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From: John D. G. <jd...@di...> - 2010-02-11 06:30:26
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This is with the latest release, version 1.1.3. I ran a four player game of 1835. Most features seemed to work until the stock round when the Ba presidency was purchased; then enough went wrong that I gave up on it. Specific problems: - It would be nice if game status window showed how much income a player's privates produce each turn. The rest of the info to calculate your income is there, but that is missing. - Three letter abbrevs for companies are confusing for 1835. Please use two as the physical game does. - The announced feature that you're told what size certificate you will be buying/selling doesn't yet happen. - I was president of By and owned Nurnberg-Furth. However, I was not allowed to lay the NF token until after the tile-laying phase of By's first turn. (There are conflicting rulings about whether that behavior is correct, but most people play that the token may be placed first.) - I also owned Pfalz. As a result, I was offered a free tile lay in the Pfalz hex every time it was By's turn. This should not happen in yellow phase since the hex is preprinted yellow. - I was charged nothing when By placed a token in Dresden. - Selling shares caused the price to fall one space per share as in 1830. (Should be only one space total per sale.) - Once the Ba presidency had been purchased, the next player attempted to buy a Pr share from IPO. This produced an error message: "<player> can't buy 2 shares of Pru from IPO; Pru hasn't formed yet." WRONG!!! |
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From: Erik V. <eri...@xs...> - 2010-02-11 19:58:34
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The version in 1.1.3 is indeed unplayable. I have started to look at 1835 a week ago, and since I have encountered all your problems myself. The fixes that I have announced have been checked into the current code base and will be in the next version., and so will be those that I'm still working on. Further comments below. -----Original Message----- From: John David Galt [mailto:jd...@di...] Sent: Thursday 11 February 2010 07:17 To: rai...@li... Subject: [Rails-devel] Playtest report: 1835 This is with the latest release, version 1.1.3. I ran a four player game of 1835. Most features seemed to work until the stock round when the Ba presidency was purchased; then enough went wrong that I gave up on it. Specific problems: - It would be nice if game status window showed how much income a player's privates produce each turn. The rest of the info to calculate your income is there, but that is missing. [EV] Will be added to the Info menu. Perhaps a private income row can be added as well. - Three letter abbrevs for companies are confusing for 1835. Please use two as the physical game does. [EV] I have mainly followed the abbreviations used in Lemmi's moderator. I don't find the two-letter ones very clear, but perhaps it is better that way. Other opinions? - The announced feature that you're told what size certificate you will be buying/selling doesn't yet happen. [EV] Not in 1.1.3, see above. [EV] All of the below is known and either has been fixed or will be soon. - I was president of By and owned Nurnberg-Furth. However, I was not allowed to lay the NF token until after the tile-laying phase of By's first turn. (There are conflicting rulings about whether that behavior is correct, but most people play that the token may be placed first.) - I also owned Pfalz. As a result, I was offered a free tile lay in the Pfalz hex every time it was By's turn. This should not happen in yellow phase since the hex is preprinted yellow. - I was charged nothing when By placed a token in Dresden. - Selling shares caused the price to fall one space per share as in 1830. (Should be only one space total per sale.) - Once the Ba presidency had been purchased, the next player attempted to buy a Pr share from IPO. This produced an error message: "<player> can't buy 2 shares of Pru from IPO; Pru hasn't formed yet." WRONG!!! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Rails-devel mailing list Rai...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rails-devel |
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From: Chris S. <chr...@gm...> - 2010-02-12 14:57:45
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> - Three letter abbrevs for companies are confusing for 1835. Please use > two as the physical game does. > > [EV] I have mainly followed the abbreviations used in Lemmi's moderator. > I don't find the two-letter ones very clear, but perhaps it is better that > way. > Other opinions? Most people aren't familiar with Lemmi's moderator and don't know its abbreviations. I've actually seen the program running once which probably puts me in a somewhat exclusive rarefied group. The vast majority of the people I play with have never even heard of it. I would think the two letter abbreviations that are used throughout the game components (stock market, tokens, shares, etc) would be a much better choice. -- Chris |
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From: Erik V. <eri...@xs...> - 2010-02-12 22:32:19
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OK, will change that. -----Original Message----- From: Chris Shaffer [mailto:chr...@gm...] Sent: Friday 12 February 2010 15:50 To: Development list for Rails: an 18xx game Subject: Re: [Rails-devel] Playtest report: 1835 > - Three letter abbrevs for companies are confusing for 1835. Please use > two as the physical game does. > > [EV] I have mainly followed the abbreviations used in Lemmi's moderator. > I don't find the two-letter ones very clear, but perhaps it is better that > way. > Other opinions? Most people aren't familiar with Lemmi's moderator and don't know its abbreviations. I've actually seen the program running once which probably puts me in a somewhat exclusive rarefied group. The vast majority of the people I play with have never even heard of it. I would think the two letter abbreviations that are used throughout the game components (stock market, tokens, shares, etc) would be a much better choice. -- Chris ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Rails-devel mailing list Rai...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rails-devel |
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