Cooldowns were tracked per kind ({move,hint}), so a hint ad and a move ad
did not see each other: after a hinted move's ad the move timer was still
zero, and the next plain move fired an ad immediately — two ads within a
minute, under the cooldown. Track a single shared last-shown time; the kind
only selects the required gap (hint 1m, move 5m, vs_ai 30m) measured from the
last interstitial of any kind. A hint can still fire on its shorter gap
(D30's "independent" hint cooldown), but never stacks a second ad within a
cooldown.
Tests: a hint uses the shorter shared gap; a move does not stack onto a
just-shown hint ad.
Interstitial video after a confirmed play or a hint, VK-only, offline
banner-only. The gate is client-mirrored: the backend puts the config
cooldowns (global 5m / vs_ai 30m / hint 1m) and a suppressed flag (the
no-ads / no_banner gate, same as the banner) on Profile.ads via adsFor;
the client self-gates on a per-kind last-shown time in localStorage, with
the VITE_ADS_STUB contour "ad fired" toast. Never fires after a pass,
exchange or resign. maybeShowInterstitial + vkShowInterstitial; the codec
and gateway transcode carry the ads block.
Also retires the deprecated accounts.hint_balance / paid_account domain
usage (expand-contract, code only — the columns stay for a later DROP so
image rollback stays DB-safe): drop the Account fields and their scan, the
dead account.SpendHint, account.GrantHints and the admin grant-hints
action; the in-game hint display now comes wholly from the payments hint
benefit. Banner eligibility and account merge no longer read the legacy
flags.
Tests: ads.test.ts (the client-mirrored gate), the codec ads round-trip,
the gateway ads transcode test, and a profile ads-config integration test
(cooldowns + suppressed under no-ads / no_banner). Docs: PAYMENTS §10 (+ru)
interstitial, the decision amends, backend README, the plan.
Testing the rewarded slice surfaced a contradiction: rewarded ads let a VK-iOS
user earn vk chips, but the blanket VK-iOS "spend freeze" then blocked spending
them (the wallet showed "5 (view-only)"). Apple's ToS forbids only BUYING in-app
values on VK-iOS (money -> chips), not spending or earning them — so the freeze is
corrected to purchase-only: vkFrozen() now gates only CreateOrder (the money-in
step), not spendableSources (spending). VK-wallet chips — earned via rewarded ads
or bought on the same account elsewhere (VK Android) — now spend on VK-iOS too.
(Owner's ToS finding.)
Also: the temporary contour diagnostic confirmed VK returns only {result:true} for
a rewarded view (no token/signature) — client-attested is final, no hardening
possible — so the diagnostic (the log and the diag wire field) is removed.
Docs: PAYMENTS(+ru) VK-iOS freeze + D17 amend + PLAN E6. Tests updated (gate /
wallet VK-iOS now spendable).
The first ads slice: a voluntary rewarded video credits chips. VK Mini App ads
(VKWebAppShowNativeAds) expose only a client-side watch result — no
server-to-server verify — so the credit is client-attested, guarded by a server
daily + hourly cap (config reward_daily_cap / reward_hourly_cap, default 50 / 10).
The caps are both anti-abuse (bounding a forger who skips the ad and calls the
endpoint directly) and an economic conversion lever (limiting free chips so a
player who wants more buys). D29 amended to VK's reality.
Backend: CreditReward (VK-only, order-less, idempotent on a client nonce, floored
by the caps; payout from config rewarded_payout_chips, default 0 = off) + the
wallet.reward edge op returning the updated wallet (reward_chips gates the
"watch for chips" CTA). Additive migration (two config columns).
Client: the ads-network abstraction (lib/ads.ts, VK impl) + the VK bridge
(vkRewardedReady / vkShowRewarded) + the Wallet CTA + i18n. A contour test stub
(VITE_ADS_STUB -> a toast instead of a real ad; prod always real) and a temporary
diagnostic that logs the raw VK data, so we confirm on the contour exactly what
VK returns (harden to signature-verify if it carries one).
Tests: backend integration (credit, nonce idempotency, hourly cap, disabled,
non-VK refusal) + codec unit (reward wire). Docs: PAYMENTS(+ru) §10, D29 amend,
PLAN E6. Bundle: shared budget 30->31 (reward i18n strings).
Ilia Denisov