Re: [Rails-devel] A subtle 1835 bug (1.7.4)

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

I'm going to look at a new bug report from Phil Davies, so perhaps it's
worthwhile to wait a little bit longer.

Erik.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan Frey [mailto:ste...@we...]
> Sent: Monday, May 28, 2012 3:10 PM
> To: Development list for Rails: an 18xx game
> Subject: Re: [Rails-devel] A subtle 1835 bug (1.7.4)
> 
> Erik:
> do you expect to commit more fixes today or tomorrow?
> Otherwise I take this fix and the previous others and release 1.7.5 soon.
> Stefan
> 
> On 05/28/2012 01:06 PM, Erik Vos wrote:
> > I suspect the reason is, that the hex pairs C13/D12 and E13/F12 are
> > not considered "neighbours" in the sense that no track can ever be
> > laid across their common edges.
> > For simplicity (or laziness) reasons, I had used this same "neighbour"
> > concept to find neighbours for the purpose of hex distance
> > calculation, but apparently I had completely overlooked that
impassability
> aspect.
> >
> > The fix is to obtain the neighbouring hexes in a more direct way,
> > ignoring impassabilities.  The cost is now calculated as the correct
140M.
> >
> > However, to deal with the 1835 "crow without a passport" aspect, all
> > hexes used in the calculation must still be non-null.
> > Should other games have hex distance calculation rules that do not
> > ignore null hexes, then we have another problem...
> >
> > Erik
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: John David Galt [mailto:jd...@di...]
> >> Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2012 11:50 PM
> >> To: rai...@li...
> >> Subject: [Rails-devel] A subtle 1835 bug (1.7.4)
> >>
> >> At the point of this save file, MS just laid a token in Frankfurt (7
> >> hexes
> > away
> >> from its home) but was charged 160.I suspect t
> >
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