diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 79010d9..96052d4 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -96,12 +96,15 @@ and a critical task is raised pointing at **Get Join Secret** — the service st
 the moment the daemon is healthy, but a player cannot create or join a game until the join secret
 has been retrieved and shared with them.
 
-**Updating the package ends every game in progress.** A save records the engine version that wrote
-it and the server refuses to resume one recorded under different rules, logging the refusal and
-leaving the file untouched. This is upstream's deliberate design, not something this package works
-around: a move that was legal under the old rules may not be under the new ones. Let games finish
-before updating, or accept losing them — rolling the package version back makes them loadable
-again, since nothing is deleted.
+**Updating the package keeps games in progress, unless the rules actually changed.** On boot the
+server replays each saved game's moves through the current engine and resumes it if they all still
+apply — the version that wrote the file is recorded and reported but decides nothing. When a move
+*is* rejected, that game is refused and the log names it: `move 3 of 8 (localOps.choose) is
+rejected by the current rules with OPTION_ALREADY_CHOSEN`. A refused game is never modified or
+deleted, so reinstalling the previous version makes it loadable again and it can be played out.
+
+Earlier versions of this package compared version strings instead, which destroyed every game in
+progress on every update, including updates that changed only how the board is drawn.
 
 ## Actions
 
diff --git a/instructions.md b/instructions.md
index 34baba0..f96fa3b 100644
--- a/instructions.md
+++ b/instructions.md
@@ -60,8 +60,7 @@ a game that will never be finished — otherwise it sits there, and comes back e
 service restarts. It cannot be undone, so the game's save is handed back to you when it happens:
 that text is the only copy left, so keep it if the game was worth watching.
 
-> One thing to know before you update this service: **games in progress do not survive an
-> update.** The rules can change between versions, so a half-played game recorded under the old
-> ones is refused rather than resumed under rules it was not played by. Nothing is deleted, and
-> going back to the previous version makes them playable again — but the safe habit is to finish
-> games before updating.
+> **Games in progress normally survive an update of this service.** When the update changes the
+> rules of the game itself, a half-played game cannot be resumed under rules it was not played by,
+> and that game is set aside rather than continued — you would see it disappear from the lobby.
+> Nothing is ever deleted, so going back to the previous version makes it playable again.
diff --git a/startos/versions/current.ts b/startos/versions/current.ts
index 876c909..9692bf9 100644
--- a/startos/versions/current.ts
+++ b/startos/versions/current.ts
@@ -4,28 +4,28 @@ export const current = VersionInfo.of({
   // `<upstream>:<downstream>` — the upstream half tracks the bundled Station Master tag exactly
   // (`versions.md`'s consistency checklist), so bumping the submodule pin and bumping this are one
   // action. The downstream half moves only for packaging-only changes.
-  version: '0.5.6:0',
+  version: '0.6.0:0',
   releaseNotes: {
     en_US:
-      'Bundles Station Master v0.5.6. Seats are numbered from 1 rather than 0 everywhere a person ' +
-      "reads them, the current player's name on the Division map is legible again, and the " +
-      'west-to-east seating line appears only while the game is opening.',
+      'Bundles Station Master v0.6.0. Games in progress now survive an update of this service, so long ' +
+      'as the rules did not change. The lobby lets the host set every game setting, and the Employee ' +
+      'Rotation optional rule is playable.',
     es_ES:
-      'Incluye Station Master v0.5.6. Los asientos se numeran desde 1 en lugar de 0 allí donde los ' +
-      'lee una persona, el nombre del jugador en turno vuelve a ser legible en el mapa de la ' +
-      'División, y la línea de asientos solo aparece al comenzar la partida.',
+      'Incluye Station Master v0.6.0. Las partidas en curso sobreviven a una actualización de este ' +
+      'servicio, siempre que las reglas no hayan cambiado. La sala permite al anfitrión ajustar todas ' +
+      'las opciones, y la regla opcional de Rotación de Empleados ya se puede jugar.',
     de_DE:
-      'Enthält Station Master v0.5.6. Plätze werden überall, wo ein Mensch sie liest, ab 1 statt ab 0 ' +
-      'gezählt, der Name des Spielers am Zug ist auf der Divisionskarte wieder lesbar, und die ' +
-      'Sitzreihenfolge erscheint nur noch zu Spielbeginn.',
+      'Enthält Station Master v0.6.0. Laufende Spiele überstehen jetzt ein Update dieses Dienstes, ' +
+      'sofern sich die Regeln nicht geändert haben. In der Lobby stellt der Gastgeber alle ' +
+      'Spieloptionen ein, und die optionale Regel Employee Rotation ist spielbar.',
     pl_PL:
-      'Zawiera Station Master v0.5.6. Miejsca są numerowane od 1 zamiast od 0 wszędzie tam, gdzie ' +
-      'czyta je człowiek, nazwa gracza wykonującego ruch jest znów czytelna na mapie Dywizji, a ' +
-      'linia kolejności miejsc pojawia się tylko na początku gry.',
+      'Zawiera Station Master v0.6.0. Gry w toku przetrwają teraz aktualizację tej usługi, o ile ' +
+      'zasady się nie zmieniły. W poczekalni gospodarz ustawia wszystkie opcje gry, a zasada ' +
+      'opcjonalna Employee Rotation jest już grywalna.',
     fr_FR:
-      'Inclut Station Master v0.5.6. Les places sont numérotées à partir de 1 plutôt que de 0 ' +
-      'partout où une personne les lit, le nom du joueur dont c’est le tour est de nouveau lisible ' +
-      'sur la carte de la Division, et la ligne des places n’apparaît qu’au début de la partie.',
+      'Inclut Station Master v0.6.0. Les parties en cours survivent désormais à une mise à jour de ce ' +
+      'service, tant que les règles n’ont pas changé. Le salon permet à l’hôte de régler toutes les ' +
+      'options, et la règle optionnelle Employee Rotation est jouable.',
   },
   migrations: {
     up: async ({ effects }) => {},
diff --git a/station-master b/station-master
index 5171049..40f07b0 160000
--- a/station-master
+++ b/station-master
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 51710498f54c55a32380badba5157b0a0dfb65c3
+Subproject commit 40f07b0710628c226467b25b017d3395d2ee72a7