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prosolis
d538f91cf7 Combat engine: pay off the N-body debt, and hire Pete
N3 widened the combat *roster* from 1 to N but never widened the action model,
the scaling model, or the test net to match. Building the hireable companion
walked into all three. Only one of the four defects found was the companion's;
the rest have been live in prod for every human party since N3.

The party golden did not exist (§5)
  Solo combat is pinned exhaustively (7468 lines); the entire N-body layer had
  nothing. That is why a healer class that cannot heal shipped without a test
  going red. Adds party_characterization.golden (9 scenarios x 5 seeds, incl.
  weak and dying seats) and TestPartyCharacterization_OneSeatIsStillSolo, so the
  N-body path can never quietly stop being a superset of the balance corpus.
  Regenerate only on purpose: -update-party.

No action could target another seat (§1)
  Every heal in the engine was self-scoped. A party cleric could not put one hit
  point on a friend. Adds turnActionEffect.AllyHeal/AllySeat, `!cast <spell>
  @user` and `--target @user` -- the latter has been advertised in !help and
  silently swallowed by parseCombatCast since SP2 ("reserved for SP3"). The auto
  picker uses it too (simPickAllyHeal), so away-players and engine-driven healers
  behave like competent ones. It will not raise the dead.

Corpses kept buffing the boss (§2b)
  enemyActionsThisRound counted len(st.actors), dead included -- so a party that
  lost a member kept paying for them, and the survivor faced a boss still swinging
  at two-player cadence, alone. A death spiral with the arrow pointing the wrong
  way. Now counts livingActors(). Party golden moved deliberately for this.

An engine-driven seat was a bool any command could clear (§3)
  autoDriveCombat drives a party by dispatching each seat's turn AS that seat, so
  a companion's own auto-played move arrived at beginCombatTurn looking like a
  player returning to the keyboard and cleared the latch that was moving him. He
  then stood in the fight doing nothing while the boss he had inflated killed
  everyone. ActorStatuses.EngineDriven is now a persisted seat property that no
  command clears, and the driver calls driveEngineSeat instead of impersonating.

"The party" could be empty (§4)
  A solo expedition has no expedition_party rows, so asking the roster who was in
  the party answered "nobody" -- and every caller fell back to something plausible.
  That is how the companion got hired at level 1 for exactly the player the feature
  exists for. expeditionParty()/partyHumans() always include the owner.

The companion himself (!expedition hire [class] / !expedition dismiss)
  Day 1, leader only, costs coins, role-fills the gap, globally exclusive. He is an
  NPC seat and must never become a player: no player_meta, no dnd_character, no
  inventory, no DM room -- mint him a player_meta row and
  ensureDnDCharacterForCombat will auto-build the news bot a real character, and
  he starts appearing in the graveyard and filing death notices about himself.
  Mail and seats are different sets: he fights, he does not get written to.

Measured on millenia, n=750/arm. Before these fixes he was -28pp -- worse than no
companion at all. After: solo 48.5% -> 63.9% clear (+15.3pp), with +28.0pp for
trailing players and +2.0pp for leaders. Help, never a carry.

The solo golden is byte-identical throughout: solo combat provably did not move,
and the balance corpus is intact.

Known gap: the companion cannot cast (castActionForSeat loads a sheet from the DB
and he has none by design), so a hired Cleric is still just a bad fighter.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01J5SQZWoLmL3M3mw2XmHHdy
2026-07-11 12:39:01 -07:00
prosolis
d76c63be0c Review follow-ups A + B: armed abilities survive the fight, supply pool serialized
A. An armed ability lasted one round of a turn-based fight.

buildZoneCombatants called applyArmedAbility, which applies an ability's mods
*and* clears ArmedAbility and saves the sheet. The turn engine calls that
builder again on every !attack / !cast / !consume, so round 1 fired the ability
and disarmed the character, and every later round rebuilt them with none of its
mods. A Berserker paid stamina for a single round of BerserkerRage /
RageMeleeDmg / PhysicalResistRage / FrenzyDmgBonus. Every entry in
dndActiveAbilities had the same shape. mods.BerserkerRage was not merely unread
at close-out — by then it no longer existed.

Split arming into its two halves:

  consumeArmedAbility(c)          mutates: disarms, saves, returns the id. Once,
                                  at fight start.
  applyAbilityByID(c, id, mods)   pure: no DB write, no disarm. Safe on every
                                  rebuild. (No ability's Apply writes to the
                                  character, so this really is pure.)
  armAbilityForFight(c, mods)     consume + apply, for the auto-resolve callers
                                  that build and fight in one breath.

buildZoneCombatants now takes the already-consumed id and re-applies it. The id
rides on ActorStatuses.ArmedAbility, seeded per seat at fight start, so
partyCombatantsForSession reproduces the ability every rebuild and the close-out
can still see that a rage fired.

The close-out itself: postCombatBookkeeping now carries grantCombatAchievements
+ persistDnDPostCombatSubclass, and all four close-outs route through it —
runDungeonCombat, runZoneCombatRoster, finishCombatSession,
finishPartyCombatSession. It fires on every terminal status, not just a win: a
Berserker who rages and loses is still exhausted, which is what auto-resolve
always did.

Also: buildFightSeats and runZoneCombatRoster consumed the ability before the
checks that could sit a seat out, so a downed member was disarmed for a fight
they never joined. The refusals now run first.

B. Six unlocked read-modify-writes against the shared supply pool.

updateSupplies rewrites supplies_json wholesale, so a caller folding its delta
onto an *Expedition it read earlier discards whatever landed in between.
Handlers run one goroutine per event, so those writers genuinely interleave.

All six now go through withExpeditionSupplies, which takes advExpeditionLock,
re-reads the row, hands the closure the fresh copy and persists what it returns:
nightRolloverBurn (forage + burn in one write), grantTwoWeeksCache,
advanceToNextRegion's transit burn, campPitch, pitchAutopilotCamp, and the
ambient pack-rat drain. expeditionCmdAccept's hand-rolled lock folds onto the
same helper. expedition_sim.go is left alone: single-threaded, takes no locks.

Known consequence, for the balance track: trySimAutoArm used to live inside the
rebuild, so a simulated Fighter (second_wind) or Cleric (healing_word) re-armed
and re-spent a resource every round of every elite/boss fight. expedition-sim
drives those through the turn engine, so every prior expedition-sim corpus
overstates those two classes. Re-baseline after this, not before.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017mEwUmmS7aQTP2NQXj6rUa
2026-07-10 08:01:51 -07:00
prosolis
1f211564d9 Review fixes: party close-out, member soft-lock, supply race, elite loot, season crown
Five bugs found reviewing n1-restoration end to end.

beginCombatTurn settles any phase the engine owes before reading whose turn it
is. That settle can end the fight — and the old code then answered "you're not
in a fight" and returned. The terminal status was already persisted, so nothing
ever paid the party out: no XP, no loot, no death recorded, no run teardown. The
reaper cannot recover it either, because listExpiredCombatSessions filters on
status='active'. Close the fight out there, the way the !fight start path and
the reaper already do.

A party member was permanently soft-locked when their leader extracted and never
resumed. seatedExpeditionFor (the guard) spans 'extracting'; expeditionForMember
(what !expedition leave resolved through) saw only 'active'. So the member was
refused any new adventure by the guard and told "No active expedition" by the
command the guard points them at, with nothing sweeping stale rows and only the
leader able to clear one. Resolve the exit through the same lookup as the gate.

updateSupplies overwrites supplies_json wholesale, and expeditionCmdAccept folded
a member's packs onto a snapshot read before the coin debit, unlocked. Handlers
run one goroutine per event, so two invitees accepting genuinely interleave and
one member's packs vanish. advUserLock cannot help — it is keyed by sender, so
racing members take different mutexes. Add advExpeditionLock and re-read the pool
under it. Closes accept-vs-accept; the six other updateSupplies callers still
race and are written up separately.

runHarvestInterrupt picked an elite enemy and elite narration off a local `elite`
flag, then passed a hardcoded false as isElite to closeOutZoneWin. dropZoneLoot
gates masterwork on isBoss||isElite, so beating an elite interrupt skipped the
masterwork roll and took standard treasure weight — while the same elite fought
via !zone paid out correctly.

arenaSeasonRollover marked its job complete even when recordArenaSeasonTitle
failed, and JobCompleted short-circuits every later run for that quarter, so a
transient SQLite BUSY lost the crown forever. Defer completion on failure; the
insert is ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING against PRIMARY KEY (season, kind) and a past
season's data is frozen, so the retry is safe.

Also: drop dead partySurvivors, collapse the zoneCombatRoster alias into
fightRoster, route partyCasualtyLine through joinNames, fold four copies of the
expedition column projection into expeditionSelectCols, stop replyDM sending a
blank DM, and correct two doc comments describing a path that no longer exists.

Deliberately not fixed, with reasons, in gogobee_code_review_followups.md — most
notably that both turn-based close-outs skip grantCombatAchievements and
persistDnDPostCombatSubclass, which the auto-resolve paths run.
2026-07-10 07:20:14 -07:00
prosolis
08d3053368 N3/P6e: a party that fights every room
Only elite and boss doorways seated a roster. Everything else -- exploration
rooms, patrol encounters, harvest interrupts -- resolved through SimulateCombat
against ctx.Sender, and P6d made the walk commands leader-only. So on a 38-room
T5 expedition a party of three fought together twice and the leader soloed the
other ~35, then died alone while two untouched members stood at full HP.

The plan said the N-body core was already there and only the callers passed one
player. It wasn't: SimulateCombat built a one-seat roster internally. But the
resolution primitives already read st.c -- the cursor's Combatant -- because the
turn engine has called them that way since P3. Only the round loop needed
widening.

combat_engine_party.go carries it: simulateParty, simulatePartyRound,
roundInitiative, enemyTargetSeat. Every roster short-circuit collapses for one
seat, copying P3's solo exemptions, so the RNG draw order is unchanged and
SimulateCombat is now simulateParty([]Combatant{p}, ...).Seats[0].
TestCombatCharacterization is byte-identical; TestSimulateCombat_IsTheOneSeatPartyCase
pins the delegation event-for-event across 40 seeds.

zone_combat_party.go carries the callers' half: runZoneCombatRoster fans out the
character-scoped close-out (HP, XP, achievements, subclass, heal items burned,
Misty's repair) per seat, while loot, threat, kill records and death stay with
whoever knows the room. runZoneCombat remains the explicit solo entry point --
the arena calls it, and an arena bout must never drag in a party.

Death is read per seat off HP, never off the fight's terminal status: a timed-out
party can still have lost somebody, and a solo player at 0 HP has already ended
the fight, so PlayerEndHP <= 0 is exactly the old !TimedOut rule.

Preserved deliberately: a solo player can win at 0 HP (a retaliate aura kills the
swinger on the killing blow, and resolvePlayerAttack returns before enemyDown is
consumed) and is not marked dead. A party marks its downed seats dead on a win,
which is what finishPartyWin always did.

Solo T5 re-sweep is unregressed (fighter 47-73%, cleric 20-33%). Party of 3 now
clears 100% of every T5 cell, which is P8's problem: the enemy takes one turn per
round and swings at one seat, so a party of N deals xN damage and each member
takes ~1/N^2 of the solo incoming. An HP scalar cannot close that -- it restores
the fight's duration, not the enemy's action economy.
2026-07-10 06:32:29 -07:00