A debt repayment took its whole instalment even when less was owed: four
dollars owed at the store cost twenty. Content could not express "pay what is
owed", so an add effect's amount may now be read from state, with a cap. Five
repayments across both packs use it, and a conformance test holds every pack to
it. The turn record now says which options were hidden, so the analyser stops
counting doors nobody saw, and it reads only feedback logs.
From the same session: wages are labelled as wages, a clamped change says where
it stopped, two unreadable option labels are rewritten, the sale barn no longer
offers what the player already owns, Ward hints at what the promotion waits for,
and the office has five more events. DECISIONS #38-40.
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Each pack declares a lifestyle tier, bought on the second rung and charged for
every cycle after: Corporate Ladder's car and address, the Frontier's bay and
the room over the Ellis place. Falling behind what the job expects costs
standing, in steps that steepen as standing rises. A Dispatch coordinator
keeping up fully nets -21 a week and earns the difference out of the days. No
engine change; the only interface change is a tier display format.
Sized by measurement, not feel (DECISIONS #36): a -2/week penalty is invisible
against Dispatch's standing gains, and a player who chases standing every turn
beats any flat penalty — 99 standing while buying nothing, and $2,245 richer
than one who kept up. Hence the top step.
Two defects fixed on the way. The conformance suite excluded debt from the
economic baseline by matching /debt|owed|loan/i on path names, which would have
counted every lifestyle tier into it; packs now declare tuning.baselineExcludes.
And 'the promotion leaves a player better off' pooled end balances across
archetypes that do not spend alike, so it measured the mix — it is now derived
from the upkeep arithmetic.
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Cold Fork is a freight yard: 29 events across two stages, a four-day cycle, and
its own relationship and skill vocabulary. src/engine/ was not touched. Adding it
needed three changes outside the engine: one save slot per pack, app.js holding
the current pack, and turn.js no longer naming the mailroom (DECISIONS #34).
build.js now handles imports wrapped across lines. A conformance suite runs over
every registered pack. DECISIONS #35 records three calls on open questions.
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