Re: [Rails-devel] 1837 Revenue Calculation

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

BTW I chose the mines to be town type because towns cannot be tokened.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erik Vos [mailto:eri...@xs...]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 1:12 PM
> To: 'Development list for Rails: an 18xx game'
> Subject: Re: [Rails-devel] 1837 Revenue Calculation
> 
> See below.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stefan Frey [mailto:ste...@we...]
> 
> > B) Define the coal tiles as offboard fields. Add a
> > StaticRevenueModifier
> that
> > removes the offboard (major scoring) node and replace it by a bonus
> > vertex for the G-trains only. (Bonus vertices can be defined to be
> > train
> dependent,
> > whereas scoring nodes have to be identical).
> 
> I have provisionally defined the mine tiles as fixed (i.e. grey) with a
town that
> has zero (i.e. variable) value.
> (This definition is mainly for usage in XML, the real picture will be
different
> once we have better SVG tiles).
> I can change that if you want, but my thinking was that this hex would not
> really behave as an off-board one.
> And I can replace the town by a city if you prefer that.
> 
> One potential problem is the ZKB mine tile, with has two stops: a
fixed-value
> village and a variable-value mine.
> Can you handle that? See below.
> 
> > C) Add a name="Mine" attribute to all mines. This automatically treats
> them
> > as a VertexVisitSet and thus a train can only visit one of them.
> > Alternatively this could be checked in step D) too.
> 
> In Map.xml or in TileSet.xml?
> For the ZKB this should apply to only one of the two stops, so perhaps we
> should add an extra 'city="1"' attribute.
> 
> > D) Add a DynamicRevenueModifier that checks that routes of G-Trains
> > have at least one mine in their route, otherwise the route will be void.
> >
> > I can easily add those elements, however I will wait until it is
> > possible
> to have
> > 1837 at least startup, so that I am able to test.
> 
> 1837 already starts, in that it displays all initial windows. I haven't
tried
> anything beyond that point. The only specific class is StartRound_1835;
> otherwise, the 1830 rules apply.
> 
> Erik.
> 
> 
>
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