# Changelog ## v2.0 — Phase 2 complete + Production cut-over (2026-04-23) Phase 2 "Briefing-Room-Hybrid UI-Skin" closed. The v2 branch (AR-2.0 "Spheres of Influence") is promoted from preview track (`/v2/`, `index-v2.html`) to main production on atlanticrift.cc. ### Changed — cut-over mechanics - **Production cut-over:** `index-v2.html` (née `v2/index.html`) is now the production `index.html`. Old v12.7 archived as `archive/atlantic-drift_v12.7.html`, continuing the existing archive convention (v9, v10, v11, v11.1, v11.2 — v12.7 joins). - **Meta robots** switched from `noindex,nofollow` to `index,follow,max-image-preview:large`. v2 was never indexed while on the preview track; it is now publicly indexable. - **robots.txt:** `/v2/` and `/index-v2.html` Disallow entries removed — those paths no longer exist as targets. - **Production header comment** in `index.html` updated to reflect the cut-over status ("PRODUCTION (cut-over 2026-04-23)") instead of the WIP framing. ### Phase 2 Summary — what shipped From the Pflichtenheft (`docs/planned/AR-2.0-phase-2-spec.md`), four Design-Entscheidungen agreed 2026-04-20: - Skin-Metaphorik: D — Briefing-Room-Hybrid - Beat-Struktur: B — Briefing-Drama - Konsequenz-Visualisierung: B+ — Hover-Delta + dotted-line - Force-Tokens: D — Visual-Refactor now, mechanic in Phase 4 Implementation cuts that landed: - **Cut 2.1-R** — capabilities-block + DEFCON range-bar (§3.4) - **Cut 2.6** — inline-explanation system: status tooltips + first-time briefing (§3.6) - **Cut 2.6b-Quick** — name-redact + vocab substitution (§3.6.4) - **Cut 2.6b-Deep** — 27 power-specific action tooltips, EN+DE (§3.6.4) - **Reviewer pass 20.04** — M2 clampAll sphere-sync + L4 DEFCON spec-code alignment - **Audit findings resolved** — H1 + H2 + M3 + M4 + L7 (no-realnames LLM + save-schema + dom-id + esc-stacking + deploy-hygiene) ### Added — editorial sibling link - **Companion-site link:** "Strategy Gaming" entry in `start-footer-links`, pointing to [pcplayerhub.com](https://pcplayerhub.com/). pcplayerhub is the editorial magazine companion to Atlantic Rift — strategy game essays, dev logs, genre analysis. Sibling project under the same ConsultD framing. ### Unchanged - Game mechanics from Phase 1 baseline (sphere vector + map heat-map remain canonical). - Sim-harness corridor — reckless/cautious/diplomatic distributions stay within Phase 1 bounds. - Mistral headline proxy + rate limiting + env handling. - Impressum, Datenschutzerklärung (DSGVO content unchanged). ### Next — Phase 3 - AI-Phase as sequence-modal — the AI opponent turn becomes a scripted reveal instead of a single atomic jump. - **China as third power** — prerequisite for the Phase 4 EU-Coalition mechanic to have real stakes. - Power-Selection — the player chooses which sphere to play (US / EU / eventually China) at game start. - Estimated effort: 3-4 AI-pair-programming days. ### The milestone ahead — Phase 4 Phase 4 is the EU-Coalition-Mechanic. After Phase 4 the "EU-Augenhöhe" vision becomes actually playable for the first time — the core design hypothesis of AR-2.0 gets its first honest test against a finished game loop. Everything before Phase 4 is infrastructure for that test. ## v12.6.4 — Claim hygiene + authorship framing (2026-04-19) Docs-only patch on the v12.6-branch concerns, filed after v12.7 shipped but semantically belonging to the compliance/positioning pass. ### Changed - Replaced werbende "DSGVO-clean" / "Real compliance, not theater" superlatives in `index.html` (comments), `README.md` (vendor block + design principle 5) with neutral descriptions: "privacy- conservative", "no CDN calls", "we aim for GDPR compliance and document our data handling in datenschutz.html". UWG §5 (irreführende geschäftliche Handlung) is a real abmahn-vector for compliance-superlatives; the new phrasing states what the site does without claiming a verdict it hasn't earned. - Credits block in `README.md` now explicitly names both co-authors (Daniel Papcke + Anthropic's Claude) and frames the collaboration as "DNA enhanced by AI" — ConsultD's positioning statement. Not AI-as-tool wording; co-authorship wording. - `about.html` gets a kicker + byline block directly under the title: "DNA enhanced by AI · A ConsultD production" / "Co-authored by Daniel Papcke and Anthropic's Claude, April 2026." — matches the editorial tokens (JetBrains Mono + Georgia italic) used elsewhere. - Meta-description in `index.html` now names both co-authors for link-preview cards and search results. - `README.md` top: new italic subtitle "*DNA enhanced by AI — a ConsultD production.*" ### Unchanged - `datenschutz.html` — legal text describing actual processing. - `impressum.html` — legally mandated contact info. - `THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES` — defensive phrasing already ("DSGVO- conservative"). - Game mechanics, balance, i18n strings, sim-harness. ## v12.7 — Game Feel (2026-04-19) Six UI/UX polish features. No gameplay, no balance, no mechanic touched. Sim-harness `--seed 42` against `baseline-50786f2.txt` stays byte-identical across the entire series — stdout diff empty after every commit. ### Added - **Quarterly Dispatch Dossier (F1).** Between-turn 4–6 s editorial overlay. Generates 3–5 bullet lines from the turn's actions (`state.dispatchQueue`) using a keyed verb dictionary ("Washington signed a trade deal with Brazil"). No Mistral call, all local, full EN/DE. Skippable via ESC / Space / Enter / click / footer. Auto- dismisses after 5 s. Deferred until any crisis modal resolves. - **Treasury / Unity context labels + range bars (F2).** Each metric now shows its tier ("Stressed", "Austerity", "Crisis", "Cohesive", "Restive", "Fracturing" etc.) with a horizontal red→amber→green gradient bar and an indicator dot at the current position. Tiers match the Schwellen the game uses internally (austerity event at treasury < −130, uprising at unity < 30) — they're surfaced, not invented. - **Selected-country pulse + alignment shimmer (F3).** GPU-only CSS. Selected country pulses stroke-width 1.5↔2.4 at 1.6 s cycle. When an action lands a positive alignment shift, the affected country flashes blue→amber→default over 820 ms. Rival shifts flash red→ amber. 5-concurrent cap prevents flicker storms. - **Instrument tooltips (F4).** Hover / focus / long-press on any of the 9 Instruments-of-Power buttons opens a paper-card tooltip with kicker · title · summary · effect-block (alignment / treasury / tension / AP, values read from the real `ACTIONS` array) · context. Tension-negative (reg / destab) instruments get a red warning line. Bilingual. 300 ms hover delay, instant on focus. ESC closes. - **16-quarter timeline strip (F5).** Above the map. Current turn highlighted (ink block, red-hot bottom rule), past turns show up to 3 event-dots colored by kind (neutral=grey, friction=amber, tension =red, stabilizing=blue), overflow collapses to "+N". Native tooltip lists headlines for that quarter. No click → no time-travel. Responsive: dots disappear under 900 px, ribbon tints instead. - **Cold-open first-visit intro (F6).** 15 s kinetic sequence of four scripted lines ("April 2026." / "The Arctic ultimatum is in its sixtieth day." …) on an ink background, fading to white before the start-screen reveals. Once per browser (`localStorage`), bypassed on Continue-flow. Skippable. Four lines in EN + DE verbatim from spec. ### Changed - Nothing mechanical. `SAVE_VERSION` stays at 1. Existing Matomo events keep their category/action/name schema. ### Added (meta) - New Matomo category `ui_v127` with events: `dispatch_viewed`, `dispatch_skipped`, `tooltip_open`, `cold_open_viewed`, `cold_open_skipped`. - New state fields (optional, backfilled on load for older saves): `state.dispatchQueue`, `state.headlineHistory`. ### Honored - `prefers-reduced-motion`: every animated affordance has a static or cross-fade fallback (pulse→dropshadow, staggered fades→simultaneous, scale-ups→instant). - Crawford philosophy: no Fortnite bling, no achievement toasts, no sound (audio layer is a v12.9 candidate, not v12.7). The Rupture ending's Yeats/Mark-3:25 register is still the master tone regulator. ## v12.5.1 — Force Token completion (2026-04-19) Closes the v12.5 half-ship. No mechanic change — v12.5 already had the state, the deploy/withdraw workflow, upkeep, and crisis-suppression rolls. v12.5.1 adds the two pieces that were deferred: ### Added - **On-map glyph.** Deployed Force Tokens now render as a small paper- colored circle with a bloc-colored crossed-swords (⚔) at the country centroid. US tokens are red-ish (#c83d4a), EU tokens blue-ish (#2e4a7a) — matching `countryFill()`'s home-country tones. Visible on the canonical world map next to country labels. Updates on every `renderAll()`; no extra wiring needed for deploy/withdraw/endTurn. State captured once via `countryCentroids{}` during `loadWorld()`. - **Commit-in-crisis bonus.** When a flashpoint fires in a country where the player's own token is stationed, a third choice appears in the crisis modal: **⚔ Commit the Force Token**. Clicking it consumes the token (no AP cost — that was paid at deploy-time) and delivers a decisive alignment swing of `+rand(8,12)` to the player's bloc, with `−floor(swing/2)` to the rival. Matomo event `Force/Commit/` captures the swing magnitude. ### i18n - `force.commit.label`, `force.commit.risk`, `force.commit.outcome`, `force.logCommit` — all EN + DE. ### Unchanged (deliberate) - `checkCrisis()` suppression (the 35% probability-dampening from v12.5) still fires first. Commit is the second-chance lever if suppression rolled against and the crisis fired anyway. - No AP cost, no treasury cost on commit. The token was paid for at deploy, its upkeep has been paid quarter-by-quarter, and committing it is the moment it earns its keep. - `SAVE_VERSION` stays at 1. `state.forceTokens` shape unchanged. - Sim-harness regression: reckless 84%, cautious 4%, diplomatic 0% rupture — inside the v12.6.3 corridor. Commit-button code path is only reachable under human interaction; harness auto-dismisses crises by first-choice. ## v12.6.2 — Security hardening for public exposure (2026-04-19) Infrastructure pass. No gameplay, UI or content change. Closes the six findings from the v12.6.1 re-classification pass: ### Fixed - **Mistral-proxy rate-limit race (#7).** `api/mistral-headline.php` now reads and writes the per-IP history file under a single `flock(LOCK_EX)`. Parallel requests serialize through one atomic read-modify-write; fail-closed (503) if the lock cannot be acquired. Verified with 70 parallel POSTs: 60 pass, 10 get 429 — ceiling holds. - **Double redirect on www / non-www (#12, #13).** Port 80 is now a pure redirect-only vHost; port 443 splits `www` (redirect) from `atlanticrift.cc` (canonical). Each request terminates in one 301. - **HSTS not preload-eligible (#13).** Upgraded to `max-age=63072000; includeSubDomains; preload` so the domain can be submitted to `hstspreload.org` (Dan submits manually). ### Added - **fail2ban jail `atlanticrift-mistral` (#18).** 120 abuse requests (429/403 on `POST /api/mistral-headline.php`) within 10 minutes → 1h ban, repeat offenders escalate by factor 24 to 24h max. Willytel ranges inherited from `[DEFAULT] ignoreip`. - **Daily abuse-digest cron (#18).** `/usr/local/bin/ar-abuse-alert.sh` mails Dan only if yesterday's abuse 429s exceeded 1000/day. - **Mistral dashboard hard cap: 10 EUR/month (#19).** Set manually by Dan in console.mistral.ai with email alerts at 80 % and 95 %. Documented in `docs/MISTRAL.md`. - **`robots.txt` + `sitemap.xml` (#20).** Policy INDEX, `/api/` disallowed. Sitemap covers home, about, impressum, datenschutz. - **DEPLOY.md §10–13** and **MISTRAL.md §Budget & Abuse Limits** document every server-side change so nothing is implicit infrastructure. ### Unchanged (deliberate) - `index.html`, gameplay, rendering, save format, Matomo events, fonts. ## v12.6.1 — Real bold font cuts (2026-04-19) ### Fixed - **Faux-bold on meta-screens (#17).** v12.6 shipped three 400-weight woff2 files with `font-weight: 400 700` declarations that assumed variable-axis cuts. They were static 400s, so the browser synthesized bold by stroke thickening — visibly ugly on the "Atlantic RIFT" lockup. - Replaced with six discrete latin static cuts from Google Fonts: - `playfair-400.woff2` / `playfair-700.woff2` (upright) - `playfair-400-italic.woff2` / `playfair-700-italic.woff2` - `jetbrains-mono-400.woff2` / `jetbrains-mono-700.woff2` - Six `@font-face` declarations with exact `font-weight: 400` vs `700`. Real bold glyphs; no more faux-bold. ### Changed - Self-hosted font footprint: ~135 KB (6 files) instead of ~107 KB (3). ## v12.6 — Editorial meta-screen redesign (2026-04-19) ### Changed - **Start, briefing and end screens redesigned** in an editorial register — ink-on-paper cards with Playfair Display serif headlines, Georgia body copy, and JetBrains Mono kickers / tickers. The in-game UI (map, dossier, actions, status strip, headlines panel) is unchanged and keeps its Apple-styled look. - **New cinematic start screen.** Dimmed orthographic globe (45°N / 30°W, Mid-Atlantic Ridge accent) fills the viewport behind sparse editorial type: eyebrow coord, "Atlantic RIFT" lockup, red "— A Strategy of Nations —" subtitle, and two "Play As" buttons. Continue / Import affordances are now on the start screen. - **Rupture ending** now renders in an inverted variant — ink card, paper text, red rift rule, Yeats epigraph in serif italic. The other endings (Win / Bretton Woods III / Draw) use the paper-on-ink variant with a JetBrains Mono stats ticker (quarters played, end tension, Unit adoption, treasury). - **Briefing modal** repainted as a paper-coloured card with a "§ 01 · BRIEFING · …" section marker, bracket-corners, Playfair headings and Georgia paragraph copy. ### Added - **Self-hosted fonts** (SIL OFL 1.1): `vendor/fonts/playfair-regular.woff2`, `playfair-italic.woff2`, `jetbrains-mono.woff2`. No fonts.googleapis.com or fonts.gstatic.com runtime calls. - **Globe renderer** `vendor/globe.js` + `vendor/coastlines.json` (Natural Earth 50m, North Atlantic, simplified). `prefers-reduced-motion` respected — the slow drift is disabled. - **Favicon** `favicon.svg` — globe mark with diagonal rift line. - **THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES** §7, §8, §9 added for Playfair, JetBrains Mono and Natural Earth 50m. ### Unchanged (deliberate) - **Gameplay, AI, events, crises, balance, scoring.** No gameplay function body was modified. `endGame()` only added a presentation toggle and a ticker fill — both run after the outcome has been decided. Balance profile is unchanged by construction; no sim-harness run because no gameplay surface was touched. - **`about.html`, `impressum.html`, `datenschutz.html`** — their Apple-styled look is left alone. - **`api/mistral-headline.php`** — unchanged. - **Save format.** `SAVE_VERSION` stays at 1. Pre-v12.6 saves load and run without migration. - **Matomo events.** `Game/*`, `Action/*`, `Country/Select`, etc., unchanged. New event `Start/ChooseSide/` only. ### Out of scope (v12.7 backlog) - Event-headline and crisis-template translations (i18n) — the run()/body() closures still need to be refactored to keyed templates. - Commit-in-crisis Force Token bonus — still needs a crisis-modal choice-injection. - On-map Force Token glyph — crossed-swords circle at country centroid. ## v12.1 – v12.5 (2026-04-18) — retroactive notes Committed but not yet changelogged at the time: - **v12.1** — Save/Load via localStorage. Pause/Resume, Base64 Export/Import, `SAVE_VERSION=1`. - **v12.2** — Headlines deduplication. 4-quarter cooldown window per event id, overridable per entry. - **v12.3** — Extended Matomo hooks. `Game/Start|Resume|Import|Quit|Duration`, `Action//`, `Country/Select/`, `Mistral/Success|Fail` with elapsed ms. No new PII. - **v12.4** — EN/DE i18n for UI, briefings and end screens. STRINGS dict, `t(key, params)` with placeholder substitution. Tone: formal "Sie". Event headlines and crisis templates still EN (v12.6 backlog). - **v12.5** — Force Tokens (deploy/withdraw/upkeep/passive crisis suppression), without on-map glyph or commit-in-crisis bonus (both deferred). ## 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. - **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.