v0.4.8 — the Limits bound the whole district, the nine spots really are nine, and an action points at its square

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YQAJ4dND7enLj54eLyiF2C
This commit is contained in:
Jesse
2026-08-19 13:38:06 -04:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5
parent 9f3b92d08e
commit 461c4d9bac
25 changed files with 3264 additions and 4524 deletions
+8 -2
View File
@@ -138,8 +138,14 @@ above and below. Upgrades are drop-in and must never disturb a connection.
## 5. Modifier cards
Five cards, one each. A Modifier is **not track**. It is placed adjacent to a Facility, on any of the
nine nearby spots, and if adjacent to two Facilities its effect may be used on only one per Stage
(§9).
nine nearby spots — **diagonals included** — and if adjacent to two Facilities its effect may be used
on only one per Stage (§9).
Two placement rules follow from it not being track. It is **not bounded by the Limits**: a host
standing at the edge of the district keeps all nine of its spots, or the card would be unplayable
exactly where the district ends. And it may **never stand in the Running Track's row**, which inside
the Limits is always full anyway — beyond the sign that row is the ground the main grows onto, and a
Modifier parked there would block the Limits sign from moving outward (§2.1).
| Card | Effect | Applies to |
| --- | --- | --- |
+7 -1
View File
@@ -593,10 +593,16 @@ horizontal row through the Office, Limit-to-Limit; everything else is Secondary
- Plain track, turnouts and Facility cards are all played from hand into an empty adjacent grid spot,
and **must connect to existing track**. Facility cards carry their own rails — placing a Facility
places track.
- Track stays **inside the Limits at every row**, not only on the Running Track. §2.1 makes the sign
"the limit of your control area" and §3 defines Secondary Track as "all tracks in your limits", so
a siding may run *under* a sign — the sign stands on the boundary — and never past it. Widening a
district therefore means extending the main first.
- Extending the **Running Track** horizontally moves that player's Limits sign outward with it (§2.1).
Growth is uncapped in the prototype.
- Modifier Facility cards are not track. They are placed adjacent to a Facility, on any of the nine
nearby spots (§9).
nearby spots (§9) — diagonals included, and not bounded by the Limits, since a host at the edge of
the district would otherwise have nowhere to put one. The one square they may not take is in the
Running Track's own row, which is where the main grows.
A longer Running Track is more track to keep clear of arriving trains, so territory carries its own
collision risk.