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Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Opus 5 3befc420da v0.8.2 — every district opens on a Depot, and the docs are pages now
A second-digit bump for a playtest read back against the save file. Nine questions
were asked of one three-Day game; three were bugs, three were the rules working
and undocumented, three were decisions. Every save on the test server was replayed
against this build BEFORE release, which is how the cost of each rule was known
before it was chosen rather than discovered after.

EVERY DISTRICT OPENS ON A DEPOT. A Whistle Post has one A/D track and is not a
Passenger Facility, so the opening of every game was spent unable to work a
passenger and one arrival away from a collision. Two A/D tracks and passengers
from Stage 1 now; "Players start with Whistle Posts, not Depots" is the harder
game, set when the game is created. The deck follows the choice — starting on
Depots the four Depot upgrade cards are left out, because an upgrade must be to
the next tier and a Depot card at a table of Depots is a dead draw. How much
easier it is showed up as a test failure rather than an argument: the cue-coverage
pool needed widening from 24 seeded games to 60 before it held one collision.

NO SAVE WAS STRANDED BY IT, which took care. This is the one house rule that
changes how a game is DEALT rather than how it plays, so replaying a save under
the wrong opening is a different railroad from intent one — silently, with no
error. `withSavedOpening` fills it on the replay paths ONLY. Putting it in the
resolver instead made a fresh Cutthroat game deal Whistle Posts and read as
Custom, which is how the distinction was found.

THREE BUGS, ALL REPORTED FROM ONE GAME AND ALL CONFIRMED ON ITS SAVE.

An Office held TWO TRAINS ON ONE A/D TRACK. The capacity test passed with nothing
standing, the train the Interlocking had been holding at the Limits was moved into
the free slot, and the arriving train was pushed in after it without anyone asking
again whether there was room — so the collision §8.3 calls for never happened. The
held train keeps priority; the newcomer now takes the consequence it would have
met had the held train arrived first.

THE HISTORY FROZE, permanently, and the log cap was not really the cause. Each
seat's "what have I sent you" bookmark was an INDEX into an array the game trims,
so once a seat's bookmark reached the limit the slice returned nothing for the
rest of the game — at a different moment per seat, because each holds its own.
That game's log ended at exactly the cap. Lines carry a sequence number now, which
survives trimming; proven by pushing twice the cap through a simulated seat.

§8.1 ASKED THE WRONG QUESTION TWICE. "Trains may pass" returned `clear` before the
Subdivision was looked at, so a train entering a Double Track was released however
busy the rest of it was — that, not anything about Control Points, is what let
Train 8 out with no ruling. And a train standing at an Office was invisible to the
scan, so one about to re-enter the very Subdivision being entered counted for
nothing. Capacity is the test, not presence: a Depot with a track free is not in
the way; a Whistle Post with its one track taken is.

THINGS THAT HAPPENED SILENTLY NOW SAY SO — a train held against a facing one, a
train released from the Limits (a side effect of somebody else's arrival, so it
simply appeared at the Office), and the train an Interlocking is holding, whose
explanatory tooltip has existed since #99 with NO renderer ever reading the flag.

WHERE A MOVE IS REFUSED, AND WHY. `exploreMoves` decides where the rails go and the
pick-up restrictions are enforced afterwards in `check`, so a square the rails
reached and the card forbade was reachable, un-offered, and absent from the block
list with nothing said. Those squares are blocked with the rule that blocks them
now, and the reasons are got by ASKING `check` rather than re-deriving: a second
implementation of the rules is exactly the failure the block list exists to avoid.
A train may also always recover its own caboose — X13 prints "may drop but not
pick up anything", and a train needs its caboose to be made up, so one that parted
with it could never legally leave again.

RULES DECIDED IN SEPTEMBER AND APPLIED HERE. A Modifier must sit square against its
host, no diagonals. A passenger Modifier may not be played at a Whistle Post. Both
were built, measured, held back for a fortnight so a playtest could finish, and
applied now. A Second Section costs its card: `SECOND_SECTION` was declared in
content.ts and never dealt, so the action was free and the bot ordered 26
accidental ones in a measured round. The card is dealt and spent — gating on a card
the deck never holds would have deleted the mechanic rather than fixed it.

THE DOCUMENTATION IS A SET OF PAGES, not five text files served as text/plain — a
card reference is mostly tables, and as plain text a table is rows of pipes.
Markdown is still the one copy; the build renders it, and publishes the .md beside
each page. No Markdown library: this project has no runtime dependencies and one
would be a poor first. The pages add what Markdown cannot carry without drifting —
a nav across the set, a contents list built from the headings actually rendered,
an anchor on every heading, a 70-character measure, and tables that are tables.
They print as ink on paper.

The references caught up with the rules, checked rather than assumed: two
statements had gone from stale to misleading (the Quickstart told a new player to
"get a Depot down as soon as one appears"), and four rules nobody could look up
are written down — the Office tier table, §8.1 in practice, what the Circus Train
pays for, and that a Realignment can be a card with no legal target.

Adding one card to the deck reshuffles every seeded deal, which broke five
fixtures. Each was a seed meaning "a game like this" — TODO #84, exactly — so
seeds moved and pools widened rather than assertions weakening, and the clearance
fixture pins its terrain the way `enhancements.test.ts` already does. The three
published replays were re-recorded.

Closes TODO #40, #42a, #108, #109 and #110.

1046 fast tests and 35 sim tests pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MUizFYCMHRWhbWwXhp7WPR
2026-09-23 07:07:21 -04:00
Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Opus 5 7ade60e21f v0.7.9.1 — the engine was right twice; the screen was not
Gitea#22: the Division map drew every westbound train in the wrong half of
its Mainline card. `regionOfTransit` counts from the end a train entered,
which is what the collision rules ask; the map wanted "which printed box,
left to right" and used the same number, so an eastbound train came out
right by luck and a westbound one came out mirrored. It cost a collision —
Train 3 was cleared to follow T5 and ran into TX17, which the picture had
drawn ahead of T5 rather than behind it. One mirror in `view.ts`, at the
boundary the map is drawn from; the collision rules are untouched.

Gitea#21: a second tank car would not come off at a refinery, and "Blocked
— why nothing is moving" answered by describing the refinery's green box.
The real answer was Train 3's printed rule — the Express works one freight
car per location — so the refusal was correct and the panel sent the player
to spend a Freight Agent action that could not have helped. No rule
changed. The panel now names the budget, asking the reducer's own
predicate so its words cannot drift from the rule.

Both were replayed from the saves attached to the issues and verified in
the exact position each report names. The map fix is proved by mutation:
reverting the mirror fails two tests, and making the renderer ignore the
region fails a third. Every existing region test ran eastbound, where the
mirror is the identity, which is why the bug survived them.

891 tests pass, up from 884.

Closes #21
Closes #22

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01E3Qk7uresKCHksdZajXCLg
2026-09-07 11:41:23 -04:00
Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Opus 5 19a6a47ab6 v0.7.4 — Red Flags hold a train out of your Limits (Gitea#19)
"If played, asked FLAG EAST or FLAG WEST. That stops all trains from entering your
limits from that direction (i.e. Flag East holds westbound trains). You can do this
if you see a problem or wish to complete switching."

REPLACES the old rule outright, per Jesse's call. Red Flags used to be played on a
stopped train out on the Mainline and protected it from a rear-ender: offered 4,212
times and played 4 across 600 games, a mechanic nobody used, and ABS Signals already
does that job better. The flag is now planted on one side of your own district and
holds the next train arriving from that side.

SPENT ON THE TRAIN IT STOPS. One card, one train, so there is no lifting action to
build, nothing to forget, and a flag cannot quietly strangle the Division. The held
train loses one Mainline Phase and comes in on the next — it buys a Stage to clear
the lead, which is what "wish to complete switching" asks for.

PLAYABLE OUT OF PHASE, which is the other half of the issue: when an arrival would
certainly collide and the district's owner holds the card, the phase breaks in and
asks. Offered ONLY to somebody holding one — a prompt with a single button is not a
choice, and it would leak that a collision is coming. The danger is read from §8.3's
own two triggers rather than restated, so the prompt cannot offer a flag against a
collision that will not happen.

Built on the decision union Gitea#5 introduced: this adds a `redFlag` case and
nothing else structural.

THE BOT STILL NEVER PLAYS IT, AND I MEASURED RATHER THAN ASSUMED. It now takes the
out-of-phase prompt unconditionally — the engine has already established the danger,
so there is nothing left to judge — and over 200 solitaire games `redFlagsSet` fires
ZERO times. The prompt needs an arrival that would collide (0.14 per game, about one
game in seven) to coincide with holding the card from a three-card hand out of 121.
So the anomaly exemption in sim.test.ts stays, but its comment no longer claims the
bot is unwilling: it is measuring deck luck. What is left to fix is the half of the
card a human would use, planting a flag on purpose to buy switching time, and TODO.md
now says that instead of the old finding.

A BUG WORTH RECORDING, because the next interruption will meet it too: the flag was
originally taken down in a `reduce` case, which never fires for an event advance.ts
emits — the phase driver mutates state and then describes it. The flag stayed up and
held every train that came. test/events.test.ts's unreduced-event registry is what
makes that class of mistake visible, and `redFlagSpent` is on it deliberately now,
with the reasoning.

858 tests pass.

Closes #19

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EAgJSmeV8zrMh55Mj85ESb
2026-08-29 07:12:36 -04:00
Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Opus 5 5e34c73b16 Extras that must run loaded, and a circus paid per district (Gitea#13)
"I've redefined some of the extra trains that they have to run full boxcars —
military trains, circus trains, etc. If not loaded, then empty, and if none
available, run without."

MAKE-UP. X17 Campaign, X18 Circus and X19 Military carry `mustRunLoaded`. It is a
preference order rather than a flat requirement, so the rule is asked of the
DIVISION YARD: an empty is refused only while the yard can still supply a loaded
car this train would accept, and once it cannot, the empty is legal and the train
may still depart short. Per category, since that is the slot the car competes for
— a loaded coach is no reason to refuse an empty boxcar.

SCORING, per Jesse's ruling (2026-08-29): "once per stop in an office area. In a
multiplayer game, each player could score if the circus stops in their area." So
`stopPointClaimed` (a boolean, once per game) becomes `stopPointSeats` (the seats
already paid). A Circus touring three districts is paid three times; one parked in
the same district all game is paid once. The other half of the ruling — "if the
circus train gets recycled and played a second time as a second extra, then it
could again score points later too" — needs no code: a train is made up onto a
fresh tray every time, so a re-played Extra starts with an empty list.

The point now requires the train to be FULLY LOADED, meaning every non-caboose car
loaded. A coach counts as loaded when occupied, which is what makes this the right
test for the Campaign Train: X17 carries one coach and no freight, so "fully
loaded" is exactly "the candidate is aboard". X17 also GAINS the per-stop point —
it had `stopThenExpedite` and no scoring rule at all, and Jesse's "credit for a
circus or campaign train (one point per stop)" says it should score.

TWO BUGS FIXED ALONG THE WAY:

  - `ConsistSpec.emptiesOnly` was declared on X13 Appleseed, RENDERED to the player
    as "(empties only)" by both web/game.ts and sim/view.ts, and enforced by
    nothing — `acceptsCar` never read it, so the Appleseed could be made up loaded
    while its own card said otherwise. It is the same rule as this issue pointing
    the other way, and it would have been perverse to add one and leave the other.
  - Setting up out on the Mainline paid a point to PLAYER 0 whoever was playing:
    `playerAtSeat` needs a seat, off the grid there is none, and the fallback was
    `0`. Scoping the rule to Office Areas is what the ruling says and removes the
    misattribution rather than patching it.

Both loading rules exempt the caboose: every caboose in ROLLING_STOCK_SUPPLY is
minted loaded, so an unexempted rule would bar the one car a consist lists by name.

`trainNeedingCars` now asks the full question per car rather than the shape
question. It shares its predicate with `check` precisely to avoid the stall its own
comment describes, and the shape question stopped being the same question: an
empties-only train facing a yard of loaded cars would have been told a car was
available and then refused every one.

The two published replays that stopped replaying under the new rules were retired
and re-recorded with save-replay.ts, which verifies each candidate before writing
it. That is what test/harness.test.ts is for and what its comment prescribes.

846 tests pass.

Closes #13

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EAgJSmeV8zrMh55Mj85ESb
2026-08-29 06:44:13 -04:00
Jesse.Markowitz 2ab25e320c v0.7.2 — a leg that is part of the row, the deck the sheet prints, regions not miles per hour, and a Division you read left to right
Gitea#17 — a 45° leg is an end of the west-to-east row, so backing into a cut
through a curve's south leg no longer couples it back to front. The same
assumption left a crew's own cut standing when it pulled out through a leg,
which is the "cars left behind" report we had failed to reproduce.

Gitea#14 — every count is docs/Deck cards5.xlsx. Track halved, and the Q12
office doubling and Gap 12 industry tripling both come out with it: they were
measured against a deck with twice the track, and keeping them at the sheet's
track count wipes out the reefer chain entirely. 84 rows now match card for
card; the ten Safety, Event and Inspection cards it adds are not built and are
held out. Cards the sheet no longer lists are dealt zero copies rather than
deleted, so their rules stay implemented.

Gitea#15 — RAR reversed it: a rail may stop dead against its neighbour and the
placement is legal. What must hold is that no train crosses the gap, which was
already true and is now pinned against the reported board.

Gitea#3 — the printed speeds are scenery. A card costs one Stage per printed
region and where a train STARTS is what varies; Fast/Slow is read on Hilly
alone. Entering a one-region card behind another is a collision now, which is
what ABS exists to prevent, and ABS no longer holds trains silently.

Gitea#18 — the Division draws as one row, west to east, with no office-area
detail. East is finally always to the right.

Closes #3
Closes #14
Closes #15
Closes #17
Closes #18
2026-08-26 15:20:56 -04:00
Jesse.Markowitz 40f07b0710 v0.6.0 — saves survive a release, Employee Rotation is real, and the lobby
asks what game you want

Three queued items. The last matters most.

A RELEASE NO LONGER DESTROYS EVERY GAME IN PROGRESS.

Four consecutive releases killed every game on the box, one of them a
release that changed only how the board is drawn. The reasoning behind the
refusal was always right — a move legal under old rules may not be legal
under new ones, and half-replaying a save is worse than refusing it. The
TEST was wrong: it compared engineVersion for exact equality, and that
stamp is the package version, which moves for a CSS fix.

Whether a save still replays has an exact answer, so it is now asked
directly. loadGame reads the file and judges nothing; tryResumeSession
replays the intents and reports the first one the engine refuses. A save
stamped with a version this server has never run resumes fine provided its
moves replay — verified against a file hand-stamped 0.4.9-ancient. One that
genuinely does not replay is still refused, but the log names the move
rather than two version strings: "move 3 of 8 (localOps.choose) is rejected
by the current rules with OPTION_ALREADY_CHOSEN".

fromMultiplayerSave had to stop lying first. It has always stopped at the
first unacceptable intent and done so in silence, which was survivable only
because the version gate meant a doomed replay was never attempted. Now
that the replay IS the check, it returns where it stopped and why.

Deliberately not done: resuming a partly-replayable game at its last good
move. That silently rewinds a game to a position nobody played to while
every browser holding a later Frame carries on unaware. Refusing leaves the
file intact, so putting the previous version back still recovers it.

EMPLOYEE ROTATION IS IMPLEMENTED, SISTER TRAINS IS DELETED.

Two of the four optional-rule flags were read by nothing at all. Employee
Rotation is four lines in advance.ts, because the seat/player split (D9)
exists for precisely this rule: seating is the only thing that moves, so
Revenue, hands, the Superintendent and whose turn it is travel with the
player, and the Office, district, grid and any trains standing in it stay
with the chair. Inheriting the district you move into is the point of the
rule, not a side effect. "Left" is seat + 1, matching playerLeftOf.

Sister Trains is deleted rather than built: Q9 records that the Second
Section card supersedes it, and that card exists, so the flag was a toggle
for a rule the game no longer has.

THE LOBBY ASKS WHAT GAME YOU WANT TO PLAY.

Creating a game asked for a name, a mode and a table size; every other dial
was hardcoded. A Game settings block now carries the same set the solitaire
dialog does — seed, starting hand, the three revenue rates, Days, the
combined-Revenue floor, both collision caps, the opponent-card toggle —
plus the three surviving optional rules. Mode and table size set the
defaults and everything stays editable. The seed is honoured, so a game can
be reproduced or compared.

Verified: 682 tests pass (679 + 3). The rotation tests were mutation-checked
both ways — disabling the rotation and turning the table the wrong way each
fail the suite. Live: a save stamped 0.4.9-ancient resumed, an injected
illegal move was refused by name, and a create with every dial set to a
non-default value came back out of game.json with all of them intact,
including seed 777.

Two of my own assertions were wrong on the way and the tests caught them:
the Fedora legitimately passes at Stage 12 (§5) so it cannot be compared
against its own earlier value, and dispatchUsedToday is cleared at every
Day boundary so it cannot mark a district.
2026-08-21 21:45:34 -04:00
Jesse c3c5cbfeec v0.5.0 — multiplayer Phases 2 and 3: a server that runs a game and survives being restarted
Phases 0-1 shipped in v0.4.0 (seat/identity split, per-player turn state, the Session boundary).
This lands Phase 2 (server core, one game, no lobby) and Phase 3 (persistence and resumption) per
docs/architecture/multiplayer.md §12. Phases 4-6 (lobby/reconnection, the 22 opponent-directed
cards, StartOS packaging) are still ahead.

Phase 2: src/server/session.ts hosts a game in pure logic (no sockets) on top of game.ts's existing
Game/submit/currentActor/actionMenu; it verifies seat === currentActor(game) itself before calling
submit, since submit() trusts its caller and a server can't. src/server/http.ts and index.ts add
POST /api/game, GET /api/stream (SSE, per-seat), POST /api/intent, and static serving of dist/.
src/sim/frame-delta.ts is a purpose-built per-seat board delta for one live push at a time. Found
and fixed along the way: actionMenu(game, seat) only used seat for the hand field, so a server
computing every connected seat's Menu would have handed the acting player's legal moves to a
waiting seat. Verified with a live end-to-end smoke test (2-player game, two SSE streams, a
rejected intent from the wrong seat, an idempotent resend) plus test/server/session.test.ts and
test/redaction.test.ts. Not verified: an actual browser (none available in this environment).

Phase 3: src/server/persistence.ts writes game.json and turn-timings.json, atomic-rewrite-then-
rename. game.ts gained fromMultiplayerSave, fixing a narration-attribution bug found while testing
it (fromSave's replay loop drops the actor argument, invisible in solitaire, unreadable the moment
there's more than one seat — fromSave itself still has this gap, deliberately untouched). Verified
live: server killed and restarted mid-game, both seats reconnected exactly where they left off.

Two rules bugs found while building this: the New Train phase never implemented its car-placement
round (every car of every train was placed by the Superintendent alone, in every mode, all along —
now reads the round position off tray.consist.length); and victory conditions are now one shared,
configurable GameConfig set across solitaire/competitive/coop instead of a fixed length lookup and
a dead firstToTarget condition.

Also folds in the three fixes already released on the patch line as v0.4.9b/c/d: a switching
train's crew badge failing to draw once it left the Office square, an unload that always took the
westmost car regardless of which was picked, and a legal decision that could render with zero
buttons.

docs/testing/0.5.0-test-plan.md and three reported-bug save files (docs/station-master-seed*.json)
included for reproducibility. tools/jitsi-harness/ deliberately left untracked — unrelated
side-project work, not part of this release. 635 tests, 0 failures.
2026-08-20 23:50:38 -04:00
JesseandClaude Sonnet 5 37b1e5b969 the Roster Pass: every train at the Office visible
Builds "The Roster Pass" / "Two Trains, One Card" (station display for
multiple trains at one Office). The Office is the one square where
more than one train may legally stand at once (one per A/D track), and
CellView.train had room for exactly one — a second train at a busy
Station was counted in the old A/D pips and never drawn.

CellView.train -> CellView.trains: TrainView[], seat-filtered and
collecting every match rather than the first (fixes a latent
cross-district leak in the process: trainOnCard never checked seat).
The A/D pips are replaced with one roster chip per A/D track, always,
free or occupied; clicking a chip sets selectedCrew, wiring the board
and the action panel to the same value.

standingWest moves from CrewTray to TrackCard: two trays sharing one
Office card need one shared split, not one each, and there is no such
thing as "west of one particular A/D track". No save migration — Save
replays through the engine — and a stale value on an emptied card is
inert because nothing reads a split with no train standing there.

The Division map's Office cell is now sized by A/D capacity rather
than occupancy, so it holds still as trains arrive and leave; chips
lay into fixed slots instead of centre-spreading onto the Limits cards
either side.

584 tests, 0 failures. Verified end-to-end against the built app and a
direct render of a 4-train Terminal (screenshotted).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SAt2YCXgd5qCjBcF2x34aK
2026-08-19 17:32:17 -04:00
Jesse 9f3b92d08e v0.4.7 — the switching game: track order, the cut on your own card, and four rules
Eight play reports and one design that had been written up and not built. The
through-line is switching: what a card can hold, which end of a train a cut comes
off, which way a train meets cars standing on the line, and what the board and the
log say about all of it.

TRACK ORDER FOR STANDING CARS, AND THE CUT ON YOUR OWN CARD

Two reports turned out to be one root cause. `TrackCard.standing` claimed "in track
order (§A.3)" and had no defined orientation at all, while `CrewTray.consist` does
(nose first, relative to facing) — so every transfer between them was a conversion
nothing performed. §A.3 says what it should be: cars occupy the track "in the same
order they originally held, left-to-right". Left-to-right is west-to-east, and that
is now the defined orientation of `standing` and of an industry track through
`carsOn`. It is the board's orientation, not the train's, so it does not change when
a different train touches the card.

  - Setting out is batch-invariant. Four cars at once, four singles and two pairs
    parked three different orders, one of them physically impossible. Successive
    cuts off the same end stack up towards the engine, so the insertion point is the
    train's own place in the row.
  - Approaching a cut from either end now mirrors. `couples` is built nearest-first
    along the direction of travel and reverses onto the nose, so the farthest car met
    ends up nose-most — which is what makes a run-around worth its Move.
  - A train no longer drives through its own cut. The walk began at the neighbour of
    the start square and never read the start card, so a crew could set cars out and
    pull straight away from them. Coupling is mandatory (§A.4) and your own square is
    no exception; the cut counts against the four-car limit. Setting out off the end
    you are not leaving by still works.

`CrewTray.standingWest` records where a train stands among the cars on its card — a
train may set out off both ends on one square, so which side a cut is on is not
recoverable from the array alone.

On the board, the cut is drawn split at the train — west cars left, east cars right,
engine in the gap — and each car's tooltip says whether it stands ahead of or behind
the engine. The history says which end a cut came off, and a move's button separates
"takes your own boxcar back off this card" from cars found standing on the line.

Decided: taking your own cut back on the square you are standing on is UNDOING the
drop. It is exempt from trains 3/4's per-location freight budget, X13's "drop but not
pick up" and X22's "empties only", and it refunds the budget the drop spent.
Otherwise a legal-looking drop becomes silently one-way.

Measured, 200 paired seeds, developer bot: -0.55 revenue (t = -3.63), freight revenue
1.11 -> 0.56. That cost is the bot's, not the rule's — its trains run engine-first,
so at a stub industry it sets a car out between itself and the only way out, and the
correct play is §A.5's facing-point move, which is the cross-turn planning TODO.md
already records as out of reach of any bot. Filtering self-recoupling moves out of its
options took recoupling from 625 of 1,029 set-outs to 101 of 677, and all 101 that
remain are that case. Read the number as a bot measurement, not a balance one.

THE SUPERINTENDENT'S RULING NAMES THE TRAINS IT IS ABOUT

Reported: the Superintendent could not tell which train he was clearing. The heading
asks the question now — "may Train 6 follow Train 4 onto the same Mainline card?" —
and the trains moved to the FRONT of each button, because the button splits its label
at the first em-dash and showed only the head.

AN INDUSTRY TRACK HOLDS FOUR CARS, LIKE EVERY OTHER CARD

Reported at undo 188: "we wanted to drop two cars, but were only allowed to drop one."
An industry track was built as long as its box count, so a one-box industry had room
for one car. Box count is how much WORK an industry can hold, not how much RAIL it
has. Ordinary track was the other exception, unbounded; both are gone and every card
holds four.

THE FREIGHT AGENT MAY STAGE A LOAD BEFORE THE CAR IS THERE

§6.3 asks nothing of the industry track — the empty car belongs to §9.3's Load the
car, which is the Laborer's action. The gate now lives only there, so cargo can wait
on the dock while the car to ship it in is still being switched in. Nothing can jam:
a load in a green box is waiting, not stuck.

THE TRUCK DOCK UNLOADS, AND BRINGS NOBODY

+1 inbound, no Laborer. It printed +1 outbound and +1 Laborer, which made it a
longer-host-list copy of Forklifts. Beside Packing Sheds it now does nothing at all,
and the hand tooltip says so before it is played.

Also in this release, from the days before: Mainline card tooltips computed from the
crossing rule; an Extra starts from the Division Point its number sends it to; a
modifier's suppressed grant comes back when a Whistle Post is upgraded; the Oil
Refinery and the Grocer's Warehouse ship as well as receive, per the card reference;
and the dormant defences name the attack they answer. `.claude/` is now gitignored —
it holds Claude Code's worktrees, i.e. a second checkout of this repository.

570 tests, typecheck clean. The three published replays were re-recorded twice —
legality changed, so bot play changed. Full detail in CHANGELOG.md.
2026-08-19 12:12:30 -04:00
Jesse 49f8504b05 v0.4.0 — multiplayer Phases 0 and 1: seat and player split apart, turn state per player, the page behind a Session, and eight seat/player mix-ups fixed with tests that fail without them 2026-08-13 14:06:02 -04:00
Jesse 1bf1e95058 v0.3.0 — playtest fixes, two new rules, and §7 enforced 2026-08-12 21:08:28 -04:00
Jesse 9c76b1a5e2 Track becomes a deck card, Departments become decks, and trains must be made up to leave, industry restrictions enforced, update display and add a new game button 2026-08-05 08:28:22 -04:00
Jesse 2d348e1ecf fix tracks to all be EW. no more NS tracks 2026-08-05 01:00:11 -04:00
Jesse 821d3cdffa adding classification and division yard updates, train collisions, engine and car updates, turnout improvements. 2026-08-04 21:03:17 -04:00
Jesse c3c5c59a45 Show the whole Division mainline. district now has option for auto hiding on phases where not needed. scaffold for multi-player geometry showing division. regions on mainline cards implemented. bug fix on laying rail cards. optimized replay (carried links forward). Add sounds, first pass 2026-08-04 11:26:18 -04:00
Jesse dd300ac154 Fix caching, Limits placement, and explain the board better 2026-07-31 23:34:18 -04:00
Jesse 2eca9de09f various fixes. added version#s and added a playable browser build of the solitaire game (including deploy to filebrowser script) 2026-07-31 22:03:13 -04:00
Jesse d261ad7af8 Fix parking trains, freight deadlock, and Whistle Post lock-in 2026-07-31 15:09:16 -04:00
Jesse b085d5a0bb Implement Enhancements, Mainline modifiers and Maneuvers; fix unplayable track 2026-07-31 11:02:54 -04:00