Re: [Rails-devel] Private Companies in 1880...

[Michael A. <out...@gm...>]

On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Stefan Frey <ste...@we...> wrote:

> Quick answers, see below. All private companies in all 18xx work
> differently ;-) Please remember that I only read 1880 rules before,
> never played...
>
>
> On 09/25/2013 02:42 PM, Michael Alexander wrote:
> > Just like everything else in 1880, private companies work a little
> > differently than "normal".  The problems are:
> >
> > - They never close.  They just stop paying out.  This is important
> > because the benefits of the privates carry on for the entire game.
>
> >
> > - They should never count against the share limit
> >
> > - They count as zero value at the end of the game.  It probably actually
> > should count as zero value during the entire game.
> >
> > The first one is easy to deal with inside 1880 specific code.
>
> Revenue is already a list of revenue values, that can change by phase.
> Compare field revenue and method getRevenueByPhase inside the
> PrivateCompany class. No need for specific code.
> Non-closing is not an issue just do not specify a closing condition


Ahhh, ok.  I can do that.

>
> >
> > The third is difficult because inside Player the worth is based on the
> > base price of the private.  I was thinking about adding a field that
> > could be initialized in the XML that would indicate the worth of each
> > private and changing Player to look at it.
>
> Base price of the private is only used for worth and selling to and from
> companies, the base price for each item of the start packet is defined
> separately. I do not know 1880 good enough, if this not enough
> flexibility already. (Compare 1830 CompanyManager.xml for an example)
>

In 1880, privates are never sold to companies.  The base price is needed
for the auction at the start of the game, but that's it.  If it wasn't used
for that, I could just set base price to 0 in the XML files.


> >
> > The second I assume is similar, but I haven't had time to track that
> > down in the code yet.
>
> This will require a change, as PrivateCompanies are counted as one
> certificate towards the certificateCount. (Compare method
> getCertificateCount in Portfolio class).
>
> This has to be changed, my recommendation is to move up method
> getCertificateCount from PublicCertificateI to Certificate interface,
> with according changes to the field certificateCount in
> PublicCertificate class.
>
>
Ok, I can take a look at this.

Look forward to Rails2.0, this will be simplified as all duplicate
> Interfaces are dropped.
>

I am looking forward to it. :)

>
> > Does this seem like a reasonable approach?
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
> >
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