Three game releases at once, because the last package was 0.8.0.13:0: the
Modifier limits ruling and the coach ratchet made legible (v0.8.0.14), the
reference documents rewritten against the game as built (v0.8.0.15), and the
Quickstart published where somebody handed this box can actually reach it
(v0.8.0.16).
GAMES ALREADY RUNNING ON THIS SERVER MAY NOT RESUME. One rule changed in
v0.8.0.14 — a Modifier card may no longer be placed outside your Limits — and a
game whose saved history contains such a move stops replaying at that move. The
server names the move and leaves the save file alone, so a game worth finishing
can be finished by putting 0.8.0.13:0 back. On the game this was tested against
it stopped eleven moves from where the table had got to. README, instructions.md
and the release notes in all five locales say so rather than burying it.
The coach ratchet is NOT a rule change and is not presented as one. Coaches only
travel one way — boarding discards the emptied coach into the Classification
Yard, detraining draws a fresh empty out of the Division Yard, and Classification
returns only when the Division Yard runs bare — so over one three-Day game every
coach ended in Classification by Day 2 and nobody could board or get off
anywhere thereafter. Running out of cars is part of the game; nothing on screen
said any of it. A train made up short now reports what it wanted and why none is
coming, and the yard panel warns while the shortage lasts.
The Interchange stops advertising an action the game does not have. The card
said cars could be sorted into any new order there, which has never been
implemented, so the only thing it achieved was sending a player hunting for a
button that was not there. What it really offers is the one place on the
Mainline where an Extra may be made up and started; a consist is re-ordered at a
Small Yard, which now shows the train each option would build, laid out west to
east as the board draws it.
A QUICKSTART SHIPS WITH THE PACKAGE and is linked from the splash page, so a
tester who has never played has something to read that is not the repository.
The rules and card references beside it were rewritten against the game as built
— several had been describing a version a month old.
Packaging is the submodule pin, the version and the words: no action, route,
file model or interface changed, and the whole release is inside the bundled
game.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MUizFYCMHRWhbWwXhp7WPR
