Re: [Rails-devel] Design Question regarding Minors/Majors [corrected]

[Stefan F. <ste...@we...>]

Seems like that calls for another CreationStrategy implementation:
ForcedMerger versus FreeformMerger.

 From my experience now I prefer naming the classes in the core engine 
avoiding references to specific 18xx, as most of the time it requires 
knowing the title. So I prefer MergerCompany to NationalCompany.

As the company templates defined in CompanyManager.xml are game 
specific, they can define game specific wording.

Example: You have the PrivateCompany class, but define in 
CompanyManager.xml for 1837, that private companies are called Mountain 
Railways.

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> Those games' mergers are very similar to each other, but not to 1835/37
> (not only no reserved shares, but no predetermination of what companies
> will merge).  So I think they should have their own class rather than be
> included in the one I've called NationalCompany -- but maybe I should
> use some other name, since CGR and Etat/SNCF are national companies too.
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