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Tiles
This page will contain informations for someone that is trying to implement new games in Rails and has questions about the Tiles. Tile identifiers
Since Francis Tresham created the first 18xx game - it was 1829 - the tiles have a number printed on the face side to identify them. To make a long story short, the numbering of tiles in the growing 18xx genre was not a linear affair. We can read and see the fruits of efforts by individuals in the Tile Encyclopedia.
The consequences for the Rails projects are mainly:
There are no identifiers for hexes on the maps
Some identifiers have been used for different tiles
Some identifiers have alphabetic characters, but TileDesigner 1.3.1 accepts only numbers
The approach to circumvent these limitations is, since the "Storm and Stress"-phase till today, not standardized in Rails. Mainly it was up to the volunteers to come to a solution day by day. Erik Vos wrote a nice summary that can be found on Excerpts#Excerpt_002