J3 D8-f #2: T4 difficulty lift (leaders-define-band) + feywild fork1 soft-lock fix

T4 monster tuning so martial leaders land in the 60-75% band (underdark
59/80, feywild 65/84 at L10/L12, n=50); casters trail (class-side gap that
monster tuning provably can't compress -- Pass 1 showed casters pinned at 0%
while martials moved). T5 deferred (walls everyone at its L12 floor; needs an
L15-16 corpus).

- dnd_bestiary.go: underdark elite/boss HP+AC up + caster-lethal proc cuts
  (mind_flayer/drow_mage/roper); feywild HP+AC up.
- bestiary_srd.go: feywild multiattack profiles (fomorian/night_hag/green_hag)
  + Thornmother 2->3 lashes -- HP/AC alone didn't move feywild's low-damage
  roster; multiattack is what pulls facerolling martials into band.
- zone_graph_feywild_crossing.go: free fork1's marsh edge. fork1 was the only
  fork in the game with every exit skill-locked (CHA+Perception, no LockNone)
  and deterministic no-retry rolls -- a prod SOFT-LOCK stranding ~60% of
  players (low CHA+WIS). Kept grove's CHA bargain as a bonus route.
- expedition_sim.go: firstUnlockedForkChoice -- sim fork policy picks the
  first unlocked option instead of blind 'go 1' (which looped forever on
  locked forks); halts fork_all_locked if none.
- tests: graph-wide TestZoneGraphs_NoSoftLockedFork + fork1 free-path guard.

Writeup: sim_results/d8f_findings.md
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prosolis
2026-05-28 19:02:58 -07:00
parent a46b773750
commit 4934383a9a
6 changed files with 132 additions and 33 deletions

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@@ -506,9 +506,22 @@ func (s *SimRunner) RunExpedition(uid id.UserID, zoneID ZoneID, walkCap, maxDays
// Boss kill closes the run via combat resolution → continue
// the loop so the next walk picks up the cleared-run state.
case stopFork:
// Deterministic sim policy: always take path 1. Real players
// pick based on intent; the sim just needs to make progress.
if err := s.P.handleDnDExpeditionCmd(ctx, "go 1"); err != nil {
// Deterministic sim policy: take the first UNLOCKED path. The
// old blind "go 1" stalled forever on all-skill-check forks
// (feywild fork1) — resolveForkChoice rejects a locked edge but
// zoneCmdGo swallows it as a sent-DM with a nil return, so the
// run never advanced and burned every walk at the same node. A
// real player reads the menu and picks a passable path; mirror
// that. choice==0 means every edge is locked (a graph soft-lock
// the author must fix) — halt loudly rather than spin.
choice := s.firstUnlockedForkChoice(ctx.Sender)
if choice == 0 {
res.Outcome = "halted"
res.StopCode = "fork_all_locked"
i = walkCap
break
}
if err := s.P.handleDnDExpeditionCmd(ctx, fmt.Sprintf("go %d", choice)); err != nil {
res.Outcome = "halted"
res.StopCode = "fork:" + err.Error()
i = walkCap
@@ -626,6 +639,26 @@ func (s *SimRunner) RunExpedition(uid id.UserID, zoneID ZoneID, walkCap, maxDays
return res, nil
}
// firstUnlockedForkChoice returns the 1-based index of the first
// traversable option at the pending fork, or 0 if every edge is locked
// (a graph soft-lock — see feywild fork1, which had no LockNone exit).
func (s *SimRunner) firstUnlockedForkChoice(uid id.UserID) int {
run, err := getActiveZoneRun(uid)
if err != nil || run == nil {
return 1
}
pf, err := decodePendingFork(run.NodeChoices)
if err != nil || pf == nil {
return 1
}
for _, o := range pf.Options {
if o.Unlocked {
return o.Index
}
}
return 0
}
// captureDaySnapshot appends a SimDaySnapshot reflecting current state.
// HP is read from the live character row; SU/threat/day from the live
// expedition. Rooms is the running res.Rooms counter.