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[Rails-devel] 1880 and 1846

[Jeff V. <je...@je...>]

Hello,
I'm new to the list, and new to sourceforge in general, but have some
experience with 18xx (have been playing for about 3 years now, with
approximately 15 plays of about 8 different titles).  I have some software
programming background (although I'm a little rusty), and may be able to
recruit others from our newly formed West Michigan 18xx
group<https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!forum/west-michigan-18xx-players>
to
help.

1. First, Thank you for getting 1880 completed!  This is one of my favorite
titles, and I'm excited to try it out.  I'll be organizing a PBEM game soon.

2. Second, I'd like to request (and possibly participate in) the
development of 1846 - my favorite title.  I searched the archives and saw
some talk about 1846 a couple years ago (see below), and I'm wondering
about any updated status.  Has anyone worked on the map or tile set yet?
Has the n/m train code been developed?  How about the separation of trains
from train certificates, to allow a player to choose one of two options?

Looking forward to hearing back from you.

Jeff VanDorp


   *Re: [Rails-devel] 1846*
From: Erik Vos <erik.vos@xs...> - 2011-05-04 20:41

Scott,



I would certainly be willing to work on the 1846 special rules over time,
but you shouldn't expect quick progress.

Several people (including you) are/have been working on other games, like
18GA, 18TN, 18VA, 1880, 1830 Coalfields, all of which need more work, and
much of that work will in all likelihood be waiting for me to pick it up.

Then we have 1870, 1825, both barely started, and 1835, which still may need
the finishing touch.



And on my own wish list I have more of the Hecht games, generally my
favourites, where I'm in particular looking at 1826 and 18Scan.



Reworking train management is not so easy, but high on my priority list as
it is clearly the next fundamental architectural change to implement.

For the rest, I'm generally doing easy bits first, so you'll probably find
me cherry-picking elements from many of these games over time.



So much to do.



Erik.



Van: Scott Petersen [mailto:scott@...]
Verzonden: woensdag 4 mei 2011 21:44
Aan: Development list for Rails: an 18xx game
Onderwerp: [Rails-devel] 1846



Erik, 1846 has a plethora of special rules and the X/Y trains will make it
difficult to implement the revenue calculation...but I like the game and
would be willing to assemble the XML files.  Would you be up for
implementing the special rules?  This would also be a good chance to
implement the dual type trains that apply to many other games (possibly
including the OS 2-train from 18GA).



I don't expect that your 1846 question will get an answer here, but I'll
post it to BGG and probably get an answer within an hour or so. :-)

Re: [Rails-devel] 1880 and 1846

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

Am 22.10.2013 21:32, schrieb Jeff VanDorp:
> Hello,
> I'm new to the list, and new to sourceforge in general, but have some
> experience with 18xx (have been playing for about 3 years now, with
> approximately 15 plays of about 8 different titles).  I have some
> software programming background (although I'm a little rusty), and may
> be able to recruit others from our newly formed West Michigan 18xx
> group
> <https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#%21forum/west-michigan-18xx-players> to
> help.
>  
> 1. First, Thank you for getting 1880 completed!  This is one of my
> favorite titles, and I'm excited to try it out.  I'll be organizing a
> PBEM game soon.
>  
> 2. Second, I'd like to request (and possibly participate in) the
> development of 1846 - my favorite title.  I searched the archives and
> saw some talk about 1846 a couple years ago (see below), and I'm
> wondering about any updated status.  Has anyone worked on the map or
> tile set yet?  Has the n/m train code been developed?  How about the
> separation of trains from train certificates, to allow a player to
> choose one of two options?
>  
> Looking forward to hearing back from you.
>  
> Jeff VanDorp 
>  

Hi Jeff,

Have fun playing 1880 and please notify us if something is wrong and
send us a savefile in that case :)

1846 is not yet in the data section of the code. So theres no public
work on that yet.  I am currently working on 1837/1824 and will be
working on 1830(Mayfair/Lookout Games) from time to time.

If you got some time to spare you are more than welcome to pull the
code, create a local repo and start working in there. I would suggest
that you create a local branch for the specific version you are keen on
(in this case 1846).

The Train code i havent checked yet as i dont own that game personally
and havent investigated it. Erik has gone a little bit quiet (probably
waiting for Stefan to pop up with Rails Rewrite 2.0). So maybe he has
some more info on whats conceptually done in that case.

I consider myself a game implementer and lacking a professional software
development education i am not that fond of trying to implement core
concepts :). If i can be of help i'll gladly do whatever i can though.

I would be willing to check in your additions into the sourceforge repo,
if i can verify the content.

If you got any questions feel free to adress them.

Regards,
Martin

Re: [Rails-devel] 1880 and 1846

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

> Erik has gone a little bit quiet 

Indeed.

> (probably waiting for Stefan to pop up with Rails Rewrite 2.0). 

That's one of the factors, others are last year's repo move and the new
multiple branch development approach. But the main cause is that I have been
spending/wasting my time with other activities.  
When I tried last week to pick up again, I ran into some merge conflicts,
and I'm not sure where to find the courage to address these. Fact is that I
have never managed to come to grips with Git except some very basic tasks.

> So maybe he has some more info on whats conceptually done in that case. 

I haven't worked on the dual trains since I wrote the words quoted by Jeff,
so I'm afraid I can't add anything useful now.  But it's indeed the subject
that I would like to pick up, should I ever  resume development. But the
latter is far from sure, if only because I'm 67, and counting...

Erik.

Re: [Rails-devel] 1880 and 1846

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

Hi Martin,

 

I made the mistake to do a ‘git pull’ without first checking my own status after a long time of inactivity, and now I seem to be in a mess. 

 

Gitbash now reports my status as ‘((v1.7.12)|MERGING), so I suppose I was in the v1.7.12 branch. Don’t remember why.

I also seem to have had some uncommitted local changes, including a detail in 18EU/Map.xml,  some initial work for 1837 (map etc.), and the new ‘trainMutexID’ Access attribute that I had proposed last year.

 

As it seems I was in the wrong branch, I think there is not much point in attempting to resolve the merge conflict as it is.

All I really want is to undo that misguided ‘git pull’, and to revert to the situation before that, so I can put my house in order first.

But I’m not sure if there is a simple way to get there without having to go into all the details.

 

I should have good file backups, so perhaps I’ll revert the whole 18XX project directory that way, hoping that the full git status is included.

 

Erik.

 

From: Dr....@t-... [mailto:Dr....@t-...] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 3:57 PM
To: Erik Vos
Subject: Re: [Rails-devel] 1880 and 1846

 

What merge conflicts /errors do you have trying to do what exactly ?