[Rails-users] Ongoing FIxes for 1880 ->rails 1.8.3

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

From a different source came a bugreport. I would like to share this
here, and of course the current state of work.
The test had been done with 1.8.0.

>steveyu wrote:
>I've been testing the latest build to see if we could progress further
and ran into the following that I emailed to >Martin. I don't mind
redoing the save file, but as some of these seem to still be game
breaking, I am going to hold >off for a bit.

>listed below in order of importance:

>1. Communism did not end on the purchase of the first 6 train. Stock
values and bonuses remained locked until the >end of the game.
>2. The game did not actually have a game ending triggering event, - the
8s were purchased and then the game >continued running round after round
until it crashed.
>3. The 6s did not trigger the purchase of the reconstructed 2s. The
train order went - 6, 6E, 8, 8E, 2R, 10.
>4. The 8Es were not purchasable. When the last 8 exported, the 8Es were
also all exported and the 2Rs were then >allowed to be purchased.
>5. Companies did not recapitalize if the 3s were all exported rather
than purchased triggering the recap. We worked >around this by adding
money to a company and then moving a 3 around until the 6s rusted it.
>6. Related to this - it seems when any trains are all exported, it does
not trigger the related event (such as start of >communism or
recapitalization).
>7. 6Es do not get calculated and do not seem to run at all -manually
did the route calculation (I assume 8Es are the >same way but we could
not buy any).
>8. The double dit tile 8855 only calculates the town on one of the two
dits. The other direction is treated as a >straight tile with no town on it.
>9. The D permit private company could not be used to assign the D
permit to any major companies.
>10. Ferries do not seem to deduct $10 from any routes that used the ferry.


Item 1 Fixed in 1.8.2
Item 3 fixed in 1.8.2
Item 5 fixed in 1.8.2
Item 2,4, 6 not yet verified, still under inspection.
Items 8-9 still in investigation as no save file avail
7 will be fixed in 1.8.3
4 will be fixed in 1.8.3
6 is fixed in 1.8.2
10 fixed in 1.8.2

Roadmap for 1.8.3:
Fixing the remaining problems with Double-O-Tiles
Fixing the remaining problems with 2R train special treatment

The Revenuecalculation for the 6E and 8E will be working but should be
handled manually, the code now has no chance (at least as far as i
understood that specific part) to maximise the Revenue yet.

Regards,
Martin