6afd1ed7a3
Two sessions disagreed by 90 draws and neither was wrong. Worst draw per BEARING, 12 bearings x
102 stations down the same spine, one tree, one box: 0deg 284 · 30deg 248 · 60deg 208 · 90deg 177 ·
120deg 196 · 150deg 214 · 180deg 211 · 210deg 207 · 240deg 178 · 270deg 182 · 300deg 223 ·
330deg 267. 110 draws of spread from the camera direction alone, on identical positions -- and the
peak sits at yaw 0, the DEFAULT ARGUMENT of DBG.teleport(x, z, ry = 0). The city-patterns audit
took the default and landed on the worst bearing (280, reproduced at 282-292); the animal spike
supplied a yaw and landed mid-range (191, reproduced at 205-215). Correct numbers, different
quantities. Lane B's independent R37 walk (276 draws / 99,880 tris) and mine (282 / 99,878) agree
on TRIANGLES TO 2 -- the same frame through two harnesses.
THE PIN, default boot, synthetic golden seed, tree 7bd96e5, walked the spine:
292 draws of 300 (NIGHT, 31 live chunks -- the R+1 dispose window at maximum)
120,145 tris on synthetic; 124,793 on fitzroy_real, the corpus worst
?classic=1: 269 draws / 90,580 tris
margin: EIGHT draws (the audit said "about twenty") and ~75k tris
The worst-draw frame and the worst-tri frame are NOT the same frame. Real towns are draw-cheap and
tri-dear; the synthetic town is the opposite. The audit's "99k-124k" tri range is confirmed and
pinned at its top.
Also measured: viewport is IRRELEVANT (1280x720 and 2560x1440 identical to the byte -- culling is
frustum-shaped, not pixel-shaped) · the R+1 dispose residue is worth +19 draws, not the 60-80
folklore (the rest is place and bearing) · CitizenSim's per-frame rig-acquisition budget means any
one-render-per-station sampler photographs a half-dressed street · ?r=3 measures 307 draws and
BREACHES the 300 gate through an ungated override (filed, not fixed) · ?shadows=1 costs +38 draws
and +38% tris · Lane B's kerb change independently confirmed at +0 draws / -8 tris at the worst
frame, by a harness B did not write.
THE SHARED INSTANCE CAP: 256, one InstancedMesh, town-wide. Measured +1 draw at every N from 32 to
2048, and N x tris/instance ALWAYS submitted (the instance bounding sphere spans the town). Draws
are not the constraint; triangles are. 256 x a 2-4 tri cell = 512-1,024 tris = 0.5% of budget;
0.01 ms/frame to rewrite every matrix. Binding companions: <=24 tris/instance at the cap, and spend
it PROXIMITY-FIRST -- anchor supply runs from synthetic's 246 poles over 6.8 km to bendigo_real's
7,325 over 188 km, so 256 sprayed town-wide there is one instance per 730 m.
Honest limit stated where the number is quoted: headless SwiftShader cannot change a draw or
triangle count (both are counted in JS, and the viewport control proves it), but frame TIME remains
unmeasured on any real GPU and no v8 proposal may claim a millisecond figure.
Re-pinned in LANE_F_NOTES 37; the four other docs that assert the number are flagged with what each
line should now say rather than edited in another author's file. README flags table gains ?verge=0
(Lane B's control, F's file) and a row naming the ?r=3 breach.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# PROCITY
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A standalone, procedurally generated, fully walkable 90s-Australian shopping town — every
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building enterable (the Vuntra City trick), every interior seeded and themed: record stores,
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op shops, toy shops, book barns, video rental, pawnbrokers, milk bars, market stalls. Built on
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the proven house stack (three.js r175 vendored, plain JS, no build step) and the asset DNA of
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90sDJsim + thriftgod. v1 is the *system*; the GODVERSE/BaseGod real-item content plugs in later.
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## Run
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```
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cd web && python3 -m http.server 8130
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# http://localhost:8130 (game shell — Lane B)
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# http://localhost:8130/map.html (2D plan debugger — Lane A)
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```
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## The manual — how to play (private test)
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Click **START** to lock the mouse. Then:
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| input | does |
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|---|---|
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| **W A S D** + mouse | walk / look (first person) |
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| walk into a shop door | enter the interior (open shops only — check the hours tooltip) |
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| **E** (inside a shop) | open the crate at a record bin — then it's cursor-driven: click sleeves to riffle, click BUY |
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| **E** (at the counter) · **C** (anywhere) · **SLEEP** (bottom bar) | sell a find to the keeper (he pays under the **guide band**, never over) · open THE CRATE — your collection, in shops too now · sleep = save, the day advances, stock rotates |
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| read the **guide** stamp on every price card | the 90s price-guide band ("guide $8–24"). An item **asking under its band is a gem** — buy it, sell it to a keeper, pocket the margin. Bought slots stay gone for the day (the bin remembers) |
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| **☆ WANT IT** on a pull card | start hunting it — keepers gossip ("saw one in Castlemaine"), and buying one clears the hunt. **Switching towns costs a day** — the 23 towns are a map now, not a dropdown |
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| **⚖ LIST** in the crate | consign a find to **GodBay** — the auction hammers overnight (sleep or ride somewhere). One hammer per item, ever: keeper cash now, or the gavel tomorrow |
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| wake up (sleep or arrive) | **the morning paper** rides the wake/arrival toast: "⚖ SOLD 'Milk Bar Dreams' — hammer $8, $7 after fees" (or "PASSED IN — it comes home"). The news is a toast, never saved — the ledger is your cash and crate |
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| click a book spine / toy box | pull-and-buy card (real price stickers in godverse shops) |
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| walk out the door / **Esc** | leave the shop (Esc also frees the mouse anywhere) |
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| **M** | 2D town map (street only) |
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| **[** / **]** | step time of day back / forward · **T** pauses the clock |
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| **P** | capture screenshots (street) |
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| HUD dropdown (top-left) | switch towns — synthetic, fixtures, 23 real AU towns, godverse |
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Worth trying: `?classic=1` (the original v2 town, byte-identical forever) · `?noassets=1`
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(zero-network boot) · `?stock=real` in a godverse town (Monster Robot Party's actual crate) ·
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`?seed=<n>` (any number = a different town). Night is when the gigs happen — step time with `]`.
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## Read first
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- **`docs/CITY_SPEC.md`** — the treaty: schema, units, seeds, budgets, file ownership.
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- **`docs/V7_THE_GAME.md`** — the CURRENT epoch (ratified): persistence, the collection, the
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gem thrill. `docs/V6_LIVING_STREET.md` runs in parallel (mocap NPCs, footpaths, cars).
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- **`docs/THE_FRONTIER.md`** — the honest map of what is not figured out yet.
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- **`docs/RESEARCH.md`** — what the parent repos already solved, with exact paths to port from.
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## The lanes (parallel Opus 4.8 sessions)
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Each lane is a self-contained prompt. To run one, start an Opus session in this repo and say:
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**"Read docs/LANES/LANE_X_….md and execute it."** A–E are parallel-safe (disjoint files,
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standalone test pages); F integrates after they land.
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| lane | mission | owns |
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| [A — CITYGEN](docs/LANES/LANE_A_CITYGEN.md) | seed → CityPlan data (streets, blocks, lots, shops) + 2D map | `js/citygen`, `js/core/registry.js`, `map.html` |
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| [B — STREETSCAPE](docs/LANES/LANE_B_STREETSCAPE.md) | chunk-streamed instanced 3D town + game shell | `index.html`, `js/world` |
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| [C — INTERIORS](docs/LANES/LANE_C_INTERIORS.md) | every door opens: seeded themed shop interiors | `js/interiors`, `interior_test.html` |
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| [D — CITIZENS](docs/LANES/LANE_D_CITIZENS.md) | rigged-near / impostor-far NPCs + shopkeepers | `js/citizens`, `citizens_test.html`, `models/` |
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| [E — ASSETS](docs/LANES/LANE_E_ASSETS.md) | audit ultra's library, normalize GLBs, skins, manifest | `pipeline/`, `assets/` |
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| [F — INTEGRATION](docs/LANES/LANE_F_INTEGRATION.md) | wire A–E into one seed-to-town game + QA gates | (after A–E) |
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## Already in the repo
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- `web/vendor/` — three.js r175 + addons (vendored from 90sDJsim; no CDN at runtime).
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- `web/assets/gen/` — 69 generated texture skins (25 shopfront facades, 10 skies, 10 grounds,
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8 wallpapers, 16 interior surfaces) inherited from thriftgod + 90sDJsim, style-locked.
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- `web/js/core/` — frozen shared modules: `prng.js` (seeded-everything law), `loaders.js`
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(fail-soft promise-cached GLB/texture + 3GOD depot), `canvas.js` (text planes).
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## House laws (short form — CITY_SPEC has the fine print)
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Seeded everything, `Math.random` banned in gen code · the game must run with zero assets ·
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instancing from day one · canvas text, no font files · characters = shared base rigs + one
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clip bank, canonical sources live outside this repo · 🟢 web-ok licensing only.
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## v3.1 — THE FLIP: the town shows its best by default
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The Friday-night layer soaked through alpha, beta, and the v3.0 release — so **v3.1 flips it on by
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default**, and the mature v2 flags flip with it. Boot the plain URL and each town seeds **2–4 venues**
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(pub, band room, RSL) with a **full seeded week of gigs**, town-wide **posters**, and a Friday night that
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reads: a **4-piece band** (trio + a **seated drummer**) with real instruments, a mixed **crowd**, an
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outdoor **queue**, a per-venue **cover charge**, muffled **gig spill** + **walla and applause**,
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town-wide **streetlamp pools**, and **identity continuity** — the ped you followed in is in the crowd.
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Plus **weather**, the **tram**, and the parallax interior-**window shader**, all live by default.
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**The covenant moved, it didn't disappear.** `?classic=1` boots the **exact v2 town** — byte-identical
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forever (synthetic golden `0x3fa36874`, zero gig layer, zero fetch delta). That is the new frozen
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regression target; the default boot is deterministic to the gig golden `0xb1d48ea1`. Asset-free
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(`?noassets=1`) composes with the default boot and stays silent-and-fine.
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**Flags** — the four headliners are **ON by default**, each with a `=0` opt-out; `?classic=1` is the
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master off:
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| flag | default | what |
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| `?classic=1` | off | **the exact v2 boot** — all four below off, byte-identical to the frozen baseline |
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| `?gigs=0` | **on** | the gig district — venues, week schedule, band/crowd/queue, cover, posters, night pass |
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| `?weather=0` · `?tram=0` · `?winmap=0` | **on** | seeded weather · the tram loop · the parallax interior-window shader |
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| `?roster=v1` · `?pop=N` | stream | chunk-streamed citizen density is the baseline; `?roster=v1` restores the fixed roster |
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| `?dig=0` · `?stock=real` | dig on | crate-riffle on record bins · real GODVERSE sleeves in the stock |
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| `?verge=0` | **off** | reverts the ground to the **pre-kerb-ruling** geometry (bitumen painted to the full corridor). John's v8 ruling made the 9 m band between kerb and shopfront **footpath**; this flag keeps the old geometry available forever as the gate's falsifiability control — the poster-clearance leg is asserted to FAIL under it |
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| `?r=N` · `?shadows=0\|1` | auto | streaming radius and the sun-shadow pass. **Auto is load-bearing**: a big town (>120 shops or >200 street edges) gets radius 2 with shadows off. Forcing `?r=3` on the default town measures **307 draws**, i.e. over the 300 gate — these overrides are diagnostics, not supported boots |
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| `?live=1` · `?live=<url>` | **off** | **tier 2** — live stock from the GODVERSE server (sold-in-the-real-shop means gone in the game). Opt-in by design: absent ⇒ byte-identical to tier 1, and the game never asks a question it has no reason to expect an answer to |
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| `?noassets=1` · `?plansrc=osm` · `?mute=1` · `?dbg=1` | off | asset-free (zero network) · OSM plan source · silence · the `window.DBG` capture/soak harness |
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| `?plansrc=osm&town=<key>` | — | boot a **real Australian town**: fixtures `melbourne`/`katoomba`/`silverton`, or a real OSM cache `bendigo_real`/`castlemaine_real`/`fremantle_real`/`katoomba_real`/`newtown_real` (ODbL, `web/assets/towns/SOURCES.md`). **REAL ROADS:** a cache with `roads[]` (schema v2) builds the CityPlan street graph from the town's **actual OSM streets**; without `roads[]` a cache marches onto synthetic avenues. Or just **pick a town from the HUD selector** — no URL needed |
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## v4.0 — THE REAL MAP: the towns *are* the product
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**23 real Australian towns — 1,210 real shops, every state and territory — on their actual streets.** Not
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"inspired by": Fitzroy's shops sit on Fitzroy's roads, at their real positions, because the pipeline eats
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OpenStreetMap and marches it through the same CityPlan contract the procedural town uses. **Pick one from
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the in-HUD selector and walk it.** Everything built across v1–v3 comes along unchanged — the venues and their
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seeded week of gigs, the 4-piece band with the seated drummer, the crowd that follows you into the pub, the
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interiors behind every door, weather, the tram — because they all hang off the plan contract and never had
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to know the geography got real.
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The towns run from **meccas** (Fitzroy, 160 shops) to the **thin tail** (12), at real retail density: the
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secondhand heroes keep their footfall while the street around them gets ~4× busier — texture, never a
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takeover. Venues bias to the retail heart. The tram only runs where it fronts a real high street (elsewhere
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it was honestly "a highway bus", so it's fenced). Everything stays **deterministic from the seed**, silent
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under `?noassets=1`, and **`?classic=1` still boots the exact v2 town, byte-identical forever** (`0x3fa36874`).
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**The tour:** [`docs/shots/release_v4/contact.html`](docs/shots/release_v4/) — the Fremantle hero, the
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Fitzroy mecca, the thin tail (labelled honestly: the floor is shops-per-street-metre, and Toowoomba is
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below it), the synthetic control, and the `?classic=1` covenant made visible. Charter:
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[`docs/V4_REAL_MAP.md`](docs/V4_REAL_MAP.md) · data + licences (ODbL):
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[`web/assets/towns/SOURCES.md`](web/assets/towns/SOURCES.md).
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## v5.0-alpha — THE FIRST REAL CRATE: the shops get real too
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**v4 made the towns real. v5 makes the shops real** — and the first one is standing.
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Boot `?plansrc=osm&town=redhill_godverse&stock=real`, walk down **Musgrave Road** into **Monster Robot
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Party** (147 Musgrave Rd, Red Hill, Brisbane — a real record shop), and riffle its crate. The records in
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it are **that shop's real stock**: 120 real records off its real point-of-sale, real covers, real titles,
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real prices. Buy one and the wallet debits what the sticker says. It's gone for the session and back next
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boot — because until the live tier lands, the crate is a **file**, not a shop's ledger.
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**Stock is a data tier now**, exactly like assets — each rung fully playable, each degrading softly to
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the one below, so the game never depends on a server to be a game:
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| tier | what | deterministic? |
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| **0 · parody** | seeded canvas sleeves (v1) — any boot, always works | yes — the QA baseline |
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| **1 · static real** | per-shop atlases baked from the shop's own POS | yes — atlases are files |
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| **2 · live GODVERSE** | `?live=1` — live stock off the real till: **sell a record in the shop and it's gone from the game crate** | **no — by design** |
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**The offline law:** the server enriches, never gates. `?noassets=1` still fetches **zero bytes** and plays
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silent-and-fine; a shop whose atlas is missing falls soft to parody rather than borrowing someone else's
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crate; and **`?classic=1` still boots the exact v2 town, byte-identical forever** (`0x3fa36874`). The
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world stays seeded and golden-gated — only the *stock inside it* is data.
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**Provenance:** item photos are each shop's own product shots, 🟢 in-house — **flagged before any public
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or commercial release**, and every atlas carries that flag where the QA gate must print it. Real titles
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and artists are an in-house amendment to the no-real-trademarks law, on the same footing. **Nothing an
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in-game purchase does touches real inventory** — v5.0 ships sell-sandboxed by ruling; a real reservation
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tier is chartered for v5.x, not assumed. Charter: [`docs/V5_REAL_SHOP.md`](docs/V5_REAL_SHOP.md) ·
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economy design: [`docs/G3_ECONOMY_DESIGN.md`](docs/G3_ECONOMY_DESIGN.md).
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| `?seed=N` | `20261990` | town seed |
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**Release tour:** [`docs/shots/release_v3_1/contact.html`](docs/shots/release_v3_1/) — the money shots on
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the default boot, plus a `?classic=1` before/after. **QA:** `tools/qa.sh --strict` (classic regression +
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default-boot gate + smokes + no-giants) `--soak` (the full-week soak); the seated drummer passes the
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no-giants gate at the seated stature band `[0.9,1.5] m`.
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## v7.0 — THE GAME: you're a crate-digger in 90s Australia
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v4 made the towns real, v5 made the shops real — **v7 makes it a game.** Boot the plain URL on a
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fresh browser and you arrive HUNTING: the splash names a seeded first want and your pocket money
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("You're hunting HILLS HOIST — $191 in your pocket"), three toast-beats walk you through the first
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dig, and from there the loop is live:
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**dig** (E at a record bin — the crate riffle) → **read the guide** (every price card carries a 90s
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price-guide band; an item asking *under* its band is a gem, and spotting one is the whole skill) →
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**☆ WANT** what you're hunting (keepers gossip seeded rumors — "saw one in Castlemaine") →
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**travel** (switching towns costs a day; the 23 towns are a strategy map) → sell to the **keeper**
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(instant cash, always under guide — the no-pump law) or **⚖ LIST on GodBay** (a seeded offline
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auction that hammers overnight; one hammer per item, ever — no retry farm) → **SLEEP** (= save; the
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day advances, parody/mint stock rotates per (shop, day), bought slots come back) → wake to **the
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morning paper** ("⚖ SOLD — hammer $22, $19 after fees"). Repeat, richer and one gem wiser.
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The machinery under it: a versioned localStorage save carrying THE DELTA ONLY (cash · collection ·
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day · town · wants · pulls · listings — the world always regenerates from seed, so a corrupt save
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can cost you your stuff, never the town), JSON export/import for moving machines, and an economy
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fenced by gates: sell < guide-band structurally, auction EV ≈ 0.8×mid (random flips bleed; only
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finds profit), save/load byte-determinism, rotation seeded by (citySeed, shop, day).
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**`?classic=1` still boots the pure v2 town — zero save, zero game DOM, zero Storage calls,
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instrumented every run** — and `?game=0` opts out of the layer on any boot. Charter:
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[`docs/V7_THE_GAME.md`](docs/V7_THE_GAME.md) (ratified 2026-07-17, risk verdicts appended at the
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close) · economy: [`docs/G3_ECONOMY_DESIGN.md`](docs/G3_ECONOMY_DESIGN.md) · the tour (day one to
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first gem, 6 frames, no staging): [`docs/shots/v7_tour/`](docs/shots/v7_tour/).
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