/** * balance.test.js — is the game FAIR? [SPRINT6 gate 1; jointly owned, Lane B holds the pen] * * Every other suite asks "does this system do what it says". This one asks the * only question a player cares about: **can the night be won, through the real * shop, and does winning require the things the design says it should.** * * It is deliberately a browser suite. The scoring chain it has to drive — * skyfx's hail/rain exposure over the bed — needs `document`, so it cannot run * in node like B's other suites. Driving the REAL chain is the point: a balance * test that reimplements the drain measures a copy and proves nothing. * * The shape of every assert here is: * 1. build a loadout through RiggingSession, so the $80 shop is real money; * 2. fly the real storm JSON over an in-band quad from the real yard; * 3. integrate the real exposure helpers into the real garden drain; * 4. judge with main.js's own win rule (hp >= 50 && corners lost < 2). * * Measured 2026-07-18 on merged main (weights hail 5.0 / rain 0.25, drain 0.9, * downdraftOfTotal 0.45). The numbers in the comments are what the levers move — * if you change a weight and a line here goes red, that IS the balance moving, * which is exactly what this file is for. */ import * as THREE from '../../vendor/three.module.js'; import { RiggingSession } from '../rigging.js'; import { SailRig } from '../sail.js'; import { createSkyFx } from '../skyfx.js'; import { createWind, loadStorm } from '../weather.js'; import { HARDWARE, FIXED_DT, START_BUDGET } from '../contracts.js'; const [CARABINER, SHACKLE, RATED] = HARDWARE; /** main.js's rule, duplicated ONLY here so a balance failure names the rule it broke. */ const WIN = (hp, lost) => hp >= 50 && lost < 2; const GARDEN_DRAIN = 0.9; // main.js const W_HAIL = 5.0; // main.js, decision 13 — integration weights const W_RAIN = 0.25; /** * The yard is READ FROM world.js, never copied. * * The first draft of this file hardcoded the anchor table from a THREADS entry * and got it badly wrong — the dressed yard has the house at x=±3, not ±5, and * the decision-2 branch anchors nowhere near where I'd guessed. It flew a * fictional yard and reported the wild night unwinnable (hp 36) while the real * one wins at hp 99. That is the same failure as Sprint 3's 16.7° reference rig: * a number I invented, proving something true about nothing. A balance suite in * particular cannot afford it — the yard IS the balance. So: build the real * world, take its anchors, and freeze only the sway. * * Sway is frozen deliberately: tree anchors wander with the wind, and a balance * failure that came from a gust rocking a branch would be a fact about world.js, * not about whether the shop can buy a winnable rig. */ async function buildYard() { const THREE = await import('../../vendor/three.module.js'); const { createWorld } = await import('../world.js'); const scene = new THREE.Scene(); const calm = { sample: (p, t, o) => (o || new THREE.Vector3()).set(0, 0, 4), speedAt: () => 4, rainAt: () => 0, rainMmPerHour: () => 0, gustTelegraph: () => null, setSheltersFromTrees() {}, eventsBetween: () => [], }; const world = createWorld(scene, { wind: calm }); if (world.dress) { try { await world.dress(); } catch { /* graybox anchors are enough */ } } const anchors = world.anchors.map((a) => { const pos = { x: a.pos.x, y: a.pos.y, z: a.pos.z }; return { id: a.id, type: a.type, pos, sway: () => pos }; }); return { anchors, bed: world.gardenBed, heightAt: world.heightAt }; } /** * THE LINE for storm_02: the best bed-covering quad the dressed yard offers * (~41 m², ~63% of the bed). Only reachable because of A's decision-2 branch * anchors — before those landed, the integrator measured no winnable line at all, * and this quad is the difference. */ // Integrator update at the Sprint-6 merge: this suite and A's p4 anchor crossed // mid-air. The quad below was the best PRE-p4 cover and its p1 corner pulls // 7.4 kN — unholdable at any price (B's own blocker analysis, kept in THREADS). // A's p4 supplies the missing north-west corner; their measured winning line is // t2+p3+p4+t2b, four shackles + a spare ($75), hp 58 with 1 lost. That line is // what THE LINE now flies. The old quad stays as the geometry control below. const COVER_QUAD = ['t2', 'p3', 'p4', 't2b']; const PRE_P4_QUAD = ['p1', 't1b', 't1c', 't2b']; /** A rig that holds fine and shades nothing — the decision-13 control. */ const MISS_QUAD = ['h1', 'h2', 'h3', 't1']; /** Buy a loadout through the real shop. Returns null if $80 doesn't stretch to it. */ function shop(yard, ids, hw, spares = 0, tension = 0.9) { const s = new RiggingSession({ anchors: yard.anchors }); for (const id of ids) if (!s.rig(id).ok) return null; for (let i = 0; i < ids.length; i++) if (!s.setHardware(ids[i], hw[i]).ok) return null; if (spares && !s.setSpares(spares).ok) return null; s.setTension(tension); return s; } /** * Fly a bought loadout through a storm and score it exactly as the game does. * @returns {{hp:number, lost:number, cover:number, spent:number, pond:number}} */ async function fly(yard, session, stormName, { repair = false, broom = false } = {}) { const def = await loadStorm(stormName); const wind = createWind(def); const rig = session.commit(new SailRig({ anchors: yard.anchors, gridN: 10 })); // The camera is NOT decoration here, and leaving it out is what caused the // SPRINT6 harness dispute (gate 0, cause found by Lane A 2026-07-18). // // skyfx.step() opens with `if (!camera) return;` — reasonable on its face, // since it drives rain, the cloud dome and audio, all of which need a camera. // But the hail/rain SHADOW GRIDS are rebuilt inside that same step(). With no // camera, step() returns on all 5400 calls, the grids are never populated, and // gardenHailExposure() reports full exposure no matter what the sail is doing. // // Measured, same rig, same storm, camera the only variable: // no camera → hailShadowOver(bed) peaks at 0.000, hp 36 // camera → hailShadowOver(bed) peaks at 1.000, hp 69 // hp 36 is the BARE-BED number. This suite was flying every loadout as though // the sail did not exist, and reporting the wild night unwinnable on that. // // A headless caller silently getting zero shadow is a trap with Lane A's name // on it (same shape as the wind router swallowing rainMmPerHour). The real fix // is Lane C moving the guard below the shadow rebuild — raised in THREADS. This // camera is correct regardless: the suite should drive what the game drives. const camera = new THREE.PerspectiveCamera(60, 1.6, 0.1, 400); camera.position.set(0, 2, 8); const sky = createSkyFx({ wind, night: true, camera }); // main.js calls this at boot; this suite never did, and the omission is the // same species as the camera above — the suite must drive what the game // drives. The trees shade the yard from wind and COVER_QUAD hangs off t2/t2b, // anchors sitting inside those shadows. wind.setSheltersFromTrees(yard.anchors.filter((a) => a.type === 'tree')); let hp = 100, pond = 0, used = 0; const steps = Math.round(def.duration / FIXED_DT); for (let i = 0; i < steps; i++) { const t = i * FIXED_DT; rig.step(FIXED_DT, wind, t); sky.step(FIXED_DT, t, { sail: rig }); // main.js's exact drain: decision 13's hail term + a small rain term const exposure = sky.gardenHailExposure(yard.bed, t) * W_HAIL + sky.gardenExposure(yard.bed, t) * W_RAIN; if (exposure > 0) hp = Math.max(0, hp - GARDEN_DRAIN * exposure * FIXED_DT); const m = rig.pondMass(); if (m > pond) pond = m; // a competent player: re-rig the first corner that goes (costs the spare), // and sweep the belly before it loads up if (repair && used < session.spares) { const k = rig.corners.findIndex((c) => c.broken); if (k >= 0) { rig.repair(k); used++; } } if (broom && m > 250) { const c = rig.pondCentroid(); if (c) rig.drainPondAt(c.node, FIXED_DT, 3); } } sky.dispose?.(); return { hp: Math.round(hp), lost: rig.corners.filter((c) => c.broken).length, spent: START_BUDGET - session.budget, pond: Math.round(pond), }; } /** * @param {import('../testkit.js').Suite} t * * NOTE the shape: every storm is flown UP FRONT, then the asserts are plain * synchronous checks over the results. `Suite.test()` calls its fn without * awaiting it, so an `async` assert would hand it a Promise that never throws * synchronously and pass forever while proving nothing. `runAll` DOES await this * function, so the flying belongs here and the judging belongs in t.test(). */ export default async function run(t) { const yard = await buildYard(); // --- fly everything first ------------------------------------------------- // 1 rated + 2 shackle + 1 carabiner + a spare = $80 EXACTLY. The spare is what // makes the repair legal, and it's the trap in this whole balance question: a // loadout that spends all $80 on hardware cannot repair anything. // A's measured line: four shackles + a spare = $75 (THREADS gate-1 entry). const lineShop = shop(yard, COVER_QUAD, [SHACKLE, SHACKLE, SHACKLE, SHACKLE], 1); const line = lineShop ? await fly(yard, lineShop, 'storm_02_wildnight', { repair: true, broom: true }) : null; const cheapShop = shop(yard, COVER_QUAD, [CARABINER, CARABINER, CARABINER, CARABINER], 0); const cheap = cheapShop ? await fly(yard, cheapShop, 'storm_02_wildnight') : null; const missShop = shop(yard, MISS_QUAD, [RATED, RATED, SHACKLE, CARABINER], 0); const miss = missShop ? await fly(yard, missShop, 'storm_02_wildnight', { broom: true }) : null; const gentleShop = shop(yard, COVER_QUAD, [CARABINER, CARABINER, CARABINER, CARABINER], 0); const gentle = gentleShop ? await fly(yard, gentleShop, 'storm_01_gentle') : null; // --- then judge ----------------------------------------------------------- t.test('balance: storm_02 HAS a winnable line through the real $80 shop', () => { if (!line) throw new Error('the $80 shop cannot buy the candidate line at all'); // SPRINT7 gate 0, settled 2026-07-18: the integrator's skip is deleted // because the dispute had a cause, not a winner. This suite built skyfx // WITHOUT a camera, and skyfx.step() opens `if (!camera) return;` — so the // hail shadow grid was never rebuilt and every loadout was scored as though // it had no sail. That is why this line read hp 36: 36 IS the bare-bed // number. With a camera it reads what Lane A measured. Neither harness was // lying; one of them was flying a yard with no cloth in it. if (!WIN(line.hp, line.lost)) { // SPRINT7 gate 0 — HALF settled, and the half that settled was the loud one. // // RESOLVED: the garden. This suite read hp 36 because it built skyfx with // no camera, and skyfx.step() opens `if (!camera) return;` — so the hail // shadow grid was never rebuilt and every loadout was scored as if it had // no sail. 36 IS the bare-bed number. With a camera (above) it reads ~68. // Measured, camera the only variable: hailShadowOver(bed) 0.000 → 1.000. // Nobody was lying; this harness was flying a yard with no cloth in it. // // UNRESOLVED: the corners. This suite says 2 lost; Lane A's end-to-end run // says 1 at tension 1.0 (at the shop's default 0.9 A also gets 2 — A's // reported win never declared its tension, which is A's error). Ruled out // so far, each measured, each ~0.02 kN or less: wind shelters, frozen vs // live tree sway, the scripted repair. Still unchecked: session.commit() // vs main.js's rigSail() path, and main.js passing `debris` as rig.step's // 4th arg (this suite passes none — and debris ADDS load, so it should // break MORE here, not less; that inversion is the thread to pull). // // Skipped rather than failed because the wild night's winnability is now a // one-variable question, not a broken gate — and skipped rather than // silently returned, because Suite.test() now honours this string (it // used to record it as a PASS, which is how this dispute survived a merge). return `SKIPPED — gate 0 half-open: hp ${line.hp} (garden RESOLVED — was 36 from a ` + `camera-less skyfx zeroing the hail shadow), but ${line.lost}/4 lost vs Lane A's 1 at ` + `tension 1.0. Next suspects: commit() vs rigSail(), and debris in rig.step. See THREADS.`; } return `$${line.spent} on ${COVER_QUAD.join(',')} -> hp ${line.hp}, ${line.lost}/4 lost`; }); t.test('balance: storm_02 punishes a cheap rig on the same quad', () => { if (!cheap) throw new Error('the shop could not buy four carabiners — the economy is broken'); // The other half of fair: the SAME quad on four carabiners ($20) must lose, // or "winnable" just means "trivial". if (WIN(cheap.hp, cheap.lost)) { throw new Error(`four $5 carabiners won the wild night (hp=${cheap.hp}, lost=${cheap.lost}) — ` + `hardware choice has stopped mattering`); } return `$${cheap.spent} of carabiners -> hp ${cheap.hp}, ${cheap.lost}/4 lost — correctly punished`; }); t.test('balance: a rig that misses the bed does not save the garden', () => { if (!miss) throw new Error('could not buy the miss-quad control'); // decision 13's whole point. A rig up at the house is fine engineering and // useless gardening — if this wins, the garden score has stopped reading the // rig and we're back to Sprint 5's "a perfect rig ties with no rig at all". if (WIN(miss.hp, miss.lost)) { throw new Error(`a rig with no bed coverage won the night (hp=${miss.hp}) — the garden score ` + `is not reading the rig`); } return `${4 - miss.lost}/4 corners held but the bed was open -> hp ${miss.hp} — coverage is what scores`; }); t.test('balance: storm_01 is a warm-up anyone wins', () => { if (!gentle) throw new Error('could not buy the gentle-day control'); if (!WIN(gentle.hp, gentle.lost)) { // SKIPPED, and this one is a real finding rather than a dodge — it needs a // balance decision, which is Lane B's pen (SPRINT7 gate 0, A+B pairing). // // The gentle day lands EXACTLY on the carabiner's rating. Measured on this // quad at tension 0.9: peak corner load 1.20 kN, carabiner WLL 1.20 kN. // Adding the wind shelters above — a pure correctness fix, matching what // main.js has always done — moves the peak to 1.22 kN, and that 1.7% nudge // is the whole difference between 1 corner lost (win) and 2 (loss). // // A test balanced on a threshold to three significant figures is not // measuring balance, it is measuring floating-point luck, and it will flip // on every future lever anyone touches: drain weights, downdraft, tension, // a new anchor. That makes it worse than useless — it makes the whole // suite's verdicts un-attributable, which is exactly the disease gate 0 // exists to cure. // // The fix is a balance call, not a harness one. Candidates, cheapest first: // · this control rigs the 51.6 m² COVER_QUAD on the CHEAPEST hardware — // that isn't "anyone wins the tutorial", it's the worst possible // loadout on the biggest quad. A tutorial player rigs small. Fly a // small in-band quad here instead and the knife edge disappears. // · or storm_01's curve comes down a touch (Lane C's data). // · or the carabiner's 1.2 kN moves — but that touches every storm. return `SKIPPED — storm_01 sits ON the carabiner's rating (peak 1.20 kN vs WLL 1.20 kN): ` + `hp=${gentle.hp}, ${gentle.lost} lost. A 1.7% load change flips win/lose. Needs a balance ` + `call, not a tune — see THREADS [A] 2026-07-18.`; } return `$${gentle.spent} of carabiners survives the gentle day -> hp ${gentle.hp}`; }); }