Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Opus 5
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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
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<title>Station Master</title>
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/* Not a fourth door: reading the guide is not a way to play, and giving it equal weight in the
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grid would say it is. A line under the doors, where somebody who does not know what to click
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will already be looking. */
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<img src="./images/station-master-splash.jpg"
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alt="Station Master — TimeTable & Train Order Railroading, 1840–1950. Box art: two trains meet at a junction beside a train order office."
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width="560" height="700">
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<div class="hero-content">
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<h1>Station Master</h1>
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<p class="tag">TimeTable and Train Order (TT&TO) railroading, 1840–1950.</p>
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<svg class="trackline" viewBox="0 0 700 24" preserveAspectRatio="none" aria-hidden="true">
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</svg>
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<p class="blurb">
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As Station Master in your line-side office, you manage the town's railroad connection. You are
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responsible for all track between your Limits, a district of industries hanging beneath it, and
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trains that arrive whether or not you are ready for them. Spot the right cars, work the loads,
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and get every train away again — a train with nowhere to stand is a collision, and a
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collision costs more than the freight was worth.
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</p>
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<div class="doors">
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<a class="door" id="door-multiplayer" href="./play.html?lobby">
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<h2>Play multiplayer</h2>
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<p id="door-multiplayer-blurb">Play with your friends across the internet. You each run your
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own office area within the entire division. You can play a normal game, or choose co-op or
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cutthroat.</p>
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<span class="go" id="door-multiplayer-go">Set up a game →</span>
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</a>
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<a class="door" href="./play.html?solitaire">
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<h2>Play solitaire</h2>
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<p>Play by yourself and run the entire division for five full days. Clear the Revenue floor of
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15 by the end or the game is a loss. Your game data is saved in your browser — if you close the tab and reopen this site
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without clearing your cache, your game is preserved and you can continue automatically.
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During the game you can also explicitly save your progress for later replay.</p>
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<span class="go">Set up a game →</span>
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</a>
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<a class="door" href="./replays.html">
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<h2>Replays</h2>
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<p>Replay a saved game, step by step or advancing automatically through phases, Stages and
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Days. Open one saved on the site, or a saved file that someone has sent you.</p>
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<span class="go">Browse replays →</span>
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</a>
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</div>
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<p class="newhere">New to Station Master?
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<a href="./quickstart.html">Read the Quickstart guide</a> — what the game is, how you win,
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how a Stage runs, what is on the screen, and a first twenty minutes. About twenty minutes to
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read, and it will save you an hour of guessing.</p>
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<footer>
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<span>build <span id="build">__BUILD__</span></span>
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<span>Multiplayer runs on StartOS server. Solitaire runs entirely in your browser.</span>
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<img src="./images/station-master-splash.jpg"
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alt="Station Master — TimeTable & Train Order Railroading, 1840–1950. Box art: two trains meet at a junction beside a train order office.">
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