Rijad Zuzo
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107 lines
5.3 KiB
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# The Steward — Economic Event Stream
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## Current contract
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Every successful food or wood movement creates an `EconomicEventRecord` using
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the applicable event type:
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```text
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resource_extracted
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storage_deposited
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storage_withdrawn
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item_consumed
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```
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Each record contains a monotonically increasing event ID, event type,
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simulation tick, actor ID, source ID, destination ID, item ID, and transferred
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amount, plus the authoritative world position captured when the fact is
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recorded. NPC events preserve their authoritative interaction target (or NPC
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position when no target applies); player extraction/depletion events preserve
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the ResourceNode interaction position. Actor `-1` identifies a player-triggered
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extraction until persistent player identity is introduced.
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Events are immutable facts about completed transfers. They do not perform the
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transaction and are not replayed to reconstruct current state. Resource,
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inventory, and storage records remain authoritative.
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`SimulationEventLog` owns ordered event identity, append/restore behavior, and
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history/rate queries, including exact lookup through `get_by_id()`.
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`VillageEconomy` performs transactions and requests event records only after
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state changes succeed; `SimulationManager` remains the public signal boundary
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used by presentation.
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An action whose definition-backed completion cost becomes unavailable records
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a zero-amount `task_blocked` narrative fact with the action and shortfall
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reason. This makes late contention inspectable without pretending that a
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transfer occurred.
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## Persistence and determinism
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`SimulationStateRecord` schema v7 stores the ordered event stream,
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`next_event_id`, directed relationships that may reference an exact event, and
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per-NPC known-event references with first-acquisition provenance. Schema v1 and
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v2 saves migrate to an empty stream beginning at ID zero. Parsing rejects
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duplicate event IDs, invalid or duplicate knowledge references, impossible
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communicator sources, relationship causes the observer does not know, and a
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next ID that could collide with restored history.
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A successful food deposit can currently raise a hungry familiar NPC's directed
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trust in its contributor only when that NPC knows the event. The actor and
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living NPCs within the bounded witness radius receive a `KnownEventStateRecord`
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at record time. Witness distance uses the event's captured position, never the
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actor's later location. The relationship stores the same deposit event ID
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rather than copied prose, so the inspector can resolve and display the real
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completed fact. This is a first evidence-gated causal consumer of the event
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stream, not general event sourcing.
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Knowledge now records whether an NPC performed, witnessed, heard, or inherited
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a fact from a legacy save. When an NPC arrives beside an already-working NPC at
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the same non-storage activity site, the worker may communicate one newest
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direct fact within 2.5 metres. The listener references the same immutable event
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and retains the speaker ID; no transaction or event is replayed. Only
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performed/witnessed facts can cross this one social hop, so this is not yet a
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rumour cascade. Relationship appraisal uses the listener's state when the fact
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is acquired, not a reconstruction of their needs when the old event occurred.
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Known facts are now bounded without deleting objective history. A fact is
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lasting while it remains that NPC's current trust cause; other facts are recent.
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An NPC keeps at most three recent facts, and a deterministic review once per
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simulated-day-sized interval removes recent facts at least one day old. Current
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causes remain so `Relationship` and `Because` never point at forgotten
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evidence. Conversations prefer lasting direct facts, then the most recently
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acquired direct fact. Communicated provenance snapshots how the speaker knew
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the event, so a listener's memory stays valid after the speaker forgets.
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The food-loop regression verifies this chain:
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```text
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bush -> NPC inventory -> village pantry -> NPC inventory -> consumed
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```
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It checks event order, stable IDs, exact quantities, conservation, and
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save/restore continuity.
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## Presentation
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`npc_inventory_changed` is a transient presentation signal. The active
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`NpcVisual` shows a small food sack whenever its authoritative inventory
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contains food. A newly loaded visual derives the same state directly from the
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NPC record, so unloading presentation does not lose the fact.
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The selected-NPC inspector shows up to four lasting-first retained facts with
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acquisition provenance, separately from three objective events the NPC
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personally performed. A real trust-changing consequence emits one transient
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amber blossom above its observer. The cue is presentation-only, remains visible
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in cinematic mode, and is neither saved nor replayed after visual rebuild.
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## Deliberate limits
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The objective stream is currently kept in full for the small simulation
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garden; only per-NPC known references are bounded. Before large populations or
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long-running worlds, add measured archival/summary rules and query indexes.
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Proximity is the only current direct witness rule, and communication is
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intentionally one-hop and tied to shared activity arrival. Line of sight,
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hearing, personalized reinforcement/decay, multi-hop rumours, secrecy, false
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beliefs, and multi-event causal graphs belong in later event/history slices.
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They should extend this record family without making prose authoritative or
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recomputing old evidence from current positions.
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