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[Rails-devel] OK, Poking around a bit more

[Mark S. <mar...@gm...>]

I have come across another Bug, and some suggestions:

BUG -- When laying a Tile, you select a Hex, and it shows the
Allowable Upgrades. Select an Upgrade Tile, then select a DIFFERENT
Upgrade Tile for the same hex. The list of available Upgrade Tiles
goes blank. If you select a Different Hex, and then re-select the
original Hex the Upgrades re-appear.

Suggestions:

1. If you select a Hex that you cannot lay a tile on, and try to
select a tile to place, the Pop-up Dialog claims "This tile cannot be
laid in a valid orientation". This message is mis-leading because
valid orientations exist, but The company laying the tile is NOT
Allowed to lay due to lack of connection to the hex. And then when you
click OK, the list of available tiles gets cleared. I suggest the
following:

Re: [Rails-devel] OK, Poking around a bit more

[Mark S. <mar...@gm...>]

Grr... hit send to soon

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Mark Smith <mar...@gm...> wrote:
> I have come across another Bug, and some suggestions:
>
> BUG -- When laying a Tile, you select a Hex, and it shows the
> Allowable Upgrades. Select an Upgrade Tile, then select a DIFFERENT
> Upgrade Tile for the same hex. The list of available Upgrade Tiles
> goes blank. If you select a Different Hex, and then re-select the
> original Hex the Upgrades re-appear.
>
> Suggestions:
>
> 1. If you select a Hex that you cannot lay a tile on, and try to
> select a tile to place, the Pop-up Dialog claims "This tile cannot be
> laid in a valid orientation". This message is mis-leading because
> valid orientations exist, but The company laying the tile is NOT
> Allowed to lay due to lack of connection to the hex. And then when you
> click OK, the list of available tiles gets cleared. I suggest the
> following:
>

A. If the Tile is a location that can be laid by the company,
Highlight in a Green color (Green is good), or a lighter shade of the
Green Color. Better still would be a dashed thick Green/Blue to
distinguish.
B. If the Tile is a location that cannot be laid by the company,
Highlight in Red - And show allowed Tiles.
C. The Message should state the company cannot Lay Tile in that hex.

2. In the Token Laying Phase, if there is no legal place for the
company to lay a token, there is no token available, or not enough
money is available (unless the game allows emergency funding/loan
acquisition to make up the money), do a pop-up stating reason why
token cannot be laid, just like when "No Train means No Revenue".

Mark

Re: [Rails-devel] OK, Poking around a bit more

[Erik V. <eri...@hc...>]

Good suggestions. 

However, unless any of these ideas turns out to be easy to implement,
chances are that I will not get that very soon. In fiddling with the UI I
tend to be satisfied if things work (rather than look perfect). My focus is
on other aspects.

It might be a good idea to put such ideas in the bugs or feature requests
lists.

Erik.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Smith [mailto:mar...@gm...] 
> Sent: Friday 28 November 2008 17:13
> To: Rails Dev Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Rails-devel] OK, Poking around a bit more
> 
> Grr... hit send to soon
> 
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Mark Smith 
> <mar...@gm...> wrote:
> > I have come across another Bug, and some suggestions:
> >
> > BUG -- When laying a Tile, you select a Hex, and it shows the
> > Allowable Upgrades. Select an Upgrade Tile, then select a DIFFERENT
> > Upgrade Tile for the same hex. The list of available Upgrade Tiles
> > goes blank. If you select a Different Hex, and then re-select the
> > original Hex the Upgrades re-appear.
> >
> > Suggestions:
> >
> > 1. If you select a Hex that you cannot lay a tile on, and try to
> > select a tile to place, the Pop-up Dialog claims "This tile 
> cannot be
> > laid in a valid orientation". This message is mis-leading because
> > valid orientations exist, but The company laying the tile is NOT
> > Allowed to lay due to lack of connection to the hex. And 
> then when you
> > click OK, the list of available tiles gets cleared. I suggest the
> > following:
> >
> 
> A. If the Tile is a location that can be laid by the company,
> Highlight in a Green color (Green is good), or a lighter shade of the
> Green Color. Better still would be a dashed thick Green/Blue to
> distinguish.
> B. If the Tile is a location that cannot be laid by the company,
> Highlight in Red - And show allowed Tiles.
> C. The Message should state the company cannot Lay Tile in that hex.
> 
> 2. In the Token Laying Phase, if there is no legal place for the
> company to lay a token, there is no token available, or not enough
> money is available (unless the game allows emergency funding/loan
> acquisition to make up the money), do a pop-up stating reason why
> token cannot be laid, just like when "No Train means No Revenue".
> 
> Mark
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Re: [Rails-devel] OK, Poking around a bit more

[Mark S. <mar...@gm...>]

I will put the Suggestions into the Feature Request Section. I want to
see if I can actually resolve the item I termed a Bug. If I can't get
it over the weekend, I will add it as a Bug on Sunday.

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Erik Vos <eri...@hc...> wrote:
> Good suggestions.
>
> However, unless any of these ideas turns out to be easy to implement,
> chances are that I will not get that very soon. In fiddling with the UI I
> tend to be satisfied if things work (rather than look perfect). My focus is
> on other aspects.
>
> It might be a good idea to put such ideas in the bugs or feature requests
> lists.
>
> Erik.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mark Smith [mailto:mar...@gm...]
>> Sent: Friday 28 November 2008 17:13
>> To: Rails Dev Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [Rails-devel] OK, Poking around a bit more
>>
>> Grr... hit send to soon
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Mark Smith
>> <mar...@gm...> wrote:
>> > I have come across another Bug, and some suggestions:
>> >
>> > BUG -- When laying a Tile, you select a Hex, and it shows the
>> > Allowable Upgrades. Select an Upgrade Tile, then select a DIFFERENT
>> > Upgrade Tile for the same hex. The list of available Upgrade Tiles
>> > goes blank. If you select a Different Hex, and then re-select the
>> > original Hex the Upgrades re-appear.
>> >
>> > Suggestions:
>> >
>> > 1. If you select a Hex that you cannot lay a tile on, and try to
>> > select a tile to place, the Pop-up Dialog claims "This tile
>> cannot be
>> > laid in a valid orientation". This message is mis-leading because
>> > valid orientations exist, but The company laying the tile is NOT
>> > Allowed to lay due to lack of connection to the hex. And
>> then when you
>> > click OK, the list of available tiles gets cleared. I suggest the
>> > following:
>> >
>>
>> A. If the Tile is a location that can be laid by the company,
>> Highlight in a Green color (Green is good), or a lighter shade of the
>> Green Color. Better still would be a dashed thick Green/Blue to
>> distinguish.
>> B. If the Tile is a location that cannot be laid by the company,
>> Highlight in Red - And show allowed Tiles.
>> C. The Message should state the company cannot Lay Tile in that hex.
>>
>> 2. In the Token Laying Phase, if there is no legal place for the
>> company to lay a token, there is no token available, or not enough
>> money is available (unless the game allows emergency funding/loan
>> acquisition to make up the money), do a pop-up stating reason why
>> token cannot be laid, just like when "No Train means No Revenue".
>>
>> Mark
>>
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