From: John D. G. <jd...@di...> - 2014-11-21 03:49:42
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I tried a 3-player game of 1835, and got as far as the first turn of Sx. - Startup seems normal, but there is a new game option, "Ignore reserved PR shares", with no explanation. I didn't try it. - I undid a couple of turns during the Start Round, and discovered that Undoing actions by clicking on an action in the Game Report window and then hitting "Play from here" doesn't work any more. (The cursor goes forward to the latest completed turn, and the Game Status window confirms that nothing was undone.) Moderator -> Forced Undo, though, still works. - As in earlier alpha versions, the Game Status window does not show who owns private companies. - I mostly like the new, smaller buttons displayed when it is time to lay tiles or tokens. However, the top legend "Select a hex" doesn't make it clear what I'm supposed to do. "Select a hex to lay a tile in" or "Select a hex to place a token in" would be clearer. - The logic determining what tile or token lays are legal needs tweaking. Koln is highlighted on M1's second turn even though M1 does not have the 50M to lay a tile there. And after BY has placed the NF token, the NF hex is still highlighted each turn as if BY were allowed to place a second token there. In addition, SX is offered the opportunity to lay a token in Ludwigshafen/Mannheim even though it is not yet green phase (and no token can legally be placed there until after the BA home station has appeared). - At the point of this save file, SX has already declined to lay a token but is being offered the opportunity again -- and the program won't take no for an answer. Hitting "Skip" causes a pop-up with the message, "Action Biff executed NullAction, mode = SKIP, optionalLabel = NULL is not allowed". The program is effectively hung, so I am done. I've included the "18xx.log" debug log as well as the saved game file. |