From: Phil D. <de...@gm...> - 2012-04-02 08:46:44
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I would always personally favour stating net worth as 'what if the game ended right now' but I appreciate this is a highly subjective area On 2 April 2012 08:28, Stefan Frey <ste...@we...> wrote: > Last time this discussion came up I wrote down an algorithm that tried > to tackle that issue on a general level. However it did not attract much > love at that time. > So I will wait for better suggestions, but I am still reluctant to > implement that on a case-by-case basis. > Stefan > > On 04/02/2012 03:02 AM, Chris Shaffer wrote: >> This is a more global discussion than just 1835. The question is >> whether to show net worth for a presumed "reasonable expectation of what >> will happen and when the game will end" or to show the net worth "if the >> game ended right now." Any game with disappearing privates that have >> value during existence will be affected, but other scenarios are also >> affected. >> >> I recommend if you decide to display the former, you give players an >> option to also calculate and view the figures for the latter. >> >> -- >> Chris >> >> Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. >> >> >> On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 11:36 AM, John David Galt >> <jd...@di... <mailto:jd...@di...>> >> wrote: >> >> On 2012-04-01 04:59, Erik Vos wrote: >> >> I found an issue about the worth-calcualtion in Rails for the >> >> 1835-Variant. >> >> Maybe the Pru shares counts double. >> >> > Thanks for catching this bug, and for pointing me in exactly the >> right >> > direction for a solution. >> > >> > The PR is unique in that the market price corresponds to *two* >> (5%) share >> > units. This fact was overlooked in the worth calculation. >> > I have pushed a fix to the master branch. >> >> I have another small issue with the net worth calculation for 1835: >> LD is >> shown at face value, even though it will quickly disappear for nothing. >> (This makes that player appear to have a large negative income in >> the round >> when SX floats.) I recommend counting it as zero. Likewise the B&O >> private >> and those like it in other games. >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> This SF email is sponsosred by: >> Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure >> _______________________________________________ >> Rails-devel mailing list >> Rai...@li... >> <mailto:Rai...@li...> >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rails-devel >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> This SF email is sponsosred by: >> Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Rails-devel mailing list >> Rai...@li... >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rails-devel > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF email is sponsosred by: > Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure > _______________________________________________ > Rails-devel mailing list > Rai...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rails-devel |