Roadmap FEATURE-38 · In progress · Feature
Exceptional artifact journeys and rare-cargo signatures
Confirmed: some very special artifacts require a long, lucrative journey to an exclusive buyer. Every rare-or-higher artifact signals to other players while aboard. Ordinary ports cannot secure them. Depends on typed cargo and exclusive buyers. Proposed first scope is within one sector; multi-sector transport is a separate decision. Detection range, pulse frequency, exact-position disclosure and reward amounts are NOT settled. Candidate: recognizable limited-range signature, stronger for exceptional finds; clear carrier notice before pickup and while aboard. Proposed stolen artifacts retain buyer and signature requirements. Acceptance/design tests: viable buyer before sector closure, carrier/observer readability, fair pursuit and escape, no permanent global dogpile; define dropped-cargo signal, death, disconnect and expiry rules before implementation. No guaranteed escort/party feature.
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Exceptional artifact journeys and rare-cargo signatures: Next up to In progress. [MCP] Discovery sprint continuation committed locally on codex/discovery-recovery: game d59282e; Coldboot c3102b3 (after foundation 41d9ab7/d560a21). First playable experiment now connects west-field clues, one four-cell Rift Relic, death/drop/reclaim, 900 m carrier signature, North Exchange exclusive recovery, account credits/discovery/recovery count and same-allocation recovery journal. Ordinary bulk banking remains intact. Checks: 37 backend tests; lost-response HTTP retry and rejoin under another syndicate; local journal restart; four peers at 150 ms added RTT and 2% loss; 720p/1080p cockpit/chase renders. Source 19.149/protocol 19; no push, export, live migration or deployment. Broader catalog/selectable goals/career-haul work and human acceptance remain; not shipped. Managed-container disk retention/destruction behavior remains a release review gate. Human test procedure is tests/discovery-recovery-playtest.md in the game repository.
Exceptional artifact journeys and rare-cargo signatures: Awaiting review to Next up. [MCP] Owner requested recording and backlog refinement of the cargo/discovery discussion. Confirmed work is queued after current slice; optional designs remain under consideration for feedback. Dependencies and unresolved choices are explicit; no implementation or acceptance claimed.