v0.4.4 — New Game dialog for the opening hand and the three revenue rates, Yard renamed Interchange, and two movement bugs behind a mirrored consist

src/sim/board-svg.ts

@@ -77,7 +77,8 @@ export function divisionSvg(nodes: DivisionView[]): string {
       /** Nose first, no engine — drawn as blocks, loaded solid and empty hollow. */
       cars?: string[];
       engineAt?: number;
-      facing?: string;
+      /** East or west, always — a Division runs east and west and so does its rolling stock. */
+      facing?: 'e' | 'w';
       region?: number;
       direction?: string;
       stagesLeft?: number;
@@ -291,7 +292,7 @@ export function divisionSvg(nodes: DivisionView[]): string {
      */
     c.trains.forEach((t, k) => {
       const cars = t.cars ?? [];
-      const arrow = t.facing === 'w' ? '\u25c0' : t.facing === 'e' ? '\u25b6' : t.facing === 'n' ? '\u25b2' : '\u25bc';
+      const arrow = t.facing === 'w' ? '\u25c0' : '\u25b6';
       const loaded = cars.filter((x) => /^loaded/.test(x) || /caboose/.test(x)).length;
       const label = cars.length === 0 ? `${t.label} ${arrow}` : `${t.label} ${arrow}${cars.length}`;
 
@@ -704,7 +705,7 @@ export function officeSvg(
         kind: /^loaded/.test(c) || /caboose/.test(c) ? 'ld' : 'mt',
         what: c,
       }));
-      const arrow = t.facing === 'w' ? '\u25c0' : t.facing === 'e' ? '\u25b6' : t.facing === 'n' ? '\u25b2' : '\u25bc';
+      const arrow = t.facing === 'w' ? '\u25c0' : '\u25b6';
       items.splice(t.engineAt, 0, { label: arrow, kind: 'eng', what: 'the engine' });
       /**
        * WEST ON THE LEFT, AND THE NOSE POINTING THE WAY THE ENGINE FACES.
@@ -715,15 +716,19 @@ export function officeSvg(
        * drawn engine-first at the WEST end, which reads as an engine shoving four cars ahead of it.
        *
        * The board is a map, so the drawing has to obey the map: reverse the seating order for an
-       * east-facing train and its nose lands at the east end, where it is. A crew on a north-south
-       * spur has no left or right to be right about, so it keeps nose-left and its \u25b2/\u25bc says the rest.
+       * east-facing train and its nose lands at the east end, where it is.
+       *
+       * A crew on a north-south spur is drawn east-west like every other train, because `facing` is
+       * now always east or west (`railFacingOf`). It used to keep its compass port and draw \u25b2 or \u25bc
+       * with the consist pinned nose-left, which meant the one thing the picture is for \u2014 which end
+       * the engine is on \u2014 flipped its convention the moment a crew turned a corner. Playtested and
+       * reported as more confusing than a strip drawn the same way every time.
        */
       const laid = t.facing === 'e' ? [...items].reverse() : items;
       const cw = 17;
       const tw = Math.min(W - 8, laid.length * cw + 30);
       const tx = W / 2 - tw / 2;
-      const facingWord =
-        t.facing === 'e' ? 'east' : t.facing === 'w' ? 'west' : t.facing === 'n' ? 'north' : 'south';
+      const facingWord = t.facing === 'e' ? 'east' : 'west';
       const consistWords = t.cars.length === 0 ? 'no cars' : t.cars.join(', ');
       out += `<g class="bs-crew" data-tip="${esc(
         `${t.label} — engine pointing ${facingWord}, carrying ${consistWords}` + (t.what ? `\n\n${t.what}` : ''),