New players can open Learn to play from the lobby or rules reference. Five lessons explain public/private information and turn phases, then offer three independent exercises for ordinary shipment budgets, a sealed battle plan and spice collection, followed by joining and recovering a real table. Shipping, combat and collection use existing production quotes rather than a separate simplified calculator. The fixed opposing plan is a teaching example, not an AI match. Reuse the battle wheel and card inspectors, provide keyboard inputs, move focus to the current lesson heading and stack the layout on phones. Versioned browser-local choices preserve lesson position, shipment, defense/dial and reveal state. Whitelisted validation rejects corrupt saves and impossible committed shipments. SSR uses a stable hydration placeholder before reading browser storage; direct user handlers save choices and retain usable in-memory state on storage failure. No room, seat credential or multiplayer API is used. Six new tests cover prices and affordability, every offered battle dial/defense, protected ties, weapon death, actual losses/bounty, collection limits and city capacity, saved-choice validation and internal rule links. Types, lint, 4872 offline tests and production build pass on the unchanged source fingerprint below. The first required check stopped on React setState-in-effect and semantic-status lint findings; these were fixed before the successful complete run. Independent review found no material defect in the examples or final hydration/save implementation. Browser controls verified an unaffordable shipment, legal six-force shipment, card inspection, protected 8-8 aggressor victory, Snooper/projectile death and bounty, sealed refresh, city collection, lobby return/re-entry and newly changed choices after the hydration correction. At 390px the battle controls and lobby Learn link stayed within page bounds; the viewport override was reset. Screenshot capture timed out, so visual screenshot acceptance is still open. Storage-denial browser testing and the broader faction, movement, bidding, alliance, Advanced and expansion curriculum remain unfinished. All 1106 current rooms, 2314 seats and all original recovery/entry/handover rows exactly match the fresh outage backup. SQLite integrity and foreign-key checks pass. The healthy server was reused; no restart, database migration/reset or maintenance automation was needed. HTTP integration and full-game samples were not rerun for this isolated teaching surface; server game behavior did not change. A bounded independent primary-source review supports Smuggler's reveal-bound deferred survival receipt but found no exact ruling for modified leader strength. Record the one new user question and preserve the unanswered gate; lower collection remains missing. This does not enable any rules mode, expansion or publication gate. Verified source tree: 99718ab49c4fec14820cbaf35f2e0f815e6424e910ee67c4daa1941afdeca2f0
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Current development status
Updated 20 September 2026. The full twelve-faction goal is unfinished. Basic is playable; public Advanced and unfinished expansion/module starts remain gated. Prototypes do not open completion or publication gates.
Current checkpoint and work
Latest delivered checkpoint: 9b67a78, early Sapho aggressor.
Types, lint, 4,866 offline tests, production build and 43 HTTP tests passed.
Two genuine CHOAM/Richese samples completed; focused and browser evidence exercised
the new priority effect. After the next outage all 1,106 rooms were present, the
original baseline rows and latest QA save were unchanged, and a private seat
restored after browser refresh. The healthy server was reused without a reset.
Earlier evidence remains in the implementation history.
Current work: the interactive introduction adds five lessons with shared-rule shipping, sealed battle and collection exercises, card inspection and browser-local continuation. Broader faction/expansion teaching remains unfinished. Final verification and delivery belong to the source-bound report and Git message.
The connected Harass & Withdraw prototype supports either battle-card slot, private category inspections, exact undialed normal/elite returns, opponent-Traitor cancellation, mandatory disposal, controls and all four AI profiles. New battles also have revealed physical allocation for ordinary/elite mixtures and multi-sector returns. Richese card combinations and additional optional modules stay gated. Withdrawal before explosion and card-specific discard precedence are explicitly labeled inferences. The Stone Burner timing question is pending; no user answer is assumed. Reinforcements remains unfinished. This does not open variant, mode or publication gates.
The preceding early Sapho aggressor connects the printed battle-priority effect during the existing shared pre-plan opportunity. Physical attacker/defender/chooser stay stable; Habbanya takes precedence in either slot. Shared priority feeds Stone admission, ordinary/Stone resolution, public controls and all four AI profiles. Battle-bound history survives private saved continuation. Later intervention remains unfinished; no new ruling is assumed. Final checks, samples, browser evidence and delivery belong to the source-bound private report and Git message.
The Mirror admission review found that every genuine Richese setup contains the unresolved copied weapons. Ordinary-only activation cannot safely depend on hidden custody or alter the printed deck. Mirror remains gated pending the existing disposal ruling and copied-choice work. Continue with independent missing faction/card functions, then integrated play and refinement.
The Smuggler follow-up review supports a saved reveal-time receipt with settlement only on leader survival, but located no official ruling on modified leader strength. The user has been asked about Kwisatz/trainer/Stunner composition; no answer is assumed. See the source follow-up.
Authoritative navigation
- Rules checklist, topic
implementation-checklistand each feature's entries: track implementation, controls, AI, documentation and verification, plus Missing, Prototyped, Integrated, Verified and Polished stages. - Rule decision index: settled contracts, source precedence and pending material interpretations. Consult it before reopening research.
- Development guide and verification tools: architecture, focused checks, source-bound reports, reusable faction samples, private backup and saved-seat restoration.
- Implementation history: newest first. Historical evidence and outage records stay there and in feature documents; read bounded relevant sections and verify old absence claims against current code/tests.
- Efficiency pilot: the first three milestones are pushed; measurement limits remain explicit. Reuse tools and checks, without promising an unmeasured savings percentage.
Connected development capabilities
These links define bounded working behavior, not complete module certification.
| Area | Current connected work and evidence |
|---|---|
| Base/Advanced setup | Genuine setup, Advanced study, Fremen cancellation, Atreides full-plan audit. Earlier Basic-then-flip fixtures do not establish current setup coverage. |
| Expansion factions | Ixians/Tleilaxu and all seven faction selections: genuine setup, Ecaz six-force placement, separate optional card variants, private controls and saved per-lot Ixian/Richese decline. Actual special-lot exchange remains pending. |
| Leader Skills | Common lifecycle, known skilled capture, Mentat question preview, Bureaucrat payments, five battle disciplines, Planetologist, Suk Graduate, Rihani and other battle effects, Smuggler shipment and No-Field, Sandmaster routes, Banker spending, Diplomat defense. Remaining bands and combinations are explicit in those contracts. |
| Discoveries | Prototype: genuine setup, Great Maker, seven cards/eight tokens, inspection and stash rewards, nested sites, signed later free entry, carried Ornithopter, sole Cistern, bounded Jacurutu income, Testing Station and Shrine. Orgiz and contested/mixed cases remain pending. |
| Nexus/Homeworlds | Decision index links each integrated faction family, native/borrowed effects, physical custody, private choices, payments and transport. CHOAM Collection trade and Emperor extra revival are connected; CHOAM inspection and Emperor purchase remain pending. A source audit or helper alone is not a completed effect. |
| Truthtrance | Spice facts, card counts, hand inventory, recorded knowledge, and Basic/no-Guild Advanced reserve-shipment promises use authoritative private state. Earlier readiness audits do not supersede these follow-ups. |
| Other cards | Sapho runtime includes first among remaining unstarted movement turns after Advanced Guild has finished. Recruits connects clean Revival play; Harass & Withdraw connects the bounded battle return in the same independent three-card preview. Richese card contracts and the checklist identify other connected effects and explicit gaps. |
| Multiplayer | Saved rooms/seats, recovery, uncertain-request retry, own-seat AI, and voluntary seat handover have connected controls and recovery evidence. |
Remaining readiness
| Area | Remaining gate |
|---|---|
| Basic core | Ordinary Guild repricing/transport settlement, broader truthful commitments, unresolved special timing and integrated rules/human/AI acceptance. |
| Six-faction Advanced | Base gaps, provisional special-Karama outcomes, remaining timing audits and authentic multiplayer/browser acceptance. Setup matrices and complete samples do not open public starts. |
| Twelve factions and all optional modules | Every missing effect, remaining skill bands, Ecaz card variant, Kull Wahad, unfinished Richese cards, Terror effects, occupation entitlement, Nexus interactions, contested Discoveries and complete games across valid combinations. Detailed boundaries remain in the checklist/decision index. |
| AI | Legal continuation for every supported function and distinct Easy/Medium/Hard/Brutal strategy; consistent upper-level strength ordering remains unproven. Defer broad calibration until functional coverage warrants it. |
| Multiplayer | Broader disconnected/abandoned-seat recovery, unattended continuation and network-failure acceptance, while preserving authoritative versioning, custody, privacy and saves. |
| Components and experience | Full component inventory/text verification, all readable inspectors, original artwork, animation/sound/accessibility/mobile polish, complete internal guidance and end-to-end human play. |
AI calibration, multiplayer audit, component inventory and visual playtest record their measured scope. README retains publication gates.
Working sequence and preservation
Prototype every remaining function in dependency order, using existing controls, legal AI and the saved-state model. Continue independent functions while material rulings are pending. Then run integrated games, repair failures, deepen combination and recovery coverage, calibrate AI and polish. Keep focused checks for crashes, deadlocks, legality, custody and privacy; complete required broad checkpoint checks. Use selective subagents and independent review for complex rules/privacy/persistence. Commit and push verified checkpoints under “Push all from now on”, verify push success, and stop pursuit at 80% weekly usage consumed with the goal unfinished.
The user-authorized 13 September reset happened once; preserve all games created
since it. Keep .wrangler/state, credentials and private backup artifacts out of
Git. Reuse a healthy server; restart only for a relevant change or observed problem,
with a fresh backup, safe human-play boundary and verified restoration. No hourly
restart or recurring maintenance automation is installed; do not recreate one.