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

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

The problem is that the BA had already floated and so, according to the
rules, the BA token had already been laid on the BA home hex L6.
Now that L6 is upgraded to green, that token must find a place.

The only easy way out of this problem I saw was to defer laying the BA home
token until its first OR turn -  in all cases. I hope that's an acceptable
workaround.

This change doesn't break any existing test cases, but your game will likely
be broken now, as well as any other 1835 games where a foreigner has laid a
tile on L6.

While testing this change, I found a problem with the earlier change to the
SellShares action, that caused some of my own test cases to be broken.
That's also fixed, and my new standard test cases had to be refreshed.

Erik.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John David Galt [mailto:jd...@di...]
> Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2011 3:02 AM
> To: Development list for Rails: an 18xx game
> Subject: Re: [Rails-devel] More about track-laying annoyances
> 
> A second minor track-laying annoyance:
> 
> At the point of this save file, Marcus (running SX) uses the Pfalz to lay
a tile in
> Ludwigshafen/Mannheim.
> 
> Result: Marcus is asked where BA's home station should be placed.
> 
> There are two things wrong with that.  Kent is president of BA, so he, not
> Marcus, should be asked.  And he should not be asked until BA's own turn
> (so Marcus should not be allowed to place a SX token there on this turn,
> even with Kent's approval).