Re: [Rails-devel] Design guidance

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

Regarding those StartItems - in addition to selecting a par price, the
winner of the auction can choose how many shares to buy of the company they
are founding.  Is that something I should be adding to the general
"StartItem/Rounds" code or should I make that be in 1862-specific code?


On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Michael Alexander <out...@gm...
> wrote:

> 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
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> 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.
>>
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>>
>> 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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