#219: fleet capacity is a built, supplied thing rather than a researched
one. The eight fleet-size doctrines are gone; capacity is one berth free
plus one per Fleet Office standing. An office charges every 25s for the
vessel in its berth, priced off that vessel's own build cost so an expensive
hull is expensive to keep, and drawn from its own store the way a gas burner
draws gas. An office that cannot pay goes dark, its vessel is scuttled, and
the player is told through the same queue quest lines use - which reaches
them on a planet surface too.
An empty berth is idle rather than starved: an office is only failing while
there is something in it to fail, and holding it disabled would leave a
berth that could never be crewed and so could never be paid for again.
Ships have no hit points and a shield absorbs a hit wholesale, so the lost
vessel is scuttled rather than damaged - otherwise a shielded hull would
survive its own eviction.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019AJMdB7iuHuLFZM1aBu3GD
#211 conquest is the fight now: a planet registers the garrison its setup
authors, each defender's own death counts against it, and the last one takes
the world. The capture points - stand in a ring, wait out a timer, once per
ring - are gone, along with the editor palette that placed them.
#212 conquest opens a dialog on the surface naming the research points
recovered; the award travels with the signal, after it is banked.
#209 the prologue's charted sectors go with the breach, so the map the
survivors keep is of where they now are - and "chart 30 sectors" is no
longer complete before they have flown anywhere.
#218 enemy variety is gated on the FLEET, not on wave strength: a starting
fleet meets chasers only at any wave number, and each vessel past three
opens one more kind.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019AJMdB7iuHuLFZM1aBu3GD
Everything lived in one flat directory, so a diff gave no clue what area it
touched and finding the file you wanted meant knowing its exact name. Twelve
folders now, grouped by what a thing IS rather than what type it is - a
vessel's definition, its component scenes and its upgrade resources sit
together, because that is the set you read when you change one of them.
buildings core controllers enemies logistics planets
resources shaders surface ui vessels vfx world
332 files moved and every res:// reference rewritten - 306 files touched,
including the autoload and main-scene paths in project.godot. Nothing renamed:
this is purely where files sit, so the diff is a pile of pure moves and no
behaviour is buried in it. ui_theme.tres, icon.svg and web_shell.html stay at
the root, where Godot and the export preset expect them.
Verified three ways, because a suite alone would not have caught all of it:
the full 117 pass, the web export builds clean, and the game renders.
The export is why that matters. The FIRST export after the move failed with
"Attempt to open script 'res://GameState.gd'" - the old path - while
project.godot on disk plainly said res://core/GameState.gd. That is this
project's documented Android FUSE mtime trap: Godot served a cached copy of a
file whose content had changed. A `touch` fixed it. Nothing in the test suite
would have found that, because the suite runs from a copy on a native
filesystem - the one place the bug cannot happen.
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DISTORDER STACKING. Each space-time distorder vessel past the first raises
the fleet's speed ceiling by 1.0, so a second one is worth crewing instead of
being dead weight. GameState gains max_fleet_speed_multiplier, pushed by
Fleet whenever composition changes - the same direction as every other
fleet-derived figure, since GameState does not reach into the scene tree to
count ships. The energy drain is normalised against the CURRENT ceiling, so
full boost costs the same per second however wide it is: extra vessels buy
more speed, not cheaper speed. Losing one re-clamps an over-ceiling boost
rather than leaving the fleet travelling faster than its crew can sustain.
TRANSFER MENU. Rows overlapped, and the last one ran into the hint text.
row_height is divided from the available space, but each row's contents used
a fixed pixel ladder - glyph at +10, buttons at +88, selector at +142 - which
needs about 244px. Three resources fit; the fourth cut rows to 180 and every
one spilled 64px into the next. Every offset is now a fraction of the row, so
it cannot overflow. Also dropped the per-row AMOUNT caption (four copies of a
word the footer hint already explains) and moved each glyph and name to the
TOP of its row, where they read as its heading rather than the next row's.
HANGAR. Six vessel types in one row gave each about 100px for a 155px label,
so the names ran together. Now a 3x2 grid per section, sized from the space
between the first heading and the status line, using the empty lower half.
LAB RESEARCH REWARD. A harder enemy lab is worth more research points, and
how hard a lab is depends on the layout authored for it - how many capture
points, how many defenders - which the planet TYPE cannot know. PlanetSetup
carries research_point_reward, set in the map editor, overriding the planet
type's flat rate. 0 means "no opinion", so every map authored before this
keeps its old value.
RESEARCH LAB BACKGROUND. Its own shader instead of the crater field with a
red tint, which read as "rocky planet, tinted" rather than someone's
facility: plated floor, seams, service conduits, lit junctions. Loop-free by
construction (#68's lesson applied up front) - conduits stay continuous
across cells by keying a horizontal run to cell.y and a vertical to cell.x,
so neighbouring cells agree without any cell scanning its neighbours.
ENEMY DETAIL. Every enemy was a single flat outline, which left the artillery
and the turret spawner as the same octagon at two sizes - the silhouette
carried no information about what the thing did. EnemyDefinition gains
detail_lines and detail_rings as DATA, so adding an enemy still means adding
a definition rather than editing Enemy.gd, and the four non-default hulls are
redrawn: a long-barrelled sniper, a squat mortar, a hive with launch bays, a
capital ship with spine and ribs.
Three things drew an enemy from its definition - the enemy, the map editor's
markers, and the palette buttons - each reimplementing it from hull_points
alone, so the new detail appeared in the game and nowhere else and an editor
marker stopped matching what it placed. They now share
EnemyDefinitions.draw_definition().
ARTILLERY. The 1.8s charge-up before the tower fired arrived long before the
threat was legible and mostly read as the tower being stuck. It fires
immediately now; the warning is the shell you can see in the air plus a small
cross on the ground at the impact point. Deliberately not a blast-radius ring
- a large translucent area was easy to read as the explosion having already
happened, where the cross says "move off this spot".
MAIN MENU. No Quit in any build (a web build has nothing to quit to, and
Android's back gesture already does it), a plain black background, and the
game is "Spaceship" - in the title and in config/name, which is what drives
the browser tab for the web export. change_scene_to_file() returns an error
and otherwise fails silently, leaving the menu up, which is indistinguishable
from an unpressed button; it is now checked and reported on screen.
Full suite green at 99/99.
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EnemyArtilleryComponent is a stationary siege piece (slow drift toward
the fleet, deliberately no pursuit component) that fires at the fleet
centroid on a long cooldown via a standalone ArtilleryShell -
telegraph ring (~1.8s, growing radius plus a filling countdown arc) ->
slow visible travel -> AOE explosion via Ship.take_damage() on every
player_ships node inside, same all-or-nothing shield absorption as
every other damage source. The shell is independent of the enemy that
fired it (added to the tree root, like EnemyProjectile/Projectile) so
the shooter dying mid-flight doesn't cancel an already-telegraphed
shot, and the impact point is fixed at fire time - never re-aimed at
where the fleet moves to afterward.
Part of the #40 conquest-mechanic breakdown.
