Re: [Rails-devel] Players total value (was: Some questions regarding a new release)

[Stefan F. <ste...@we...>]

I thought about this, and used some ideas from accounting (however adopted to 
the 18xx environment).

What do you think about the following definition to evaluate items for the 
player value displayed in Rails:

A) Items that have an end game value use that.
B) Items that will close before end for sure will use the purchase value.

There is the issue how to evaluate items sold as a bundle:
Here I would suggest the heuristic that items with value A are deducted form 
the purchase price first, if a positive value remains it get equally assigned 
to all items of type B.

For this we should internally however differentiate between game end player 
value and ongoing current player value: This would allow us easily to choose 
by game configuration to display end value or current value.

However I suggest to defer implementation to the Rails 2.0 trunk.

Stefan


On Sunday, December 18, 2011 11:24:54 pm Erik Vos wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John David Galt [mailto:jd...@di...]
> > Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2011 11:00 PM
> > To: Development list for Rails: an 18xx game
> > Subject: Re: [Rails-devel] Some questions regarding a new release
> > 
> > On 2011-12-18 08:04, Erik Vos wrote:
> > > [1835] Net worth calculation seems a little off, I think it's getting
> > > confused particularly with the Prussian certs.  [Phil Davies
> > > 17-6-2010]
> > 
> > I noticed this recently, too.  What seems to be happening is that in both
> > 1835 and 18EU, the minor companies are counted as zero in net worth.
> 
> While
> 
> > this may be correct in the rules, it's a distortion for players who want
> 
> to use
> 
> > net worth as a way to predict final positions.
> > 
> > I suggest that in 1835, the privates and minors should be counted as the
> > value of the PR shares they will eventually trade for (77M per 5% if PR
> 
> has
> 
> > not yet formed), while for 18EU, I would just count them all as $100 each
> 
> (as
> 
> > a ballpark estimate).
> 
> Hmm, if we are going to count privates/minors to their expected future
> value rather than their official current value, shouldn't we then also
> count 1830 C&A for $320 rather than $160?
> I would prefer to stick to the rules, and leave it to the players to take
> note of (or forget about) any expected future gains.
> 
> Erik.
> 
> 
> 
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