Re: [Rails-devel] Rails 2.0 discussion: Changes to OR Window?

[Chris S. <chr...@gm...>]

It would be nice if there was a toggle during this phase. Sometimes the map
is really important when buying trains.

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 11:31 AM Stefan Frey <ste...@we...> wrote:

> John, Mike and Chris:
> thanks for your suggestions.
>
> I will break all of your suggestions into tiny tidbits in my response to
> keep the discussion focused on each proposal.
>
> On 03/10/2015 10:39 PM, John David Galt wrote:
>  > And, dare I suggest:
>  >
>  > 3) Add "Privates", "Tiles", and "Tokens" columns to the Game Status
>  > window (and have the companies in that window move to reflect operating
>  > order each OR), thus eliminating any need to have a separate list of
>  > companies attached to the map window.  This will make a HUGE difference
>  > on small screens, where I've been used to playing 18EU through a tiny
>  > "letter box" view of the map because the company-list part of the map
>  > pane won't allow itself to be shrunk!!!
>
>
> In my view the huge panel of companies during the OR was distracting as
> well. Unfortunately it is difficult to move fields given the current
> code structure (this will improve in 2.1...).
>
> However what is possible in 2.1 is to change the visibility of companies
> during the OR.
>
> What about this:
>
> During tile/token/revenue steps: Show only one row with the current
> operating company.
>
> During train buying step: Show all companies, as the map has no value
> now and it is important to see where the trains currently are and what
> is the operating order of companies.
>
> I already have a fix in the repo (branch rails_2_develop) that
> implements this change.
>
> Stefan
>
>
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