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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

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/**
* Enhancement cards (implications.md §7).
*
* These are the 18 cards that make up the largest block of the "third of the deck that does
* nothing". Several change core loops — Small Yard makes the facing-point switching puzzle
* solvable at all, and ABS Signals amends Gap 2's unconditional collisions.
*/
import { describe, it } from 'node:test';
import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
import { advance } from '../src/engine/advance.ts';
import { applyIntent, areaOf, check, hasDistrictEnhancement, isProtectedFromDerail } from '../src/engine/apply.ts';
import { ENHANCEMENT_RULES, enhancementRule, trainProfile } from '../src/engine/content.ts';
import { createGame } from '../src/engine/setup.ts';
import type { GameConfig, GameState, GridCoord, TrackCard } from '../src/engine/state.ts';
import { coordKey, subdivisions, turnOf } from '../src/engine/state.ts';
const config: GameConfig = {
mode: 'solitaire',
victory: 'highestAfterDays',
length: 'standard',
optionalRules: { reducedVisibility: false, sisterTrains: false, employeeRotation: false, emergencyToolbox: false },
};
const game = (seed = 5): GameState => createGame({ id: 'g', seed, config, playerNames: ['p'] });
const at = (row: number, col: number): GridCoord => ({ row, col });
const straight = (): TrackCard => ({
geometry: { kind: 'track', geometry: 'straight' },
baseOperationalRail: true,
standing: [],
facility: null,
modifiers: [],
enhancements: [],
});
function addCard(s: GameState, coord: GridCoord, card: TrackCard): void {
areaOf(s, 0).grid.set(coordKey(coord), card);
}
/**
* An Enhancement in hand — minting one if the deck does not deal it.
*
* Facing Point Locks, the Water Column and the Overpass answer opponent-directed cards, which are
* held out of every deck until they are implemented, so those three are no longer dealt either
* (v0.4.7). Their RULES are still live and still worth testing: they fire the moment their attacker
* returns, and a rule nobody exercises is a rule that rots. So the card is put in hand directly
* rather than fished out of a deck that deliberately no longer contains it.
*/
function handEnhancement(s: GameState, key: string): string {
for (const [id, card] of s.cards) {
if (card.kind.kind === 'enhancement' && card.kind.key === key) {
s.decks.hands.set(0, [id]);
return id;
}
}
const id = `mint-${key}-${s.cards.size}`;
s.cards.set(id, { id, kind: { kind: 'enhancement', key } } as never);
s.decks.hands.set(0, [id]);
return id;
}
/** Puts a specific track card in hand and returns its id. */
function trackInHand(s: GameState, geometry: string, hand: string): string {
for (const [id, card] of s.cards) {
const k = card.kind as { kind: string; geometry?: string; hand?: string };
if (k.kind === 'track' && k.geometry === geometry && k.hand === hand) {
s.decks.hands.set(0, [id]);
return id;
}
}
throw new Error(`no track card: ${geometry}/${hand}`);
}
function placeTray(s: GameState, coord: GridCoord, consist: TrackCard['standing'] = []): string {
const id = s.freeTrays.pop()!;
s.trays.set(id, {
id, trainNumber: 9, trainIsExtra: false, engineAt: 0,
consist, direction: 'east', position: { at: 'grid', seat: 0, coord }, movesUsed: 0,
});
return id;
}
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
describe('enhancement placement', () => {
it('defines a rule for every enhancement card', () => {
assert.equal(ENHANCEMENT_RULES.length, 10);
for (const r of ENHANCEMENT_RULES) assert.ok(enhancementRule(r.key), r.key);
});
it('puts Interlocking on a Running Track straight, not a Secondary one', () => {
const s = game();
addCard(s, at(0, 2), straight());
addCard(s, at(-1, 0), straight());
const id = handEnhancement(s, 'interlocking');
applyIntent(s, 0, { type: 'localOps.choose', option: 'draw' });
assert.equal(check(s, 0, { type: 'card.play', cardId: id, placement: at(0, 2) }), null);
assert.equal(check(s, 0, { type: 'card.play', cardId: id, placement: at(-1, 0) }), 'NOT_CONNECTED');
});
it('puts Small Yard on a Secondary Track straight, not the Running Track', () => {
const s = game();
addCard(s, at(0, 2), straight());
addCard(s, at(-1, 0), straight());
const id = handEnhancement(s, 'smallYard');
applyIntent(s, 0, { type: 'localOps.choose', option: 'draw' });
assert.equal(check(s, 0, { type: 'card.play', cardId: id, placement: at(-1, 0) }), null);
assert.equal(check(s, 0, { type: 'card.play', cardId: id, placement: at(0, 2) }), 'NOT_CONNECTED');
});
it('stacks Telephone on Telegraph and Radio on Telephone, never bare', () => {
const s = game();
addCard(s, at(0, 2), straight());
applyIntent(s, 0, { type: 'localOps.choose', option: 'draw' });
const phone = handEnhancement(s, 'telephone');
assert.equal(check(s, 0, { type: 'card.play', cardId: phone, placement: at(0, 2) }), 'NOT_CONNECTED');
const tel = handEnhancement(s, 'telegraph');
assert.ok(applyIntent(s, 0, { type: 'card.play', cardId: tel, placement: at(0, 2) }).ok);
const phone2 = handEnhancement(s, 'telephone');
assert.equal(check(s, 0, { type: 'card.play', cardId: phone2, placement: at(0, 2) }), null);
});
it('will not stack two straight-placed enhancements on one card', () => {
// A straight-placed Enhancement REPLACES the straight — its printed placement is "any Running
// Track Straight", so the card goes down in place of it and what stands there afterwards is an
// Interlocking, not a straight carrying one. A second such card has no straight left to take.
// This was unchecked, because an enhancement only pushes a string onto `enhancements[]` and
// leaves the geometry alone: one straight could hold Interlocking, Telegraph and a Water Column
// at once.
const s = game();
addCard(s, at(0, 2), straight());
addCard(s, at(0, 3), straight());
applyIntent(s, 0, { type: 'localOps.choose', option: 'draw' });
const lock = handEnhancement(s, 'interlocking');
assert.ok(applyIntent(s, 0, { type: 'card.play', cardId: lock, placement: at(0, 2) }).ok);
for (const key of ['telegraph', 'waterColumn'] as const) {
const id = handEnhancement(s, key);
assert.equal(
check(s, 0, { type: 'card.play', cardId: id, placement: at(0, 2) }),
'NOT_CONNECTED',
`${key} was stacked on top of an Interlocking`,
);
// The bare straight next door is still a legal home for it.
assert.equal(
check(s, 0, { type: 'card.play', cardId: id, placement: at(0, 3) }), null,
`${key} should still be playable on a straight that carries nothing`,
);
}
// And a turnout cannot upgrade it either — the straight it would replace is no longer there.
assert.equal(
check(s, 0, { type: 'card.play', cardId: trackInHand(s, 'turnout', 'right'), placement: at(0, 2), variant: 0 }),
'UPGRADE_ENHANCED',
'a turnout was laid over a built Interlocking',
);
});
it('requires an Interlocking in the district before Facing Point Locks', () => {
const s = game();
addCard(s, at(0, 2), straight());
applyIntent(s, 0, { type: 'localOps.choose', option: 'draw' });
const fpl = handEnhancement(s, 'facingPointLocks');
assert.equal(check(s, 0, { type: 'card.play', cardId: fpl, placement: at(0, 2) }), 'NOT_CONNECTED');
const lock = handEnhancement(s, 'interlocking');
applyIntent(s, 0, { type: 'card.play', cardId: lock, placement: at(0, 2) });
const fpl2 = handEnhancement(s, 'facingPointLocks');
assert.equal(check(s, 0, { type: 'card.play', cardId: fpl2, placement: at(0, 2) }), null);
assert.ok(isProtectedFromDerail(areaOf(s, 0)) === false, 'not protected until actually played');
});
});
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
describe('Small Yard — the card that makes switching solvable', () => {
function yardGame() {
const s = game();
const yard = at(-1, 0);
const card = straight();
card.enhancements.push('smallYard');
addCard(s, yard, card);
const tray = placeTray(s, yard, [
{ type: 'boxcar', loaded: false },
{ type: 'hopper', loaded: true },
{ type: 'coach', loaded: false },
]);
applyIntent(s, 0, { type: 'localOps.choose', option: 'switch' });
return { s, tray, yard };
}
it('re-orders a consist, including bringing a buried car to the end', () => {
// §A.3 forces cars off in seated order, so without this the middle car can never be spotted.
const { s, tray } = yardGame();
const r = applyIntent(s, 0, { type: 'switch.sortConsist', trayId: tray, order: [0, 2, 1] });
assert.ok(r.ok);
assert.deepEqual(
s.trays.get(tray)!.consist.map((c) => c.type),
['boxcar', 'coach', 'hopper'],
'the hopper is now on the droppable end',
);
});
it('costs one Move — "spends one move in the yard"', () => {
const { s, tray } = yardGame();
const before = turnOf(s, 0).movesRemaining;
applyIntent(s, 0, { type: 'switch.sortConsist', trayId: tray, order: [2, 1, 0] });
assert.equal(turnOf(s, 0).movesRemaining, before - 1);
});
it('is refused anywhere without a Small Yard', () => {
const s = game();
addCard(s, at(-1, 0), straight());
const tray = placeTray(s, at(-1, 0), [
{ type: 'boxcar', loaded: false },
{ type: 'hopper', loaded: true },
]);
applyIntent(s, 0, { type: 'localOps.choose', option: 'switch' });
assert.equal(
check(s, 0, { type: 'switch.sortConsist', trayId: tray, order: [1, 0] }),
'NOT_CONNECTED',
);
});
it('refuses an order that is not a permutation of the consist', () => {
const { s, tray } = yardGame();
for (const bad of [[0, 1], [0, 1, 1], [0, 1, 5]]) {
assert.equal(
check(s, 0, { type: 'switch.sortConsist', trayId: tray, order: bad }),
'CONSIST_ORDER',
`accepted ${JSON.stringify(bad)}`,
);
}
});
});
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
describe('Interlocking and Yard Office relieve the Office', () => {
function inbound(s: GameState, consist: TrackCard['standing']) {
const id = 'inbound';
s.trays.set(id, {
id, trainNumber: 9, trainIsExtra: false, engineAt: 0,
consist, direction: 'east', position: { at: 'mainline', index: 1 }, movesUsed: 0,
});
const ml = s.division.nodes[1];
if (ml?.kind === 'mainline') {
// Pin the terrain. Mainline types are drawn from the SHUFFLED deck, so deck composition
// would otherwise decide this test's outcome — and Double Track / Uncontrolled Siding set
// `trainsMayPass`, which legitimately removes the §8.1 bar being asserted here.
ml.card = 'plains';
ml.transits.push({ tray: id, stagesRemaining: 1, stagesTotal: 1, direction: 'east' });
}
s.clock.phase = 'mainline';
s.movedThisPhase = new Set();
return id;
}
it('holds a train at the Limits instead of colliding when the Office is full', () => {
// Gap 2d made a full Office an automatic collision. Interlocking is the designed answer.
const s = game();
const card = straight();
card.enhancements.push('interlocking');
addCard(s, at(0, 2), card);
areaOf(s, 0).adOccupancy = ['blocker'];
const id = inbound(s, [{ type: 'hopper', loaded: true }]);
advance(s);
assert.equal(s.players[0]!.revenue, 0, 'no collision penalty');
assert.ok(areaOf(s, 0).heldAtLimits.includes(id), 'train is held at the Limits');
});
it('still collides without an Interlocking', () => {
const s = game();
areaOf(s, 0).adOccupancy = ['blocker'];
inbound(s, [{ type: 'hopper', loaded: true }]);
advance(s);
assert.equal(s.players[0]!.revenue, -5);
});
it('diverts a coachless train to the Yard Office', () => {
const s = game();
const card = straight();
card.enhancements.push('yardOffice');
addCard(s, at(-1, 0), card);
const id = inbound(s, [{ type: 'hopper', loaded: true }]);
advance(s);
const pos = s.trays.get(id)!.position;
assert.ok(pos.at === 'grid' && pos.coord.row === -1, 'arrived at the Yard Office');
assert.ok(!areaOf(s, 0).adOccupancy.includes(id), 'did not take an A/D track');
});
it('does not divert a train carrying coaches', () => {
// "An inbound train with NO COACHES" — passengers must reach the Train Order Office.
const s = game();
const card = straight();
card.enhancements.push('yardOffice');
addCard(s, at(-1, 0), card);
const id = inbound(s, [{ type: 'coach', loaded: true }]);
advance(s);
assert.ok(areaOf(s, 0).adOccupancy.includes(id), 'a coach train must use the Office');
});
});
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
describe('ABS Signals amend the collision rule', () => {
it('turns a following-train judgment into a plain hold', () => {
// "Trains on this card will not rear-end each other. They will stop short of a collision."
const s = game();
const ml = s.division.nodes[1];
if (ml?.kind === 'mainline') {
// Pin the terrain — see the meet tests below. Double Track and Uncontrolled Siding let trains
// pass, so the following train would never be held and there would be nothing for ABS to do.
ml.card = 'plains';
ml.absSignals = true;
ml.transits.push({ tray: 'ahead', stagesRemaining: 2, stagesTotal: 2, direction: 'east' });
}
s.trays.set('ahead', {
id: 'ahead', trainNumber: 4, trainIsExtra: false, engineAt: 0,
consist: [], direction: 'east', position: { at: 'mainline', index: 1 }, movesUsed: 0,
});
s.trays.set('behind', {
id: 'behind', trainNumber: 2, trainIsExtra: false, engineAt: 0,
consist: [], direction: 'east', position: { at: 'divisionPoint', side: 'west' }, movesUsed: 0,
});
s.clock.phase = 'mainline';
s.movedThisPhase = new Set();
const r = advance(s);
assert.equal(r.needsInput, false, 'no clearance decision is needed with signals');
assert.equal(s.clock.pendingDecision, null);
assert.deepEqual(s.trays.get('behind')!.position, { at: 'divisionPoint', side: 'west' });
});
});
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
describe('train revenue per transit — paid to EVERY player when a train completes its run', () => {
/**
* `trainPerTransit` is a dial now, and it defaults to ZERO: at 1 it was worth ~5.4 Revenue against
* a bot mean of 7.0, drowning out the freight and passenger economies the game is about. These
* tests are about the rule, so they set the rate; the last one is about the default.
*/
const paying = (rate = 1, seed = 5): GameState =>
createGame({
id: 'g',
seed,
config: { ...config, houseRules: { revenue: { trainPerTransit: rate } } },
playerNames: ['p'],
});
/** A train sitting on the A/D track, made up and ready to highball. */
const readyToLeave = (s: GameState, direction: 'east' | 'west' = 'east'): string => {
const id = 'leaving';
s.trays.set(id, {
id, trainNumber: 2, trainIsExtra: false, engineAt: 0,
consist: [], direction, position: { at: 'grid', seat: 0, coord: areaOf(s, 0).officeCoord },
movesUsed: 0,
});
areaOf(s, 0).adOccupancy.push(id);
for (const n of s.division.nodes) if (n.kind === 'mainline') n.card = 'plains';
s.clock.phase = 'mainline';
s.movedThisPhase = new Set();
return id;
};
it('pays nothing for merely leaving the Office', () => {
/**
* THE RULE CHANGED IN v0.4.2. It used to pay 1 to the Office a train departed, which meant a
* five-Office railroad paid five times for one train and paid most to whoever it happened to
* pass first. Departing is now worth nothing on its own.
*/
const s = game();
const before = s.players[0]!.revenue;
readyToLeave(s, 'east');
advance(s);
assert.equal(s.players[0]!.revenue, before, 'departing the Office still paid');
});
it('pays every player once the train runs off the end of the Division', () => {
const s = paying();
const before = s.players.map((p) => p.revenue);
readyToLeave(s, 'east');
// Run the Mainline Phase until the train has crossed the Division and left it.
const seen: typeof s.players[number]['revenue'][] = [];
let completed: { type: string; side?: string } | undefined;
for (let i = 0; i < 20 && !completed; i++) {
s.movedThisPhase = new Set();
s.clock.phase = 'mainline';
const r = advance(s);
completed = r.events.find((e) => e.type === 'trainCompleted');
if (completed) {
assert.equal(completed.side, 'east', 'an eastbound train left by the wrong Division Point');
assert.ok(
r.events.some((e) => e.type === 'revenueChanged' && e.reason === 'a train completed its run'),
'no revenue event was emitted for the completed run',
);
}
seen.push(s.players[0]!.revenue);
}
assert.ok(completed, 'the train never left the Division');
assert.deepEqual(s.players.map((p) => p.revenue), before.map((r) => r + 1), 'not every player was paid');
// Paid ONCE — the train is gone, so there is nothing left to pay again.
const after = s.players.map((p) => p.revenue);
for (let i = 0; i < 8; i++) { s.movedThisPhase = new Set(); s.clock.phase = 'mainline'; advance(s); }
assert.deepEqual(s.players.map((p) => p.revenue), after, 'the same run was paid twice');
});
it('pays nothing for a local crew, which is switching rather than running', () => {
const s = paying();
const before = s.players[0]!.revenue;
const id = readyToLeave(s, 'east');
s.trays.get(id)!.trainNumber = null;
for (let i = 0; i < 20; i++) { s.movedThisPhase = new Set(); s.clock.phase = 'mainline'; advance(s); }
assert.equal(s.players[0]!.revenue, before, 'a switching crew was paid as though it had completed a run');
});
it('pays at the rate the game was dealt with, and nothing at the default of zero', () => {
// Zero is not "one, suppressed": no revenue event is emitted at all, so the history does not
// fill with "+0 Revenue" for work that did not pay.
const run = (rate: number): { revenue: number; events: number } => {
const s = rate === 0 ? game() : paying(rate);
readyToLeave(s, 'east');
let events = 0;
let done = false;
for (let i = 0; i < 20 && !done; i++) {
s.movedThisPhase = new Set();
s.clock.phase = 'mainline';
const r = advance(s);
events += r.events.filter(
(e) => e.type === 'revenueChanged' && e.reason === 'a train completed its run',
).length;
done = r.events.some((e) => e.type === 'trainCompleted');
}
assert.ok(done, `the train never left the Division at rate ${rate}`);
return { revenue: s.players[0]!.revenue, events };
};
assert.deepEqual(run(0), { revenue: 0, events: 0 }, 'the default paid for a transit');
assert.deepEqual(run(1), { revenue: 1, events: 1 });
assert.deepEqual(run(5), { revenue: 5, events: 1 }, 'the top of the range pays 5 in one event');
});
});
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
describe('§8.1 — a train that just arrived from the mainline stops for the Stage', () => {
/**
* "The train did not just initially arrive from a mainline card at the Office this Stage."
*
* This holds today, but only as a SIDE EFFECT: the Mainline Phase visits each train once per Stage
* in numeric order, so a train that spends its visit arriving has no visit left to depart with.
* Nothing states the rule, which makes it exactly the kind of property a later change to the loop
* would break in silence. These pin it.
*
* It is also what gives the printed **Expedite** rule something to do — an Expedited train departs
* at the END of the Stage it arrived, precisely because the general rule forbids it departing at
* all. It stands through Load/Unload first, which is what makes its coaches workable.
*/
const arriving = (s: GameState, trainNumber: number, isExtra = false): string => {
const id = 'arriving';
s.trays.set(id, {
id, trainNumber, trainIsExtra: isExtra, engineAt: 0,
consist: [], direction: 'east', position: { at: 'mainline', index: 1 }, movesUsed: 0,
});
const ml = s.division.nodes[1];
if (ml?.kind === 'mainline') {
ml.card = 'plains';
// One Stage left to run, so this Stage it rolls off the card and into the Office.
ml.transits.push({ tray: id, stagesRemaining: 1, stagesTotal: 1, direction: 'east' });
}
s.clock.phase = 'mainline';
s.movedThisPhase = new Set();
return id;
};
it('does not depart the Stage it rolls in', () => {
const s = game();
const id = arriving(s, 9);
assert.notEqual(trainProfile(9, false)?.rules.expedite, true, 'train 9 must NOT be an Expedite train');
advance(s);
assert.ok(areaOf(s, 0).adOccupancy.includes(id), 'the train did not arrive at the Office at all');
assert.equal(
s.trays.get(id)!.position.at, 'grid',
'the train departed again in the same Stage it arrived from a mainline card',
);
});
it('unless its card prints Expedite — but it still stands through Load/Unload first', () => {
/**
* Q3, as revised in v0.4.2. An Expedite train leaves the Stage it arrives, but at the END of that
* Stage rather than inside the Mainline Phase. It used to be gone before Load/Unload ran, which
* made the coaches on every coach-carrying express (1/2, 5/6, 19) permanently unworkable —
* measured, Train 2 arrived 32 times in 60 games and stood for Load/Unload in none of them.
*/
const s = game();
assert.equal(trainProfile(3, false)?.rules.expedite, true, 'train 3 should be an Expedite train');
const id = arriving(s, 3);
advance(s);
assert.equal(
s.trays.get(id)!.position.at, 'grid',
'an Expedite train left inside the Mainline Phase, before Load/Unload could reach it',
);
assert.equal(s.trays.get(id)!.departsThisStage, true, 'it is not flagged to leave at the end of the Stage');
assert.ok(areaOf(s, 0).adOccupancy.includes(id), 'it is not standing on an A/D track');
// Run the end of the Stage directly. Load/Unload waits on the player, and the thing under test
// is the departure pass that follows it — not that phase's own input handling.
s.clock.phase = 'shiftChange';
advance(s);
assert.notEqual(
s.trays.get(id)?.position.at, 'grid',
'an Expedite train should be gone by the end of the Stage it arrived',
);
});
});
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
describe('§8.1 asks about the next Subdivision, not the next card', () => {
/**
* "If there is a train in the next Subdivision moving towards the considered train, the considered
* train will not depart." This used to inspect only the card being entered, so a train ran headlong
* into a Subdivision an opposing train was two cards deep in and was stopped only when they met.
*
* At game start every Office is a Whistle Post — not a Control Point — so the whole railroad is ONE
* Subdivision: nodes [1, 2, 3] between the two Division Points. That is what makes early traffic so
* constrained, and each upgrade to a Control Point splits it and buys capacity back.
*/
const facingTrainOn = (s: GameState, index: number): void => {
// EVERY Mainline card is pinned, not just the one the facing train stands on: Double Track and
// Uncontrolled Siding print "trains may pass", so terrain anywhere in the Subdivision can clear
// the departure. Terrain is dealt from the same RNG stream as the cards, so leaving any of it to
// the seed makes this luck — which is exactly how it broke when the deck composition changed.
for (const n of s.division.nodes) if (n.kind === 'mainline') n.card = 'plains';
const ml = s.division.nodes[index];
if (ml?.kind === 'mainline') {
ml.transits.push({ tray: 'facing', stagesRemaining: 2, stagesTotal: 2, direction: 'west' });
}
s.trays.set('facing', {
id: 'facing', trainNumber: 4, trainIsExtra: false, engineAt: 0,
consist: [], direction: 'west', position: { at: 'mainline', index }, movesUsed: 0,
});
s.trays.set('considered', {
id: 'considered', trainNumber: 2, trainIsExtra: false, engineAt: 0,
consist: [], direction: 'east', position: { at: 'divisionPoint', side: 'west' }, movesUsed: 0,
});
s.clock.phase = 'mainline';
s.movedThisPhase = new Set();
};
it('holds a train out of a Subdivision an opposing train is deep inside', () => {
const s = game();
assert.deepEqual(subdivisions(s), [[1, 2, 3]], 'the fixture assumes one Subdivision of three nodes');
// The facing train is on node 3 — NOT the card being entered, which is node 1.
facingTrainOn(s, 3);
const r = advance(s);
assert.equal(r.needsInput, false, 'an opposing train is an absolute bar, never a judgment call');
assert.equal(s.clock.pendingDecision, null);
assert.deepEqual(
s.trays.get('considered')!.position, { at: 'divisionPoint', side: 'west' },
'the train departed into a Subdivision already occupied by a train coming the other way',
);
});
it('ignores a train standing clear on Secondary Track in a Whistle Post district', () => {
// The last §8.1 condition: "if the Subdivision contains a Whistle Post yet a train is occupying
// Secondary Track there (i.e. clear of the Running Track), the Superintendent MUST Highball the
// train." The Office node sits inside this Subdivision, so a scan that counted everything in the
// group would have blocked on it. Only Mainline occupancy counts.
const s = game();
assert.deepEqual(subdivisions(s), [[1, 2, 3]], 'node 2 is the Office, inside the Subdivision');
addCard(s, at(-1, 0), straight());
placeTray(s, at(-1, 0));
s.trays.set('considered', {
id: 'considered', trainNumber: 2, trainIsExtra: false, engineAt: 0,
consist: [], direction: 'east', position: { at: 'divisionPoint', side: 'west' }, movesUsed: 0,
});
const ml = s.division.nodes[1];
if (ml?.kind === 'mainline') ml.card = 'plains';
s.clock.phase = 'mainline';
s.movedThisPhase = new Set();
advance(s);
assert.deepEqual(
s.trays.get('considered')!.position, { at: 'mainline', index: 1 },
'a train standing clear on Secondary Track held up the whole Subdivision',
);
});
it('still lets it go once a Control Point splits that Subdivision away', () => {
// The same position, with the Office upgraded to a Depot: node 2 becomes a boundary, so the
// facing train on node 3 is in a DIFFERENT Subdivision and no longer bars the departure.
const s = game();
areaOf(s, 0).tier = 'depot';
assert.deepEqual(subdivisions(s), [[1], [3]], 'a Control Point should split the Division in two');
facingTrainOn(s, 3);
advance(s);
assert.deepEqual(
s.trays.get('considered')!.position, { at: 'mainline', index: 1 },
'a train in another Subdivision must not hold this one at the Division Point',
);
});
});
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
describe('Telegraph, Telephone and Radio dispatch meets', () => {
function meet(s: GameState, device?: string) {
if (device) {
const card = straight();
card.enhancements.push(device);
addCard(s, at(0, 2), card);
}
// An oncoming senior train — §8.1 makes this an absolute bar without a device.
s.trays.set('oncoming', {
id: 'oncoming', trainNumber: 3, trainIsExtra: false, engineAt: 0,
consist: [], direction: 'west', position: { at: 'mainline', index: 1 }, movesUsed: 0,
});
const ml = s.division.nodes[1];
if (ml?.kind === 'mainline') {
// Pin the terrain. Mainline types are drawn from the shuffled deck, so deck composition would
// otherwise decide this test's outcome — and Double Track / Uncontrolled Siding set
// `trainsMayPass`, which legitimately removes the §8.1 bar this test is about.
ml.card = 'plains';
ml.transits.push({ tray: 'oncoming', stagesRemaining: 2, stagesTotal: 2, direction: 'west' });
}
s.trays.set('mine', {
id: 'mine', trainNumber: 9, trainIsExtra: false, engineAt: 0,
consist: [], direction: 'east', position: { at: 'divisionPoint', side: 'west' }, movesUsed: 0,
});
s.clock.phase = 'mainline';
s.movedThisPhase = new Set();
}
it('holds a facing train with no device — §8.1 stands', () => {
const s = game();
meet(s);
advance(s);
assert.deepEqual(s.trays.get('mine')!.position, { at: 'divisionPoint', side: 'west' });
});
it('lets a junior train win the meet with a Telegraph', () => {
// Train 9 against Train 3: +4 makes the other count as 7 — still senior. Radio's +12 wins.
const s = game();
meet(s, 'radio');
advance(s);
assert.equal(s.trays.get('mine')!.position.at, 'mainline', 'the meet was dispatched');
assert.ok(areaOf(s, 0).dispatchUsedToday.includes('radio'));
});
it('spends each device only once a Day', () => {
const s = game();
meet(s, 'radio');
advance(s);
assert.deepEqual(areaOf(s, 0).dispatchUsedToday, ['radio']);
// Reset happens at the Day boundary.
s.clock.stage = 12;
s.clock.phase = 'shiftChange';
advance(s);
assert.deepEqual(areaOf(s, 0).dispatchUsedToday, [], 'devices reset each Day');
});
it('gives Radio the largest bonus and Telegraph the smallest', () => {
assert.equal(enhancementRule('telegraph')!.dispatchBonus, 4);
assert.equal(enhancementRule('telephone')!.dispatchBonus, 8);
assert.equal(enhancementRule('radio')!.dispatchBonus, 12);
});
});
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
describe('defensive enhancements', () => {
it('reports district protection only once actually built', () => {
// These guard against opponent-directed cards, which a solitaire deck omits entirely (Q6).
const s = game();
assert.equal(isProtectedFromDerail(areaOf(s, 0)), false);
const card = straight();
card.enhancements.push('facingPointLocks');
addCard(s, at(0, 2), card);
assert.equal(isProtectedFromDerail(areaOf(s, 0)), true);
assert.equal(hasDistrictEnhancement(areaOf(s, 0), 'waterColumn'), false);
});
});