erik-vos

I suppose we should not take "Total-Skip" too literally. No tile and token laying, train and private buying, own share trading, loan taking: that's all fine, but train running is...

I would replace the condition "has a token" by "has a route". Even simpler could be just this one condition: "will have nonzero revenue this OR", but I'm not sure...

Sometime ago we received a "saved status" file to report some problem, which appeared to be unusable. I concluded that the appearance of the "Save Status" command in the File...

> If you prefer I can move the XML save and load buttons to the `Developer` menu. Yes, please, at least for now. Or another new menu (XML?) I'm not...

I cannot download your XML file, but got a view on screen, and it's enormous indeed, with at least 15000 lines IIRC. Hard to find anything specific there. We might...

> To load the game information I believe you have used built in functionality of Java right? See class `rails.common.parser.XMLParser`: it is importing stuff from `javax.xml`, `org.w3c.dom` and `org.xml.sax`. There...

Let me summarize my position in this matter. If a zipped format (.zrails) can solve the file size issue, XML (or JSON) files approach acceptability, but that does not mean...

> These tools can only be used if the save game file is compatible with the current data model of Rails. > This won't work if you for example add...

Agreed.

One detail: this will only work if the token laying cost is fixed (method="sequence"), so that is another necessary condition. Distance based token laying has a variable cost. OK, this...