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@brett-buskirk brett-buskirk released this 23 Jun 17:59
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The data-driven release. A headless simulation harness turned balance from guesswork into measurement — and it shaped the rest: a 7-day week with a transport tax you can finally escape, a reentry fee-waiver that breaks the document poverty trap which left the poorest builds frozen all 90 days, the technology arc finished, and a whole second stage of reentry so stabilizing early isn't the end of the story.

Added

  • A second stage of reentry — six new late-game arcs so builds that stabilize early aren't left idling: court debt (the legal financial obligations collection ramps up on once you're earning), deferred health (finally tending the body — it moves the health pool, which used to sit frozen all run), giving back (mentoring someone on their day one), sealing your record (a hard-won milestone with a pro-bono path), early termination of supervision (getting off paper), and mending family ties.
  • A reentry program waives document fees — the ID chain's fees were a poverty trap (no money → no ID → no job → no money for the ID). A fee-waived program is the safety net: same sequence, no money gate, but slower. It flips the resource-poor builds from permanently unemployed to working within the run.
  • The technology arc, finished — the phone pays off (a phone-only "Work the phone" action for remote legwork; Phase 2), and a laptop gates the remote dev role (the catch-22, with a refurb-program path out; Phase 3).

Changed

  • The week is 7 days, and a bus pass finally matters — data-driven day-budget tuning. The base week is now 7 (the extra day lands on the constrained builds); and reliable transit (a car or a bus pass) now removes the errand tax, where the old fractional middle tier did nothing.
  • The transport squeeze is attributable — the turn header and travel cards now show why a week is tight and what would loosen it.

54 events, 9 character builds, 134 tests. Live on production via DigitalOcean.