[Rails-devel] 18EU leftover stations bug (was 2x Bug Reports 18TN Rails 1.7.3)

[John D. G. <jd...@di...>]

On 2012-05-20 08:29, Mike Bourke wrote:
> Question1: If you save the game and then reload it, do these leftovers
> vanish? Question2: Do they interfere with other operating runs i.e. still
> function as a rail head?

Investigating these questions has produced interesting results.

Q1: Yes and no.  Performing a "save game" and then "load game" at a point after
the minor companies have merged shows the same map as before.  (Turning the
"map" option off, then on in the menu-bar of the Game Status window similarly
does not change the map shown.)  However, if you exit completely out of Rails,
restart the program, and THEN reload the saved game, the leftover stations go
away.  Clearly then, this bug has to do with the GUI engine being unwilling to
generate a new map window unless it is aware the contents have changed.

Q2: I don't yet know the answer to this one.

In trying to answer Q2 I discovered another bug.  The Final Minor Company
Exchange Round in this game ended with all players holding more than 60% of at
least one major company (which must then be sold in the ensuing stock turn).
Rather than do that right away, I saved the game as soon as the Exchange Round
was finished and it's the first player's stock turn.  Result: "Load game" hangs!
The progress indicator gets to 92% and stops there, and I had to stop Rails from
Windows Task Manager.