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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

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/**
* §3.3, EXTENDED PLAY — Gitea#11, "when game ends allow players to continue playing if they wish".
*
* The rule as Jesse specified it (2026-08-28), which is what these tests are written against:
*
* - the OFFICIAL result is decided at the original game length and never changes. "In a five-day
* game, even if it's extended to eight or nine days, the winner and the official answer is the
* winner at the end of five days";
* - extending grants exactly ONE Day, and the question is put again at the end of it;
* - solitaire: the player decides alone. Multiplayer: unanimous, and one refusal ends it there;
* - only days-based endings offer it. A §3.4 collision breach is final, during an extended Day
* just as during the regular game.
*
* The persistence half matters as much as the rules half: a save is `{ seed, config, history }`
* replayed through the engine, so an extension that is not an INTENT does not survive a reload, an
* Undo, or a server restart. `replays the extension` below is the test that pins that.
*/
import { describe, it } from 'node:test';
import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
import { advance, pump } from '../src/engine/advance.ts';
import { applyIntent, check } from '../src/engine/apply.ts';
import { STAGES_PER_DAY } from '../src/engine/content.ts';
import { legalActions } from '../src/engine/legal.ts';
import { createGame } from '../src/engine/setup.ts';
import { currentActorOfState, publicSnapshot, snapshot } from '../src/sim/view.ts';
import { currentActor } from '../src/web/game.ts';
import { developerBot, playGame, randomBot } from '../src/sim/bot.ts';
import type { GameConfig, GameState } from '../src/engine/state.ts';
const baseConfig = (over: Partial<GameConfig> = {}): GameConfig => ({
mode: 'solitaire',
days: 3,
minCombinedRevenue: 0,
maxCollisionsPerDay: 0,
maxCollisionsTotal: 0,
pvpCardsAllowed: false,
// These fixtures were written against a Whistle Post opening — one A/D track and no
// Control Point — and several of them test exactly that. Named explicitly since the
// default became a Depot.
houseRules: { startingOffice: 'whistlePost' },
optionalRules: { reducedVisibility: false, employeeRotation: false, emergencyToolbox: false },
...over,
});
const game = (over: Partial<GameConfig> = {}, names = ['Jesse']): GameState =>
createGame({ id: 'g', seed: 1, config: baseConfig(over), playerNames: names });
/** Parks a game on the last Stage of its final Day, so one `advance` runs the clock off the end. */
function atTheEnd(s: GameState): GameState {
s.clock.day = s.config.days + s.extraDays + 1;
s.clock.stage = STAGES_PER_DAY;
s.clock.phase = 'shiftChange';
return s;
}
describe('§3.3 extended play — the ending pauses rather than stopping (Gitea#11)', () => {
it('offers another Day on a days-based ending, and records the result anyway', () => {
const s = atTheEnd(game());
advance(s);
assert.equal(s.status, 'awaitingExtension', 'a days-based ending did not offer another Day');
assert.ok(s.outcome, 'the result was not decided');
assert.ok(s.official, 'the official result was not frozen');
assert.equal(s.official!.day, s.config.days, 'the official Day is not the original game length');
});
it('does NOT offer another Day after a collision breach — §3.4 is final', () => {
const s = game({ mode: 'competitive', maxCollisionsPerDay: 2 });
s.collisionsToday = 2;
s.clock.stage = 1;
s.clock.phase = 'shiftChange';
advance(s);
assert.equal(s.status, 'finished', 'a railroad declared unsafe offered to carry on');
assert.equal(s.outcome!.reason, 'collisionFloor');
});
it('refuses every ordinary intent while the extension question is open', () => {
const s = atTheEnd(game());
advance(s);
assert.equal(check(s, 0, { type: 'draw.fromHomeOffice' }), 'WRONG_PHASE');
assert.equal(check(s, 0, { type: 'game.extend', player: 0, agree: true }), null, 'the vote itself was refused');
});
it('offers only the two votes, and only to a seat that has not voted', () => {
const s = atTheEnd(game({ mode: 'competitive' }, ['A', 'B']));
advance(s);
assert.deepEqual(
legalActions(s, 0).map((i) => i.type),
['game.extend', 'game.extend'],
'something other than the vote is legal while the game is stopped',
);
applyIntent(s, 0, { type: 'game.extend', player: 0, agree: true });
assert.equal(legalActions(s, 0).length, 0, 'a seat was offered a second vote');
assert.equal(check(s, 0, { type: 'game.extend', player: 0, agree: true }), 'ALREADY_VOTED');
assert.equal(legalActions(s, 1).length, 2, 'the seat still to vote was not offered the vote');
});
it('refuses the vote when no extension is pending', () => {
const s = game();
assert.equal(check(s, 0, { type: 'game.extend', player: 0, agree: true }), 'NOT_AWAITING_EXTENSION');
});
});
describe('§3.3 extended play — one Day at a time (Gitea#11)', () => {
it('grants exactly one Day in solitaire, then asks again at the end of it', () => {
const s = atTheEnd(game());
advance(s);
const official = { ...s.official!.outcome };
applyIntent(s, 0, { type: 'game.extend', player: 0, agree: true });
assert.equal(s.status, 'active', 'agreeing did not resume play');
assert.equal(s.extraDays, 1, 'more or less than one Day was granted');
assert.deepEqual(s.extensionVotes, [null], 'the votes were not cleared for the next question');
// Run the extra Day off the end: the question comes round again.
atTheEnd(s);
advance(s);
assert.equal(s.status, 'awaitingExtension', 'the second ending did not ask again');
assert.equal(s.extraDays, 1, 'a second Day was granted without being asked for');
assert.deepEqual(s.official!.outcome, official, 'the official result was rewritten');
assert.equal(s.official!.day, s.config.days, 'the official Day moved with the extension');
});
it('ends the moment one seat declines, without waiting for the rest', () => {
const s = atTheEnd(game({ mode: 'competitive' }, ['A', 'B', 'C']));
advance(s);
applyIntent(s, 0, { type: 'game.extend', player: 0, agree: true });
assert.equal(s.status, 'awaitingExtension', 'one yes ended the vote');
applyIntent(s, 1, { type: 'game.extend', player: 1, agree: false });
assert.equal(s.status, 'finished', 'a refusal did not end the game immediately');
assert.equal(s.extraDays, 0, 'a Day was granted despite a refusal');
assert.equal(check(s, 2, { type: 'game.extend', player: 2, agree: true }), 'NOT_AWAITING_EXTENSION',
'the seat that never voted is still being waited on');
});
it('needs every seat before it grants the Day', () => {
const s = atTheEnd(game({ mode: 'competitive' }, ['A', 'B', 'C']));
advance(s);
applyIntent(s, 0, { type: 'game.extend', player: 0, agree: true });
applyIntent(s, 1, { type: 'game.extend', player: 1, agree: true });
assert.equal(s.status, 'awaitingExtension', 'two of three votes granted the Day');
applyIntent(s, 2, { type: 'game.extend', player: 2, agree: true });
assert.equal(s.status, 'active', 'a unanimous table was not given its Day');
assert.equal(s.extraDays, 1);
});
it('keeps the official result when a collision ends an EXTENDED Day', () => {
// The case the freeze exists for: a railroad declared unsafe on the extra Day does not retract
// who won on the last scheduled one.
const s = atTheEnd(game({ mode: 'competitive', maxCollisionsPerDay: 2 }, ['A', 'B']));
s.players[0]!.revenue = 9;
s.players[1]!.revenue = 2;
advance(s);
const official = { ...s.official!.outcome };
assert.equal(official.result, 'win');
assert.equal(official.winner, 0);
applyIntent(s, 0, { type: 'game.extend', player: 0, agree: true });
applyIntent(s, 1, { type: 'game.extend', player: 1, agree: true });
assert.equal(s.status, 'active');
s.collisionsToday = 2;
s.clock.stage = 1;
s.clock.phase = 'shiftChange';
advance(s);
assert.equal(s.status, 'finished');
assert.equal(s.outcome!.reason, 'collisionFloor', 'the current evaluation was not updated');
assert.deepEqual(s.official!.outcome, official, 'a late collision rewrote a recorded win');
});
it('decides the winner at the ORIGINAL game length, whoever leads afterwards', () => {
const s = atTheEnd(game({ mode: 'competitive' }, ['A', 'B']));
s.players[0]!.revenue = 9;
s.players[1]!.revenue = 2;
advance(s);
assert.equal(s.official!.outcome.winner, 0);
assert.deepEqual(s.official!.revenues, [9, 2], 'the official standings were not frozen');
applyIntent(s, 0, { type: 'game.extend', player: 0, agree: true });
applyIntent(s, 1, { type: 'game.extend', player: 1, agree: true });
// B overtakes A during the extra Day, and it changes nothing official.
s.players[1]!.revenue = 40;
atTheEnd(s);
advance(s);
assert.equal(s.official!.outcome.winner, 0, 'overtaking after the timetable took the win');
assert.deepEqual(s.official!.revenues, [9, 2], 'the frozen standings moved');
assert.equal(s.outcome!.winner, 1, 'the informational evaluation did not follow the new leader');
});
});
describe('§3.3 extended play — it survives being replayed (Gitea#11)', () => {
it('reproduces an extended game from seed and intents alone', () => {
// The reason the vote is an intent at all. A save is a replay, so a decision that is not in the
// history did not happen — an extended game would evaporate on the next reload.
const play = (): GameState => {
const s = atTheEnd(game());
advance(s);
applyIntent(s, 0, { type: 'game.extend', player: 0, agree: true });
return s;
};
const a = play();
const b = play();
assert.equal(a.extraDays, b.extraDays);
assert.equal(a.status, b.status);
assert.deepEqual(a.official!.outcome, b.official!.outcome);
});
it('narrates the vote, so a table can see who called time', () => {
const s = atTheEnd(game({ mode: 'competitive' }, ['A', 'B']));
advance(s);
const yes = applyIntent(s, 0, { type: 'game.extend', player: 0, agree: true });
assert.ok(yes.ok);
assert.deepEqual(yes.events.map((e) => e.type), ['extensionVoted']);
const no = applyIntent(s, 1, { type: 'game.extend', player: 1, agree: false });
assert.ok(no.ok);
assert.deepEqual(no.events.map((e) => e.type), ['extensionVoted', 'playConcluded']);
});
it('announces the granted Day', () => {
const s = atTheEnd(game());
advance(s);
const r = applyIntent(s, 0, { type: 'game.extend', player: 0, agree: true });
assert.ok(r.ok);
assert.deepEqual(r.events.map((e) => e.type), ['extensionVoted', 'dayExtended']);
const extended = r.events.find((e) => e.type === 'dayExtended');
assert.equal(extended && 'day' in extended ? extended.day : null, s.config.days + 1);
});
});
describe('§3.3 extended play — bots play the timetable they were dealt (Gitea#11)', () => {
it('REGRESSION: a simulated game terminates whatever the policy would vote', () => {
/**
* `playGame` declines on the driver's own account rather than leaving it to the policy, and this
* is why. `randomBot` picks uniformly among its legal options, so it takes another Day about
* half the time — and since a table may go on granting Days for ever, the game then runs to
* `maxTurns`. It did: `test/sim.test.ts` went from under a second to an unbounded hang, every
* seeded game in the harness playing fifty thousand turns instead of a couple of hundred.
*
* `randomBot` is the policy that exposes it, but the guarantee has to hold for any policy,
* including ones not written yet — hence the fix living in the driver and the test living here.
*/
const s = createGame({ id: 'g', seed: 9, config: baseConfig({ days: 1 }), playerNames: ['Jesse'] });
const out = playGame(s, randomBot(7), pump, 4_000);
assert.equal(s.status, 'finished', 'a simulated game did not finish');
assert.equal(s.extraDays, 0, 'the harness played Days the game was not dealt');
assert.ok(out.turns < 4_000, `ran to the turn cap (${out.turns}) instead of ending`);
});
it('developerBot declines, so a bot-only game ends on schedule', () => {
// "If only bots are playing, they never vote to extend" (Jesse, 2026-08-28). The server votes
// yes on a bot's behalf once every human has already agreed; this policy is what is left when
// there are no humans to follow.
const s = atTheEnd(game());
advance(s);
const choice = developerBot.choose(s, 0, legalActions(s, 0));
assert.equal(choice.type, 'game.extend');
assert.equal('agree' in choice ? choice.agree : null, false, 'a bot asked for another Day');
});
});
/**
* §3.3 — WHO THE SCREEN SAYS THE TABLE IS WAITING ON, while the vote is open.
*
* The vote is PARALLEL, and `apply.ts` says so where it accepts one: "open to every seat at once:
* it is a table decision rather than a ruling, so THERE IS NO ACTOR TO BE". Any seat that has not
* voted may vote at any moment, in any order, and one refusal ends it. So the honest answer to "who
* are we waiting on" is every un-voted seat — which is exactly what the vote tally beside the chart
* already draws — and the honest answer to "whose turn is it" is nobody.
*
* The engine gave that answer and the screen did not. `currentActor(game)` guards on
* `status !== 'active'` and returned null; `actingPlayer(state)` has no such guard and returned
* `clock.currentActor`, which still holds whoever moved last before the timetable ran out. The
* frame took the second, so the turn chart named one arbitrary seat — the last to act, who has no
* more claim on the vote than anybody else — while the tally underneath correctly showed three
* seats outstanding.
*
* The fourth of these in a row after Gitea#21, #22 and #94, and the first found by asking the
* question of a state the game is not ACTIVE in. See TODO #96.
*/
describe('§3.3 extended play — the vote has no actor (#96)', () => {
const table = (): GameState => {
const s = atTheEnd(game({ mode: 'competitive' }, ['Ann', 'Bob', 'Cy']));
advance(s);
assert.equal(s.status, 'awaitingExtension', 'the table is not being asked');
return s;
};
it('reports nobody acting while the vote is open, to a player and to a spectator alike', () => {
const s = table();
assert.notEqual(s.clock.currentActor, null, 'the premise is gone: nothing was left on the clock');
assert.equal(currentActorOfState(s), null, 'the engine named an actor during a parallel vote');
assert.equal(
snapshot(s, [], null, null, null, false, 0).actor,
null,
'the turn chart named a seat while the whole table was voting',
);
assert.equal(publicSnapshot(s).actor, null, 'the common board named a seat during the vote');
});
it('agrees with the session, which is the half that decides what is legal', () => {
// The disagreement is the bug, not either answer on its own: `currentActor` is what refuses an
// intent, so a screen that names somebody it would refuse is telling the table to wait on a
// player who cannot act.
const s = table();
const g = { state: s, log: [] } as unknown as Parameters<typeof currentActor>[0];
assert.equal(currentActorOfState(s), currentActor(g), 'the screen and the session disagree');
});
it('still names the actor during ordinary play, which is the case that must not regress', () => {
const s = game({ mode: 'competitive' }, ['Ann', 'Bob', 'Cy']);
pump(s);
assert.equal(s.status, 'active', 'the premise is gone: the game is not running');
assert.equal(currentActorOfState(s), s.clock.currentActor, 'an active game lost its actor');
assert.equal(snapshot(s, [], null, null, null, false, 0).actor, s.clock.currentActor);
});
it('reports nobody once the table has declined and the game is finished', () => {
const s = table();
applyIntent(s, 1, { type: 'game.extend', player: 1, agree: false });
assert.equal(s.status, 'finished', 'a refusal did not end it');
assert.equal(currentActorOfState(s), null, 'a finished game still had somebody to move');
assert.equal(publicSnapshot(s).actor, null, 'the common board named a seat after the game ended');
});
});