Rails Changelog

What's new in Rails 2.0 RC 1

Sep 16, 2015
  • Fixed UI Bugs:
  • Player worth is updated by any stock price change
  • Fixed 1835 bugs:
  • fixed undo bug for share selling in 1835: previously the stock price adjustment was ignored
  • fixed bug that PR stock price raises even if M2 was not exchanged into PR president

New in Rails 2.0 Beta 4 (Aug 19, 2015)

  • Fixed UI Bugs:
  • fixed bug in GameSetupWindow that prevented selection of the next player name by mouse
  • fixed bug in GameSetupWindow to show options after selection of a different game
  • Fixed UI problem in StartRoundWindow: did not show the correct info text for start items
  • Removed stock space coordinates from par prices in Game Status window
  • fixed bug that the price for purchased items is not shown in StartRound window
  • Fixed 1835 bugs:
  • Fixed bug that a not yet operating PR is not offered to buy trains from
  • Fixed bug that closed company is asked to operate if the company merged
  • Changed default (start) variant to Standard from Clemens

New in Rails 2.0 Beta 2 (Apr 11, 2015)

  • Improvements:
  • Company panel of OR window shows only acting company during tile/token/revenue steps. All companies shown at train buying
  • Indicate for each player what company were already sold during share rounds
  • Fixed information in message panel during tile/token lays
  • GitHub features:
  • Roadmap and further docs availaible on gitHub wiki
  • Rails 2 development branch is mirrored at gitHub repo
  • Sourceforge remains leading repo Remarks:
  • All automated test games run.
  • Some reported bugs from previous 2.0 Alpha/Beta releases are still open.

New in Rails 2.0 Beta 1 (Mar 10, 2015)

  • Rails 2.0 Beta 1 release:
  • Full rule compliant tile laying (including special tile lays)
  • Full rule compliant token laying (including special, home, and bonus tokens) Remarks:
  • All automated test games run.
  • Some reported bugs from previous 2.0 Alpha releases are still open.

New in Rails 1.9.0 (Feb 11, 2015)

  • This is a minor release fixing the following bugs:
  • 880 : Fixed bug in placement of home bases for major companies
  • Fixed bug in handling of home base token on Beijing Hex
  • Fixed bug in starting a company with 40% share and investor and not receiving full cash
  • Added Log messages for the protocol regarding the Cash received upon a company reaching 50 percent.
  • Now the Expresstrains should be calculated correctly -> Thanks to Stefan Frey
  • Numerous Games got improved by additions from Frederick Weld.

New in Rails 2.0 Alpha 8 (Nov 20, 2014)

  • Finalized combined Tile and Token lay
  • Improved UI for Tile and Token lay
  • Remarks:
  • All automatic test games run.
  • Most reported bugs from previous 2.0 Alpha releases are still open

New in Rails 2.0 Alpha 7 (Sep 9, 2014)

  • New Tile laying UI nearly 100% complete.
  • Combined Tile and Token laying possible.
  • Token laying UI needs some more work.
  • Integrate current development of 1837
  • First integration of initial development for 1862

New in Rails 1.8.11 (Sep 9, 2014)

  • 1856 : Provided a workaround for a bug reported by Pieter Lust
  • 1880 : Fixed bug in subroutine trainCanAffectOR() check went for the 8e instead of 8E

New in Rails 1.8.10 (Aug 4, 2014)

  • Bug fix:
  • 1880: Fixed a bug reported by Volker Schnell: Multiple sales of Share in the same action didnt result in the stock marker to be adjusted correctly. This would lead to higher stock values.
  • ATTENTION: This fix will break/ affect all games in which a player has sold more than one share in a single action.

New in Rails 1.8.9 (Jul 22, 2014)

  • Bug fix:
  • Investor able to operate in communist phase
  • End of game not triggered correctly
  • Transsib Modifier missing
  • Fixed tile definitions for 8854,8856, 8855 and 8858

New in Rails 1.8.8 (May 6, 2014)

  • Fixed the following problems:
  • Map Hex E15 was missing on the map.
  • Tile 265 was incorrect.
  • Penalty on share selling was deducted twice

New in Rails 1.8.6 (May 1, 2014)

  • Fixing the bug reported on the CGR Formation if previous to the formationround companies have already been closed.
  • Fixing a bug with a player being forced to buy a 10 percent share but couldnt to become president of the CGR after formationround.
  • Fixed problem when an investor was the last company to run in an operating round. nextStep(FINAL) (which calls done()) should not be called inside getPossibleActions() - instead, done() should be called inside process()

New in Rails 1.7.6 (Jun 5, 2012)

  • Allowing selling a share just bought by the president.

New in Rails 1.7.0 (Mar 22, 2012)

  • General UI improvements:
  • Interactive highlighting of hexes
  • Enhanced highlighting of active table cells during Operating Round
  • Adaptive rendering of token labels
  • Lay Tile: Invalid tile lays are displayed (incl. the reason for not being valid)
  • Support for icons
  • Splash screen with improvement startup behavior
  • Added UI options:
  • Map / Zoom Fit Option: Fit-to-window and more
  • Map / Display Routes of Active Company
  • Map / Highlight company locations
  • Appearance / Display borders in grid layout
  • Windows / Flexible panels for operating round: Applies a docking framework to Operating Round Window

New in Rails 1.6.0 (Jan 10, 2012)

  • 18EU: Fixed that share price could raise at the end of the merger round
  • 1825: Update to Minors
  • Background map: Fixed glitches at 18GA display
  • All games: Fixes to make entering special tile lays more efficient WARNING: The last fix might make existing save files unloadable.

New in Rails 1.0.6 (May 8, 2009)

  • This is a bug fix release. Numerous bugs have been fixed throughout the application.