Four pieces of feedback from Jesse on the solitaire setup screen.
THE COLLISION LIMITS DID NOTHING IN SOLITAIRE. Asked to reword those
entries to "the game ends immediately and results in a loss", which was
unwriteable: advance.ts gated the §3.4 check on competitive/coop, and a
solitaire game's mode is 'solitaire'. Both limits were offered as live
settings, rode into the config, and never fired — the existing text was
already false. The exclusion was never a stated rule and nothing
recorded a reason for it. Jesse's ruling: the settings do what they say,
so the gate is gone rather than the controls.
Measured, not asserted — 200 standard developer-bot games:
loss/collisionFloor 1 in 200, Days played 5.00 -> 4.98 mean with a
minimum of 1, collisions per game unchanged at 0.14. Recorded in
TODO.md under Play Balance, since full-length figures predate it.
Extra start defaults to ownOffice: at one seat it is the same rule as
anyOffice (apply.ts only rejects another seat's start), so this is a
label fix with no gameplay effect.
Also: collision wording on all three screens, Employee Rotation reads
"not applicable for solitaire", and the save warning is legible at 14px
on an amber panel with buttons that say Continue Existing Saved Game and
Deal New Game.
869 tests pass, two new; one asserted the opposite of the ruling and
says so where it was reversed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AdG46Ja2PEDBkpqiDazMoX
The multiplayer set-up, the lobby, the start of a game, and four signals a remote client had never
been sent. Reasoning, the preset table and what was verified how: CHANGELOG.md.
- Co-op, Competitive, Cutthroat, Solitaire and Custom, on both screens, from one shared block —
they had drifted, and each was missing a question the other asked.
- A player reads the whole rule set before taking a seat, may leave a lobby or a running game, and
keeps a seat across a reload. The host may clear a chair. The browser remembers every game it is
in, not just the last one.
- The start of a game is drawn: a handoff beat, an announcement, the code and type in the header.
- Sound, the timetable flash, announcements and the just-drawn badge now reach a remote client;
justDrawn goes to the seat that drew it and nobody else.
- Played on StartOS, which found the rest: an Extra belongs to the player who played it, the board
never named the Superintendent, bot seats were reported as absent players, and rule section
numbers are out of every string a player reads.
Also carries the previous session's Heavy Grade documentation work — asked again, answer unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016JczK5i33ZNSf2PtzZqdhS
