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#129 (#131, #132, #133): a quest chain, and a World Ship out of reach Sixteen quests that walk a new game through the things it contains: ore, the mothership, exploration, a yard and a second hull, planetfall and conquest, extractors, gas, freight, power, the lab, a new vessel type, an outpost, and a survey. The chain turns on the second quest. The fleet builds the mothership to call the World Ship and hears nothing - and the array is not at fault. The breach put them further out than that signal will carry, so every quest after it is a search that has to be flown rather than transmitted. Three pieces: Quests.gd the chain, as data and nothing else. Two rules it obeys: nothing may ask for something unreachable - research points come only from conquering a planet, so every doctrine that costs them sits after the conquest quest - and a quest names one goal, with the research it implies said in the brief rather than split into an errand of its own. GameState how far along the chain the player is, and the answer to each goal kind. Progress latches for free: the chain is walked one quest at a time, so collecting five ore and spending it cannot un-complete the quest that asked for five - by then nothing is asking. It lives here so a quest finished on a planet surface is still finished after take-off. the HUD QuestTracker, the standing objective, in the wave alert's idiom; QuestDirector, which reads the lines out. Lines are QUEUED by GameState and drained by the director rather than emitted at a banner, because quests advance in the autoload, which runs on a planet surface too - where a line emitted straight at a banner would be lost. Both scenes now carry a banner, a tracker and a director, so a quest finished underground is announced underground. The chain is armed by reset_new_game(), the same gate the prologue uses - the only door into a real game - so instantiating a scene is not by itself a reason to start briefing somebody.

2026-08-28 14:41:03 +02:00

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