Re: [Rails-devel] 1880 and 1846

[Martin B. <dr....@t-...>]

Am 22.10.2013 21:32, schrieb Jeff VanDorp:
> Hello,
> I'm new to the list, and new to sourceforge in general, but have some
> experience with 18xx (have been playing for about 3 years now, with
> approximately 15 plays of about 8 different titles).  I have some
> software programming background (although I'm a little rusty), and may
> be able to recruit others from our newly formed West Michigan 18xx
> group
> <https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#%21forum/west-michigan-18xx-players> to
> help.
>  
> 1. First, Thank you for getting 1880 completed!  This is one of my
> favorite titles, and I'm excited to try it out.  I'll be organizing a
> PBEM game soon.
>  
> 2. Second, I'd like to request (and possibly participate in) the
> development of 1846 - my favorite title.  I searched the archives and
> saw some talk about 1846 a couple years ago (see below), and I'm
> wondering about any updated status.  Has anyone worked on the map or
> tile set yet?  Has the n/m train code been developed?  How about the
> separation of trains from train certificates, to allow a player to
> choose one of two options?
>  
> Looking forward to hearing back from you.
>  
> Jeff VanDorp 
>  

Hi Jeff,

Have fun playing 1880 and please notify us if something is wrong and
send us a savefile in that case :)

1846 is not yet in the data section of the code. So theres no public
work on that yet.  I am currently working on 1837/1824 and will be
working on 1830(Mayfair/Lookout Games) from time to time.

If you got some time to spare you are more than welcome to pull the
code, create a local repo and start working in there. I would suggest
that you create a local branch for the specific version you are keen on
(in this case 1846).

The Train code i havent checked yet as i dont own that game personally
and havent investigated it. Erik has gone a little bit quiet (probably
waiting for Stefan to pop up with Rails Rewrite 2.0). So maybe he has
some more info on whats conceptually done in that case.

I consider myself a game implementer and lacking a professional software
development education i am not that fond of trying to implement core
concepts :). If i can be of help i'll gladly do whatever i can though.

I would be willing to check in your additions into the sourceforge repo,
if i can verify the content.

If you got any questions feel free to adress them.

Regards,
Martin