From 81e71e843640dcc62b7de9a4785d9c63856c6b68 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: fireshaper <rory54@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2026 00:13:49 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Config: 10-minute board period and 10-hour rest

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 DECISIONS.md                         | 6 ++++++
 apps/server/test/game.ts             | 4 +++-
 apps/web/test/board-refresh.test.tsx | 7 ++++---
 packages/content/src/data/config.ts  | 6 +++---
 4 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/DECISIONS.md b/DECISIONS.md
index 57d4f15..f952f54 100644
--- a/DECISIONS.md
+++ b/DECISIONS.md
@@ -868,3 +868,9 @@ Implementation decisions not spelled out in `memory-bank/implementation-plan.md`
 
 - **Final screenshots are palette-quantized** (sharp `palette: true`, quality 90): 24 shots in 6 MB instead of 18 MB, with no visible banding in the art.
 - **The 500 KB chunk warning is accepted for now.** The UI kit and screens added about 27 KB to the main chunk; route-level code splitting (like the map's) can take it back under when the PWA work in Phase 11 looks at load size.
+
+## Config change: shorter board period and rest
+
+- **`contractBoardPeriodRealMinutes` 60 → 10 and `restGameHours` 60 → 10** (user request, after Phase 10D). At 60× compression a rest is now 10 real minutes, exactly one board period, so decision 0.5.46 still holds and its content test (rest in real time ≥ board period) is unchanged and passing.
+- **Effects:** boards refresh every 10 real minutes and every contract expires at the end of its period, so offers turn over six times as fast. A rested pilot is back in 10 minutes instead of an hour. This also resolves the earlier note that the CR-004 example expected a short rest.
+- **Two tests assumed a 60-minute period** and now derive their timing from config instead: the server's `testContract` helper (expiry = end of the board period) and the board-refresh countdown test. No game code changed.
diff --git a/apps/server/test/game.ts b/apps/server/test/game.ts
index 0e26870..456242d 100644
--- a/apps/server/test/game.ts
+++ b/apps/server/test/game.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import { content } from "@deadhead/content";
 import { createGuestResponseSchema, playerStateSchema, type PlayerState } from "@deadhead/schema";
 import {
   boardPeriodIndex,
+  boardPeriodMs,
   createDispatchRecord,
   createRepositionRecord,
   type Contract,
@@ -105,7 +106,8 @@ export function testContract(overrides: Partial<Contract> = {}): Contract {
     requiredSkill: null,
     requiredLongHaulLevel: 0,
     offeredAt: TEST_NOW,
-    expiresAt: TEST_NOW + 3_600_000,
+    // Contracts expire at the end of their board period (TEST_NOW is a period start).
+    expiresAt: TEST_NOW + boardPeriodMs(content.config),
     firstContact: false,
     ...overrides,
   };
diff --git a/apps/web/test/board-refresh.test.tsx b/apps/web/test/board-refresh.test.tsx
index eceec1f..aee828f 100644
--- a/apps/web/test/board-refresh.test.tsx
+++ b/apps/web/test/board-refresh.test.tsx
@@ -5,11 +5,12 @@ import { screen, waitFor, within } from "@testing-library/react";
 import userEvent from "@testing-library/user-event";
 import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
 import { useClock } from "../src/clock/clock";
+import { formatClock } from "../src/format";
 import { fakeApi, renderApp, samplePlayerState } from "./render";
 
 const period = boardPeriodMs(content.config);
-// 17.5 minutes into a board period.
-const NOW = Math.ceil(Date.parse("2100-01-01T00:00:00Z") / period) * period + 17.5 * 60_000;
+// A quarter of the way into a board period (derived from config, whatever its length).
+const NOW = Math.ceil(Date.parse("2100-01-01T00:00:00Z") / period) * period + period / 4;
 const periodEndsAt = (boardPeriodIndex(NOW, content.config) + 1) * period;
 
 const courier: Ship = {
@@ -79,7 +80,7 @@ describe("board refresh and the nothing-here case (Step 10D.8)", () => {
   it("counts down to the next board period", async () => {
     renderApp(api([heavyJob]), "/contracts?location=earth");
     expect(await screen.findByLabelText("Board refresh")).toHaveTextContent(
-      "New contracts in 42:30",
+      `New contracts in ${formatClock(periodEndsAt - NOW)}`,
     );
   });
 
diff --git a/packages/content/src/data/config.ts b/packages/content/src/data/config.ts
index 83a65bc..7df7068 100644
--- a/packages/content/src/data/config.ts
+++ b/packages/content/src/data/config.ts
@@ -23,13 +23,13 @@ export const gameConfig: GameConfig = {
   loanRepaymentShare: 0.3,
   // Courier price + Earth bay lease.
   dealLoanAmount: 5000,
-  contractBoardPeriodRealMinutes: 60,
+  contractBoardPeriodRealMinutes: 10,
   // Duty and rest (CR-004): about three Moon round trips, then rest.
   dutyLimitGameHours: 12,
   longHaulDutyBonusGameHours: 2,
-  // One board period (60 real minutes at 60× compression), so a rested pilot
+  // One board period (10 real minutes at 60× compression), so a rested pilot
   // always wakes to a fresh board (decision 0.5.46).
-  restGameHours: 60,
+  restGameHours: 10,
   firstContactChance: 0.1,
   firstContactPayoutMultiplier: 2,
   // One band per ship size, so every board has work for every ship (playtest fix):