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alex
91a04377d4 lane PL: decompose the /Sim/players residual by mechanism; the bankruptcy protection factor is a float32
findings/subsystems/players-residual.md is the deliverable: every one of the 54
leaves on the reference pair and the 24 on pair 2 attributed to a named
mechanism, with the rung split. 53 of 54 are pass-through -- the block is
unmodelled, not mismodelled, and only player 32's Sav is a number we compute and
get wrong.

Three corrections to the record:
- T31's self-check compared its post-turn result against the pre-turn stored
  value, so its 6-of-8 covered only the players whose limit never moves.
- the AI difficulty column IS recoverable from the save, by recomputing BnkEl
  under both columns against the value the save carries; 1 AI + 1 non-AI on all
  eleven corpus saves.
- BANKRUPTCY_PROTECTION_LIMIT_FACTOR is read fmul dword ptr, so it is a float32
  in the image; the decimal disagrees at every max income divisible by ten and
  the corpus' seven records land where the two agree (rule 23). formula-gaps Q1
  addendum + ghidra/addresses.d/lane-pl.json (3 data entries, fragment validated
  to a scratch path, no duplicate names).

verify/results/standalone/{status.json,report.txt} refreshed from a build of main
aabd8a3: the committed copy was stale at 131/55, the real number is 128/54.

T34 RecordObservedDesigns is now readable off the corpus and is NOT an intel
pass: a design's creator registers the design in its own odes, its weapons in
owep, and re-stamps otnL on its techs in otch -- odes on build, otch on creation.
Both are hypotheses until a save exists where a player observes someone else's
design.

Status stays open and is flagged as NOT identifiable: eighteen fields of the
player record split the roster the same way and only two saves carry a non-zero
value. The probe is an entry hook on W2's writer.
2026-09-08 16:36:45 -04:00
alex
bebdee1ceb income-term: the output -> money chain read from the instruction stream; the BnkEl oracle goes 6/25 -> 25/25
`output-term.md` §6 said the verified output total did not unblock the budget
because a system's MONEY is a second chain. This is that chain, disassembled to
the next function start throughout.

The multiplier `formula-gaps.md` Q3 could not name is a three-row table the
executable BUILDS IN CODE from .rdata float literals -- no data-file key, no
GlobalConst slot, the same shape lane N found for the pop-type table.
ServerPlayer+0x36c is an unnamed, unsaved pointer to {int id; float ai[3];
float other[3]}, filled from that table by ServerPlayer::Read and selected per
player by `is-AI && !NPC`. Every corpus save carries aidf == 1, whose AI income
column is 1.1f. The record's other two columns are a fleet-maintenance DIVISOR
and a RESEARCH multiplier -- Q3 called the third a trade multiplier and it is not.

25/25 on the oracle, from 6/25. The prediction of WHERE the remaining misses were
was wrong and is written down as wrong: the twelve Zuul records were not missing
the suitability cost (every corpus colony sits at its species' ideal, so that
whole term is multiplied by zero and stays unexercised). They were missing
SpeciesDef +0x4c/+0x50, which are PER SPECIES and were carried as one global
pair -- 400 output points, 2000 money, per Zuul colony, and the observed 4400 and
5566 shortfalls fall out to the unit.

New wire fact: the Sim block's ISsp/ISsu pairs ARE server->IdealSuit[], the
float[7] CalcSuitMod indexes. The array is randomised per game by the map
generator and cross-checks against every ServerPlayer's own IdealSuit field in
all 11 saves, so the suitability cost needs no data file.

Also states plainly what this does NOT unblock: ComputeBudget's turn path takes
its per-system money from ComputeOutput with the system's OWN rate sliders, not
from ComputeMaxIncome, so P01/P02/P03/P05/P06 and the two research RNG words stay
blocked on a strictly larger function.
2026-09-08 13:49:48 -04:00
alex
bb1f8b4692 lane K: StrategyServer::OnAllCombatDone_Tail mapped, 36 phases from the instruction stream
The second turn driver, 0x007d92a0, read byte for byte. Corrects turn-driver.md
section 5: of the four subsystems it said live here, only bankruptcy does.

- 36-phase map with strides enumerated (EncounterResults 0x178, Encounter 0x74,
  member 0x44) and the arity check that logs but does not return.
- Phase 7 is encounters.clear(), not a filter: the erase pair is the same
  four-argument shape vector<Encounter>::operator= uses, and both arms converge
  three instructions later.
- Bankruptcy: ProcessBankruptcy at phase 15, UpdateBankruptcyLimits at phase 31.
  Three corrections to formula-gaps Q1 - the divisor is the double
  -0.15000000596046448 not -0.15, the per-system income term is clamped at 0
  before summing, and the 3.3 factor lives in .bss and is DB-loaded.
- Turn results are FILLED here (phases 6, 11, 18 write S+0x2f4[PlyrIdx]) but
  rotated by ApplyEncounterResults and dispatched by SynchronizePlayer as event
  0x25 afterwards. sizeof(SETurnResults) = 0x11c, enumerated five ways.
- BuildTurnEvents is misnamed: it is the setup/load/rejoin resync push, gated on
  a pending descriptor, and references no EVENT_ string at all.
- TurnEvents_Write and TurnEvents_Read are swapped in Ghidra (layouts.json is
  right). sizeof(TurnEvents) = 0x18, enumerated four ways.
- The autosave: StrategyHost::Autosave 0x00895210, its four localized paths, the
  rotation that fires only on the post-turn call, the connection detach around
  the write, and why the payload carries nothing time-, name- or machine-derived.
- Two RNG sources in the tail that nothing models: one NextFloat per expired node
  line, plus draws inside the combat resolver. Both run before the autosave.
- S+0x8 advances twice per turn, not once.

Repo-wide correction: the research-event roll costs one or two RNG words, not
one. Fixed in unlock-cascade.md, addresses.json and lane-u.json; the captured
compare artefacts under verify/results are left alone as run records.
2026-09-08 08:47:08 -04:00
alex
0dff4941bd events: recover the player event-posting API (lane E)
Closes B3's oracle gap and B2's known gap. Both milestones write into the
owner's event list; nothing modelled it, so their clean compares bounded the
economy fields only.

Container: EventStorage embedded at ServerPlayer+0x29c (0x1c bytes), verified by
ServerPlayer::GetEventStorage 0x0080db00 whose whole body is 'lea eax,[ecx+0x29c];
ret'. EvNxID at +0x14 == player+0x2b0, exactly the byte run the harness guard
reports. The list is a vector<TurnEvents{int EvTurn; vector<PlayerEvent>}> --
bucketed by turn, not flat, which the save-editor struct note had wrong.

Entry point: int __thiscall EventStorage::PostEvent(this, std::string BY VALUE,
std::string BY VALUE, void* obj, Vector3* pos, int turn, const char* img,
int act), 0x008862b0, RET 0x4c. 161 call sites in 110 functions: this is the
whole simulation's event API, not a research helper. Dedup is per turn bucket on
message/image/location/position/action but NOT summary; act 0 with no subject and
no position is stored as 2; EvNxID starts at 0 and is promoted to 1 on first post;
PruneOldTurns drops buckets older than turn-50 with an off-by-one that always
leaves one stale bucket behind.

Record: 0x74 bytes, EvEID(+4) EvDsc(+8) EvMsg(+0x24) EvLoc(+0x40) EvPos(+0x44)
EvImg(+0x50) EvAct(+0x6c) EvCID(+0x70) -- confirmed field by field against
turn3-state.sav, which contains the EVENT_RESEARCH_OVERBUDGET record itself.

B3's defect is fully explained: 0x00587b97, reached only from the
completion-roll-FAILED branch, under !wasDone && nowDone && owner.

Three note corrections: EvPos defaults to FLT_MAX, not infinity (writing +inf
changes the save bytes); the save array is turn-bucketed, not flat;
EVENT_TECHS_UNLOCKED has no 'parent researched' clause.

56 entries added to ghidra/addresses.json (header regenerated); 11 prototypes,
13 labels, 12 comments and 2 structs written back to the Ghidra project.
2026-09-08 02:47:11 -04:00
alex
ff67ec0d9a b4 live artifacts; two-base StrategyServer hazard in the contract 2026-09-08 02:07:28 -04:00
alex
4d535028ed b4 static findings: 22 formula corrections, 3 verified signatures, contract -> 324 entries 2026-09-08 00:57:55 -04:00
alex
8a6c0e8404 b3 live: fpu_cw settles x87 (53-bit); correct Q8 - research target is state 3 so it never decays 2026-09-08 00:29:44 -04:00
alex
6600382e12 b3 static findings: rng draw mapping, NextInt inclusive, float32 odds; address contract +17 2026-09-07 23:14:51 -04:00
alex
de7a2bef04 tech effects (196-entry TechId table, OnTechResearched), 8 formula gaps answered, std::string settled 2026-09-07 22:05:49 -04:00