Preserve room JSON, seats, credentials and messages while removed rooms deny ordinary reads and writes. Add deliberate room-scoped controls, removed-directory filters, persistent player notices and live-authorized atomic version/revision audit receipts. Retain uncertain room/seat requests and hidden recovery drafts through removal; restore the prior pause/join settings without reviving revoked credentials.
Fix AI readiness after a joining human or human faction change so real lobby starts remain legal.
Verified types, lint, 5314 offline tests, 52 HTTP tests and build. Fourteen authenticated HTTP groups and independent privacy/persistence review passed. Desktop/mobile browser QA confirmed a saved removal after a lost response and refresh, one audit on exact retry, persistent notices and recovery draft continuity. All 1,945 baseline rooms, 4,121 seats and related records preserved. Positive authenticated production admin acceptance remains pending authorized QA operator access; full admin and rules gates remain open.
Provide authenticated owner/operator room controls with live account binding, durable audit and exact saved retries. Pause gates human, bot and automatic writes while preserving recovery, discussion and taking back control. Resume keeps decisions and restores AI pacing. Add directory availability filters and player notices.
Verified types, lint, 5223 offline tests, 52 HTTP tests and build. Independent persistence/privacy review and authenticated HTTP acceptance passed. Desktop/mobile browser QA confirmed lost-response refresh/retry makes one audit row and resume restores controls. Existing games preserved. Authenticated deployed admin acceptance remains pending explicit QA access confirmation.
Add room-creation and host lobby rules selectors, readiness reset, explicit
preview start and a persistent warning. Admit the six classic factions,
Tech Tokens with 3+ players and optional Stronghold Cards through genuine
setup. Keep expansion/module gates and complete-rules/publication criteria.
Persist the preview marker and enforce fresh native leaders, unchanged
piece custody and clean runtime/pacing state. Preserve private projections,
JSON continuation, exact room-entry retries and version/CAS protection.
Independent review resolved malformed leader, extra card-zone, missing
required-key and stale bot-deadline admission gaps.
Validation on the shared development tree: types, lint, 5169 offline
tests, build and 50 HTTP tests passed. The tree also contained the
separate deployment task's changes; this commit stages only preview scope.
All 57 base rosters completed real setup with each legal AI profile. Five
normal-preview-start games (2–6 seats) completed 1950 actions and
51 JSON restores without rejected actions; no strategy calibration.
Browser: actual create, host switch/readiness/Stronghold reset, explicit
start, exact private refresh, desktop and mobile warning checked. Retained
dev process stopped; backed up 1,629 saved games, restored server with all
unchanged, and resumed the same traitor choice into Storm. Baseline all-table
preservation retained 1626 rooms and 3442 seats; totals
now 1669 rooms and 3536 seats. No reset or automation.
Preview remains incomplete. Legacy unsupported expansion creation payloads
remain accepted for exact retry compatibility but cannot start. Existing
rules ambiguities and full visual acceptance remain open.
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