v0.6.1 — five of six playtest bugs: one button per train, and a load that has to go somewhere

Gameplay testing on 0.4.9d returned six reports. Five are fixed; the sixth could not be
reproduced and is written up in TODO.md with the two questions that would pin it down.

TWO TRAINS AT ONE PLATFORM ANSWERED TO ONE BUTTON. `porter.board` and `porter.detrain`
carried no tray, so there was one button per platform however many trains stood at it and
the reducer filled the first empty coach on the A/D tracks. `check` and the reducer were not
even asking the same question: `check` skipped a train whose card refuses passenger work and
the reducer did not. Both intents now carry an optional `trayId`, one function resolves the
train and the coach for check/execute/reduce alike, `legal.ts` offers one candidate per train,
and the label names it.

A LOAD COULD BE MADE AND BROKEN WITHOUT GOING ANYWHERE. A Freight House could unload the
boxcar it had just loaded; a platform could detrain the passengers it had just boarded. Full
Revenue at both ends for a movement that never happened. Jesse's rule: a load made anywhere in
an Office Area may not be broken anywhere in that Office Area, ever — it has to be carried to
another district. The load carries the seat that made it (`RollingStock.origin`), stripped by
`pooled` at every yard push. Measured at -0.60 +/- 0.10 Revenue a game (t = -6.1) over 400
paired deals: 78 worse, 3 better, 319 unchanged — free Revenue coming off the board, not a nerf.

THE GROCER'S WAREHOUSE SHIPPED AND THE REFINERY RECEIVED. Both were `flow: 'both'` on the
reading that "Freight House" was a collective term for exactly those two, and therefore what
§9.3 described. The engine has dealt a Freight House CARD since before v0.4.9, so §9.3 names
it and the argument goes. The card set agrees: all three Refinery modifiers grant +1 outbound.
Refinery outbound-only, Grocer's inbound-only, Freight House the one two-way industry — which
leaves exactly the one same-district pairing the rule above refuses.

NOT REPRODUCED: cars left behind when backing up over them. Five layouts tried, including cars
spotted at an industry; every one couples the lot. Three are pinned in `apply.test.ts`. One way
to create such cars was closed anyway — `flyingSwitch` wrote its cut past `carsOn`.

Both published replays that had gone dead were re-recorded; a rules change retires a save, and
`harness.test.ts` is what catches it.

The same change ships as v0.4.9e on the 0.4.9 line, branched from the v0.4.9d commit — the engine
files these fixes touch are identical across the two lines, so the patch applied cleanly both ways.

Also carries the two "Queued 2026-08-22, from playing on StartOS" TODO items that were staged
before this work started (Games in Progress readability, and getting back into a game after
losing a browser). They are notes, and items 9-12 below them are numbered against them.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011nbvwWMef8CuEP6t5cgkTv
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@@ -101,8 +101,18 @@ export type Intent =
| { type: 'maneuver.flyingSwitch'; cardId: CardId; trayId: TrayId; count: number; to: GridCoord }
| { type: 'redFlag.play' }
// -- Load/Unload Phase (§9)
| { type: 'porter.board'; at: GridCoord }
| { type: 'porter.detrain'; at: GridCoord }
/**
* `trayId` names the train the Porter works — reported from playtesting v0.4.9d as "operating two
* trains in a station, the select button does not work: regardless of which you pick, it is always
* one train, not the other". It was: neither intent carried a train, so the reducer took the first
* one on the A/D tracks and the roster chip the player had clicked changed nothing but the drawing.
*
* OPTIONAL, like `switch.move`'s `via` and for the same reason: intents are the canonical record
* `undo` and every save replay against, and absent means what it has always meant — the first
* eligible train at the Office.
*/
| { type: 'porter.board'; at: GridCoord; trayId?: TrayId }
| { type: 'porter.detrain'; at: GridCoord; trayId?: TrayId }
/** §9.3 — the first Laborer step: Green Loading Slot -> MEN. */
| { type: 'laborer.startLoad'; at: GridCoord }
| { type: 'laborer.advanceLoad'; at: GridCoord; box: number }
@@ -199,6 +209,17 @@ export type RejectionCode =
* the Laborers can move it out of the box.
*/
| 'NO_EMPTY_CAR_SPOTTED'
/**
* §9 (Jesse's ruling, v0.4.9e) — freight or passengers loaded anywhere in an Office Area may not
* be unloaded anywhere in that same Office Area. The load has to be carried out of the district by
* a train first; a Freight House may not break the load it just made, and passengers may not
* detrain at the platform they boarded from.
*
* Distinct from the other refusals because the car IS loaded, the Laborer IS free and the boxes
* ARE clear: the only thing wrong with it is where it came from, and a player looking at a loaded
* boxcar standing on their own industry track deserves to be told that rather than "wrong car".
*/
| 'LOADED_IN_THIS_DISTRICT'
| 'NO_PORTERS_HERE'
| 'NO_PASSENGERS_WAITING'
| 'NO_EMPTY_COACH'