max_fleet_size() clamped itself to DEFAULT_FORMATION.size(), so the ceiling
on the fleet was a property of the LAYOUT - the wedge ran out of authored
positions at twenty - rather than a rule anyone decided on. Capacity is the
supplied Fleet Offices and nothing else now.
Dropping the clamp alone would index off the end of the formation array, so
the wedge continues by rule instead of stopping: formation_slot() grows it
on demand, each further pair stepping 30 further out and 40 further back,
which is what the authored rows already do - the first twenty slots come
back unchanged. A grown slot is rotated by formation_rotation so a fleet
that outgrows the array after the player has pivoted does not sprout hulls
facing the original heading, and that angle is saved with the layout.
Two "fleet is full" messages pointed at the vanished ceiling. Both now say
what actually buys a berth, and the hangar's stops claiming it is research,
which it has not been since #219.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QR2Mdk42ghEpeyXPe4UFyn
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