Re: [Rails-devel] [Rails-users] Bug with Prussian dividends in 1835?

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

Clearly negative amounts are erroneous.  But without a saved file it's hard
to track down such bugs.
I'll try to provide some answers tomorrow.
Erik

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan Frey [mailto:ste...@we...]
> Sent: Monday, October 14, 2013 4:30 PM
> To: Development list for Rails: an 18xx game
> Cc: pie...@ho...
> Subject: Re: [Rails-devel] [Rails-users] Bug with Prussian dividends in
1835?
> 
> Erik:
> I will try to cover the remaining 1835 bugs in the near future.
> 
> This new one below seems tricky as I remember some discussion in the past
> on the 18xx yahoo list about when and how the minors/privates merge into
> the Prussian major.
> 
> Could you tell me how you determine when the Prussian is allowed to
> operate and who gets dividends paid out?
> 
> In any case paying negative amounts seems plain wrong or is this some kind
> of a workaround?
> 
> Thanks,
> Stefan
> 
> On 10/14/2013 11:49 AM, Pieter Lust wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > In a recent game of 1835 with Rails the following occurred:
> >
> > The Prussian was started in operating round 8.1 . Some privates and
> > minors merged, but not all. The Prussian didn't operate.
> > At the start of operating round 8.2, one minor merged into the Prussian.
> > Player holdings were:
> > Stan: 10% Prussian, M1 (not converted yet), BB private
> > Dave: no Prussian shares, M6
> > Neil: 20% Prussian
> > Pier: 15% Prussian, M3, PfB private
> > Easterly1: 30%, no minors
> >
> > The Prussian then operated, and paid dividends. This was the output
> > from
> > rails:
> >
> > PR pays out full dividend of 150M
> > Stan gets no income for 15% PR shares as precursors have operated Pier
> > gets no income for 5% PR shares as precursors have operated Stan
> > receives -7M for -1 5% shares Pier receives 15M for 2 5% shares
> > Easterly1 receives 45M for 6 5% shares Neil receives 30M for 4 5%
> > shares
> >
> > This seems wrong: the minors didn't operate in the current operating
> > round, so all converted shares should receive a dividend.
> >
> > Is this a bug?
> >
> > Sincerely
> >
> > Pieter
> >
> >
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