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Re: [Rails-devel] Parsing additional Startpakets from Configuration

[Stefan F. <ste...@we...>]

Martin:
On first glance it seems that it is sufficient to change the wrong 
typing "baseprice" to "basePrice" for the item tags of the Hungarian 
startpacket.

I pushed a commit that fixes that.

Please be aware that the xml-files are case sensitive, which might be 
suprising for Windows users ;-)

Both tag and attribute names use camelCase. Tag names start with an 
upper case, attribute names with  a lower case.

Hope that it works as expected now, maybe there are other issues, I did 
not look further.

Stefan






On 07/23/2014 07:23 PM, Martin Brumm wrote:
> Am 23.07.2014 12:20, schrieb Stefan Frey:
>> Hi Martin,
>> could you please tell which branch you are looking at here?
>>
>> If I remember correctly I did some changes during rails 2 development
>> there and so I wonder if you tried that on a branch that extended from
>> rails 1.x or rails 2.x?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Stefan
>>
>>
>>
>
> Hi Stefan,
>
> it was in mbr_2_develop_1837 and thats a branch of rails_2_develop and
> actualised/rebased regularly from 2.0 develop.
>
> In rails.1.8.x the baseprices values of the second startpaket are read
> correctly.
>
>
> Regards,
> Martin
>
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Re: [Rails-devel] Parsing additional Startpakets from Configuration

[John D. G. <jd...@di...>]

On 2014-07-22 13:28, Martin Brumm wrote:
> upon trying to implement 1837 i stumbled on the "problem" that somehow
> from the second defined Startpaket in the companymanager.xml only the
> first two attributes of subsequent items are parsed.

You've gotten farther with it than I did, which suggests I should look at
your development branch.

By the way: I've been informed, off list, that someone plans to publish
a new version of 1837 which ditches the existing start-packets for the
"auction items by groups" start-arrangement that Steve Thomas already
uses in his PBEM 1837 games.  I want Rails to support both, because I
believe Steve's version breaks the game.

Re: [Rails-devel] Parsing additional Startpakets from Configuration

[Martin B. <dr....@t-...>]

Am 23.07.2014 12:20, schrieb Stefan Frey:
> Hi Martin,
> could you please tell which branch you are looking at here?
>
> If I remember correctly I did some changes during rails 2 development 
> there and so I wonder if you tried that on a branch that extended from 
> rails 1.x or rails 2.x?
>
> Thanks,
> Stefan
>
>
>

Hi Stefan,

it was in mbr_2_develop_1837 and thats a branch of rails_2_develop and
actualised/rebased regularly from 2.0 develop.

In rails.1.8.x the baseprices values of the second startpaket are read
correctly.


Regards,
Martin

Re: [Rails-devel] Parsing additional Startpakets from Configuration

[Stefan F. <ste...@we...>]

Hi Martin,
could you please tell which branch you are looking at here?

If I remember correctly I did some changes during rails 2 development 
there and so I wonder if you tried that on a branch that extended from 
rails 1.x or rails 2.x?

Thanks,
Stefan


On 07/22/2014 10:28 PM, Martin Brumm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> upon trying to implement 1837 i stumbled on the "problem" that somehow
> from the second defined Startpaket in the companymanager.xml only the
> first two attributes of subsequent items are parsed.
>
> Anybody jas got any insight what is going wrong there ?
>
> 1880 has the lucky setup that the investors in the second Startpaket
> have a nominal value of 0 which is the predefined value in case the game
> doesnt find a baseprice, which however is defined. If i changed the
> basePrice attribute in the 1880 config for an investor this gets ignored
> :().
>
> Regards,
> Martin
>

[Rails-devel] Parsing additional Startpakets from Configuration

[Martin B. <dr....@t-...>]

Hi,

upon trying to implement 1837 i stumbled on the "problem" that somehow
from the second defined Startpaket in the companymanager.xml only the
first two attributes of subsequent items are parsed.

Anybody jas got any insight what is going wrong there ?

1880 has the lucky setup that the investors in the second Startpaket
have a nominal value of 0 which is the predefined value in case the game
doesnt find a baseprice, which however is defined. If i changed the
basePrice attribute in the 1880 config for an investor this gets ignored
:().

Regards,
Martin

[Rails-devel] Babysteps with 1837

[Martin B. <dr....@t-...>]

Good day to whom it may concern,

the attached screenshot has been done on my devbranch off 2.0

[Rails-devel] Rails 1.8.9 has been released

[Martin B. <dr....@t-...>]

Good afternoon everyone,

the Version 1.8.9 including the 1880 variant has been released on
sourcceforge:

Extract from the readme below:

This is a minor release fixing the following bugs:
 
    - 1880:      Fixed the following problems:
                Investor able to operate in communist phase
                End of game not triggered correctly
                Transsib Modifier missing
                Fixed tile definitions for 8854,8856, 8855 and 8858
               
 
Due to changed end Game behaviour this release might break games in
progress after the sales/discarding of the 6E in the later stages of the
game. If you erronously had a stockround after the 8E got discarded or
soldout this release will definately throw an error. Please proceed with
caution. Existing savefiles wont be overwritten if you used the standard
savefile configuration.
          
Enjoy,
Martin

[Rails-devel] Rails 1.7.13 released

[Martin B. <dr....@t-...>]

Good afternoon,

Rails 1.7.13 has been released with a number of fixes for 1835 and one
fix for 1856.

Please be aware that the fix for 1856 will break existing games if
certain conditions apply. So use with distinction on 1856 games in progess.

Regards
Martin

Re: [Rails-devel] 1835 / Prussian presidency problem

[Martin B. <dr....@t-...>]

Am 18.07.2014 22:18, schrieb Mikaela Kumlander:
> Hi,
>
> We have a strange bug with the presidency of the newly formed PR in
> 1835 (see attached game file). Using Rails 1.7.12.
>
> PR formation round is just over. Ville owns 35% of PR, Kalle has 30%.
> 35% is obviously greater than 30%, so why is Kalle the new president
> of PR?
>
Hi Mikaela,

the game did award the presidency to the first player with a higher
share percentage and then didnt check for further players with even more
share.

This has been corrected right now with a fix pushed to the repository.
I'll release a new version later for the 1.7x branch after migrating
other non 1880 fixes to that branch.

Regards,
Martin

Re: [Rails-devel] bug 1880 Train calculating

[Martin B. <dr....@t-...>]

Am 14.06.2014 12:31, schrieb Schnell, Volker:
> Hello,
>
> Next game with 1880 and new bugs.
>
> 1. The Transsib-Bonus is not accounted. the 3+3 runs from russia to
> vladivostok with 130 instead of 180. (the 50 Bonus comes from the Stock)
> see attached file transsib
>
> 2. wrong definition of tile 8854 on H8, the 3+3 train runs through it
> and doesn't count the values: rails = 110 instead of 130. the 3-Train
> runs in an earlier stage of the game through H8 from F8 to H10. see
> file 8854
>
>
> 3. In the communist phase the investors didn't operate.
>
> the I5 runs a train with 110 + 20 Taiwan bonus and adds the revenue to
> its assets, see attached file ir_komm....
>
> 4. A general problem in a game, when the income is wrong calculated by
> rails.
> Rails plays the file and calculate the income itself instead of taking
> it of the saved file. The game engine breaks the game.
> see file: 1880_20140530_2142_klaus-j_rgen_Fleischer_3+_lok.rails.
> there is no way for me, to play the game from the saved status.
>
>
Hallo Volker, bug #4 i cant reproduce without haveing access to the
gamelog stating what should have happened instead. Unfortunately the
game save file is not readable to humans.

Regards,
Martin

[Rails-devel] starting Rails

[Schnell, V. <vol...@ar...>]

Hello

a friend want to play with rails. When starting rails, he got following 
error messages:

C:\Programme\spiele\Rails>java -jar rails-1.8.8.jar
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: 
org/apache/log4j/Logg
er
         at rails.util.Util.<clinit>(Util.java:19)
         at rails.common.ConfigManager.startlog4j(ConfigManager.java:73)
         at 
rails.common.ConfigManager.initConfiguration(ConfigManager.java:87)
         at rails.util.RunGame.main(RunGame.java:16)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.log4j.Logger
         at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
         at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
         at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
         at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
         at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
         at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
         at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
         ... 4 more

I assume, it's a windows system.

Any hints?

Greetings Volker

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Re: [Rails-devel] double-clicking to run?

[James R. <rom...@gm...>]

I think I have it more or less working.

Thanks, though.


On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Tom McCorry <tom...@gm...> wrote:

> Sorry Jim. Your post got lost in the flurry if emails. Do you still need
> copy if the batch file I use?
>
>
> --------------------------------------------
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>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Mar 8, 2014, at 9:43, James Romano <rom...@gm...> wrote:
>
> Thank you, Stefan.
>
> Jim
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 6:12 AM, Stefan Frey <ste...@we...> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jim,
>> yes it is possible to pass the rails file as a command-line option:
>>
>> The java jar command looks like the following:
>> java -jar rails-1.7.12.jar 1830.rails
>>
>> rails.bat and rails.sh are only wrappers around this command:
>>
>> Content of rails.bat e.g. is:
>> "java -jar rails-1.7.12.jar %1"
>>
>> So the first argument after rails.bat or rails.sh is given to Rails and
>> starts that save file.
>>
>> For Rails 2.0:
>> In the current Rails 2.0 alpha 4 release this does not work, as I
>> refactored game loading. However this is fixed now in rails_2_develop
>> branch. So this will be possible with the next alpha again.
>>
>> Stefan
>>
>> On 03/08/2014 03:38 AM, James Romano wrote:
>> > Hi Tom,
>> >
>> > I still like to see how you do this.
>> >
>> > I guess the real question is whether it's possible to pass the save file
>> > name into Rails when via the java command, somehow.
>> >
>> > Jim
>> >
>> >
>> > On 2/10/2014 2:00 PM, Tom McCorry wrote:
>> >> I can send when I am home this evening.
>> >> Sent via BlackBerry
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>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> >> *From: * James Romano <rom...@gm...>
>> >> *Date: *Mon, 10 Feb 2014 13:58:46 -0600
>> >> *To: *<tom...@gm...>; Development list for Rails: an 18xx
>> >> game<rai...@li...>
>> >> *Subject: *Re: [Rails-devel] double-clicking to run?
>> >>
>> >> Hi Tom,
>> >>
>> >> I could associate the .rails type to the .bat file that runs rails via
>> >> the java command.  I think I could also set it up so that
>> >> double-clicking on the .rails file passes the save file (.rails file)
>> >> name to the .bat file and so that the .bat file would then pass the
>> >> the save file name into the java command somehow.  Does the java
>> >> command allow such an argument, would it be passed along to Rails in a
>> >> sensible way, and would Rails interpret it as a save file to load?  I
>> >> take it from your success that your answers to all those questions are
>> >> "yes."
>> >>
>> >> Could you share the java command used in your batch file so that I may
>> >> see how the file name argument should be passed along?
>> >>
>> >> Jim
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Tom McCorry <tom...@gm...
>> >> <mailto:tom...@gm...>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>     I have a batch file I use with Windows that I associate with the
>> >>     .rails file type. This allows me to double-click on a .rails file
>> >>     no matter what directory it resides in and have the Rails program
>> >>     autostart.
>> >>
>> >>     Sent via BlackBerry
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>> >>     -----Original Message-----
>> >>     From: James Romano <rom...@gm...
>> >>     <mailto:rom...@gm...>>
>> >>     Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 12:33:26
>> >>     To: Development list for Rails: an 18xx
>> >>     game<rai...@li...
>> >>     <mailto:rai...@li...>>
>> >>     Reply-To: "Development list for Rails: an 18xx game"
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Re: [Rails-devel] double-clicking to run?

[Tom M. <tom...@gm...>]

Sorry Jim. Your post got lost in the flurry if emails. Do you still need copy if the batch file I use?


--------------------------------------------
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Sent from my iPad

> On Mar 8, 2014, at 9:43, James Romano <rom...@gm...> wrote:
> 
> Thank you, Stefan.  
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
>> On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 6:12 AM, Stefan Frey <ste...@we...> wrote:
>> Hi Jim,
>> yes it is possible to pass the rails file as a command-line option:
>> 
>> The java jar command looks like the following:
>> java -jar rails-1.7.12.jar 1830.rails
>> 
>> rails.bat and rails.sh are only wrappers around this command:
>> 
>> Content of rails.bat e.g. is:
>> "java -jar rails-1.7.12.jar %1"
>> 
>> So the first argument after rails.bat or rails.sh is given to Rails and
>> starts that save file.
>> 
>> For Rails 2.0:
>> In the current Rails 2.0 alpha 4 release this does not work, as I
>> refactored game loading. However this is fixed now in rails_2_develop
>> branch. So this will be possible with the next alpha again.
>> 
>> Stefan
>> 
>> On 03/08/2014 03:38 AM, James Romano wrote:
>> > Hi Tom,
>> >
>> > I still like to see how you do this.
>> >
>> > I guess the real question is whether it's possible to pass the save file
>> > name into Rails when via the java command, somehow.
>> >
>> > Jim
>> >
>> >
>> > On 2/10/2014 2:00 PM, Tom McCorry wrote:
>> >> I can send when I am home this evening.
>> >> Sent via BlackBerry
>> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> >> *From: * James Romano <rom...@gm...>
>> >> *Date: *Mon, 10 Feb 2014 13:58:46 -0600
>> >> *To: *<tom...@gm...>; Development list for Rails: an 18xx
>> >> game<rai...@li...>
>> >> *Subject: *Re: [Rails-devel] double-clicking to run?
>> >>
>> >> Hi Tom,
>> >>
>> >> I could associate the .rails type to the .bat file that runs rails via
>> >> the java command.  I think I could also set it up so that
>> >> double-clicking on the .rails file passes the save file (.rails file)
>> >> name to the .bat file and so that the .bat file would then pass the
>> >> the save file name into the java command somehow.  Does the java
>> >> command allow such an argument, would it be passed along to Rails in a
>> >> sensible way, and would Rails interpret it as a save file to load?  I
>> >> take it from your success that your answers to all those questions are
>> >> "yes."
>> >>
>> >> Could you share the java command used in your batch file so that I may
>> >> see how the file name argument should be passed along?
>> >>
>> >> Jim
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Tom McCorry <tom...@gm...
>> >> <mailto:tom...@gm...>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>     I have a batch file I use with Windows that I associate with the
>> >>     .rails file type. This allows me to double-click on a .rails file
>> >>     no matter what directory it resides in and have the Rails program
>> >>     autostart.
>> >>
>> >>     Sent via BlackBerry
>> >>
>> >>     -----Original Message-----
>> >>     From: James Romano <rom...@gm...
>> >>     <mailto:rom...@gm...>>
>> >>     Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 12:33:26
>> >>     To: Development list for Rails: an 18xx
>> >>     game<rai...@li...
>> >>     <mailto:rai...@li...>>
>> >>     Reply-To: "Development list for Rails: an 18xx game"
>> >>             <rai...@li...
>> >>     <mailto:rai...@li...>>
>> >>     Subject: [Rails-devel] double-clicking to run?
>> >>
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[Rails-devel] bug 1880 game end and AR after 8e

[Schnell, V. <vol...@ar...>]

Hello,

i can report two bugs in the version 1.8.8.
1. After the last 8E-Train was bought, rails offers a Stockround with 
all consequences as raising the Share price, when the compony is sold out.
this is not right, as the last Stockround comes with the last 8-Train. 
Also causes the buying of the last 8E-train a false Game end. Rails 
stops the game at this company, see bug 2

2. Game End. the SCR bought the last 6E-Train and in the consequence no 
one bought the 8-Train. When the last 8-Train is sold or gone, the 
companies operates 3 times. So the last operating company should be the 
SCR, but rails offers a turn to the BCR.


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Re: [Rails-devel] bug 1880 revenue calculation 6E

[Stefan F. <ste...@we...>]

Volker:
thanks for reporting the bug: The train calculation is wrong for the 
1880 E-trains.

The train used here is the E-train from 1826 (for this game E stands for 
"Electrical"). The 1826 E-train simply passes all towns on its route. I 
would have preferred a different label for such a train, e.g. X for 
eXpress-trains...

For such a train Rails calculates the optimal value in your example.

However the 1880 E-train (I found no reference in the rules, what E 
means in this case) can choose to omit any station (cities/towns, or in 
1880 rules language: large/small cities). This in fact is a Diesel 
train, that chooses the top # of stations on the route to be counted.

This train is so far not supported by Rails, however it can be created 
using a RevenueModifier (here RevenueDynamicModifier).

Unless someone else volunteers ;-), I will implement the required modifier.

Stefan

On 05/15/2014 09:59 AM, vol...@ar... wrote:
> Hi,
>
> here is an other bug in the revenue calculation.
> the SCR runs a 6E Trains, which is allowed to pass any station (normal and small station).
> Rails pass the small station at the revenue-calculation.
> Rails revenue: 270. It should be 310
> see savefile and picture.
>
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>
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Re: [Rails-devel] Another 1856 bug

[Stefan F. <ste...@we...>]

Stan:
thanks for reporting the bug.

I can confirm the bug below for both rails 1.x branches: It occurs in 
rails 1.7.12 and 1.8.7.

For rails 2.0 I still have to look into it, as there are other issues 
with the save file prior to that action.

Your assumption most likely is correct, the CGR token that replaced the 
GT token, which itself got in that hex via the private special property, 
has to be relaid. However this triggers a NullPointerException in the 
relay routine.

As the relay code will be rewritten from scratch I will fix that for 
rails 2.0, I will make sure that this case will work correctly. However 
I doubt I will fix that for the rails 1.x branch.

So currently I have no idea to solve that issue quickly, maybe anyone 
else has an idea?

Unfortunately the Map Correction does not work either, as it would 
require a relay of base token which is not supported in the correction 
mode in rails 1.x.

Stefan


On 05/12/2014 04:36 AM, Stan Smith wrote:
> Game freezes when trying to lay the #59 tile in I12.
> Note that prior to the CGR forming, this tile lay works fine. So it seems to
> be related to the fact that the GT token that was there originally, got
> replaced when the CGR formed.
> I am using Rails 1.8.6
>
> Stan
>

Re: [Rails-devel] Version 1.8.8 won't run in Linux

[Stefan F. <ste...@we...>]

Hi Mikaela,
thanks for reporting that.
Most likely it is a side-effect of the current normalization of newlines 
in the repo: This release was done from a Windows OS and so rails.sh is 
converted to Windows standard.

Solution is to flag rails.sh as a binary(!) file in the git repo to 
avoid normalization. The same should be done with rails.bat that would 
break after a release from a non-Windows OS.

Martin: Will you look into this in the Rails 1.8.x branch?

Stefan


On 05/10/2014 12:51 PM, Mikaela Kumlander wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> The latest Rails version 1.8.8 won't run in Linux - seems to be the same
> newline problem as before. I corrected mine with a simple dos2unix
> command, but you might want to fix the official source file as well...
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[Rails-devel] Version 1.8.8 won't run in Linux

[Mikaela K. <mik...@ik...>]

Hi,


The latest Rails version 1.8.8 won't run in Linux - seems to be the same
newline problem as before. I corrected mine with a simple dos2unix command,
but you might want to fix the official source file as well...



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[Rails-devel] Roadmap for Rails 2.0 branch

[Stefan F. <ste...@we...>]

A roadmap for Rails 2.0 is added.

It is available here http://rails.sf.net/roadmap.html
and it is also linked on the homepage http://rails.sf.net

In preparation to the move to github, it is written in markdown (see 
http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/basics), but converted to 
html for sourceforge.

As the syntax is inspired by the usage of typical markup in a mail 
context, it is very easy to copy from e-mail and commit messages into
the markdown document.

So best practice is to discuss a new feature on the dev list here and 
then finally summarize the details in one mail, that then can be easily 
copied into the roadmap document.

If anyone of you would like to volunteer to any of those tasks, please 
feel free to ask.

Most likely it will help to have separate bug and missing feature lists 
by game, which is maintained by a kind of "sponsor" of the specific game.

Stefan

[Rails-devel] Bug 1880 -Tile

[Schnell, V. <vol...@ar...>]

Hello

I found a bug in the tile 8854 in 1880.
The BZU runs a 6-Train from Beijing to Shanghai through H8 with the tile 
8854 and doesn't count the small station.
See the attached save-file
Rails. 1.8.8
It seems the same bug as with the tile 8858.
Please have a look at the tiles 8855-8857. Maybe there is the same bug.

Greetings
Volker

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email: vol...@ar...
homepage: home.arcor.de\volker_schnell

Re: [Rails-devel] Design Question regarding Minors/Majors [corrected]

[Stefan F. <ste...@we...>]

> If so, that would probably be more a consequence of not knowing any better
> than anything else.
> When I started working on Rails (after Brett's initial work), I had got
> neither much education nor much experience with Java, and so I had to invent
> strategies mainly on my own
> (many discussions with Brett notwithstanding. The XML processing approach
> through the ConfigurableComponentI interface is from Iain Adams).
>

Erik:
My (original) comment was mainly a joke, I hope you understand that.
I consider the design used by Brett and you to be pretty well done given 
that there was no previous experience in building a 18xx program.
I seriously doubt I would have been able to achieve that.

And you really did very well in several aspects:
The action-based save file, separation of engine and UI, state mechanism 
for undo/redo, extensibility, the xml based definitions and many more.

It is more a refinement based on what worked out and what not.

> I fully agree with that. One other consideration I have always tried to
> adhere to was to keep the number of classes and class types as low as
> reasonably possible, in order not to get lost in the kind of jungle that I
> later noticed in another (and quite different) project.

I believe that the mere number of classes is not an issue itself, 
however you need to keep them organized using packages.

I even sometimes use nested classes to keep the class definition in one 
files and make them less visible. For example if you have a builder for 
a class, I prefer to define a Company.Builder instead of CompanyBuilder. 
Something I learned from googles guava library.

Stefan

[Rails-devel] Terrain XML definitions

[Stefan F. <ste...@we...>]

Hi Martin,
I suggest the following to use for Rails 2.0.

This is the result of a off-list discussion with Martin how to define 
terrain costs for 1846. The game features terrain cost on hex edges.

Stefan

* Define Terrain in Defaults:
<Defaults>
	<Terrain type="mountain" cost="80" />
	<Terrain type="river" cost="40" />
</Defaults>

* Terrain on Hexes:
<Hex name="D8" tile="0"/>
	<Terrain type="mountain"/>
</Hex>

* Terrain on Edges:
<Edge from="D8" to="E9">
	<Terrain type="river" />
</Edge>

* This also allows moving the impassable definitions from Hexes to Edges:

<Edge from="D8" to="E9">
	<Impassable />
</Edge>

The immediate advantage is that this avoids answering the question if 
double-definitions are required and (if not) what happens if there is a 
double-definition.

Remark: From and to have no effect here, but there might be other 
occasions there this might be helpful in the future.

Re: [Rails-devel] Support Needed: New complex Tiles and Maps

[John A. T. <ja...@ja...>]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 11:20 AM, <com...@ip...> wrote:

> I don't like the notion of downloading sprites every time you want to play
> a game. It restricts game functionality to online play only, and introduces
> new variables to the game-play process. Including the sprites as part of
> the download/install bundle would be fine, though.


That comment was in the context of a web app, in which case you are
downloading the app itself and talking to a web server anyway (and that's
the point, GWT bundles the sprites into the app download so there are no
extra round-trips and it is permanently cacheable).

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Re: [Rails-devel] Support Needed: New complex Tiles and Maps

[John A. T. <ja...@ja...>]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 5:41 AM, Stefan Frey <ste...@we...> wrote:

> I even consider making another step: Allow parametrized tiles, tiles
> that use the same track layout, but differ in the station values and
> labels: Currently a new tile is defined any time the station value
> changes and/or a label is added to the tile.
>
> One could even consider the tile color to be a parameter of the tile and
> thus there is no need to duplicate the track layout definition only
> because the color changes.
>
> For sure they are different tiles that are required for a physical game,
> but not if they get generated automatically.
>

I'm not sure it is worth the trouble, but if I were going to do that I
would do it by "subclassing" tiles and overriding parts I wanted to change.

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Re: [Rails-devel] Support Needed: New complex Tiles and Maps

[<com...@ip...>]

I don't like the notion of downloading sprites every time you want to play
a game. It restricts game functionality to online play only, and introduces
new variables to the game-play process. Including the sprites as part of
the download/install bundle would be fine, though.


>I'm not positive SVG is the way to go for a web-based app - personally,
I
>would probably use sprited images downloaded from the server.  Particularly
>if you are going to reuse the Java codebase and compile with GWT, as you
>get the compile-time spriting for free.