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Recruits development preview
14 September 2026. Prototyped, not full card-variant acceptance. The independent Ecaz & Moritani Treachery Cards variant is included before genuine Basic or Advanced faction setup. All three physical cards are present exactly once. Recruits, bounded Reinforcements and Harass & Withdraw have connected controls, AI and saved continuation; full interactions and public starts remain gated.
Provisional late-paid activation — 8 October 2026
The content-first pass now permits Recruits after recorded paid ordinary returns, once the current transaction has finished. Provisional policy: prior payments are retained; only actual recorded free returns consume the doubled free rate, while all returns consume the total allowance. No refund, reset or retroactive reclassification is performed. This is not a numerical user ruling or a newly retrieved publisher answer.
Thus Atreides' actual two-free/one-paid return retains its two-spice payment and three total returns; after Recruits it may take two additional free forces under the seven total cap. Missing or inconsistent free-use ledgers, pending declarations, later rate changes and same-turn replay remain guarded. The owned before-play panel and public active panel name this interpretation.
Basic/Advanced before/after native smokes use a genuinely dealt card, an actual three-force return and useful allied Easy activation, then two free returns: total5/free4, unchanged paid spice and one card disposal. Live React controls in Chromium produce the same available2/remaining4 quote and preserve spice18/total3/free2 at activation. No broad suite, recovery or deployed proof.
Rules contract
The source audit records publisher Ecaz & Moritani pages 11 and 16, the base and faction revival rules, and designer Jack Reda's explanation at 8:25–8:48. The card plays during Revival, doubles every current free rate, raises the normal force limit to seven for this turn, and is discarded after use. The publisher's four-to-eight example is capped at seven by the ordinary limit. Fresh publisher/designer-linked PDF fetches on 14 September returned HTTP 403; this follow-up uses the earlier recorded primary-source audit and independent source review. No newly retrieved late-paid ruling is claimed.
The scope permits activation before returns or after consistently recorded free/paid normal returns, once priority windows and transactions finish. Unknown legacy usage, later Fremen grants, same-turn replay after recovery and additional optional modules remain guarded. These are unfinished cases, not new printed timing rules. Already-ready players retain their Revival opportunity while phase four is open.
Atreides doubles two to four, Fremen three to six, and Guild one to two. Native CHOAM and Tleilaxu retain their unlimited allowance with free rates zero and four. Paid prices, prevention and separate elite caps remain in force. A Fremen grant settled before play doubles the ally's replacement rate three to six.
The seven-force allowance remains an independent global card effect when a CHOAM or Tleilaxu faction advantage is canceled. This is an implementation inference from independent effects, not a direct combined publisher FAQ. A Tleilaxu limit response is not opened merely for crossing three under Recruits; other qualifying price/prevention responses retain their original purposes.
The earlier user question about one versus two further free Atreides returns remains unanswered. The 8 October first version uses the visibly provisional two-further-free policy above; it does not claim that question was adjudicated. The source audit retains the alternatives and later changing-rate ambiguity.
Connected path and persistence
initializeEcazTreacheryGameForAudit composes the complete three-card inventory
with the selected ordinary deck before shuffle/deal. The local ecaz-treachery
prototype-room profile accepts only a fresh ready lobby and uses the existing
version/state compare-and-swap. It preserves seats and other rooms.
The holder's existing inspector shows the complete original-language card guide.
The Revival panel submits the shared recruitsPlayAction; rivals receive no held
card offer. A successful action discards the physical card once and saves its
player, turn and identity. Every player then sees the same effective public rates
and force limits. No rival hand, private spice or revival-use ledger is added.
Authoritative shared revival quotes use the effect. Exact free usage is separate from total normal returns only while Recruits is active; inactive/legacy games retain their previous arithmetic. Active receipts and ledgers are validated on action and projection. JSON and SQLite restoration retain the same allowance; the next turn clears the effect. Rejected actions leave the supplied state intact.
All four AI profiles use the same legal owned offer when their faction or ally can benefit, then ordinary quoted revival choices. The late Fremen grant is excluded from bot candidates as well as server and UI controls. This is a legal first strategy, not completed Recruits difficulty calibration.
Verification
Focused engine, component, AI, genuine prototype-room and authenticated SQLite recovery suites are maintained alongside the pure arithmetic and inventory tests. Independent review passes a 37-case related union; four authenticated SQLite cases cover restored free/paid returns, malformed saves, stale/duplicate actions and competing writes. Eight fixed-seed six-seat Basic/Advanced samples across all four AI profiles finish in 7,995 accepted actions with no rejected candidates. Recruits is genuinely played three times. Physical cards, Traitors, safe force/elite pools, 212 periodic all-seat JSON restores and terminal private views pass. Undefined object properties are normalized through JSON on both sides of the comparison; defined values are retained. Earlier harness attempts remain in private artifacts.
A separate conserved browser Revival fixture verifies the full inspector, actual play/discard, public Atreides four/Fremen six rates, four free returns, automatic chronicle and active/resolved refresh. Exact state comparison preserves the seat, cards, forces and unchanged spice. This staged browser position does not establish naturally reached card use. Final broad checks, source fingerprints, saved-game preservation and Git delivery are recorded with the checkpoint. These samples do not certify the unfinished three-card variant or every combined configuration.
See current status, decision index and
the reference checklist, topic card-recruits, for the
remaining boundaries. Final polishing, other two effects and valid optional-module
combinations remain required work.