The simple economy pays for propaganda out of the nation's culture stock and lapses a campaign it can no longer fund, but the tab quoted money and never named the store. Give culture the clapperboard icon as a non-tradeable resource like research, read the stock and the campaigns' daily drain out on the Propaganda tab, and price every campaign figure in culture when the simple economy runs.
The top bar now carries a two-by-two grid of the four storable goods, each a big icon, the grouped pool and an arrow reading production against consumption (purchases excluded); hovering a chip names both daily figures. The quantity column reserves room for 99 999 999 999 so the layout never shifts as stocks grow.
formatResourceAmount paired each prefix with a divisor a thousand times too large, so a million tonnes printed as 1 kt; the steps now move together as kt, Mt, Gt and Tt.
The simple economy is now the default and the old simulation is frozen as the hard model, selectable per game. A nation keeps one resource pool available in every region, fed by public production works rather than private per-region stores, and construction and training begin at once, paced by the region's spare power instead of gathering materials over days.
Money is euro only: a per-inhabitant daily tax funds a treasury spent in a global market, where buy and sell lots trade against the world stock and move its price. The hard economy keeps its per-nation currencies, central banks and exchange rates.
Simple games skip the price-settling warmup and economic migration; the snapshot carries the economy model, the market and the pool figures the client draws. Added the matching test suites and the design briefs under docs/simple_economy.
Unit orders now gather steel and high-tech over the days before training, exactly as buildings do, and clicking a queued order reveals what it is gathering, its reserved budget and the soldiers it will draw.
The trade graph cached a producer-less node list under a stamp that already reflected the producers' stores, so every seeded mine stayed invisible to buyers and rare-good prices settled at a huge multiple of base; the storage nodes are now re-read after production.
Money gifts draw the giver's central-bank reserves in the denomination first, buy the rest from the issuing bank at the market rate, convert into the receiver's currency, and cannot buy from a bank their nation is at war with.
Pruned the finished design briefs (intelligence, stacks, air movement, politics performance, economy balance, training UI and FIXME) and refreshed the index and cross-references.
- The monthly budget breaks each expense into the resource bought, its quantity and the average price paid: tile improvements already did, and now every upkeep row (buildings, units, works, transport) does too.
- Private producers settle their daily wear from their own cash and borrow the shortfall from the central bank, so their cash never goes negative.
- Producers fund their own construction and upgrades on the same credit; the treasury pays only for public works, roads and railways, and no private purchase is filed as a public tile-improvement expense.
- The server settles the world until every commodity holds within 10% over a trailing seven days instead of a fixed 150, capped by --warmup (0 skips it).
- The shipped month report carries its label again, so the budget header and pager name the month.
The central bank now charts one point a day for a rolling ninety days, shipped rebased to 100, with alternating month columns named once along the bottom so no two dates collide; short games leave future days blank and the axis floor is pinned at 0 with the 100 baseline labelled. The market no longer clamps a price to 0.5-1.8x base: the day's supply and demand set an equilibrium (base * demand/supply) and the price eases toward it, so a sustained shortage lifts a good well past its old band while a glut cheapens it, and the price settles instead of compounding to infinity. The nation modal holds each scroll position across a snapshot rebuild so the foreign reserves below the fold stay put.
The city buildings tab and the HUD's tile panel now draw the same card: an icon, name and status, a bottom-anchored button carrying the estimated price and build time, a quiet remove control and a hatched locked state, with the produce/consume/cost detail in a hover tooltip. The shared card lives in client/js/ui/card.js.
The tile dock is now a summary — description, production, people and their ethnic makeup, GDP and the improvements list — with a Management button that opens a full-size panel like the city and nation panels. Its Improvements tab holds the grouped Military, Transportation and Economic cards, so Road and Railway sit with the other works. City buildings sit in a two-row horizontal scroller with the built ones first, and the city panel now matches the nation panel's size.
AGENTS.md now asks for a minimal visual preview to be shown before a player-visible change is committed.
Rebalanced the resource rules so nothing is priced primarily in money: steel, electricity and high-tech lead every construction bill, chip foundries are seeded everywhere instead of being hand-placed, and cities open with stores of steel and high-tech. City building rows now lead with the resource bill and keep the money as an aside, and the region's resources expand into the buildings that demand them. Pulled the graph and cost maths into a framework-free shared/economy_graph.js, quoted currency through one helper, and gave every data table the same striping and row highlight.
The delivery graph now ships every route the viewer's own storage nodes could trade over, not just the legs that ran, and keeps exports as well as imports so goods leaving the nation appear. The map draws the idle routes grey beneath the active white legs, with a key entry for them.
The population map replaces its bare flow arrows with the arrows plus a disc textured with the origin nation's flag drifting from city to city, mirroring the merchandise that rides the trade graph.
Every road, railway and tile work now rises as an economic construction site instead of a queue entry. A site gathers its materials over days from reachable regions, refusing any supplier quoting above the price it was budgeted at (a 1% tolerance); a day that buys nothing stalls the site, raising a red mark and letting the nation raise the budget to current prices or cancel it. The upfront budget covers the build cost plus the market value of its steel and high-tech, energy stays a grid draw, and any money left over stays with the finished work as a maintenance reserve.
That reserve now pays the work's own daily steel and high-tech wear before the treasury is billed, so a well funded work spares the state until it runs dry; the spent money is paid into the nation's regions. Building upgrades run through the same gather-build-maintain machinery, sharing the site's kind flag and target level. The legacy tile-work queue and the market building are gone.
Bundles the in-progress chart sizing for the central bank panel.
World generation now aims at a fixed share of the ice-free tiles (60%) instead of a minimum continent count, bisecting the water level for it rather than sweeping every step, and still joins the ocean into one body. Ice and tundra are the outermost rows only, scaled down on small maps so the fixtures keep usable land.
Cities score their site, coastal plains best and landlocked worst, avoiding tundra and desert. Every nation that holds a coast gets a port city on each island it owns, and any landmass left empty is settled by the nearest nation, so no land starts unowned. A coastal city opens with a port already built.
Bundles the in-progress work in the tree: the commodity monthly price series and inflation the central bank's chart reads, and the rolling city-to-city migration graph the population map draws as flow arrows.
Central banks now redeem the national money foreign banks hold, sell reserves to defend a weak rate, and cover part of strategic imports from reserves. Five repeatable technologies raise each commodity's output per unit of energy. Hostile troops on a road or sea lane sever trade, power and unit supply. Middlemen buy food to resell to neighbours at a markup, and starving regions buy before those topping up their buffers, which clears the landlocked famines. The economic map's trade graph gains a colour legend.
- Each nation has a currency and each region a private-sector cash basket, borrowing from its central bank at the bank's rate; the government may always pay, going into central-bank debt when its budget runs red.
- Resources are bought from reachable stores only: the region itself first, then same-nation regions, then foreign ones, paid for out of private cash or, for government orders, the treasury. Drawn national stores are paid to their owning region.
- A grid in deficit imports power from a reachable surplus grid instead of a market fallback; downgrading a building no longer refunds anything.
- The monthly budget lists each resource's economic value, expands to a resource-to-source tree and keeps a cash figure beside it.
- Regions report what their people went short of over the day; starved research buildings and power-starved works raise a private daily notice.
- The city panel gains a Resources tab: reserves per resource, their market value and the private sector's daily consumption.
- Five resources (energy, steel, food, luxury, high-tech) with per-city stores, a world market, delivery and material upkeep.
- Resource-producing tile works built outside cities; every nation opens with the works its economy needs.
- Real game-icons.net art replacing the dummy icons for the new resources and works, with the credits updated.
- Political map country names were invisible because the label SVG had a zero-sized viewport, which some browsers never paint; size it to the world and guard it with a test.
- Added a Devlog button showing the ten latest commits, generated into client/js/devlog_data.js by scripts/generate-devlog.js and refreshed by the pre-commit hook.
- Worked through FIXME.md: the city button and a unit double-click now open the city, and the stat tooltip escapes the HUD so the unit panel cannot cover it.
- The server creates its game at startup and clients only join it; the Create game screen and the configure_game path are gone, and testing is a --testing server flag.
- A page on a loopback host signs in as adrien, claims France and gets the free, instant testing buttons, while the server grants free orders only to a loopback socket whose Origin is also loopback.
- Tile improvements (fortifications, radar towers, coastal cannons), trenches,
zone of control, support-unit capture and launch transports, with parabolic
barrage arcs drawn between attacker and target.
- Focused research that pours points straight into the chosen technology, with
per-technology progress kept when the focus changes, plus repeatable levels.
- Popularity reworked to integer points, war and pillage effects, minority
policies and month-over-month arrows on the nation summary.
- City progress bars, square improvement buttons, a technology tab of wide
short cards with progress bars, transport cargo readout and double-click to
open a city panel.
- the nation summary shows own-government approval, white in the neutral 40-60% band, red below and green above
- the city and government panels keep a fixed size per tab, dock below the summary and no longer cover it, and their tab bar wraps instead of being clipped
- propaganda campaigns grow exponentially harder near their opinion ceiling or floor, so the last percent are the hardest to win
- memoised city, nation and matrix approval against the politics version, invalidated by territory redraws, so snapshots stop recomputing it every frame
- extracted the duplicated modal tab wiring into modals/tabs.js
- tests: campaign-difficulty, approval-colour and cache-invalidation cases (513 pass)
- aircraft attack orders fly a sortie to the target, bomb once, return to a
friendly airport and re-arm (two-day cooldown, charged per aircraft); rebasing
is bounded by fuel rather than the 10-tile combat radius
- artillery and warships open a sustained hourly bombardment on a standing
target, drawn as a red dashed line and ring while either endpoint is selected
- a game launched from localhost can enable a testing mode whose train and build
rows offer free, instant orders; the server only honours them for a loopback
admin in a testing game
- an open city panel now unlocks aircraft as soon as an airport finishes
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