tobymao / 18xx

A platform for playing 18xx games online!
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Game Précis #8834

Open saxafras opened 1 year ago

saxafras commented 1 year ago

What's your idea? The list of games is blessedly quite long. Thank You so much! I have several ideas to help parse the games especially for the many newer players joining in all the time but also for veterans wanting to learn new titles and remember older ones. Personally i'd like to see on the create a game page some more information like player number range (2-5) for example, and Full Cap/ Incremental Cap/ or Hybrid for example. Maybe even a Mergers symbol to denote games with mergers or games that start with minors for example.

On the Info tab I'd like to see a univeral box of information with things like

  1. Market shares pay/ treasury/ None etc. Also
  2. Sell-Buy/ SBS or SB/BS
  3. Effect of Selling Shares: Per Block/ Per Share/ No effect
  4. Effects at SR end.
  5. Train Export

I know this takes a lot of time and I would be willing to provide information for games but have no programming skills.

benjaminxscott commented 1 year ago

Good ideas! Some of this exists in various places today and could be generalized a bit if someone wants to pick it up

1 Market shares pay/ treasury/ None

Agree, I think this is not surfaced right now

2 Sell-Buy/ SBS or SB/BS

This is available (and inobvious) in the round description during SRs

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3 Effect of Selling Shares: Per Block/ Per Share/ No effect 4 Effects at SR end

This is typically in the "stock movements" table under Market, it has to be manually written for each game so some don't have it defined. 1846 has a complex one but most only have a few lines

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5 Train Export

The (optional) timeline block under Info is typically where the "train export" and other mcguffins live, but it has to be manually written for each game

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