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Re: [Rails-users] Rails

[Luiz C. S. D. <lui...@gm...>]

Ah, right. I'll send it presently, as soon as I get back to my computer.
Thanks!

Em quinta-feira, 12 de junho de 2014, Phil Davies <de...@gm...>
escreveu:

> If you can send through a save game file with this scenario, it really
> helps in working out what is going wrong.
>
> Phil
>
> On 12 June 2014 13:35, Luiz Cláudio S. Duarte
> <lui...@gm... <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > I'm currently playing 1856 by e-mail with some friends using Rails 1.8.8.
> > While I was simulating some possible outcomes for an upcoming OR, I hit
> > a snag, and perhaps someone from the list can help.
> >
> > One of the players has only two president certificates, from two
> different
> > companies. One of his companies loses all trains to rust and he has to
> > buy a new train, and he must put money from his pocket. Rails offers him
> > this option.
> >
> > However, in the Game Status window, he has no certificates that he can
> > sell. No certificate is highlighted, but no active command allows him to
> > declare bankruptcy. The game is stuck.
> >
> > Is there some command that I'm not seeing?
> >
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"People don't quit playing because they grow old. They grow old because
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Re: [Rails-users] Rails

[Phil D. <de...@gm...>]

If you can send through a save game file with this scenario, it really
helps in working out what is going wrong.

Phil

On 12 June 2014 13:35, Luiz Cláudio S. Duarte
<lui...@gm...> wrote:
> I'm currently playing 1856 by e-mail with some friends using Rails 1.8.8.
> While I was simulating some possible outcomes for an upcoming OR, I hit
> a snag, and perhaps someone from the list can help.
>
> One of the players has only two president certificates, from two different
> companies. One of his companies loses all trains to rust and he has to
> buy a new train, and he must put money from his pocket. Rails offers him
> this option.
>
> However, in the Game Status window, he has no certificates that he can
> sell. No certificate is highlighted, but no active command allows him to
> declare bankruptcy. The game is stuck.
>
> Is there some command that I'm not seeing?
>
> --
> "Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever come to birth.
> The debt we owe to the play of our imagination is incalculable." [Carl Jung]
>
> "People don't quit playing because they grow old. They grow old because
> they quit playing." [segundo G. Stanley Hall]
>
>
>
> --
> "Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever come to birth.
> The debt we owe to the play of our imagination is incalculable." [Carl Jung]
>
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[Rails-users] Rails

[Luiz C. S. D. <lui...@gm...>]

I'm currently playing 1856 by e-mail with some friends using Rails 1.8.8.
While I was simulating some possible outcomes for an upcoming OR, I hit
a snag, and perhaps someone from the list can help.

One of the players has only two president certificates, from two different
companies. One of his companies loses all trains to rust and he has to
buy a new train, and he must put money from his pocket. Rails offers him
this option.

However, in the Game Status window, he has no certificates that he can
sell. No certificate is highlighted, but no active command allows him to
declare bankruptcy. The game is stuck.

Is there some command that I'm not seeing?

--
"Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever come to birth.
The debt we owe to the play of our imagination is incalculable." [Carl Jung]

"People don't quit playing because they grow old. They grow old because
they quit playing." [segundo G. Stanley Hall]



-- 
"Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever come to birth.
The debt we owe to the play of our imagination is incalculable." [Carl Jung]

"People don't quit playing because they grow old. They grow old because
they quit playing." [segundo G. Stanley Hall]

[Rails-users] Possible Bug in 1830 Simple Variant

[John F. <fri...@ho...>]

Hi Sourcforge,

I'm currently involved in a six player game of 1830 with the Simple Variant option selected.  The "6" trains have been purchased but we are unable to lay the grey tiles.  Is this a known problem and is there a solution we can implement?  I am using Rails version 1.8.6 and several of the other players are using version 1.8.7.

Regards,

John
 		 	   		  

[Rails-users] Some feedback wanted

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

Hi Guys & Girls interested in 18xx,

i created a poll on boardgames geek to find out whats wanted on that
front for rails development.
http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1159352/next-18xx-game-to-implement-in-rails

Perhaps you can spare some time and let us know, what would be your
preference to have implemented.

And yes we always appreciate volunteers to code and implement more variants.

REgards
Martin

Re: [Rails-users] 18TN bug

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

Thanks for the report Justin, you are right that has to be fixed in Rails.

Please be aware that 18TN is not frequently played, so please be careful 
to check if everything works fine. Especially those little details that 
are different to 1830 might not work as the rules claim.

I would be happy to receive your save file after game end to add it to 
our sample of automated game tests.

Stefan


Details:

Actually I realized that the rules for private company selling in 18TN 
are a little more complicated:

Paragraph 4.2.6 in the current rules version, there two options to 
purchase a private company:

* In the first OR each major may buy ONE private for face value.
(A subtle question is if a short OR during the initial auction phase
would be treated as the first OR with respect to this rule).

* Otherwise after the first 3 train is purchased for 0.5 times face < 
price < 1.5 times value

Thus the multiplier has to be changed and the first exception have to be 
added.

I will fix those issues in Rails 2.0, however I doubt that it will be 
backported to Rails 1.x?





On 03/10/2014 07:25 PM, Justin Rebelo wrote:
> Sorry if this is known, but I checked the wiki and searched the ML and
> did not see it listed.
>
> Currently, rails is allowing privates to be purchased for up to 200% of
> face value but the correct limit should be 150% (after phase 3 has begun).
>
> Justin
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[Rails-users] 18TN bug

[Justin R. <jus...@gm...>]

Sorry if this is known, but I checked the wiki and searched the ML and did
not see it listed.

Currently, rails is allowing privates to be purchased for up to 200% of
face value but the correct limit should be 150% (after phase 3 has begun).

Justin

Re: [Rails-users] 1835 bug?

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

On 2014-02-03 01:44, Lonny Orgler wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I just play a game of 1835 for the first time. I downloaded rails recently.
> 
> I have the following problem:
> 
> I own 90% of two companies. Therefore I may buy two shares above the share limit.
> But the program doesn't let me do it.
> I tried: If I would own only 80% of a company the program would let me buy another share.
> 
> Do I do something wrong? Or is there a bug in the program?

Works for me.  Do you have a save file from the game where it happened?

[Rails-users] 1835 bug?

[Lonny O. <lon...@gm...>]

Hello,

I just play a game of 1835 for the first time. I downloaded rails recently.

I have the following problem:

I own 90% of two companies. Therefore I may buy two shares above the share
limit.
But the program doesn't let me do it.
I tried: If I would own only 80% of a company the program would let me buy
another share.

Do I do something wrong? Or is there a bug in the program?

Lonny Orgler

Re: [Rails-users] [Rails-devel] Moving to Java 1.6

[Phil D. <de...@gm...>]

I'd personally be really surprised, surely Java 7 is standard now?  At
least as a runtime...

On 28 January 2014 11:51, Stefan Frey <ste...@we...> wrote:
> All users of rails,
> For the upcoming version 2.0 of Rails my intention is to move to Java
> version 1.6. Are there still serious obstacles to upgrading? Especially
> for those users on a Mac OS?
> There are several libraries used by Rails, which have moved to 1.6
> support only.
> Thanks for your feedback,
> Stefan
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[Rails-users] Moving to Java 1.6

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

All users of rails,
For the upcoming version 2.0 of Rails my intention is to move to Java 
version 1.6. Are there still serious obstacles to upgrading? Especially 
for those users on a Mac OS?
There are several libraries used by Rails, which have moved to 1.6 
support only.
Thanks for your feedback,
Stefan

[Rails-users] Rails 1.8.6 released- Fixes for 1880 variant only

[Dr. M. B. <dr....@go...>]

Rails release 1.8.6

This is a minor release fixing the following bugs:

    - 1880: Tile definitions : Upgrade paths for small stations
            in green to brown was missing.
            Investors who are closed remain due to technical reasons
            on display until the end of the current OR. This caused
            their homebasehexes to block new token lays, even if they
            had been exchanged. This is now corrected.  
            

Thank you to all who reported the bugs.

Please report any bugs you find on the mailinglist as usual.

Thank you for the patience and feedback.

The Rails Crew wish you a Happy New Year 2014 !

Martin (together with the rest of the rails crew :))

[Rails-users] Release 1.8.5 of rails

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

We would like to announce the release of 1.8.5.

Be advised that this will alter behaviour of save games (it even might
break some) for the following game variants: 1880, 1856 and 1835.

 This is a minor release fixing the following bugs:

    - 1880: Operation rounds in 1880 would end after 3 occurrences with
            a hard reset towards the first company in the current round.
            Stockrounds would be ignored. The hard coded end after the
            third OR is now enforced at game end if specific conditions
	    are met. Fixed definition error on Map - Water tile J16
	    didn't have its negative value set.
            Please check if the YC-Specialproperty is working as
            intended.

    - 1856: The position of the CGR-share on the stockmarket was
	    hardcoded to the second row on formation. This has now been
	    moved to row 0. Please check. This will break/alter all
	    1856 games in progress so caution is advised.

    - 1835: Introducing a switch name PrussianReservedIgnored. This 	
	    switch if toggled to yes on game start will tell rails to
	    ignore unavailable prussian shares (shares that have not
	    yet been converted in the Prussianformation process) in
	    determining if the prussian shares are sold out or not.
	    The old and current default method will treat unconverted
	    shares as unsold !

Contributors to this release:
Stefan Frey,
Volker Schnell,
Martin Brumm


Thank you to all who reported the bugs.

Please report any bugs you find on the mailinglist as usual.

Thank you for the patience and feedback.

The Rails Crew wish you a Happy New Year 2014 !

Martin

Re: [Rails-users] [Rails-devel] [v.1.8.4] 1880 map error

[Michael A. <out...@gm...>]

Martin,

    I don't think I'm going to get to the fix for the multiple water hexes
by Saturday.  I will let you know for sure by Friday.

Mike


On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Martin Brumm
<dr....@t-...>wrote:

> Am 27.11.2013 14:18, schrieb Antero Kuusi:
> > We found a map error in 1880 module. Rails map has large double city
> > in hex H8 (tile -80020) while it should be medium double city
> > (-80002). That error makes the Belgian investor unusable as it really
> > needs a double small station in the hex.
> >
> > Antero
> >
> Hello Antero,
>
> unfortunately you are right. This bug is confirmed and fixed in the
> latest commit. I will push a new release on Saturday, to incoporate
> other fixes. I know Michael is looking into a problem regarding the
> value calculation while traveling over multiple water hexes in 1880.
>
> Thanks again for reporting the bug.
>
> Martin
>
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Re: [Rails-users] [v.1.8.4] 1880 map error

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

Am 27.11.2013 14:18, schrieb Antero Kuusi:
> We found a map error in 1880 module. Rails map has large double city
> in hex H8 (tile -80020) while it should be medium double city
> (-80002). That error makes the Belgian investor unusable as it really
> needs a double small station in the hex.
>
> Antero
>
Hello Antero,

unfortunately you are right. This bug is confirmed and fixed in the
latest commit. I will push a new release on Saturday, to incoporate
other fixes. I know Michael is looking into a problem regarding the
value calculation while traveling over multiple water hexes in 1880.

Thanks again for reporting the bug.

Martin

[Rails-users] [v.1.8.4] 1880 map error

[Antero K. <ak...@ik...>]

We found a map error in 1880 module. Rails map has large double city in hex
H8 (tile -80020) while it should be medium double city (-80002). That error
makes the Belgian investor unusable as it really needs a double small
station in the hex.

Antero

[Rails-users] Rails 1.8.3 released

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

Hello to all rails fans,

1.8.3. got released today.

It fixes a number of bugs and glitches related to 1880 code.
Our thanks go out to all the testers who sent us their reports
in the last 4 weeks.

The bugs reported have all been squashed (and a few more glitches that
raised their heads in internal testing of the endgame).

We advise people to use the Special Power of the Engineer (Building
Permit in Phase D additionally) in Phase C or earlier. Currently it is
possible to use the power on any turn but it wont enable the tile laying
if its used in Phase D and not before for that particular turn of the
target company, later turns are fine though.

Contributors:
	Michael Alexander
	Martin Brumm
	Lars Myrin - Testing
	jr...@gm... - Testing
	Thiago Penteado - Testing
	Antero Kuusi - Testing
	Stefan Frey
	Stephen Yu - Testing
	

Many thanks to all of you.

The game should now be able to played with all features.
If you encounter any unusual behaviour please dont hesitate to contact
us via the rails-user list and remember to send a savefile!


Have fun in playing (and maybe testing).

Martin

Re: [Rails-users] Bug in 18GA private auction

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

In fact Rails allows both, exclude or include a player from further 
bidding after a pass:

=> It depends on the setting "Leave auction on pass" that is set to "No" 
as default for 18GA. This can be changed at game start.

=> If I remember correctly this is not defined in the AH version of the 
1830 rules. So the option was created for 1830 (default there "No" too) 
and it exists for all 1830 "clones" or "close derivatives", even if 
there is a ruling in the derivative rule book. However the default 
should be set to the wording in that rule book.

Justin: nothing to be embarrassed about. Auction rules of 1830 have 
created various variants over time. The only good thing is that Rails 
for 1830 is so stable, that it is more likely that the bug is due to the 
users perception. Some time ago I proposed to introduce another level 
for those games instead of "fully playable", something like "mature" or 
"stable" to indicate that there are not many bugs to be expected, 
compared to what we have for example for 1835 and 1880 currently.

Stefan



On 11/13/2013 06:17 PM, Justin Rebelo wrote:
> Wow. That's embarrassing. Sorry for the bogus report. The players in the
> game all agreed it was a bug and I just went straight to filing rather
> than reporting. Won't do that again. ;)
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Jerry Anderson <jer...@ya...
> <mailto:jer...@ya...>> wrote:
>
>     Not a bug. From the rule book - page 7.
>     "A player who has passed may bid later, if he gets another turn
>     before the auction ends."
>
>     *From:* Justin Rebelo <jus...@gm...
>     <mailto:jus...@gm...>>
>     *To:* rai...@li...
>     <mailto:rai...@li...>
>     *Sent:* Wednesday, November 13, 2013 9:04 AM
>     *Subject:* [Rails-users] Bug in 18GA private auction
>
>     Forgive me if this is not the correct place for this. I am involved
>     in a game of 18GA (using Cotton Port variant map). We are four
>     players and during the initial private auction encountered a very
>     minor bug that is probably an easy fix for someone with intimate
>     knowledge of the code.
>
>     There were three pending bids on the OSO private company and after
>     the preceding company auction was concluded, the first player to
>     have a bid chose to pass. The next two players raised the bids and
>     then the first player (who had already passed) was prompted as the
>     next active player with the option to bid again or pass. The player
>     should not be able to re-enter the private auction in this case.
>     Easy to work around for now.
>
>     Thanks!
>     Justin
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Re: [Rails-users] Bug in 18GA private auction

[Justin R. <jus...@gm...>]

Wow. That's embarrassing. Sorry for the bogus report. The players in the
game all agreed it was a bug and I just went straight to filing rather than
reporting. Won't do that again. ;)


On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Jerry Anderson <jer...@ya...>wrote:

> Not a bug. From the rule book - page 7.
>
> "A player who has passed may bid later, if he gets another turn before the
> auction ends."
>
>   *From:* Justin Rebelo <jus...@gm...>
> *To:* rai...@li...
> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 13, 2013 9:04 AM
> *Subject:* [Rails-users] Bug in 18GA private auction
>
>  Forgive me if this is not the correct place for this. I am involved in a
> game of 18GA (using Cotton Port variant map). We are four players and
> during the initial private auction encountered a very minor bug that is
> probably an easy fix for someone with intimate knowledge of the code.
>
> There were three pending bids on the OSO private company and after the
> preceding company auction was concluded, the first player to have a bid
> chose to pass. The next two players raised the bids and then the first
> player (who had already passed) was prompted as the next active player with
> the option to bid again or pass. The player should not be able to re-enter
> the private auction in this case. Easy to work around for now.
>
> Thanks!
> Justin
>
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Re: [Rails-users] Bug in 18GA private auction

[Jerry A. <jer...@ya...>]

Not a bug. From the rule book - page 7.
 "A player who has passed may bid later, if he gets another turn before the auction ends."

From: Justin Rebelo <jus...@gm...>
To: rai...@li... 
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 9:04 AM
Subject: [Rails-users] Bug in 18GA private auction



Forgive me if this is not the correct place for this. I am involved in a game of 18GA (using Cotton Port variant map). We are four players and during the initial private auction encountered a very minor bug that is probably an easy fix for someone with intimate knowledge of the code. 

There were three pending bids on the OSO private company and after the preceding company auction was concluded, the first player to have a bid chose to pass. The next two players raised the bids and then the first player (who had already passed) was prompted as the next active player with the option to bid again or pass. The player should not be able to re-enter the private auction in this case. Easy to work around for now.

Thanks!
Justin
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[Rails-users] Bug in 18GA private auction

[Justin R. <jus...@gm...>]

Forgive me if this is not the correct place for this. I am involved in a
game of 18GA (using Cotton Port variant map). We are four players and
during the initial private auction encountered a very minor bug that is
probably an easy fix for someone with intimate knowledge of the code.

There were three pending bids on the OSO private company and after the
preceding company auction was concluded, the first player to have a bid
chose to pass. The next two players raised the bids and then the first
player (who had already passed) was prompted as the next active player with
the option to bid again or pass. The player should not be able to re-enter
the private auction in this case. Easy to work around for now.

Thanks!
Justin

Re: [Rails-users] 1880 Foreign Investor bug (v.1.8.2)

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

Hi Antero,

its definately a bug and stems from the downgrade of a city (medium) to
a town in 1880.

It will be fixed in 1.8.3. which might be released on the next weekend.

Kind Regards,
Martin

On 28.10.2013 20:34, Antero Kuusi wrote:
> Here's a save file examples of the situation just before (Ville) and just
> after (Atte) the move.
> 
> Antero
> 
> 
> 2013/10/28 Martin Brumm <dr....@t-...>
> 
>> Am 28.10.2013 14:37, schrieb Antero Kuusi:
>>> We noticed that the train selection for foreign investors does not
>>> work correctly in all of the situations. Specifically, when the last
>>> 2T has been bought, but the first 2+2T has not yet been bought, Rails
>>> uses 2Ts for the foreign investors.
>>>
>>> The correct thing would be to use next available train, ie. 2+2T in
>>> that situation, but without causing a phase change.
>>>
>>> We have not tested with the other type changes, but I assume it is the
>>> same.
>>>
>>
>> HI Antero,
>> do you guys have a save file available that you could send to me ?
>>
>>
>>
> 

[Rails-users] 1880 Foreign Investor bug (v.1.8.2)

[Antero K. <ak...@ik...>]

We noticed that the train selection for foreign investors does not work
correctly in all of the situations. Specifically, when the last 2T has been
bought, but the first 2+2T has not yet been bought, Rails uses 2Ts for the
foreign investors.

The correct thing would be to use next available train, ie. 2+2T in that
situation, but without causing a phase change.

We have not tested with the other type changes, but I assume it is the same.

[Rails-users] Ongoing FIxes for 1880 ->rails 1.8.3

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

From a different source came a bugreport. I would like to share this
here, and of course the current state of work.
The test had been done with 1.8.0.

>steveyu wrote:
>I've been testing the latest build to see if we could progress further
and ran into the following that I emailed to >Martin. I don't mind
redoing the save file, but as some of these seem to still be game
breaking, I am going to hold >off for a bit.

>listed below in order of importance:

>1. Communism did not end on the purchase of the first 6 train. Stock
values and bonuses remained locked until the >end of the game.
>2. The game did not actually have a game ending triggering event, - the
8s were purchased and then the game >continued running round after round
until it crashed.
>3. The 6s did not trigger the purchase of the reconstructed 2s. The
train order went - 6, 6E, 8, 8E, 2R, 10.
>4. The 8Es were not purchasable. When the last 8 exported, the 8Es were
also all exported and the 2Rs were then >allowed to be purchased.
>5. Companies did not recapitalize if the 3s were all exported rather
than purchased triggering the recap. We worked >around this by adding
money to a company and then moving a 3 around until the 6s rusted it.
>6. Related to this - it seems when any trains are all exported, it does
not trigger the related event (such as start of >communism or
recapitalization).
>7. 6Es do not get calculated and do not seem to run at all -manually
did the route calculation (I assume 8Es are the >same way but we could
not buy any).
>8. The double dit tile 8855 only calculates the town on one of the two
dits. The other direction is treated as a >straight tile with no town on it.
>9. The D permit private company could not be used to assign the D
permit to any major companies.
>10. Ferries do not seem to deduct $10 from any routes that used the ferry.


Item 1 Fixed in 1.8.2
Item 3 fixed in 1.8.2
Item 5 fixed in 1.8.2
Item 2,4, 6 not yet verified, still under inspection.
Items 8-9 still in investigation as no save file avail
7 will be fixed in 1.8.3
4 will be fixed in 1.8.3
6 is fixed in 1.8.2
10 fixed in 1.8.2

Roadmap for 1.8.3:
Fixing the remaining problems with Double-O-Tiles
Fixing the remaining problems with 2R train special treatment

The Revenuecalculation for the 6E and 8E will be working but should be
handled manually, the code now has no chance (at least as far as i
understood that specific part) to maximise the Revenue yet.

Regards,
Martin

Re: [Rails-users] Rails 1856 Canadian Formationround gone wrong, was 1.8.2. problem

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

Am 24.10.2013 21:17, schrieb Thiago Penteado:
> We where playing 1856 yesterday with the rails 1.8.2 and when we got
> the first train 6, CGR was created and just one player (Penteado) got
> 10% of the company. On the next stock phase we got a message telling
> that Penteado had to buy one more share of CGR to get the president
> certificate (as shown on print 1 - annex). But as you can see on print
> 2 (annex), when we tried to purchase that stock (both from pool or
> from IPO) the message told us that 1% of the company would cost $0,00,
> and when we clicked nothing happened.
>
> Some forced undo later I don't know what happened, but the program let
> us keep playing with 3 players having 10% of the CGR each (Print 3),
> but when got to first OR, and GT tried to pay out or Withhold another
> message appeared (print 4) and we where unable to keep playing. 
>
> I saved the game and when I tried to load it, a message appeared
> telling me to send the saved game to this e-mail.
>
> Hope I could help on something,
>
> Thiago
>
Hello Thiago,

thanks for the report. I have to confirm that this is a bug indeed but
also already exists in 1.7.12. We will have look at the behaviour. Can
you for your group give me an insight what in 1856 should have happened
if the rules would have been followed correctly ?

Kind regards
Martin
P.s. I have not played that many 1856 games to know the rules there
without deep study :) So please bear with me.