v5.0.0-alpha.6

Genie 5 — v5.0.0-alpha.6

The Weighted Travel release. The auto-walker now routes by effort, not raw
hop count — it avoids brutal open-water swims and cliff climbs when a bridge or
gate exists, paces reliably through identical-looking rooms, and recovers from a
stuck move instead of hanging. To make the routing smart, we need your help
filling in Exit Details (see Help wanted below).

Alpha software. Expect rough edges. Builds are unsigned — Windows
SmartScreen will warn on first launch (More info → Run anyway). Signing is
tracked in #33.

✨ New since alpha.5

• Weighted Travel — the pathfinder now scores routes by effort, not just the
  number of rooms:
  • Avoids high-roundtime terrain. A one-hop open-water swim (15s of
    "flounder" roundtime per stroke) or a cliff/wall climb no longer beats a
    slightly longer dry route over a bridge or through a gate.
  • Server-uid pacing. In stretches of identical-looking rooms (lava fields,
    marshes) the walker now tracks the live server room id, so it keeps moving
    instead of stalling where the map can't tell two rooms apart.
  • Stuck-move recovery. A per-step watchdog fails a stuck auto-walk
    cleanly (and signals #goto-driven scripts) instead of hanging forever.
  • Cross-zone transitions follow boundary-room map notes, so a route can
    walk from one zone into the next without stopping at the edge.
• #goto script compatibility — the engine emits the Genie 4 automapper
  signals (YOU HAVE ARRIVED! / AUTOMAPPER MOVEMENT FAILED /
  DESTINATION NOT FOUND), so power-travel scripts like travel.cmd drive the
  mapper correctly instead of hanging in their matchwait.
• Edit Exit — Skill / Environment / Guild — right-click an exit → Edit
  Exit is reorganised into three clear sections, each with dropdowns:
  • Skill — required trained ranks (Athletics, Climbing, …) from a
    searchable list of all 53 DR skills.
  • Environment — how the exit is traversed (Bridge, Boat, Rope, Ladder,
    Ford, …) plus its RT cost and boat/ferry wait window.
  • Guild — guild-restricted routes (Thief passages, Trader caravans, Ranger
    trails, Moon Mage portals) and a minimum level.
• Fetch skills — the mapper's "Fetch skills now" banner now sends info +
  exp all, priming the pathfinder with your guild, circle, and full skill ranks
  in one click.
• Stability — travel.cmd and other alias/trigger-heavy scripts no longer
  crash the client (#40 — command re-entrancy guard).
• Live Audit (#audit on) — tees the raw XML stream and parsed events to a
  diagnostic log, so travel/mapper issues can be reproduced from one file.
• Mapper quality of life — Ctrl+Click a room to walk there (Go Here);
  the Mapper floats by default when you open it without a saved dock location.

📋 Help wanted — fill in Exit Details

Weighted Travel is only as good as the data behind it. Map arcs ship today with
no skill / environment / timing information, so the pathfinder falls back to
sensible guesses. You can make it precise:

1. Open the Mapper, find an exit that needs detail — a river swim, a climb, a
   boat, a guild-only passage.
2. Right-click the exit → Edit Exit.
3. Fill in what you know:
   • Skill — e.g. the river crossing needs Athletics ≥ 50 (and note the
     ranks often differ by direction — upstream is harder than down).
   • Environment — Swim / Bridge / Boat and its RT cost (or wait
     window for scheduled boats).
   • Guild — restrict the route to Thief, Trader, Ranger, Moon Mage…
4. Save. It persists into the zone XML and rides along with the community
   Maps repo, so everyone's routing gets smarter over time.

These fields are Genie 5 extensions that old Genie 4 clients ignore, so
edited maps stay fully backward-compatible.

✅ What works

Connection (Direct SGE / Lich proxy / dev-replay), the StormFront XML parser and
live GameState, the full Genie 4 .cmd script engine plus JavaScript .js
scripts, the rules engines (#alias / #trigger / #highlight / #substitute
/ #gag / #macro / #class / #var) with .cfg persistence, the AutoMapper
(click-to-goto, #goto, weighted + cross-zone routing), dockable panels with
save/load layouts, the plugin host, and the in-app updater. See the
README status table for the full list.

🚧 Not working yet / known gaps

• Unsigned builds — SmartScreen warning on Windows (#33).
• macOS / Linux update channels — the in-app updater self-updates on Windows
  only; other platforms install fresh builds manually for now (#27).
• Same-description rooms — server-uid pacing greatly improves walking through
  identical rooms, but routes through them can still occasionally mis-resolve
  (#76 / #77); #mapper reset helps. Learning terrain RT from play is future
  work.
• No light theme yet (single dark palette, #20); no injuries panel (#18);
  no Familiar/Death/Assess stream tabs (#17); no raw-XML inspector window (#14).

⬇️ Downloads

Grab the installer or portable build for your platform from the assets below:

Platform	Installer	Portable
Windows	01-Windows-Genie5-Setup.exe	01-Windows-Genie5-Portable.zip
macOS (Apple Silicon)	02-macOS-Apple-Silicon-Genie5.dmg	02-…-Portable.zip
macOS (Intel)	03-macOS-Intel-Genie5.dmg	03-…-Portable.zip
Linux (x64)	04-Linux-Genie5.AppImage	—

Full changelog: v5.0.0-alpha.5...v5.0.0-alpha.6