Parent 073 Divergence Audit

Parent 2.073 LiteCO Divergence Audit

This page records lane 207's parent-diff mining pass against BennyBoy Warfare BE 2.073 LiteCO. The pass compared the upstream Chernarus PBO against current WASP claude/build84-cmdcon36 and found no safe parent behavior to port directly.

Inputs

• Source PR/report: draft PR #656, branch codex/lane207-parent-073-divergence-audit, docs/design/PARENT-073-DIVERGENCE-AUDIT.md.
• Target base: claude/build84-cmdcon36@3ac68b5dccbd28f4b79f938ac969a3d80d2bf4fe.
• Parent release: https://github.com/BennyBoy-/ArmA2_WarfareBE/releases.
• Parent asset: https://github.com/BennyBoy-/ArmA2_WarfareBE/files/7354986/WarfareV2_073LiteCO.zip.
• Parent zip SHA-256: 212048B93831A711BF896679069CF1DFF9B3726B28238DAC52CA82729CA58E0A.
• Parent unpack target: Chernarus PBO only, extracted outside the repo.

Verdict

Area	Result
Attack-path safety helpers	Already equivalent in the compared slice. No borrow needed.
Attack-path waypoint generation	Current WASP fixes a parent early-exit no-op, adds march-combat control and uses tighter/aggressive depot search. Keep WASP divergence.
Town capture FSM	Parent is a simpler classic baseline but lacks current default guards, telemetry, deck-aware HVT handling, airfield rebuild and cleanup/garrison extensions. Do not borrow wholesale.
Town AI activation	Parent direct activation/deletion and per-town patrol FSM wiring is superseded by current budgets, HC delegation, episode latches, sorties and side patrols. Do not borrow.
AI commander upgrade helper	Parent still has old cost-index charging and queue-stall behavior. Current WASP has reserve-gated affordability, corrected funds/supply indices and AICOM telemetry. Do not borrow.
Upgrade check config	Direct diff for Check_Upgrades.sqf matched current Chernarus. No borrow needed.
Monolithic AI commander FSM	Parent aicommander.fsm is historical reference only; current WASP split commander SQF stack is the source of truth.

Guardrails

• Do not use parent 2.073 LiteCO as a blanket rollback source for AICOM, town capture or town activation.
• Do not reintroduce parent Server_AI_Com_Upgrade.sqf charging semantics.
• Do not revive parent per-town patrol FSMs without reconciling server_side_patrols.sqf, sortie logic, HC delegation and active-town budgets.
• Use the parent files as comparison fixtures when diagnosing regressions, but only merge narrow, tested behavior.

Status

Lane 207 is released as draft PR #656. WASP CI Tooling and report-only audits passed. This audit is docs/report only: no mission source, LoadoutManager output, package artifact, deployment or live runtime was changed.