fixed train# specific rules. cleaned up display topline and train display on division map

src/engine/advance.ts

@@ -307,7 +307,49 @@ function mainlinePhase(s: GameState, events: GameEvent[]): AdvanceResult {
 
   for (const [id, tray] of order) {
     if (s.movedThisPhase.has(id)) continue;
+    const where = tray.position;
     const moved = moveTrain(s, id, tray, events);
+    /**
+     * X18 CIRCUS TRAIN — "one turn stopped on any track (circus set-up) earns 1 point".
+     *
+     * The flag was declared on the profile and read NOWHERE, so the one card in the deck that pays
+     * for standing still paid nothing: reported from a playtest where TX18 sat on a siding for a
+     * full Stage and no point arrived. Claimed once — an Extra runs once and is gone.
+     *
+     * "Stopped" is measured against the Mainline Phase: the train attempted to move and stayed where
+     * it was. A train that is still in the district when the phase runs has not moved either, which
+     * is the circus setting up on a siding rather than crossing the Division.
+     */
+    if (!tray.stopPointClaimed && trainProfile(tray.trainNumber ?? 0, tray.trainIsExtra)?.rules.stopEarnsPoint) {
+      const stillThere =
+        tray.position.at === where.at &&
+        (tray.position.at !== 'mainline' || where.at !== 'mainline' || tray.position.index === where.index) &&
+        (tray.position.at !== 'grid' ||
+          where.at !== 'grid' ||
+          (tray.position.coord.row === where.coord.row && tray.position.coord.col === where.coord.col));
+      if (moved !== 'expedited' && stillThere) {
+        tray.stopPointClaimed = true;
+        const owner = tray.position.at === 'grid' ? tray.position.owner : 0;
+        const label =
+          tray.position.at === 'grid'
+            ? `(${tray.position.coord.row},${tray.position.coord.col})`
+            : tray.position.at === 'mainline'
+              ? `Mainline card ${tray.position.index}`
+              : `the ${tray.position.side} Division Point`;
+        events.push({ type: 'trainStoodStill', trainNumber: tray.trainNumber ?? 0, where: label });
+        const p = s.players[owner];
+        if (p) {
+          p.revenue += 1;
+          events.push({
+            type: 'revenueChanged',
+            player: owner,
+            delta: 1,
+            total: p.revenue,
+            reason: 'circus set-up — a Stage spent standing still',
+          });
+        }
+      }
+    }
     if (moved === 'needsClearance') return { events, needsInput: true };
     // An expedited train may act twice in one Stage: it arrives and departs (Q3).
     if (moved === 'expedited') {

src/engine/apply.ts

@@ -480,6 +480,13 @@ export function check(s: GameState, player: PlayerIndex, i: Intent): RejectionCo
       return f.inboundBox[i.index] ? null : 'BOX_EMPTY';
     }
 
+    case 'freightAgent.end':
+      if (!inPhase(s, 'localOps')) return 'WRONG_PHASE';
+      // §6.3 offers three things the Freight Agent may do and requires none of them. Ending with the
+      // action unspent is a wasted Stage, which is the player's to waste — the alternative was
+      // forcing an unjam that destroys a load.
+      return s.turn.option === 'freightAgent' ? null : 'OPTION_NOT_CHOSEN';
+
     case 'freightAgent.unjam': {
       if (!inPhase(s, 'localOps')) return 'WRONG_PHASE';
       if (s.turn.option !== 'freightAgent') return 'OPTION_NOT_CHOSEN';
@@ -864,6 +871,7 @@ function execute(s: GameState, player: PlayerIndex, i: Intent): GameEvent[] {
 
     case 'switch.end':
     case 'draw.end':
+    case 'freightAgent.end':
       return [{ type: 'phaseEnded', player, phase: 'localOps' }];
 
     case 'draw.fromHomeOffice': {

src/engine/events.ts

@@ -88,6 +88,8 @@ export type GameEvent =
   | { type: 'secondSectionOrdered'; player: PlayerIndex; trainNumber: number }
   | { type: 'trainMadeUp'; trainNumber: number; isExtra: boolean; at: string; direction: string }
   | { type: 'trainHeld'; trainNumber: number; reason: string }
+  /** A train whose card pays for standing still (X18 Circus) collected on it. */
+  | { type: 'trainStoodStill'; trainNumber: number; where: string }
   | { type: 'trainHighballed'; trainNumber: number; from: string; to: string }
   /**
    * `expedited` because it changes what the player must do RIGHT NOW. Q3 — an expedited train

src/engine/intents.ts

@@ -55,6 +55,14 @@ export type Intent =
   | { type: 'freightAgent.stockOutbound'; at: GridCoord; carType: CarType }
   | { type: 'freightAgent.clearInbound'; at: GridCoord; index: number }
   | { type: 'freightAgent.unjam'; at: GridCoord; from: 'outbound' | 'inbound' | 'menAtWork'; index: number }
+  /**
+   * Finish the turn having chosen the Freight Agent and done nothing.
+   *
+   * §6.3 lists three things the Freight Agent MAY do; it does not say one must be done. Without this
+   * the option was a trap — having chosen it, the only legal moves were to stock, to clear, or to
+   * UNJAM, and unjamming a healthy facility throws away a load that cost a whole action to stock.
+   */
+  | { type: 'freightAgent.end' }
   // -- New Train Phase (§7)
   | { type: 'newTrain.placeCar'; trayId: TrayId; carType: CarType; loaded: boolean }
   | { type: 'newTrain.passCar'; trayId: TrayId }

src/engine/legal.ts

@@ -177,6 +177,9 @@ function localOpsCandidates(s: GameState, player: PlayerIndex): Intent[] {
   out.push({ type: 'draw.end' });
 
   // -- freight agent (§6.3)
+  // Ending without acting is always on offer: the section lists what the Freight Agent MAY do and
+  // requires none of it.
+  out.push({ type: 'freightAgent.end' });
   for (const coord of facilityCoords(s, player)) {
     for (const carType of CAR_TYPES) {
       out.push({ type: 'freightAgent.stockOutbound', at: coord, carType });

src/engine/state.ts

@@ -256,6 +256,13 @@ export type CrewTray = {
   facing?: 'n' | 's' | 'e' | 'w';
   position: NodeRef;
   movesUsed: number;
+  /**
+   * X18 Circus Train — "one turn stopped on any track (circus set-up) earns 1 point", claimed once.
+   *
+   * Recorded on the tray rather than the player because it is the TRAIN that sets up, and an Extra
+   * runs once and is gone; there is no second visit to claim it on.
+   */
+  stopPointClaimed?: boolean;
 };
 
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

src/sim/board-svg.ts

@@ -277,64 +277,41 @@ export function divisionSvg(nodes: DivisionView[]): string {
     }
 
     /**
-     * A TRAIN, DRAWN AS A TRAIN — the same vocabulary the Office Area card uses.
+     * ON THE DIVISION MAP, A TRAIN IS A CHIP — name, which way it points, how many cars.
      *
-     * The chip was a name and a figure, and the figure was Stages left to cross this card: read
-     * once as the car count, and once the unit was spelled out, read as redundant beside the
-     * position the card already draws. What it never said is the thing worth knowing at a glance —
-     * what the train is carrying, whether those cars are loaded, and which end the engine is on.
+     * It was drawn as a full consist here, matching the Office Area card, and reported as too large
+     * and hard to read: a Mainline cell is 152px and a Running Track cell 78px, against a district
+     * card's 166px, and a four-car train plus its engine has to squeeze into a fifth of that. The
+     * Office card is where the consist is worth drawing, because that is where the switching
+     * decisions are made and where there is room to read it.
      *
-     * WEST ON THE LEFT here too. `cars` is nose first, so an east-facing train is drawn reversed and
-     * its engine lands at the east end, exactly as on the district card.
+     * So this keeps the two things the Division map is actually for — where a train is and which way
+     * it is going — and leaves the cars to the tooltip and to the district.
      */
     c.trains.forEach((t, k) => {
-      const kindOf = (car: string): string =>
-        /caboose/.test(car) ? 'cab' : /hopper/.test(car) ? 'hop' : /boxcar/.test(car) ? 'box'
-          : /reefer/.test(car) ? 'rfr' : /tank/.test(car) ? 'tnk' : /coach/.test(car) ? 'cch' : '?';
       const cars = t.cars ?? [];
-      const arrow = t.facing === 'w' ? '◀' : t.facing === 'e' ? '▶' : t.facing === 'n' ? '▲' : '▼';
-      const items: { label: string; kind: string }[] = cars.map((car) => ({
-        label: kindOf(car),
-        kind: /^loaded/.test(car) || /caboose/.test(car) ? 'ld' : 'mt',
-      }));
-      items.splice(Math.max(0, Math.min(items.length, t.engineAt ?? 0)), 0, { label: arrow, kind: 'eng' });
-      const laid = t.facing === 'e' ? [...items].reverse() : items;
+      const arrow = t.facing === 'w' ? '\u25c0' : t.facing === 'e' ? '\u25b6' : t.facing === 'n' ? '\u25b2' : '\u25bc';
+      const loaded = cars.filter((x) => /^loaded/.test(x) || /caboose/.test(x)).length;
+      const label = cars.length === 0 ? `${t.label} ${arrow}` : `${t.label} ${arrow}${cars.length}`;
 
-      const nameW = t.label.length * 6.5 + 6;
-      const w = Math.min(c.w - 8, nameW + laid.length * 13 + 6);
-      /**
-       * NARROW THE CARS RATHER THAN DROP THEM.
-       *
-       * A Running Track cell is 78 wide and a four-car train plus its engine wants more than that.
-       * Squeezing is honest; leaving cars out is not — a chip showing three of five cars is a chip
-       * that lies about the train. Below 11px the three-letter type will not fit, so the blocks
-       * carry the load state alone and the tooltip carries the words.
-       */
-      const CARW = Math.max(5, Math.min(13, (w - nameW - 6) / Math.max(1, laid.length)));
+      const w = Math.min(c.w - 8, label.length * 6.6 + 12);
       // A train on a Mainline card sits in ITS region; anywhere else it just sits on the card.
       const inRegion = c.regions > 1 && typeof t.region === 'number';
       const slotX = inRegion ? c.x + 6 + RW * (t.region ?? 0) + RW / 2 : c.x + c.w / 2;
       const spread = inRegion ? 0 : (k - (c.trains.length - 1) / 2) * (w + 4);
       const tx = slotX + spread;
-      const dir = t.direction === 'west' ? ' ◀ west' : t.direction === 'east' ? ' east ▶' : '';
+      const dir = t.direction === 'west' ? ' \u25c0 west' : t.direction === 'east' ? ' east \u25b6' : '';
       const stages =
         typeof t.stagesLeft === 'number'
-          ? ` · ${t.stagesLeft} Stage${t.stagesLeft === 1 ? '' : 's'} still to run across this card` +
+          ? ` \u00b7 ${t.stagesLeft} Stage${t.stagesLeft === 1 ? '' : 's'} still to run across this card` +
             ' (Stages, not regions: a card is two regions of fixed distance, and how many Stages a' +
             ' train takes over them depends on the card speed and the train)'
           : '';
-      out += `<g class="bs-train" data-tip="${esc(t.label)} — carrying ${esc(cars.join(', ') || 'no cars')}, nose first${
-        inRegion ? ` · region ${(t.region ?? 0) + 1} of ${c.regions}${dir}` : ''
-      }${esc(stages)}">` +
+      out += `<g class="bs-train" data-tip="${esc(t.label)} \u2014 carrying ${esc(cars.join(', ') || 'no cars')}${
+        cars.length ? ` (${loaded} loaded)` : ''
+      }${inRegion ? ` \u00b7 region ${(t.region ?? 0) + 1} of ${c.regions}${dir}` : ''}${esc(stages)}">` +
         `<rect x="${tx - w / 2}" y="${c.y + 22}" width="${w}" height="19" rx="3"/>` +
-        `<text class="bs-tlab" x="${tx - w / 2 + 4}" y="${c.y + 35}">${esc(t.label)}</text>`;
-      laid.forEach((it, n) => {
-        const bx = tx - w / 2 + nameW + n * CARW;
-        out += `<rect class="bs-tcar bs-t-${it.kind}" x="${bx}" y="${c.y + 25}" width="${Math.max(3, CARW - 2)}" height="13" rx="2"/>`;
-        if (CARW >= 11) {
-          out += `<text class="bs-tcarlab" x="${bx + (CARW - 2) / 2}" y="${c.y + 35}" text-anchor="middle">${esc(it.label)}</text>`;
-        }
-      });
+        `<text class="bs-tlab" x="${tx}" y="${c.y + 35}" text-anchor="middle">${esc(label)}</text>`;
       out += '</g>';
     });
     out += '</g>';
@@ -716,8 +693,8 @@ export function officeSvg(
         t.facing === 'e' ? 'east' : t.facing === 'w' ? 'west' : t.facing === 'n' ? 'north' : 'south';
       const consistWords = t.cars.length === 0 ? 'no cars' : t.cars.join(', ');
       out += `<g class="bs-crew" data-tip="${esc(
-        `${t.label} \u2014 engine pointing ${facingWord}, carrying ${consistWords} (nose first). Drawn as it stands: west is on the left.`,
-      )}"><rect x="${tx}" y="${RAIL - 11}" width="${tw}" height="22" rx="3"/>`;
+        `${t.label} — engine pointing ${facingWord}, carrying ${consistWords}` + (t.what ? `\n\n${t.what}` : ''),
+            )}"><rect x="${tx}" y="${RAIL - 11}" width="${tw}" height="22" rx="3"/>`;
       out += `<text class="bs-tlab" x="${tx + 4}" y="${RAIL + 4}">${esc(t.label)}</text>`;
       laid.forEach((it, n) => {
         const bx = tx + 28 + n * cw;

src/sim/bot.ts

@@ -1472,10 +1472,15 @@ function followThrough(
        * §6.3's unjam is for a load stranded on MEN|AT|WORK that cannot advance. A green box holding
        * a load waiting for a car is not jammed, it is waiting.
        */
-      // The option has no "end" action, so something must be done. Order by what it costs to lose:
-      // a load stranded on MEN|AT|WORK is already blocking the pipeline, a red box holds a load
-      // whose Revenue is banked, and the green box is the only one where discarding destroys work
-      // that has not been paid for yet. It is last deliberately.
+      /**
+       * NOTHING WORTH DOING — SO DO NOTHING.
+       *
+       * The option used to have no "end" action, so this fell through to unjamming whichever box
+       * was least costly to wreck. §6.3 requires no action at all, and it now says so: a wasted
+       * Stage is strictly better than destroying a load that cost a whole action to stock.
+       */
+      const idle = options.find((i) => i.type === 'freightAgent.end');
+      if (idle) return because('nothing productive at any facility — leave the Freight Agent idle rather than wreck a working box', idle);
       const byCost = (['menAtWork', 'inbound', 'outbound'] as const).map((from) =>
         options.find((i) => i.type === 'freightAgent.unjam' && i.from === from),
       );

src/sim/narrate.ts

@@ -231,6 +231,13 @@ export function narrate(e: GameEvent, ctx: NarrateContext = {}): Narration {
         tone: 'good',
         text: `${e.isExtra ? `EXTRA X${e.trainNumber}` : `TRAIN ${e.trainNumber}`} MADE UP at the ${e.at}, running ${e.direction} — crew assigned, now taking cars`,
       };
+    case 'trainStoodStill':
+      return {
+        tone: 'good',
+        text:
+          `Train ${e.trainNumber} stood still for a whole Stage at ${e.where} and earned a point — ` +
+          'its card pays for the stop, not for the run (circus set-up)',
+      };
     case 'trainHeld':
       return {
         tone: 'bad',
@@ -525,6 +532,46 @@ export function impediments(s: GameState, player = 0): Impediment[] {
     }
   }
 
+  /**
+   * WHY THE PASSENGERS ARE NOT GETTING OFF.
+   *
+   * Reported: "I can't figure out how to have a train with three passenger coaches unload all three
+   * at my depot." You cannot — a Depot has ONE Porter and ONE red slot, so it works one coach a
+   * Stage and then needs a Freight Agent action to clear the box before the next. A Station does two
+   * and a Terminal three. That is the Office ladder doing its job, and nothing on screen said so.
+   *
+   * §9.2 also requires an empty coach in the DIVISION YARD to swap into the train, which is a
+   * requirement the engine only started enforcing recently and which no panel mentions at all.
+   */
+  const office = area.grid.get(coordKey(area.officeCoord));
+  const pf = office?.facility;
+  if (pf && pf.kind === 'passenger') {
+    const waiting = area.adOccupancy
+      .map((id) => s.trays.get(id))
+      .filter((t) => t?.consist.some((c) => c.type === 'coach' && c.loaded));
+    if (waiting.length > 0) {
+      const reasons: string[] = [];
+      if (portersLeft(pf) < 1) {
+        reasons.push(
+          `all ${pf.porters} Porter${pf.porters === 1 ? '' : 's'} used this Stage — one works one coach, ` +
+            'and the Office tier is the Porter count (Depot 1, Station 2, Terminal 3)',
+        );
+      }
+      if (pf.inboundBox.length >= pf.capacity.inbound) {
+        reasons.push(
+          `the red Unloading box is full (${pf.capacity.inbound} slot${pf.capacity.inbound === 1 ? '' : 's'}) — ` +
+            'a Freight Agent action clears it, which costs a whole Local Operations turn',
+        );
+      }
+      if (!s.yards.divisionYard.some((c) => c.type === 'coach' && !c.loaded)) {
+        reasons.push('no EMPTY coach in the Division Yard to swap into the train (§9.2 requires one)');
+      }
+      for (const why of reasons) {
+        out.push({ where: 'passengers waiting to de-train', why, severity: 'waiting' });
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
   // Trains held for want of a Crew Tray (§7) — the scarcity mechanic, made visible.
   const due = s.timetable[s.clock.stage - 1];
   if (due !== null && due !== undefined && s.freeTrays.length === 0) {

src/sim/view.ts

@@ -66,7 +66,20 @@ export type CellView = {
    * `cars` runs nose first, matching the tray; `engineAt` is where the locomotive sits in it, and
    * `facing` is the port it points at on this card.
    */
-  train: { label: string; cars: string[]; engineAt: number; facing: string } | null;
+  train: {
+    label: string;
+    cars: string[];
+    engineAt: number;
+    facing: string;
+    /**
+     * WHAT THIS PARTICULAR TRAIN'S CARD SAYS.
+     *
+     * Reported from a playtest: the Circus Train arrived and there was no way to find out what made
+     * it a Circus Train. A special train is special only if the player can read the rule while it is
+     * standing in front of them — the card is face down in a box somewhere by then.
+     */
+    what: string;
+  } | null;
   /**
    * Office card only: A/D tracks taken and how many the tier has.
    *
@@ -424,6 +437,7 @@ function trainOnCard(s: GameState, key: string): CellView['train'] {
       cars: t.consist.map(carLabel),
       engineAt: Math.max(0, Math.min(t.consist.length, t.engineAt)),
       facing: t.facing ?? (t.direction === 'west' ? 'w' : 'e'),
+      what: t.trainNumber === null ? 'A local crew — no timetable, no card, no special rules.' : trainRules(t),
     };
     void id;
   }
@@ -657,6 +671,8 @@ export function describeIntent(s: GameState, i: Intent): string {
       return 'End Local Operations';
     case 'switch.end':
       return 'End Local Operations';
+    case 'freightAgent.end':
+      return 'End Local Operations — leave the Freight Agent idle';
     case 'loadUnload.end':
       return 'End my Cargo phase';
     case 'newTrain.passCar':
@@ -1049,6 +1065,50 @@ export function cardDescription(s: GameState, id: string): string {
   }
 }
 
+/**
+ * EVERYTHING THIS TRAIN'S CARD PRINTS, in one line.
+ *
+ * The name, its class, what its consist should be, and — the part that prompted this — whatever
+ * special rule the card carries. Nine of the twelve rule flags are declared on the profiles and read
+ * by nothing in the engine, so those are marked as not yet implemented rather than quietly listed:
+ * telling a player a rule applies when it does not is worse than saying nothing.
+ */
+export function trainRules(t: {
+  trainNumber: number | null;
+  trainIsExtra: boolean;
+}): string {
+  const p = trainProfile(t.trainNumber ?? 0, t.trainIsExtra);
+  if (!p) return '';
+  const parts: string[] = [`${p.isExtra ? 'Extra X' : 'Train '}${p.number} “${p.name}” · ${p.speed}`];
+
+  const consist: string[] = [];
+  if (p.consist.freight > 0) {
+    consist.push(`${p.consist.freight} ${p.consist.freightTypes?.join('/') ?? 'freight'}${p.consist.emptiesOnly ? ' (empties only)' : ''}`);
+  }
+  if (p.consist.coach > 0) consist.push(`${p.consist.coach} coach${p.consist.coach > 1 ? 'es' : ''}`);
+  if (p.consist.caboose > 0) consist.push(`${p.consist.caboose} caboose`);
+  parts.push(`its card calls for ${consist.join(' + ') || 'no cars'}`);
+
+  if (p.rules.note) parts.push(p.rules.note);
+
+  // Only `expedite` and the consist restrictions are actually enforced today (§7, §8.2), plus the
+  // Circus Train's point for standing still. The rest are printed on the profile and read nowhere.
+  const unbuilt: string[] = [];
+  if (p.rules.noSwitching) unbuilt.push('no switching');
+  if (p.rules.terminalsOnly) unbuilt.push('terminals only');
+  if (p.rules.coachStaysOnStationTrack) unbuilt.push('the coach stays on the station track');
+  if (p.rules.oneFreightPerLocation) unbuilt.push('one freight car per location');
+  if (p.rules.noPassengerWork) unbuilt.push('no passenger work');
+  if (p.rules.dropOnly) unbuilt.push('may drop but not pick up');
+  if (p.rules.pickUpEmptiesOnly) unbuilt.push('may pick up empties only');
+  if (p.rules.stopThenExpedite) unbuilt.push('stops, then runs expedited');
+  if (unbuilt.length > 0) parts.push(`NOT YET ENFORCED BY THE ENGINE: ${unbuilt.join('; ')}`);
+
+  if (p.rules.expedite) parts.push('EXPEDITED — it departs in the same Stage it arrives (§7)');
+  if (p.rules.stopEarnsPoint) parts.push('EARNS A POINT for one Stage spent standing still, once');
+  return parts.join(' · ');
+}
+
 /** The train riding a Crew Tray, for anything that has to talk about it. */
 export function trainName(s: GameState, trayId: string): string {
   const tray = s.trays.get(trayId);

src/web/main.ts

@@ -152,9 +152,17 @@ function render(): void {
 
   renderTurnChart(f);
   $('revenue').textContent = String(f.revenue);
+  /**
+   * THE OBJECTIVE, WITHOUT THE COMMENTARY.
+   *
+   * It used to read "3 of 20 · 2 Days left · behind the pace (expected 8)". The score, the target and
+   * the Days left are what a player steers by; the pace verdict and the engine's guess at what the
+   * score ought to be were an opinion taking up the one line that must not wrap — and the expected
+   * figure came from a target that is itself an open question.
+   */
   const obj = $('objective');
-  obj.textContent = f.objective.note;
-  obj.className = f.objective.onPace ? 'pace good' : 'pace behind';
+  obj.textContent = `${f.revenue} of ${f.objective.target} · ${f.objective.daysLeft} Day${f.objective.daysLeft === 1 ? '' : 's'} left`;
+  obj.className = 'pace';
   $('seed').textContent = String(game.seed);
 
   // -- division
@@ -794,9 +802,24 @@ if (newBtn) {
     const day = game.state.clock.day;
     const started = game.state.status === 'active' && (day > 1 || game.state.clock.stage > 1);
     if (started && !confirm(`Forget this game (seed ${game.seed}, Day ${day}) and deal a new one?`)) return;
+    /**
+     * ASK FOR THE SEED, rather than documenting a URL parameter in the title bar.
+     *
+     * The same deal can be replayed, shared or compared by seed, which is worth offering — it was
+     * offered as the note "add ?seed=1234 for a set deal", which spent width on the one line that
+     * must not wrap to explain a thing the button could simply ask. Blank means random.
+     */
+    const asked = prompt('Seed for the new game — leave blank for a random one:', '');
+    if (asked === null) return; // cancelled
     clearSave();
-    if (location.search === '') location.reload();
-    else location.search = '';
+    const wanted = asked.trim();
+    if (wanted === '') {
+      // No `?seed=`, so `start()` rolls one. Reload rather than re-render, to clear any seed in the URL.
+      if (location.search === '') location.reload();
+      else location.search = '';
+      return;
+    }
+    location.search = `?seed=${encodeURIComponent(wanted)}`;
   };
 }
 

src/web/play.html

@@ -21,8 +21,11 @@ h3{font-size:11px;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.07em;color:var(--dim)
    thing you most need while reading the board — which Day and Stage it is, which phase is running,
    and who it is waiting on. They are one block now, and it sticks as one. */
 .topbar{position:sticky;top:0;z-index:5}
+/* ONE LINE, AND IT HAS TO STAY ONE LINE. The build stamp was pushed to the far right by
+   `margin-left:auto` and wrapped the whole row onto a second line the moment the content grew.
+   Tighter gaps, a smaller stamp, and nothing on here that is not worth the width. */
 header{background:var(--panel);border-bottom:1px solid var(--line);
-  padding:9px 14px;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:baseline;flex-wrap:wrap}
+  padding:8px 12px;display:flex;gap:13px;align-items:baseline;flex-wrap:wrap;font-size:13px}
 header b{font-size:16px}
 header button{background:#2a3038;color:inherit;border:1px solid #2c333d;border-radius:5px;padding:3px 9px;cursor:pointer;font:inherit;font-size:12px}
 header button:hover{border-color:#4d6fa8}
@@ -30,7 +33,7 @@ header button:hover{border-color:#4d6fa8}
    stops inviting the press. */
 header button:disabled{opacity:.45;cursor:not-allowed;border-color:#2c333d}
 header button:disabled:hover{border-color:#2c333d}
-.build{margin-left:auto;font-size:11px;opacity:.7}
+.build{margin-left:auto;font-size:10px;opacity:.55;white-space:nowrap}
 .home{color:inherit;text-decoration:none;border-bottom:1px dotted #5f6b7a}
 .home:hover{color:#5aa9e6}
 .pace{font-size:12px;padding:1px 7px;border-radius:10px}
@@ -161,13 +164,14 @@ ul.blocked li{padding:2px 0}
 <header>
   <b><a href="./index.html" class="home">Station Master</a></b>
   <span>Revenue <b id="revenue">0</b></span>
+  <!-- The objective, and nothing else: score, target, Days left. The "behind the pace" chip and the
+       engine's guess at what your score ought to be were noise on the one line that must not wrap. -->
   <span id="objective" class="pace">—</span>
   <span class="dim">seed <span id="seed">—</span></span>
-  <span class="dim">saved in this browser · add ?seed=1234 for a set deal</span>
   <button id="sound" title="Whistle at the end of each Stage, the crossing bell at the end of each Day, and the conductor when a train is built. Currently synthesised, not recorded.">🔇 muted</button>
   <button id="undo" title="Take the last action back. The save is the seed plus the moves made, so this replays the game without the last one — as far back as you like.">Undo</button>
   <button id="savefile" title="Download this game as a save file you can replay or share">Save replay</button>
-  <button id="newgame" title="Forget the game saved in this browser and deal a fresh one. Undo steps back one action at a time; this throws the whole game away, so download the replay first if you want to keep it.">New game</button>
+  <button id="newgame" title="Deal a fresh game. You will be asked for a seed — leave it blank for a random one. Undo steps back one action at a time; this throws the whole game away, so download the replay first if you want to keep it.">New game</button>
   <a class="home" href="./replays.html" style="font-size:12px">replays</a>
   <span class="dim build" title="what is actually deployed">__BUILD__</span>
 </header>