Asteroids were pure hazard: the only thing one could ever do was cost you a
ship. They now take damage like anything else and break open, dropping ore the
fleet can fly over and collect - the one resource reachable in open space
without conquering anything, and something for the new fire stick to do out
there.
Two ways to destroy one, deliberately not equivalent. Shot apart yields the
ore; flown into does not - the rock shatters against a hull rather than being
mined, and a ship or a shield charge has just been spent on it. Without that
split a shield vessel could farm asteroids by ramming them.
Asteroid.take_damage() matches Enemy's contract exactly, so every weapon that
already knew how to hurt an enemy hurts an asteroid through the same branch
rather than a second special case: bolts, the laser sweep, and the gas bomb's
blast all pick both groups up together.
Dropped ore carries the asteroid's own drift, so it reads as debris rather
than as a spawned pickup, and it expires after a minute. Rock grew an optional
lifetime for that, defaulting to 0 (never) so hand-placed surface rocks are
unchanged - a planet surface is bounded and authored, open space is not, and a
field shot up and abandoned would otherwise leak nodes for the session. Rock's
header note that asteroids and rocks are never on screen together is no longer
true and now says so; the hexagon-versus-lump shape language matters more now
that they sit side by side, not less.
Five weapon tests silenced the asteroid field but never cleared what it had
already placed. That was harmless while asteroids were untouchable and is not
any more - two of them assert exact hit counts, and a drifting rock in the
beam would have made those fail intermittently.
Suite 111/111.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Mirrors #60's gas bomber ammunition exactly: ENERGY_PER_SHOT (8) drawn
from GameState.fleet_inventory before consuming the firing ship's
cooldown, the button's enabled rule requires affordability too, and an
unaffordable-but-otherwise-ready press still explains itself through a
new LaserStatus label rather than silently doing nothing.
Added two small generic GameState helpers this needed:
deposit_fleet_resource()/deposit_bank_resource(), counterparts to
#60's withdraw_fleet_resource() for resources (energy) with no
dedicated fleet_cargo/fleet_gas_cargo-style property. Along the way,
confirmed deposit_resource_to_building() on a "bank" building deposits
into that building's own per-record inventory, NOT bank_inventory
itself - only building_resource()/building_inventory() special-case
the "bank" capability to redirect there.
test_laser_vessel.gd (#58) updated to stock fleet energy first, since
shots are no longer free - same fix#60 required for the gas bomber's
own pre-existing tests. Also fixed test_laser_vessel.gd's own instance
of the bare-ClassName.CONST script-corruption trap (documented in
#60's commit): var skill: LaserController and a bare
LaserController.BEAM_HALF_WIDTH reference, mirrored into a local const
instead.
