Jesse
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Adds SVG board rendering shared by the game and the replay, a splash page with a shareable replay directory, hover tooltips for reference detail, and makes curves two-port arcs so sidings and run-arounds can finally be built.
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# Changelog
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Detail behind each commit. Commit messages stay high level; the reasoning, the measurements, and
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the things that turned out to be wrong live here.
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Measured figures are 100 solitaire Standard games with the developer bot unless stated otherwise.
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The target is 20 Revenue over 5 Days.
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---
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## Unreleased
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Nothing yet.
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---
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## Board rendering, three-page site, curve geometry
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Drawing the board as track, splitting the site, tooltips, and the curve fix.
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### Board rendering
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Two renderers in `src/sim/board-svg.ts`, chosen because they fail in opposite places:
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- **Office Area** — the district stays a map. Cards on a grid with the rails drawn edge to edge, so
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a join is rail meeting rail rather than two descriptions that happen to agree. The through rail
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sits at a constant height on every card, which is the alignment the printed cards use.
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- **The Division** — not a map but a queue of sections with hard capacities, so it is a dispatcher's
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diagram: one line per track, `1 of 2 free` under each section, `no limit — trains queue` at the
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Division Points.
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Both are **self-contained** — no imports, no module-level helpers — because the playable app imports
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them normally while the replay is a single HTML file with an inline script that cannot import
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anything, and embeds them via `Function.toString()`. One implementation either way; a second copy
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would eventually draw a different board from the same state.
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Rails come from the engine's own `connectionsFor`, now exported. A drawn rail cannot claim a
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connection the rules do not have — visible in that **Modifier cards draw no rails at all**.
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Capacity, confirmed from the rules and now shown: Division Points unlimited, most Mainline cards 1,
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Double Track and Uncontrolled Siding 2, Offices 1/2/3/4 by tier.
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### Three pages
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`index.html` is now a splash with two doors. The game moved to `play.html`; `replays.html` is a
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directory.
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**A replay is a save**, and a save is `{seed, history}`. The engine is deterministic and runs in the
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browser, so re-submitting the same moves rebuilds the position exactly — **18 KB instead of 3.4 MB**,
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about 190× smaller, small enough to email. A save that would describe an impossible position cannot
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be replayed at all, because every step goes back through `applyIntent`; the viewer stops and says so
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rather than showing a board the rules could not produce.
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Static hosting cannot list a directory, so `replays/manifest.json` is generated at build time from
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whatever is in `public/replays/`, with each file validated first.
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### Tooltips
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Reference detail is read once and printing it costs the space the board and action list need. A
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single delegated tooltip (`src/web/tooltip.ts`) now carries card effects, action reasoning, and
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facility state. Not the native `title`: that waits a second, cannot be styled, and never appears for
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keyboard users.
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### Curve geometry — the significant fix
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A curve was modelled as a through track **plus** a diverging leg, which is a turnout. Consequences:
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- Curves were **topologically identical duplicates of turnouts** — same connections, no distinction
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beyond the sharp curve's 2-Move cost.
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- Every diverging leg went south, so **no piece anywhere reached north** except an n-s straight,
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which connects n↔s and nothing else.
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- Therefore a district could only ever be a **vertical column**: no siding, no parallel track, no
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run-around, no second turnout back to the main.
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The printed cards (`docs/tracks.png`, rows 3–4) show a curve as a single arc from edge to edge with
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no through track. A curve is now a **two-port arc**, rotatable to `ne`/`nw`/`se`/`sw`. A sharp curve
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is geometrically identical and costs 2 Moves. Turnouts keep §A.1 unchanged — a two-port arc has no
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third port, so the absent-edge rule cannot apply to it.
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Verified through the engine, not the types: a crew leaves the main at a turnout, runs a siding
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parallel, and rejoins at the far end.
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### Measurements
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| | revenue | freight | sidings built |
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| --- | --- | --- | --- |
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| before | 4.1 | 0.5 | impossible |
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| geometry only | **3.9** | 0.9 | possible, not sought |
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| bot builds sidings | 3.3 | **1.1** | **59/60 games** |
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Freight more than doubled and the harness recorded **its first win**, but overall revenue is down
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from geometry-alone and the bad tail worsened (−29 → −59).
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Capping turnouts at one or two measured **worse** (revenue 2.5, freight 0.6) — more ways off the main
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means more industries the crew can reach, and that beats a tidy Running Track. The uncapped version
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stands, with that measurement recorded at the code.
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**The bot builds sidings but does not exploit them.** It pays about 20 of its 26 track pieces for
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them while its switching logic still sets out dead weight on a spur rather than planning a
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run-around. That is the next piece of work and where the revenue should appear.
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---
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## Earlier commits
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Recorded from memory of the work rather than written at the time; detail thins going back.
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### `f00255c` — more fixes and tweaks
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Card descriptions on every card in hand and every face-up slot, the three Local Operations options
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explained, the objective and pace in the header, and rotations named in words rather than
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"rotation 2". Build stamp added (version, git SHA, `-dirty` for an uncommitted tree) because nothing
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tracked what was deployed. Extra X22 was **not** a bug — a per-diem train whose card calls for a
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caboose and nothing else — but "loaded caboose" was.
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### `d1f689d` — name the caboose, the train and the Running Track hazard
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`maneuver.redFlags` was labelled "Red Flags on tray3": the earlier tray-id fix checked the history
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log, and the action list was a surface it missed. An industry on the Running Track does not block
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traffic (§11.2 gives it rails) but a car left standing there is hit by the next arrival (§10).
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### `dd300ac` — fix caching, Limits placement, and explain the board better
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The first deploy served a fresh `index.html` against a **cached** `main.js`, which threw
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`missing element: target` and never started. Every module import now carries the build tag. The
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Limits fix was half-done: the sign could move, but nothing forbade building past it, so one straight
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at (0,2) produced `limits · Whistle Post · limits · straight · limits`.
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### `2eca9de` — playable browser build
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The solitaire game as a static site, proven to need no server: full games run with every Node global
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replaced by a throwing stub. Train cards stopped accepting a board placement — seed 555 had offered
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Extra X15 at six squares with six rotations, all identical.
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### `160190d` — the bot's reasoning in the replay
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Decision panel showing what the bot chose, why, and every option it passed over, with the reasons
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reported by the bot itself rather than re-derived by the viewer.
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### `d261ad7` — parking trains, freight deadlock, Whistle Post lock-in
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Three faults found by measurement rather than failing tests. Trains parked because `destinationsFor`
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computed reverse as `facing === 'e' ? 'w' : 'e'`, so a crew facing south reversed to east — a port a
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north-south card does not have. Freight ran at a **3% load completion rate** because a load started
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with no spotted car parks on WORK and locks the industry track, blocking the very car that would
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clear it. Office density doubled after 25 of 100 games never drew a Depot and never escaped a
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one-track Whistle Post.
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