Re: [Rails-devel] 1835 Schlesien

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

On 2012-08-29 14:38, Erik Vos wrote:
> Thinking again, perhaps we still need "Variant" for Clemens, because there
> is a lot more to the Clemens variant than just the start packet
> distribution. IIRC, at least some of the Clemens specialties have not even
> been implemented yet. And there are a lot more 1835 variants that we haven't
> yet considered, and I fear that at least some of these would not mix well
> with the Coalfields/Schlesien map extension. This is no simple matter.
> 
> In any case, I don't want to promote variants to separate games. That would
> create a maintenance nightmare.
> 
> Comments from the group on this matter would be welcome.

I'm in favor of support for variants.  On my to-do list is to add my 1835
Equal Footing Variant (which has slightly different start-packet rules, plus
a modified map, more tiles and different upgrade paths, and more trains).

However, it seems to me that a "variant" such as Clemens which changes only
the start packet should not be listed as a variant but merely an option in
the Options tab -- so that it can be played with another variant.  Similarly
for other small changes.