Re: [Rails-devel] Further 1835 testing

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

> From: Stefan Frey [mailto:ste...@we...]
> B) Player T3 sells 30% of WT: There is no selection to chosse either one
20%
> or two 10% certificates for exchange of the president certificate.

Not sure if this was an accidental or a deliberate oversight, but in any
case the current share selling process was not prepared at all to allow such
a choice.
It's now overhauled to allow a selection of exchange certificates in case of
a dump.  In all dump cases (in all games) the exchange certs are now
mentioned as well.  Where a choice is possible, the selling choice list has
separate options to cover the different exchange certs. 

> From: John David Galt [mailto:jd...@di...]
> 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.)

Obviously, three 20% certificates can never be sold to the Pool.
I don't know what caused the offer to sell one or two 10% certificates.
Anyhow, this is no longer the case, probably because of the above fix.

If another player had two 10% OL shares, one could argue that it would be
allowed to sell 50%, because a president share exchange would be possible.
This does not actually happen now.
If Kent buys another 10% OL cert, John in his next turn still does not get
another sell option after first selling 40%.  Not sure if that is correct...

> 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.)

This all is no longer possible.

> (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.)

It works fine for me - two subsequent sell actions at the same price. 

Erik.