Roadmap FEATURE-8 · Shipped · Feature
Rift spectacle and staged rewards
Staged rift lifecycle, three-times-scale hazard, rollback-tick ship pull, gravity well, reward waves and rift-only diamond band are implemented locally; they are no longer wholly future work. Sources: docs/reference/rift-gameplay-local.md September 26 sections, docs/plans/prd-rift-collapse.md and economy-canon.md v2.2. Local escape-envelope/gameplay and host-plus-three-client evidence exists. Remaining: live multiplayer/hardware acceptance, competing feedback, reward/risk tuning and proposed rock-bearing flavours. A new Blitzer should find and understand the opportunity without coaching; coordinate FEATURE-16 and FEATURE-54 under the current visor contract, without restoring rejected stage-by-stage callouts. Historical active-slice commitment remains arrival presentation only (September 18); this reconciliation does not expand or close the slice. Broader implementation is recorded here without claiming its live acceptance.
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Rift spectacle and staged rewards: Ready for testing to Shipped, summary updated.
Rift spectacle and staged rewards: summary updated. [MCP] Mike requested Flight Operations reconciliation on 2026-09-30. Updated against dated repository implementation/verification evidence; retained unverified acceptance and proposal boundaries. No publication, priority, slice or release change.
Rift spectacle and staged rewards: Next up to Ready for testing, summary updated. Looking like a rift...
Rift spectacle and staged rewards: Under consideration to Next up. [MCP] Queued for the "Raid the Hive together" slice (Mike, 2026-09-18), scoped to the arrival announcement only. Status set to next so the desk slice picker can include it. No implementation or acceptance is claimed.
Rift spectacle and staged rewards: Under consideration to Under consideration. [MCP] Terminology only: players are blitzers, not pilots (Mike, 2026-09-18). No scope, priority or status change.
Rift spectacle and staged rewards: Under consideration to Under consideration. [MCP] Owner-approved weekend feedback refinement. High-priority refinement from a new playtester asking what the Rift does: communicate what appeared, where it is, why to go and how long the opportunity lasts. Couple readable arrival announcement/audio fanfare and instrumentation to actual staged rewards and danger; do not invent rewards or win conditions in presentation. Validate that a new pilot can explain the opportunity and locate it without coaching. Coordinate FEATURE-16 beacons, FEATURE-29/30 audio and FEATURE-54 tutorial.
Rift spectacle and staged rewards: Next up to Under consideration. [MCP] Owner-requested backlog prioritization from playtester discussions. Retain the staged-rift plan after core reliability, navigation and the next mining slices. Timing, cleanup and escape fairness precede spectacle.