chore(meta): cascade refocus — supersede v0.2 cluster, re-home backlog tree, capture workshop WIP
Governance: - D-166 amendment (2026-06-12): outside-in build order (geo → econ-on-world → building templates → door boundary contracts → NPC/interiors → gameplay); Phase 5 ramps in parallel once outsides are walkable (gate: T-962) - D-114/D-115/D-117/D-118/D-120 marked superseded by D-166 (inbound anchors fixed) - D-221 amended: milestones retired, cascade-hierarchy gating is canonical - Q-077/Q-068/Q-036 resolved (answered by events); Q-110 (scale anchoring) and Q-111 (live-econ coupling) opened from cascade grounding Ticket tree (147 stray backlog tickets dispositioned): - New parents: T-1036 (post-cascade gameplay parking), T-1037 (maintenance initiative) - Re-homed: 15 → Phase 4 (T-750), 30 → Phase 5 (T-749), 11 → Phase 6 (T-751), 21 → gameplay parking, 28 → maintenance; children follow their epics - Cancelled 12 administrative shells (mirror tickets, emptied pre-cascade umbrellas, v0.2 pivot shell T-603); T-9/T-28 closed done; T-745 in_progress - New grounded tickets T-1038..T-1044: inter-settlement road/rail graph, L3→L4 dispatch threading, river-channel-anchor bug, 64m landform-repeat bug, region seam blending, road-entry octants, drainage re-run fix Docs: - CLAUDE.md cascade paragraph updated to the amended rule - 20 v0.1-era docs/design files marked superseded with pointers; content-structure-canonical retitled (v0.2 label dropped) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- **Source:** Where's the Fun? Workshop, Round 4 Interview, Decision 5
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- **Raised by:** Team Leader (Jeroen) — outcome model (option C)
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- **Dissent:** None
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- **Cross-reference:** [D-120](scope.md#d-120-no-skill-ceiling-in-v02--transhumanist-ladder-deferred) (no skill ceiling in v0.2)
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- **Cross-reference:** [D-120](scope.md#d-120-no-skill-ceiling-in-v02--transhumanist-ladder-deferred-superseded) (no skill ceiling in v0.2)
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### D-134: Full character customization — hair, clothing, colors at tile scale
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- **Date:** 2026-03-05
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- **Source:** Where's the Fun? Workshop, Round 5 Interview, Decision 23
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- **Raised by:** Team Leader (Jeroen)
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- **Dissent:** None
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- **Cross-reference:** [D-114](scope.md#d-114-v02-proof-of-life--generator--graphics-not-hand-built-slice) (generator proof-of-life), [D-119](scope.md#d-119-generator-spike-confirmed-for-sprint-25--critical-path) (Sprint 25 generator spike)
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- **Cross-reference:** [D-114](scope.md#d-114-v02-proof-of-life--generator--graphics-not-hand-built-slice-superseded) (generator proof-of-life), [D-119](scope.md#d-119-generator-spike-confirmed-for-sprint-25--critical-path) (Sprint 25 generator spike)
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### D-141: PlatformInfo — client-side OS abstraction autoload
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- **Date:** 2026-03-13
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| 6 | Detail coloring — room-level content, cultural architecture | Only when the world is walkable |
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- **Amendment (2026-05-22):** Phases 4 and 5 swapped — **world generation now precedes player control**. The rule: no player-control or in-world rendering work begins until the generator can deterministically seed-generate every tile of every world via the full multilayer cascade. The original Phase 4 "2-floor test map" is **dropped** — test layers are produced by the generator itself once layer-drawing begins; we start drawing the world only when generation knows what to draw. Generation progress is viewed as **per-layer maps in the implant Atlas** (the Phase 3 deliverable, already built), not via an in-world renderer. The existing in-world rendering code is **left as-is until Phase 5** — neither built upon nor removed before then. Rationale: building player systems against a throwaway test substrate means rebuilding them against real generated tiles later; gating player work on deterministic generation avoids that waste. Epics T-749 (now Phase 5) and T-750 (now Phase 4) and the CLAUDE.md cascade table are updated to match.
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- **Amendment (2026-06-12):** Build order **within and after** the cascade clarified (Jeroen). The world is built **outside-in**: (1) geo layer; (2) the economic layer drawn onto the world — cities, buildings, streets, blocks, and the inter-settlement road/rail network; (3) building templates; (4) **door boundary contracts** defining the seam between exteriors and building interiors. Only then (5) the background NPC layer and building interiors (Phase 6), and only after that does gameplay/scenario design resume ("making it a game again" — tracked in the post-cascade gameplay parking epic, outside any phase). **Player control and visual rendering (Phase 5) ramp in parallel once outside generation produces walkable exteriors** — the Phase-5 trigger is "outsides generate deterministically and are walkable", not "all Phase-4 polish complete"; T-962 holds the gate and is updated to this trigger. Guiding statement: *"Before this is a game I want it to be a Reach a character can travel through."* NPCs, scenarios, and gameplay systems are conceived, designed, and built only after the traversable world exists. This amendment absorbs the v0.2 scope cluster — D-114, D-115, D-117, D-118, D-120 are marked superseded by this record, with each one's surviving design substance noted on the record itself.
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- **Rationale:** The pattern of negotiating pragmatic v0.2 cuts while discussing room-level detail repeatedly produced superseded decisions, confused agents, and distracted from building the actual product. The cascade enforces a first-things-first discipline: each layer of the game is grounded in the layer below it before detail is added.
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- **Raised by:** Jeroen, established 2026-03-24 during world generation workshop.
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- **Dissent:** None.
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- **Rationale:** A galaxy-spanning game needs content architecture that scales without hand-crafting everything. The life-sim substrate creates attachment that gives conspiracies emotional weight. Pool-based Tier 1 modules enable replayability and DLC expansion.
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- **Raised by:** Team Leader (Jeroen), with full team endorsement across 3 rounds
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- **Dissent:** None
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- **Amendment (2026-03-05, Where's the Fun? Workshop):** Tier 1 "authored drama modules" concept is deferred for v0.2. [D-114](scope.md#d-114-v02-proof-of-life--generator--graphics-not-hand-built-slice) (generator-first proof-of-life) and [D-127](#d-127-player-choices-are-the-content--rimworld-model-job-as-rails) (player choices are the content) establish that v0.2 ships zero authored drama modules. The three-tier architecture remains valid for the full game, but the Tier 1 pool is empty by design in v0.2 — generator-first validates Tier 2 and Tier 3 before Tier 1 modules are authored. Tier 1 will be authored after the generator spike (D-119) proves legible characters and readable relationships.
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- **Amendment (2026-03-05, Where's the Fun? Workshop):** Tier 1 "authored drama modules" concept is deferred for v0.2. [D-114](scope.md#d-114-v02-proof-of-life--generator--graphics-not-hand-built-slice-superseded) (generator-first proof-of-life) and [D-127](#d-127-player-choices-are-the-content--rimworld-model-job-as-rails) (player choices are the content) establish that v0.2 ships zero authored drama modules. The three-tier architecture remains valid for the full game, but the Tier 1 pool is empty by design in v0.2 — generator-first validates Tier 2 and Tier 3 before Tier 1 modules are authored. Tier 1 will be authored after the generator spike (D-119) proves legible characters and readable relationships.
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### D-024: NPC generation model — 10 axes + combat component
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- **Date:** 2026-02-10
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- **Rationale:** If every NPC is suspicious, investigation collapses. The mundane triangles ARE the life-sim game — hours of play that never touch conspiracy. Variable entanglement rate defeats metagaming across playthroughs. Quiet life must feel genuinely good, not empty.
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- **Raised by:** Gore (thematic), Paula (30/50/20 split), Nigel (anti-metagaming), Team Leader (majority unentangled)
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- **Dissent:** None
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- **Amendment (2026-03-05, Where's the Fun? Workshop):** The 30/50/20 population split rationale survives but implementation context changes. [D-122](#d-122-all-npcs-generated--no-named-hand-authored-characters) (all NPCs generated) means no NPC is hand-authored. The "entangled 20%" are generated NPCs whose triangles happen to be flagged for intrigue content. For the tycoon v0.2 bookmark ([D-117](scope.md#d-117-tycoon-is-the-v02-bookmark--zero-investigation-content)), the split applies to economic, social, and mundane triangles rather than investigation-intrigue triangles. The specific ratios will be revisited after the generator spike ([D-119](scope.md#d-119-generator-spike-confirmed-for-sprint-25--critical-path)) proves what population density the generator can sustain.
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- **Amendment (2026-03-05, Where's the Fun? Workshop):** The 30/50/20 population split rationale survives but implementation context changes. [D-122](#d-122-all-npcs-generated--no-named-hand-authored-characters) (all NPCs generated) means no NPC is hand-authored. The "entangled 20%" are generated NPCs whose triangles happen to be flagged for intrigue content. For the tycoon v0.2 bookmark ([D-117](scope.md#d-117-tycoon-is-the-v02-bookmark--zero-investigation-content-superseded)), the split applies to economic, social, and mundane triangles rather than investigation-intrigue triangles. The specific ratios will be revisited after the generator spike ([D-119](scope.md#d-119-generator-spike-confirmed-for-sprint-25--critical-path)) proves what population density the generator can sustain.
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### D-032: Separate monologue pools per character [SUPERSEDED — deferred to Phase 6]
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- **Date:** 2026-02-11
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- **Cross-reference:** Vertical slice ([D-027](scope.md#d-027-vertical-slice--smuggler--detective-two-character-proof)), contraband ([D-037](#d-037-contraband-specification))
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- **Raised by:** Miri (Sova setting brief, Round 1; Van Maanen's Star profile, Round 2), project lead (confirmed as worldbuilding milestone, directive T-6)
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- **Dissent:** None
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- **Amendment (2026-03-05, Where's the Fun? Workshop):** Station Sova / Van Maanen's Star confirmed as the v0.2 setting. [D-128](#d-128-culture-implicit-in-starting-location--van-maanens-star-system-equals-van-maanens-star-culture) makes Van Maanen's Star culture the cultural context for the tycoon bookmark — Van Maanen's Star IS Van Maanen's Star culture by default. The setting details (naming conventions, atmosphere, sensory palette) survive as generator inputs and culture profile content. However, the Sova Transit District spatial layout (D-093) was designed for the v0.1 hand-built slice. v0.2 generates the location via the generator ([D-114](scope.md#d-114-v02-proof-of-life--generator--graphics-not-hand-built-slice)); the Van Maanen's Star culture profile (Miri prerequisite for [D-119](scope.md#d-119-generator-spike-confirmed-for-sprint-25--critical-path)) captures the setting identity as generator inputs. Sova remains the canonical example system and the first culture profile to author.
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- **Amendment (2026-03-05, Where's the Fun? Workshop):** Station Sova / Van Maanen's Star confirmed as the v0.2 setting. [D-128](#d-128-culture-implicit-in-starting-location--van-maanens-star-system-equals-van-maanens-star-culture) makes Van Maanen's Star culture the cultural context for the tycoon bookmark — Van Maanen's Star IS Van Maanen's Star culture by default. The setting details (naming conventions, atmosphere, sensory palette) survive as generator inputs and culture profile content. However, the Sova Transit District spatial layout (D-093) was designed for the v0.1 hand-built slice. v0.2 generates the location via the generator ([D-114](scope.md#d-114-v02-proof-of-life--generator--graphics-not-hand-built-slice-superseded)); the Van Maanen's Star culture profile (Miri prerequisite for [D-119](scope.md#d-119-generator-spike-confirmed-for-sprint-25--critical-path)) captures the setting identity as generator inputs. Sova remains the canonical example system and the first culture profile to author.
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### D-037: Contraband specification — unlicensed lattice components
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- **Date:** 2026-02-11
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### D-090: PC voice registers — smuggler and detective speech patterns `[SUPERSEDED]`
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- **Date:** 2026-02-12
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- **Superseded by:** [D-117](scope.md#d-117-tycoon-is-the-v02-bookmark--zero-investigation-content) (2026-03-05). The smuggler/detective dual-lens frame is eliminated for v0.2. The tycoon is the single playable character. Voice register design for v0.2 follows culture-driven voice (D-121) applied to the player character, not the smuggler/detective partition below.
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- **Superseded by:** [D-117](scope.md#d-117-tycoon-is-the-v02-bookmark--zero-investigation-content-superseded) (2026-03-05). The smuggler/detective dual-lens frame is eliminated for v0.2. The tycoon is the single playable character. Voice register design for v0.2 follows culture-driven voice (D-121) applied to the player character, not the smuggler/detective partition below.
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- **Decision:** Each playable character has a defined voice register for monologue and dialogue:
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- **Smuggler:** Feeling-first. Sentence fragments. Concrete/physical vocabulary. Notices bodies, spaces, exits. Emotional baseline: wary comfort. Lies by omission. Relationship to authority: avoidance.
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- **Detective:** Analysis-first. Complete sentences. Institutional vocabulary. Notices patterns, inconsistencies, procedural gaps. Emotional baseline: professional detachment. Lies by reframing. Relationship to authority: representative.
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- **Rationale:** Administered pricing is the correct model because brands violate all three tâtonnement assumptions: heterogeneity (Calloway ≠ VGV ≠ generic spirits), supply inelasticity (terroir production cannot respond to price signals per D-177), and Veblen demand effects (prestige goods can have upward-sloping demand). The one-way interface (commodity prices → brand input costs; brand output prices do NOT feed back into tâtonnement) is architecturally clean and matches the D-178 layer model. The identity/exotic split in cultural premium is the minimal structural addition needed to produce all three observed pricing curves (Scarcity-Distance, Dual-Peak, Aspirational Gradient). Population asymmetry (~80B total Reach population, systems ranging from 10B to <50k) makes the halo/volume tier pattern structurally necessary — brands from tiny worlds are astronomically exclusive and need volume derivatives to be economically relevant.
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- **Raised by:** Full planning team workshop, Sprint 34 (T-811).
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- **Dissent:** None.
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- **Cross-reference:** [D-185](#d-185-brands-are-not-commodities) (brands are not commodities), [D-184](#d-184-commodity-catalog-36-types) (commodity catalog), [D-177](#d-177-productivity-constraints-lore-derived) (productivity constraints), [D-175](#d-175-corporation-taxonomy-and-prerequisite) (corporation taxonomy), [D-178](#d-178-economic-model-architecture) (economic model architecture), [D-180](#d-180-event-input-port) (event input port), [D-181](#d-181-signal-vocabulary) (signal vocabulary), [D-173](#d-173-commodity-taxonomy) (commodity taxonomy), [D-171](#d-171-three-currency-system) (three-currency system), [D-131](content.md#d-131-broad-economic-verb-vocabulary--life-verbs-not-tycoon-specific) (economic verb vocabulary), [D-118](scope.md#d-118-small-business-owner-starting-state--tycoon-is-aspiration-not-starting-position) (small business owner starting state)
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- **Cross-reference:** [D-185](#d-185-brands-are-not-commodities) (brands are not commodities), [D-184](#d-184-commodity-catalog-36-types) (commodity catalog), [D-177](#d-177-productivity-constraints-lore-derived) (productivity constraints), [D-175](#d-175-corporation-taxonomy-and-prerequisite) (corporation taxonomy), [D-178](#d-178-economic-model-architecture) (economic model architecture), [D-180](#d-180-event-input-port) (event input port), [D-181](#d-181-signal-vocabulary) (signal vocabulary), [D-173](#d-173-commodity-taxonomy) (commodity taxonomy), [D-171](#d-171-three-currency-system) (three-currency system), [D-131](content.md#d-131-broad-economic-verb-vocabulary--life-verbs-not-tycoon-specific) (economic verb vocabulary), [D-118](scope.md#d-118-small-business-owner-starting-state--tycoon-is-aspiration-not-starting-position-superseded) (small business owner starting state)
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- **Cross-reference:** Insert overlay ([D-048](#d-048-neural-insert-overlay--visual-design)), insert HUD wireframe (`docs/design/insert-hud-wireframe-v01.md`), visual grammar (`docs/design/visual-grammar-v01.md` §7), cursor states ([D-056](#d-056-cursor-states--insert-styled-geometric))
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- **Raised by:** Araminta (analysis and recommendation), project lead (confirmed).
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- **Dissent:** None.
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- **Amendment (2026-04-05):** "Smuggler only per D-065" scope on inventory item silhouettes is obsolete. [D-117](scope.md#d-117-tycoon-is-the-v02-bookmark--zero-investigation-content) eliminates the smuggler/detective frame; [D-122](content.md#d-122-all-npcs-generated--no-named-hand-authored-characters) removes named characters. Inventory icons are no longer character-specific. D-065 cross-reference removed.
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- **Amendment (2026-04-05):** "Smuggler only per D-065" scope on inventory item silhouettes is obsolete. [D-117](scope.md#d-117-tycoon-is-the-v02-bookmark--zero-investigation-content-superseded) eliminates the smuggler/detective frame; [D-122](content.md#d-122-all-npcs-generated--no-named-hand-authored-characters) removes named characters. Inventory icons are no longer character-specific. D-065 cross-reference removed.
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- **Source:** Q-096 (raised 2026-04-20, expanded 2026-05-01)
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- **Raised by:** Jeroen
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- **Dissent:** None
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- **Amendment (2026-06-12):** **Milestones are retired.** pql has no milestone entity; phase gating is the **cascade ticket hierarchy** — initiative T-745 holds the six phase epics, a ticket is in a phase by being parented under that phase epic, and the active phase is the `in_progress` phase epic (currently T-750, Phase 4). The two milestone bullets above ("Sprint boundaries → milestones tied to concrete deliverables" and "Milestones are many-to-many with tickets, can run in parallel, can block other milestones") are superseded by this mechanism; kanban, topic branches, and the rest of the record stand. Phase-independent maintenance and test-debt work lives under a dedicated maintenance initiative rather than a phase epic. See CLAUDE.md "Work Modes" and `.claude/rules/ticket-cli.md`, which already describe the hierarchy model.
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*5 decisions. Last updated: 2026-05-03*
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*5 decisions. Last updated: 2026-06-12*
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### D-014: v0.1 map specification [SUPERSEDED]
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- **Date:** 2026-02-09
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- **Superseded by:** [D-114](#d-114-v02-proof-of-life--generator--graphics-not-hand-built-slice) (generator-first proof-of-life replaces hand-built map spec; auto-generated locations at scale replace the hand-crafted tile map approach)
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- **Superseded by:** [D-114](#d-114-v02-proof-of-life--generator--graphics-not-hand-built-slice-superseded) (generator-first proof-of-life replaces hand-built map spec; auto-generated locations at scale replace the hand-crafted tile map approach)
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- **Decision:** First playable tech demo map spec:
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### D-027: Vertical slice — smuggler + detective, two-character proof [SUPERSEDED]
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- **Date:** 2026-02-10
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- **Superseded by:** [D-114](#d-114-v02-proof-of-life--generator--graphics-not-hand-built-slice) (generator-first proof-of-life) and [D-117](#d-117-tycoon-is-the-v02-bookmark--zero-investigation-content) (tycoon bookmark replaces smuggler + detective; zero investigation content for v0.2)
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- **Superseded by:** [D-114](#d-114-v02-proof-of-life--generator--graphics-not-hand-built-slice-superseded) (generator-first proof-of-life) and [D-117](#d-117-tycoon-is-the-v02-bookmark--zero-investigation-content-superseded) (tycoon bookmark replaces smuggler + detective; zero investigation content for v0.2)
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- **Decision:** The proof-of-concept vertical slice is one station district containing: 1 workplace social site, 1 social venue (bar), 1 smuggling ring template, shared NPCs. Two playable characters: smuggler (logistics worker, insider access to criminal templates, social camouflage) and detective (institutional investigator, authority access, analytical). Success criteria: (1) 30 minutes of daily-life breathing room before contamination activates, (2) both playthroughs feel like fundamentally different games, (3) after each playthrough player names an NPC they felt conflicted about, (4) the observe→notice→follow→discover sequence emerges from systems not scripts.
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- **Supersedes:** [D-006](#d-006-prototype-scenario--institutearmstrongguardians-superseded)
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- **Rationale:** Smuggler + detective creates adversarial divergence — the detective's target IS the smuggler's daily life. Same templates, same NPCs, inverted relationships. Proves character-as-lens, contamination, life-sim attachment, and replayability simultaneously. Tyre confirms: ~20% more effort than single-character, no new architecture.
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### D-065: Smuggler inventory — knowledge-primary with physical evidence [SUPERSEDED]
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- **Date:** 2026-02-13
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- **Superseded by:** [D-117](#d-117-tycoon-is-the-v02-bookmark--zero-investigation-content) (no smuggler character in v0.2). The knowledge-primary inventory concept and physical evidence design survive as patterns for future character implementation.
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- **Superseded by:** [D-117](#d-117-tycoon-is-the-v02-bookmark--zero-investigation-content-superseded) (no smuggler character in v0.2). The knowledge-primary inventory concept and physical evidence design survive as patterns for future character implementation.
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- **Decision:** Knowledge is the primary "inventory" for all characters (you SAW the manifest, not you HAVE it). The smuggler additionally gets a minimal physical inventory for v0.1: 3 specific items (manifest copy, corridor access token, personal comm log). Capacity per archetype: smuggler 3-4 slots, detective 2 slots. Carried items are PRIVATE — they exist behind the information boundary ([D-010](architecture.md#d-010-multiplayer-ready-architectural-baseline) principle 2) and are not visible to other entities unless revealed via search, scan, or confrontation. Server implementation: world entities with CarriedBy component. Verbs: Take, Place.
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- **Evidence presentation differs by archetype:** Detective sees case-file-style entries (structured: what/where/when/source/confidence, insert suggests links). Smuggler sees personal notebook (organized by person, informal voice, no contradiction flags). Same underlying knowledge graph, different presentation layer.
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### D-087: v0.1 triangle configuration — 3 active forks, 2 passive tensions [SUPERSEDED]
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- **Date:** 2026-02-12
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- **Superseded by:** [D-122](content.md#d-122-all-npcs-generated--no-named-hand-authored-characters) (all NPCs generated; no named triangles with hand-authored characters) and [D-117](#d-117-tycoon-is-the-v02-bookmark--zero-investigation-content) (no investigation-specific triangle configuration for v0.2). Triangle generation follows the generator-first model (D-114).
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- **Superseded by:** [D-122](content.md#d-122-all-npcs-generated--no-named-hand-authored-characters) (all NPCs generated; no named triangles with hand-authored characters) and [D-117](#d-117-tycoon-is-the-v02-bookmark--zero-investigation-content-superseded) (no investigation-specific triangle configuration for v0.2). Triangle generation follows the generator-first model (D-114).
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- **Decision:** v0.1 vertical slice uses 5 relationship triangles. Three are active forks (T1: Kael-Smuggler-Ring, T2: Sera-Detective-Commission, T4: Drin-System-Ring) with branching outcomes driven by player observation. Two are passive tensions (T3: Naia-Kael-Hael, T5: Worried Partner background) that provide atmosphere and secondary discovery paths. Active forks require authored content per branch. Passive tensions are system-driven.
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- **Rationale:** Three active forks are within v0.1 content authoring capacity. Passive tensions require no branching content — they enrich discovery space without multiplying authored lines.
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- **Raised by:** Gestalt, Paula
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### D-089: Self-contained triangle forks for v0.1, no cross-triangle cascade [SUPERSEDED]
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- **Date:** 2026-02-12
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- **Superseded by:** [D-117](#d-117-tycoon-is-the-v02-bookmark--zero-investigation-content) and [D-122](content.md#d-122-all-npcs-generated--no-named-hand-authored-characters). No hand-authored triangle forks in v0.2; triangle generation follows the generator-first model. Cross-triangle cascade design is preserved as a future consideration once the generator proves relationships are readable.
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- **Superseded by:** [D-117](#d-117-tycoon-is-the-v02-bookmark--zero-investigation-content-superseded) and [D-122](content.md#d-122-all-npcs-generated--no-named-hand-authored-characters). No hand-authored triangle forks in v0.2; triangle generation follows the generator-first model. Cross-triangle cascade design is preserved as a future consideration once the generator proves relationships are readable.
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- **Decision:** In v0.1, each triangle fork resolves independently. No triangle outcome triggers escalation in another triangle. Cross-triangle cascade (storyteller-managed, where resolving T1 affects T2 pressure) is deferred to v0.2+. This keeps v0.1 content authoring manageable — each triangle is a self-contained narrative unit.
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- **Rationale:** Cross-triangle cascade requires the storyteller to track inter-triangle state and authors to write contingent branches. Both are out of scope for v0.1. Self-contained triangles can be authored, tested, and validated independently.
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- **Raised by:** Paula, Gestalt
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### D-114: v0.2 proof-of-life — generator + graphics, not hand-built slice
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### D-114: v0.2 proof-of-life — generator + graphics, not hand-built slice [SUPERSEDED]
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- **Date:** 2026-03-05
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- **Superseded by:** [D-166](architecture.md#d-166-development-cascade--6-phase-first-things-first-build-order) (the v0.2 target and its proof-of-life milestone are dropped; the cascade's Phase-4 generator deliverable replaces it — D-166 amendment 2026-06-12)
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- **Decision:** The v0.2 proof-of-life milestone is defined as: the generator producing usable output (auto-generated locations at scale with legible characters) plus better graphics. A hand-built vertical slice is explicitly NOT the proof-of-life. The v0.1 lesson: descoping toward a hand-built approach produced the wrong game. v0.2 must first prove the foundational generator can produce usable output, then build the game on top of that foundation.
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- **Rationale:** v0.1 was built as a detective puzzle game with hand-placed NPCs and dots for characters. The designer's vision is a single-character life sim. The generator-first approach prevents the same mistake — we prove the generative foundation works before committing to content on top of it.
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- **Source:** Where's the Fun? Workshop, Round 4 Interview, Decision 1
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@@ -223,8 +224,9 @@ What we're building: game concept, design pillars, prototype definition, map spe
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- **Dissent:** None
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- **Supersedes:** [D-027](#d-027-vertical-slice--smuggler--detective-two-character-proof-superseded) (hand-built vertical slice), [D-014](#d-014-v01-map-specification-superseded) (hand-built map spec)
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### D-115: Character creation scoped to skills + bookmark for v0.2
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### D-115: Character creation scoped to skills + bookmark for v0.2 [SUPERSEDED]
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- **Date:** 2026-03-05
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- **Superseded by:** [D-166](architecture.md#d-166-development-cascade--6-phase-first-things-first-build-order) (v0.2 character-creation scope fell with the v0.2 target; character creation is post-cascade gameplay work — the skills+bookmark minimalism survives as design input when that work resumes)
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- **Decision:** v0.2 character creation is limited to two elements: skills (what the character is good at) and bookmark (which starting scenario/location the character inhabits). Family, culture, and religion are deferred from character creation. Culture is available in the game through the starting location (see [D-128](content.md#d-128-culture-implicit-in-starting-location--van-maanens-star-system-equals-van-maanens-star-culture)), not as a creation slider.
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- **Rationale:** Skills and bookmark are the minimum needed to differentiate playthroughs. Adding family/culture/religion at creation gates content that is better delivered through gameplay. Religion in particular is NOT a game system (D-116).
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- **Source:** Where's the Fun? Workshop, Round 4 Interview, Decision 2
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@@ -240,8 +242,9 @@ What we're building: game concept, design pillars, prototype definition, map spe
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- **Raised by:** Team Leader (Jeroen)
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- **Dissent:** None
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### D-117: Tycoon is the v0.2 bookmark — zero investigation content
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### D-117: Tycoon is the v0.2 bookmark — zero investigation content [SUPERSEDED]
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- **Date:** 2026-03-05
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- **Superseded by:** [D-166](architecture.md#d-166-development-cascade--6-phase-first-things-first-build-order) (the v0.2 bookmark frame is dropped; the tycoon concept is parked as post-cascade gameplay under the gameplay parking epic. The investigation-content abandonment and the career-blend insight survive as design input)
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- **Decision:** The v0.2 bookmark is the tycoon — a small business owner in Van Maanen's Star. v0.2 ships zero investigation content. The detective and smuggler framing from v0.1 is explicitly abandoned for v0.2. The tycoon naturally blends career models: active management, remote investment via insert (WFH model), and one-off deals (gig model). Investigation content will be revisited when the life-sim foundation is proven stable.
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- **Rationale:** v0.1's detective/smuggler frame produced the wrong game. The tycoon bookmark is thematically and mechanically richer: economic complicity, life-sim attachment loops, and narrative emergence from everyday decisions. Clean break from investigation content removes the frame that distorted v0.1.
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- **Source:** Where's the Fun? Workshop, Round 4 Interview, Decision 4
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@@ -249,8 +252,9 @@ What we're building: game concept, design pillars, prototype definition, map spe
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- **Dissent:** None
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- **Supersedes:** [D-027](#d-027-vertical-slice--smuggler--detective-two-character-proof-superseded)
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### D-118: Small business owner starting state — tycoon is aspiration, not starting position
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### D-118: Small business owner starting state — tycoon is aspiration, not starting position [SUPERSEDED]
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- **Date:** 2026-03-05
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- **Superseded by:** [D-166](architecture.md#d-166-development-cascade--6-phase-first-things-first-build-order) (v0.2 frame dropped; the small-business-owner starting-state design survives with the parked tycoon bookmark — T-615)
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- **Decision:** The tycoon bookmark begins as an existing small business owner, not a mogul. The player starts with a small operation (bar, logistics contract, storage franchise) and grows into a tycoon over time — or sells out and pivots to exploration. The bookmark name "tycoon" describes the aspiration and growth trajectory, not the starting state. A true tycoon starting position would be overpowered and would skip the interesting growth phase.
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- **Rationale:** Economic complicity and life-sim attachment require a character with something to lose and room to grow. Starting as a mogul eliminates the growth arc and removes economic stakes. The small business owner start grounds the player in a human-scale economic reality before scaling up.
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- **Source:** Where's the Fun? Workshop, Round 5 Interview, Decision 20
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@@ -264,11 +268,12 @@ What we're building: game concept, design pillars, prototype definition, map spe
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- **Source:** Where's the Fun? Workshop, Round 5 Interview, Decision 22
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- **Raised by:** Tyre (proposal), Team Leader (confirmed)
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- **Dissent:** None
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- **Cross-reference:** [D-114](#d-114-v02-proof-of-life--generator--graphics-not-hand-built-slice) (generator-first proof-of-life)
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- **Cross-reference:** [D-114](#d-114-v02-proof-of-life--generator--graphics-not-hand-built-slice-superseded) (generator-first proof-of-life)
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- **Amendment (2026-04-05):** The sequencing described here (Sprint 25 as first deliverable, generator proof-of-life gates all subsequent work) is superseded by [D-166](architecture.md#d-166-development-cascade--6-phase-first-things-first-build-order) (2026-03-24), which establishes a strict 6-phase development cascade. The generator spike falls in Phase 5 (World Generation), not Phase 1. The cascade is the authoritative build order.
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### D-120: No skill ceiling in v0.2 — transhumanist ladder deferred
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### D-120: No skill ceiling in v0.2 — transhumanist ladder deferred [SUPERSEDED]
|
||||
- **Date:** 2026-03-05
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- **Superseded by:** [D-166](architecture.md#d-166-development-cascade--6-phase-first-things-first-build-order) (v0.2 frame dropped; the surviving substance — no hard skill cap until the base loop is proven, transhumanist ladder deferred, `skill_ceiling` field preserved in the implementation — carries into post-cascade gameplay design)
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- **Decision:** Skills have no hard cap in v0.2. The transhumanist ladder (baseline human → Higher → ANA-connected) is a later design layer. v0.2 proves the life-sim loop without skill constraints. The `skill_ceiling` architectural field is preserved in the implementation but not enforced in gameplay until the base game loop is proven.
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- **Rationale:** Skill ceilings add complexity that is not load-bearing for the v0.2 proof-of-life. The life-sim loop must prove itself first. The transhumanist ladder is a rich design space but belongs in a later iteration when the foundational systems are stable.
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- **Source:** Where's the Fun? Workshop, Round 5 Interview, Decision 24
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@@ -296,7 +301,7 @@ What we're building: game concept, design pillars, prototype definition, map spe
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- **Source:** Sprint 27 planning pass — Q-WTF-039 resolution
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- **Raised by:** Tyre (architecture), Paula (narrative), Gestalt (systems), confirmed by project lead
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- **Dissent:** Ozzie argued for portrait render (emotional attachment). Overruled: tile-scale at heavy zoom provides sufficient character identity without a second rendering pipeline.
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- **Cross-reference:** [D-115](#d-115-character-creation-scoped-to-skills--bookmark-for-v02) (creation scope), [D-134](architecture.md#d-134-full-character-customisation--hair-clothing-colors-at-tile-scale) (full character customisation), [D-136](architecture.md#d-136-first-settled-reach-moment-auto-generated-apartment--insert-activation) (first game moment), ticket T-618 (CK3-style character creation screen)
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- **Cross-reference:** [D-115](#d-115-character-creation-scoped-to-skills--bookmark-for-v02-superseded) (creation scope), [D-134](architecture.md#d-134-full-character-customisation--hair-clothing-colors-at-tile-scale) (full character customisation), [D-136](architecture.md#d-136-first-settled-reach-moment-auto-generated-apartment--insert-activation) (first game moment), ticket T-618 (CK3-style character creation screen)
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- **Resolves:** Q-WTF-039
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