Ilia Denisov
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- order-composer.md describes the production row's apply-gate (two selects + ✓/✗) and the click-to-edit entry point for planetRename. - cargo-routes-ux.md replaces the four-slot grid description with the new single-row dropdown + contextual actions and notes the "stays on the picked type" UX rule. - science-designer-ux.md updates the production-picker integration description to the dropdown pair and refreshes the e2e walkthrough step. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Science designer UX
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A *science* is a named mix of four tech proportions —
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`drive`, `weapons`, `shields`, `cargo` — that sum to `1.0`. When a
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planet's production is set to a science, the planet's industry
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output for that turn is split between the four tech research tracks
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in those proportions
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(`game/internal/controller/planet/production.go.runScienceResearch`).
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The CRUD list, the designer, and the production-picker integration
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are provided by the UI; the wire and engine validation are handled
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by the backend.
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## Engine semantics in one paragraph
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`pkg/schema/fbs/order.fbs.CommandScienceCreate` carries
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`name + drive + weapons + shields + cargo` as four `float64`
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proportions. The engine validator
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(`pkg/calc/validator.go.ValidateScienceValues`) refuses any value
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outside `[0, 1]` and any sum that drifts further than its float
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tolerance from `1.0`. Names follow the universal entity-name rules
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(`pkg/util/string.go.ValidateTypeName`): trimmed, non-empty, ≤ 30
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runes, only letters / digits / combining marks / the allowed special
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set `!@#$%^*-_=+~()[]{}`, no special at start or end, ≤ 2 specials
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in a row, no whitespace. There is no `CommandScienceUpdate` on the
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wire — sciences are write-once, and an "edit" is a Remove + Create
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sequence.
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## Percent input model
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The designer presents the four proportions as percentages
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(`step="0.1"`, range `[0, 100]`) so the player can type and reason
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about whole-number splits — closer to how `game/rules.txt` describes
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sciences (`game/rules.txt:345-362`: "10 parts Drive, 5 parts
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Weapons, 30 parts Shields, 0 parts Cargo, …"). The wire shape is
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still fractions; conversion happens inside `validateScience` only on
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Save (`value / 100` for each of the four).
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The four inputs are *not* auto-rebalanced. The validator refuses a
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draft whose sum drifts further than `SUM_EPSILON_PERCENT` (`1e-3`)
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from `100`, and the form's Save button stays disabled until the sum
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matches. A live readout under the inputs displays the running total
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so the player can chase it down without trial-and-error guessing.
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The strict-sum gate was chosen over alternatives — auto-rebalance
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and raw-parts-with-engine-normalisation — because keeping the input
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model close to "what gets sent on the wire" minimises surprises when
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the engine returns the science exactly as typed. See
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`lib/util/science-validation.ts` for the validator and the
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conversion helper.
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## Name validation
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`validateScience` runs `validateEntityName` first and returns its
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invalid-reason verbatim, so the designer's `aria-describedby`
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mapping reuses the existing translation keys for `empty`,
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`too_long`, `starts_with_special`, `ends_with_special`,
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`consecutive_specials`, `whitespace`, `disallowed_character`. A
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new key `duplicate_name` covers the UX-only check against the
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optimistic-overlay `localScience` projection — the engine would
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refuse the duplicate at submit time, but catching it locally keeps
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the Save button disabled with a clear hint instead of letting a
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red-badge `rejected` row land in the order tab.
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## Read-only view mode
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A `scienceId`-bearing URL renders the designer in view mode: a
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read-only table of the four percentages plus name, with Back and
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Delete affordances. Sciences are write-once on the wire, so there
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is no Save-edits affordance — to change a science, the player
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deletes it and creates a new one. Delete dispatches a
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`removeScience` order command; the engine refuses removals when the
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science is referenced by an active production target on any planet,
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which surfaces as `rejected` in the order tab.
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## Production-picker integration
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The planet inspector's production row
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(`lib/inspectors/planet/production.svelte`) is two `<select>`s
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plus a green ✓ apply / yellow ✗ cancel pair after F8-05. With
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the primary picker on `research`, the secondary picker lists the
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four tech display strings and one extra option per defined
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science from the player's `localScience` overlay. Picking a
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science target and pressing ✓ dispatches
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`setProductionType("SCIENCE", "<scienceName>")`, mirroring the
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wire-level `CommandPlanetProduce` shape
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(`pkg/schema/fbs/order.fbs.CommandPlanetProduce`).
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The active value of both selects is derived from
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`planet.production` — the display string the engine emits in the
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report. A science name shadows the matching tech display string
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when they collide (a science deliberately named `Drive` wins over
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the Drive tech option), because the wire string is ambiguous and
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the user clearly intended the named science. This is a pragmatic
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accept; a structured production tag on the wire would let us
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disambiguate without the shadow rule, but that is a separate
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backend concern.
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## Tests
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- `tests/science-validation.test.ts` — validator branches, percent
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→ fraction conversion, sum tolerance, duplicate-name detection.
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- `tests/table-sciences.test.ts` — table rendering, filter, sort,
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Delete dispatches `removeScience`, navigation to the designer.
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- `tests/designer-science.test.ts` — empty form Save disabled,
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live sum readout, valid Save dispatches `createScience` with
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fractions, view-mode Delete dispatches `removeScience`,
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duplicate-name guard against the overlay.
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- `tests/e2e/sciences.spec.ts` — full Playwright walkthrough:
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create → list → set planet production via the research/target
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dropdown pair + ✓ apply → delete.
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