Re: [Rails-devel] Babysteps with 1837

[John D. G. <jd...@di...>]

On 2014-07-21 10:35, Martin Brumm wrote:
> Good day to whom it may concern,
> 
> the attached screenshot has been done on my devbranch off 2.0

That's what happened.  1837 is listed in the start menu in 1.8.10, but
when I try to start a game it just displays a "loading - 0%" splash
screen and sits there until I quit.

Suggested changes to your map:

(1) The EHS home tile (F27) needs to be rotated 60 deg clockwise, so the
track from the mine points SE and the sharp curve points E and NE.

(2) Add an empty pale green hex at C36.

(3) Hexes such as G14 (two cities with no letter, for tile #404) should
be pale green.  A yellow tile will be built there.  I assume you copied
1830's yellow OO hex.

(4) Show mines as a white square (with room for the company name), and
show their payouts as if the space were a red offboard.  When the coal
company closes, its name should go away (I'm not sure how to implement
this, maybe as a tile upgrade?)

(5) Hide the names of national companies while minor #1 is active, so
the names don't clobber each other.  1835 has this problem, too.

(6) Show the boundary of Italy in some way.  I would do this by making
the unbuilt hexes pale pink (since the red line used on Lonny's original
is likely to be mis-read as an impassable hex side).

(7) We may or may not want to keep the coordinate system where the first
column is 2.  (Lonny's original map does not have numbered rows/columns.
You've used the system from David Reed's "The Depot".  Steve Thomas,
though, makes the first column 1, sometimes leading to off-by-one errors
when people send in moves for his PBM games.)