With a fleet, boards keep only candidates some pair can complete, up to
the board size or 200 attempts (decision 0.5.114). The balance player
keeps enough cash to refuel landed ships before buying one.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
New ships (deal or Market) come full on Manual refueling; save version
3 puts every existing ship on Manual. The balance simulator refuels only
when a job needs it (decisions 0.5.111, 0.5.112).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Five tutorial runs before the deal and a tutorial XP multiplier of 2.
The deal no longer waits for the loaner to be back at Earth, since five
runs end at the Moon; accepting it still puts the avatar at Earth.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ships carry fuel: a leg burns from the tank at departure (no credits),
dispatch needs the fuel on board (not-enough-fuel), a leg's fuel cost
is fuel burned x the tank's average price, and Auto top-up refills on
landing with what the credits cover. The save gains tank fields (save
version 2, migration fills every tank). Market ships arrive full; the
deal's ships come with a quarter tank to keep the balance targets.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ships get a tank capacity and a burn rate instead of range and fuel
cost; locations get a fixed fuel price and a sellsFuel flag instead of
the launch cost multiplier. A leg burns burn rate x the economic
distance of (distance / origin factor), and reach is a full tank's
worth. Tanks are sized so every reach answer is unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Positions, distances, range checks, trip times, fuel and the no-strand
rule no longer take a time argument; the 48-hour no-strand margin goes
with it. Tests now check that a route's pay, trip time and fuel are the
same whenever it is offered or flown.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Locations get fixed polar coordinates (the Moon as an offset from
Earth) and astronomy-engine is removed, so positions now come from
content. Ranges move into CR-015's reach bands for the fixed distances,
and the Lighter's price drops to 36,000 to keep the balance targets.
Date-sampled tests become yes/no.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Bay contract mass now comes from per-ship-size bands, and the first
contract in each band is a no-skill Standard job to a discovered
location, so a new player with only a Courier always has work.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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