The bundled release is a playtest read back against its own save file. Three bugs,
three rules that were working and undocumented, and three decisions — all from one
three-Day game.
GAMES IN PROGRESS: MOST WILL NOT RESUME, and that was measured before release
rather than discovered after it. All thirteen saves on the test box were replayed
through `tryResumeSession` — the server's own boot check — against this build:
three resume, ten refuse. Six of the ten are one new rule, that a passenger
Modifier may not be played at a Whistle Post. A refused save stops at a named move
and is left untouched, so a game worth finishing can be finished by putting
0.8.1.0 back.
THE OPENING CHANGED AND STRANDED NOTHING, which is the part that took care. Every
district now opens on a Depot rather than a Whistle Post — two A/D tracks and
passengers from Stage 1 — with the Whistle Post opening offered as the harder game
at creation. That is the one house rule which changes how a game is DEALT rather
than how it plays, so replaying an older save under today's default would produce
a different railroad from intent one, silently. The game fills the setting on its
replay paths only; every save that resumed before still resumes.
THIS PACKAGE'S OWN CHANGE IS instructions.md, WHICH WAS A CHANGELOG. It had
accumulated twenty "What changed in …" blocks going back to v0.7.2 — 380 of its
469 lines. A StartOS operator opening Instructions wants to know how to run the
service, not read eighteen months of archaeology, and StartOS already shows what
changed in a release: `releaseNotes`, which this package fills in five locales.
The blocks are deleted; the file is 109 lines and is a manual.
THE DOCUMENTATION LINK POINTED AT A `.local` ADDRESS on one LAN — a private Gitea
URL serving raw Markdown, unreachable by anyone who installs this package. It
points at the pages the package itself serves now, which are available wherever it
is installed, need no external network, and always describe the installed build.
Also in instructions.md: "What you get on StartOS" says that solitaire and the
replay viewer come from the same web interface, since one address covers all
three; and "Leaving, and coming back" now carries the seat rules that belong
there — that a seat lives in one browser, that Forget cannot be undone by the
player, and that the operator can put them back with Restore a Seat. The save
warning the game now carries in four places is stated here too.
No action, route, file model or interface changed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MUizFYCMHRWhbWwXhp7WPR
