Two fair-map matches showed MRP annihilating Stream by ~5min. Build-order
telemetry (new BALTYPES histogram in balance.lua) found the cause: Stream's
podfarm arrived at 5.8min vs MRP's merchtable at 1.7min, so the cheap-swarm
faction fielded 1 bufferbot against 17 djgrunts, and Stream spent 1500cr on the
Algorithm superweapon before it had an army.
Fixes:
* BuildingFractions: barracks 1 -> 10, factories 1 -> 6 so army buildings come
before tech. Result: podfarm 5.8min -> 2.5min, algorithm 3.3min -> 5.8min,
and Stream survived to 9.5min with 13 buildings instead of being wiped at 5.2.
* BuildingDelays on mastering/algorithm (4500) — no superweapon before an army.
* UnitsToBuild shares normalised. Reading UnitBuilderBotModule showed these are
PERCENTAGES of army composition, and mine summed to 233% per faction, which
made unit selection collapse to iteration order and starved Stream of infantry.
balance_report.py now emits a verdict (flatline / runaway / stalled production)
and refuses to judge matches under 5 minutes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fixes a critical bug: undeployed MCV vans now count for short-game survival —
previously every match ended at tick 1 (all players 'defeated', local player
'won'). The bot-vs-bot shellmap claim from earlier rounds was invalid for the
same reason: shellmaps stall with Bot: players and matches insta-ended. The
arena map + tools/balance_report.py is the real, verified harness.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
