Re: [Rails-devel] Planned Release 1.7.0 (was: Bug in 1.6.2, buying final Private in 1830.)

[Frederick W. <fre...@go...>]

Stefan:
This is a condensed list (omitting minor roundoffs/improvements):

- General UI improvements:
    - Interactive highlighting of hexes
    - Enhanced highlighting of active table cells during Operating Round
    - Adaptive rendering of token labels
    - Lay Tile: Invalid tile lays are displayed (incl. the reason for
not being valid)

- Added UI options:
    - Map / Zoom Fit Option: Fit-to-window and more
    - Map / Display Routes of Active Company
    - Map / Highlight company locations
    - Appearance / Display borders in grid layout
    - Windows / Flexible panels for operating round: Applies a docking
framework to Operating Round Window

- Added Music/Sound Effects options (mp3 only):
    - Music: Background music can be specified per round-type and phase
    - Sound Effects: Sound effects can be associated to more than 20 game events
        - Includes support of "intelligent" effects (eg., revenue
sound as in RailroadTycoon1)
    - No music/sound files are provided by rails

-- Frederick