findings/subsystems/output-term.md is the whole reading: the call chain with
real function boundaries, the formula, the closed list of nine values the data
files supply (down from an unbounded fear), the advance prediction with its
falsification table, and the live result.
Corrects strategic-turn-internals.md 3.3 in place. That block had the SHAPE
wrong, not just the detail: a system's output is a sum of three terms, and the
function it named as the population base-output term is the over-harvest
resource demand.
Live on VM140, two builds, two species, both hooks in compare mode:
GroupOutput 13,105 calls / 0 divergences, ComputeTotalOutput 11,252 / 1 (one
ulp), 0 undeclared writes in 24,357 guarded calls. Thirteen distinct system
states, and every unexercised branch is listed rather than counted as covered.
tools/max_income_predict.py is the other half: it computes lane Y's
bankruptcy-limit oracle from colony state and reports 6 of 25 player-records
matching exactly, with the misses all AI-owned and the single-system ones short
by exactly the 1.1 difficulty income multiplier.
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.
