Re: [Rails-devel] Design guidance

[Michael A. <out...@gm...>]

Where I was creating them was during the initialization of the start round
- so I was thinking that it should work during a load - although admittedly
I didn't test it.  In any case, I can certainly change it to create all the
possible ones at startup.

Thank you,

Mike





On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Stefan Frey <ste...@we...> wrote:

> Mike:
> I cannot recommend to create StartItems on the fly, as all of them have
> to be available at the start of the game to allow reloading a saved game
> file.
>
> One of the troubles of using the serialization process of Java for
> storing the game is the fact that all objects have to be either created
> before game start or can be created during the load process. All this
> happens before any action gets replayed.
>
> This can be changed as soon as we change it to a format that can be
> loaded step by step.
>
> My suggestion is that you create all possible StartItem at game creation
> (maybe even preferable by specific code instead of xml) and then for
> each Parliament Round collect the available StartItems for that round.
>
> I am not really happy about the implementation to reserve certificates
> inside StartItem, so expect something to change there in the not-so-far
> future. StartRounds will be first Round types to be changed as soon as I
> have time for that (as soon as 2.0 is out of the door).
>
> Thus keep it simple for the time being and do not care about UI issues
> for the time being.
>
> Stefan
>
>
> Remark:
> Another issue I realized that there is still one place that there is one
> class variable remaining: "startItemMap" of StartItem class.
> This will be changed soon, however it will not have any consequence to
> your problem.
>
>
>
> On 08/22/2014 02:36 PM, Michael Alexander wrote:
> > I'm using the existing "StartRound" classes for the Parliament Rounds
> > for 1862.  It seems to be ok to create StartItems on the fly based on
> > what companies are available, dropping the Presidencies of each of those
> > companies into the appropriate StartItem.  My only concern is that each
> > of those companies then shows up in the Status Panel as having "70%" in
> > the IPO, which I think might be confusing.
> >
> > I'm thinking of making "proxy certs" to put into the StartItems and
> > moving the real ones inside the "buy" function.  Is that a reasonable
> > approach?
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
> >
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