` element at all. ### Files affected - `index.html`, `about.html`, `impressum.html`, `datenschutz.html` — all user-facing strings - `README.md`, `CHANGELOG.md` — project documentation - `docs/*.md` — all internal docs, including deploy paths - `api/mistral-headline.php` — prompt text so Mistral refers to the correct game name - Archive files (`archive/atlantic-drift_v*.html`, `docs/archive/*-NGINX.md`) kept with old naming as historical artifacts ### Migration note for deployed instance If you have the old `atlantic-drift/` folder on Nextcloud, it has been renamed to `atlantic-rift/`. All deploy docs now reference the new path. If you already ran the old `rsync` pointing at the old folder, re-sync. ## v11.3 — UK Narrative + Matomo + About + Map Fallback (2026-04-18) ### Added - **UK scenario events** — three new events modeling the "can EU reattract UK / will it become 51st state" dynamic: - `uk-brexit-regret` (EU-pull, triggers at `uk.euAlign > 65`) - `uk-special-relationship` (US lock-in, triggers at `uk.usAlign > 80`; also bumps intra-West frictions) - `uk-swing-moment` (contested UK creates a fork event depending on which side you play) - **About page** (`about.html`) — Atlantic Rift framed as an AI-collaboration study. Links to ConsultD, Conversations with Claude, danielpapcke.com, Anthropic. Four bloc sigils (SVG) introduced. - **Bloc sigils** — clean inline SVG icons for US / EU / China / Russia. Currently displayed on the About page; can be pulled into status strip, briefing badges, and endings in a later pass. - **Matomo integration** — DSGVO-conservative tracking snippet at bottom of `index.html`. Cookie-less, IP-anonymized, respects Do-Not-Track. Exposes `window.trackGameEvent(category, action, name, value)` for game-level analytics. `endGame()` now emits an event per ending kind. Replace two placeholders (`[YOUR_MATOMO_HOST]` and `[YOUR_SITE_ID]`) in the snippet before going live. - **Datenschutzerklärung updated** — Matomo section now affirmative (active on this instance), with its privacy-conservative configuration documented. ### Fixed - **"Map data failed to load"** now shows a real diagnostic panel with probable causes (file:// protocol, missing `vendor/` folder, etc.) plus a **"Play without map" fallback** that replaces the map with a clickable country list grouped by region. Game remains playable if topojson fails to load. ### Balance profile (50 runs × 3 styles) | Style | Rupture | Win | Avg treasury | |---|---|---|---| | reckless | 62% | 38% | -7 | | cautious | 28% | 72% | +2 | | diplomatic | 10% | 90% | +44 | ### Security note - A Mistral API key was shared during this session's chat; it has been treated as exposed and has not been integrated into the frontend. Rotate it before any Mistral work begins and route through a proxy on `darth` per `docs/MISTRAL.md`. # Changelog ## v11.1 — Bug-Fix + Debt Cascade (2026-04-18) ### Fixed - **Action buttons no longer lie about tension cost.** Only `Regulatory Pressure` and `Covert Destabilize` show "Tension -1". All other actions (previously falsely labeled with "Tension +1" or higher) are now correctly marked as tension-neutral. Labels match mechanics. - **Rupture-risk warning** uses the same honest logic — no more false alarms on tech/mil/arms clicks. - **"Q=undefined"** header bug on final tick — quarter index now bounded. ### Added - **Debt cascade events** (Daniel's request: Debt → Taxes → Social cuts → Unity loss → Uprisings): - `austerity-vs-stimulus` — fires when treasury < -130 and unity still healthy. 50/50 whether government picks austerity (stabilizes treasury, shrinks unity) or stimulus (opposite). Player sees it as a news headline; the choice is implied by the government's response. - `domestic-uprising` — eligible when own unity < 30. Mass protests in your capital. Treasury takes a hit, bloc alignment quietly erodes. - `rival-uprising` — when the opponent's unity < 30. Your opening, their mess. Subtle realignment gains. - **Progressive debt stress** — deep debt now erodes Domestic Unity directly (austerity → social cuts → public patience). Below -100: gradual unity drain. Below -150: faster. Below -200: brutal. ### Balance profile (50 runs × 3 styles) | Style | Rupture | Win | Avg unity | Avg treasury | |---|---|---|---|---| | reckless | 72% | 28% | 70/100 | -24 | | cautious | 30% | 70% | 73/100 | +7 | | diplomatic | 10% | 90% | 79/100 | +57 | **Treasury now correlates with play style** (was purely decorative before v11.1). # Changelog All notable changes to Atlantic Rift. Versions are quarterly-themed snapshots; the game itself isn't on semantic versioning. ## v11 — Hail-Mary Edition (2026-04-18) ### Added - **AI behaviour modes**: the rival bloc now picks one of three per-turn modes - *normal* (~75%) — rational play as in v10 - *miscalculate* (~15%) — wastes effort on weaker targets, slight aggression - *hail-mary* (~10%) — erratic, big-swing moves, includes destab out of the blue. Logs show `⚡hail-mary` tag. - **Erraticness tracker** (`state.erraticness[side]`, 0–20) rises when a side goes hail-mary, slowly decays during normal play. - **Intra-West frictions** — five new events covering survivable Atlantic skirmishes: - `atlantic-tariff-row` — steel/machinery tariff disputes - `greenland-escalation` — US Navy operations without EU notification - `canada-bypass` — EU-Canada deals around Washington - `digital-services-retaliation` — DMA vs US firms - `atlantic-summit-reset` — release valve; cools tensions and frictions - `frictions-boil-over` — threshold event at `intraWestFrictions >= 5`, hits tension once - **Self-hosted libraries**: D3.js, TopoJSON, and world-atlas are now served from `vendor/` — no third-party CDN calls at runtime. DSGVO-clean. - **Legal scaffolding**: `impressum.html` and `datenschutz.html` with German DSGVO coverage and clearly-marked placeholders. - Footer links to Impressum, Datenschutz, Roadmap, Changelog. ### Changed - **Passive tension cooling** raised from 45% → 55% chance per quarter when tension < 8. - **Boil-over tension cost** reduced from -2 to -1 (softer but still bites). - **Atlantic-summit-reset** fires earlier (frictions >= 2, was 3) and more often (weight 3, was 2). - Hail-mary destabilize tolerance softened (30% chance of destab inclusion, was 50%). - Hail-mary big-swing bias softened (50%, was 70%). ### Balance profile (50-run simulation, three play styles) | Play style | Rupture | Win | Avg turns | End tension | |---|---|---|---|---| | reckless | 72% | 28% | 13.3 | 2.2/10 | | cautious | 22% | 76% | 19.1 | 5.3/10 | | diplomatic | 2% | 98% | 20.9 | 6.8/10 | --- ## v10 — Crawford-Conform Tension (2026-04-18) ### Changed - **Tension scale expanded** from 1–5 internal to 1–10 internal, still displayed as 5 levels. - **Actions no longer directly cost tension** except for `Regulatory Pressure` and `Covert Destabilize` (–1 each). - All other actions (Diplomatic Capital, Trade Deal, Tech Alignment, Energy Deal, Strategic Investment, Military Support, Arms Deal) are tension-neutral. - This is closer to Chris Crawford's original design, where tension rose through *crises*, not routine diplomacy. - Starting tension is now 8 (was 4 on the old scale, functionally similar to "Friction"). - AI tension budget halved (only coercive tools pay tension). ### Added - **Rupture warning**: any player action that would drop tension to 1 (game-ending) now shows a confirmation dialog. - **AI miscalculation mode**: ~15% chance per turn, AI widens target pool and picks slightly more aggressive actions. - **Domestic Unity stub** (`state.unity`) — visible in the status strip with a "v11 factor" tag. Drifts based on fiscal health, tension, and Unit adoption. Not yet consequential; will constrain AP and crisis options in a future edition. - **End-turn debounce** to prevent rapid double-click skipping quarters. - **Rupture ending** rewritten with apocalyptic register — Yeats (*The Second Coming*) and Mark 3:25 epigraphs, atmospheric copy about the post-1945 order closing its books. ### Balance profile | Play style | Rupture | Win | |---|---|---| | reckless | 74% | 26% | | cautious | 28% | 70% | | diplomatic | 10% | 90% | ### Why Rupture instead of Rapture The English word *rupture* and the biblical *rapture* share the Latin root *rumpere* (to break). Rupture is the secular term for what's happening: a breaking apart of the Atlantic order. The ending copy leans into the apocalyptic resonance — Yeats, Mark 3:25, Lincoln's house-divided speech — without preaching. --- ## v9 — First Playable Build (2026-04-17) ### Added - Full game loop: map, 34 playable countries, 8 Action Points per quarter, 20 quarters total, Rupture / BRICS-Unit / win-lose-draw endings. - Action system with 9 Instruments of Power. - Event system with 23 recurring events. - Crisis system with 5 flashpoint templates. - Headlines panel, action log, country dossiers. - Side-switchable briefings (US / EU). - Natural Earth 1:110m map via TopoJSON, loaded from CDN. ### Known issues fixed in later versions - **Rupture trigger too easy** (fixed in v10) — a single `Covert Destabilize` at default tension ended the game. - **No signalling of upcoming rupture** (fixed in v10) — players had no way to see they were one action from losing. - **AI too passive** (fixed in v11) — rival never took aggressive or unpredictable moves. - **CDN dependency** (fixed in v11) — ran libraries from third-party CDNs with no fallback for DSGVO deployment. - **Missing legal pages** (fixed in v11)

# Changelog ## v11.4 — Rename: Atlantic Drift → Atlantic Rift (2026-04-18) ### Changed - **Project renamed.** "Atlantic Drift" is now "Atlantic Rift" across all user-facing surfaces (game title, About page, Impressum, Datenschutz, documentation, Mistral prompt, Matomo site label). - **Rationale.** "Rift" is the better word for what the game is about: visible, acute, political, consequential. "Drift" is geologic and passive; "Rift" sits on the gradient between Friction and Rupture exactly where the game mechanically lives. And the domain was already `atlanticrift.cc` — the two-word ambiguity cost ConsultD showcase-professionalism every time a visitor mistyped. - **Preserved.** The event kicker "The Atlantic Rift" (formerly "The Atlantic Drift") still fires on two key UK-narrative events, now as self-referential label rather than title. Domain, codebase IDs, vault-entry names, NC paths renamed to `atlantic-rift/`. - **Proper HTML head added** to `index.html` — title, description, Open Graph tags. Previously the page had no `` element at all. ### Files affected - `index.html`, `about.html`, `impressum.html`, `datenschutz.html` — all user-facing strings - `README.md`, `CHANGELOG.md` — project documentation - `docs/*.md` — all internal docs, including deploy paths - `api/mistral-headline.php` — prompt text so Mistral refers to the correct game name - Archive files (`archive/atlantic-drift_v*.html`, `docs/archive/*-NGINX.md`) kept with old naming as historical artifacts ### Migration note for deployed instance If you have the old `atlantic-drift/` folder on Nextcloud, it has been renamed to `atlantic-rift/`. All deploy docs now reference the new path. If you already ran the old `rsync` pointing at the old folder, re-sync. ## v11.3 — UK Narrative + Matomo + About + Map Fallback (2026-04-18) ### Added - **UK scenario events** — three new events modeling the "can EU reattract UK / will it become 51st state" dynamic: - `uk-brexit-regret` (EU-pull, triggers at `uk.euAlign > 65`) - `uk-special-relationship` (US lock-in, triggers at `uk.usAlign > 80`; also bumps intra-West frictions) - `uk-swing-moment` (contested UK creates a fork event depending on which side you play) - **About page** (`about.html`) — Atlantic Rift framed as an AI-collaboration study. Links to ConsultD, Conversations with Claude, danielpapcke.com, Anthropic. Four bloc sigils (SVG) introduced. - **Bloc sigils** — clean inline SVG icons for US / EU / China / Russia. Currently displayed on the About page; can be pulled into status strip, briefing badges, and endings in a later pass. - **Matomo integration** — DSGVO-conservative tracking snippet at bottom of `index.html`. Cookie-less, IP-anonymized, respects Do-Not-Track. Exposes `window.trackGameEvent(category, action, name, value)` for game-level analytics. `endGame()` now emits an event per ending kind. Replace two placeholders (`[YOUR_MATOMO_HOST]` and `[YOUR_SITE_ID]`) in the snippet before going live. - **Datenschutzerklärung updated** — Matomo section now affirmative (active on this instance), with its privacy-conservative configuration documented. ### Fixed - **"Map data failed to load"** now shows a real diagnostic panel with probable causes (file:// protocol, missing `vendor/` folder, etc.) plus a **"Play without map" fallback** that replaces the map with a clickable country list grouped by region. Game remains playable if topojson fails to load. ### Balance profile (50 runs × 3 styles) | Style | Rupture | Win | Avg treasury | |---|---|---|---| | reckless | 62% | 38% | -7 | | cautious | 28% | 72% | +2 | | diplomatic | 10% | 90% | +44 | ### Security note - A Mistral API key was shared during this session's chat; it has been treated as exposed and has not been integrated into the frontend. Rotate it before any Mistral work begins and route through a proxy on `darth` per `docs/MISTRAL.md`. # Changelog ## v11.1 — Bug-Fix + Debt Cascade (2026-04-18) ### Fixed - **Action buttons no longer lie about tension cost.** Only `Regulatory Pressure` and `Covert Destabilize` show "Tension -1". All other actions (previously falsely labeled with "Tension +1" or higher) are now correctly marked as tension-neutral. Labels match mechanics. - **Rupture-risk warning** uses the same honest logic — no more false alarms on tech/mil/arms clicks. - **"Q=undefined"** header bug on final tick — quarter index now bounded. ### Added - **Debt cascade events** (Daniel's request: Debt → Taxes → Social cuts → Unity loss → Uprisings): - `austerity-vs-stimulus` — fires when treasury < -130 and unity still healthy. 50/50 whether government picks austerity (stabilizes treasury, shrinks unity) or stimulus (opposite). Player sees it as a news headline; the choice is implied by the government's response. - `domestic-uprising` — eligible when own unity < 30. Mass protests in your capital. Treasury takes a hit, bloc alignment quietly erodes. - `rival-uprising` — when the opponent's unity < 30. Your opening, their mess. Subtle realignment gains. - **Progressive debt stress** — deep debt now erodes Domestic Unity directly (austerity → social cuts → public patience). Below -100: gradual unity drain. Below -150: faster. Below -200: brutal. ### Balance profile (50 runs × 3 styles) | Style | Rupture | Win | Avg unity | Avg treasury | |---|---|---|---|---| | reckless | 72% | 28% | 70/100 | -24 | | cautious | 30% | 70% | 73/100 | +7 | | diplomatic | 10% | 90% | 79/100 | +57 | **Treasury now correlates with play style** (was purely decorative before v11.1). # Changelog All notable changes to Atlantic Rift. Versions are quarterly-themed snapshots; the game itself isn't on semantic versioning. ## v11 — Hail-Mary Edition (2026-04-18) ### Added - **AI behaviour modes**: the rival bloc now picks one of three per-turn modes - *normal* (~75%) — rational play as in v10 - *miscalculate* (~15%) — wastes effort on weaker targets, slight aggression - *hail-mary* (~10%) — erratic, big-swing moves, includes destab out of the blue. Logs show `⚡hail-mary` tag. - **Erraticness tracker** (`state.erraticness[side]`, 0–20) rises when a side goes hail-mary, slowly decays during normal play. - **Intra-West frictions** — five new events covering survivable Atlantic skirmishes: - `atlantic-tariff-row` — steel/machinery tariff disputes - `greenland-escalation` — US Navy operations without EU notification - `canada-bypass` — EU-Canada deals around Washington - `digital-services-retaliation` — DMA vs US firms - `atlantic-summit-reset` — release valve; cools tensions and frictions - `frictions-boil-over` — threshold event at `intraWestFrictions >= 5`, hits tension once - **Self-hosted libraries**: D3.js, TopoJSON, and world-atlas are now served from `vendor/` — no third-party CDN calls at runtime. DSGVO-clean. - **Legal scaffolding**: `impressum.html` and `datenschutz.html` with German DSGVO coverage and clearly-marked placeholders. - Footer links to Impressum, Datenschutz, Roadmap, Changelog. ### Changed - **Passive tension cooling** raised from 45% → 55% chance per quarter when tension < 8. - **Boil-over tension cost** reduced from -2 to -1 (softer but still bites). - **Atlantic-summit-reset** fires earlier (frictions >= 2, was 3) and more often (weight 3, was 2). - Hail-mary destabilize tolerance softened (30% chance of destab inclusion, was 50%). - Hail-mary big-swing bias softened (50%, was 70%). ### Balance profile (50-run simulation, three play styles) | Play style | Rupture | Win | Avg turns | End tension | |---|---|---|---|---| | reckless | 72% | 28% | 13.3 | 2.2/10 | | cautious | 22% | 76% | 19.1 | 5.3/10 | | diplomatic | 2% | 98% | 20.9 | 6.8/10 | --- ## v10 — Crawford-Conform Tension (2026-04-18) ### Changed - **Tension scale expanded** from 1–5 internal to 1–10 internal, still displayed as 5 levels. - **Actions no longer directly cost tension** except for `Regulatory Pressure` and `Covert Destabilize` (–1 each). - All other actions (Diplomatic Capital, Trade Deal, Tech Alignment, Energy Deal, Strategic Investment, Military Support, Arms Deal) are tension-neutral. - This is closer to Chris Crawford's original design, where tension rose through *crises*, not routine diplomacy. - Starting tension is now 8 (was 4 on the old scale, functionally similar to "Friction"). - AI tension budget halved (only coercive tools pay tension). ### Added - **Rupture warning**: any player action that would drop tension to 1 (game-ending) now shows a confirmation dialog. - **AI miscalculation mode**: ~15% chance per turn, AI widens target pool and picks slightly more aggressive actions. - **Domestic Unity stub** (`state.unity`) — visible in the status strip with a "v11 factor" tag. Drifts based on fiscal health, tension, and Unit adoption. Not yet consequential; will constrain AP and crisis options in a future edition. - **End-turn debounce** to prevent rapid double-click skipping quarters. - **Rupture ending** rewritten with apocalyptic register — Yeats (*The Second Coming*) and Mark 3:25 epigraphs, atmospheric copy about the post-1945 order closing its books. ### Balance profile | Play style | Rupture | Win | |---|---|---| | reckless | 74% | 26% | | cautious | 28% | 70% | | diplomatic | 10% | 90% | ### Why Rupture instead of Rapture The English word *rupture* and the biblical *rapture* share the Latin root *rumpere* (to break). Rupture is the secular term for what's happening: a breaking apart of the Atlantic order. The ending copy leans into the apocalyptic resonance — Yeats, Mark 3:25, Lincoln's house-divided speech — without preaching. --- ## v9 — First Playable Build (2026-04-17) ### Added - Full game loop: map, 34 playable countries, 8 Action Points per quarter, 20 quarters total, Rupture / BRICS-Unit / win-lose-draw endings. - Action system with 9 Instruments of Power. - Event system with 23 recurring events. - Crisis system with 5 flashpoint templates. - Headlines panel, action log, country dossiers. - Side-switchable briefings (US / EU). - Natural Earth 1:110m map via TopoJSON, loaded from CDN. ### Known issues fixed in later versions - **Rupture trigger too easy** (fixed in v10) — a single `Covert Destabilize` at default tension ended the game. - **No signalling of upcoming rupture** (fixed in v10) — players had no way to see they were one action from losing. - **AI too passive** (fixed in v11) — rival never took aggressive or unpredictable moves. - **CDN dependency** (fixed in v11) — ran libraries from third-party CDNs with no fallback for DSGVO deployment. - **Missing legal pages** (fixed in v11) — no Impressum, no Datenschutzerklärung.