Re: [Rails-devel] Design guidance

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

Maybe what I'll do at this point is put off coding that choosing.  I'll
capture that I need to come back to it and move on.  There's a lot of other
things that need to be done.

Mike


On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Stefan Frey <ste...@we...> wrote:

> Keep it as simple as possible for yourself, as the refactoring will
> touch that code anyway.
>
> On 08/22/2014 04:07 PM, Michael Alexander wrote:
> > 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... <mailto: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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >     On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Stefan Frey <ste...@we...
> >     <mailto: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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