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

[Mike B. <com...@ip...>]

Replying to the original post because it's not quite on point. It occurs to
me that the code to do all this is more or less present already if you think
of ownership of these companies giving the owning company a token. This may
or may not be helpful to you.
 

Mike Bourke

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From: Michael Alexander [mailto:out...@gm...] 
Sent: Wednesday, 25 September 2013 10:43 PM
To: Development list for Rails: an 18xx game
Subject: [Rails-devel] Private Companies in 1880...


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.  


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.

The second I assume is similar, but I haven't had time to track that down in
the code yet.  


Does this seem like a reasonable approach?


Mike