Galt [mailto:jd...@di...]
> Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2011 5:23 AM
> To: Development list for Rails: an 18xx game
> Subject: Re: [Rails-devel] Further 1835 testing
> 
> This save file is a later one from the same game, and shows an amusing
> stock-market bug.
> 
> At the point of the save, John has three 20% certificates of OL.
> If I click to sell some of them, the program offers to let me sell either
one or
> two 10% certificates, or one or two 20% certs, but not three 20% certs.
(So
> apparently the game engine "thinks" I have two 20% and two 10% certs, but
> that is not possible -- with 30% still in the IPO, only one 10% cert has
ever
> been purchased.)
> 
> It gets even more interesting if I take the program up on its offer to let
me
> sell one 10% cert.  When I do this, I am credited with 86M and the share
price
> falls as if the sale had taken place -- but all holdings stay the
> same: I still own 60%.
> 
> It gets still weirder if I "Forced Undo" the sale: Undo does nothing, but
I can
> "sell" another 10%, again gaining the market price of one share and
dropping
> the price further while giving up nothing.  (The "Game Report"
> window does not reflect the Undo so maybe that is a no-op here.)
> 
> (A possibly related annoyance I found earlier: If Marcus wants to sell
some of
> his 15% holding of PR, the interface allows him to sell either his 5%
certificate
> or his 10% cert, but not both at the same time.  I can sell one at a time,
but
> this causes the price to fall twice, which is not possible under the rules
of
> 1835.)