- Introduce StationFrames.js galaxy-wide pass that spreads spacestations.png
variant frames across the galaxy, avoiding collisions among neighbor stars
- Stamp settlement.stationFrame in SystemGenerator so content carries the
assigned variant (lazy === eager)
- Render deep-space stations from the spritesheet when available; keep
procedural fallback for waypoints and missing textures
- Extend comms target with isStation/frame and allow REQUEST LANDING on
deep-space stations, passing station flag into SurfaceScene
- Add landing.stationVideos entries and music.stationFrames slots keyed by
variant frame; surface/shop clips degrade gracefully until authored
- Add dev tooling: station-shot page/runner for world/panel/land/deck states
and a Node test asserting variant spread beats naive random assignment
- constrainShip on Planet, Star, Station, JumpGate, and AsteroidCluster now
returns a contact boolean (true only when position/velocity/acceleration
actually changed) so the scene can distinguish "touched" from "no-op".
- GameScene.onPostUpdate reads those flags and, if the ship is in its
Shift+click thrust state, calls stop() + setState('normal', 'contact')
the first frame any solid or the tether rim touches it — the hold ends
and the ship rests on the rim instead of driving through.
- Non-thrust ships are left alone by the rule; their existing arrival/brake
logic still owns their stop.
- dev/contact.test.mjs: headless tests covering no-contact outside the
keep-out, contact + push-out + inward-motion strip on approach, no
spurious contact while sliding off the rim, the full thrust-into-planet
stop-dead-on-rim integration, and that the rule only fires in thrust.
- dev/smoke-game.mjs: add a third thrusttest check (c) verifying a
Shift+click straight into the planet stops it dead on the rim.
- Clicking a planet or station now opens the comms panel without moving the ship; world clicks are no longer fly-here targets, keeping mining beams live during panel interaction
- Add double-click (350 ms) skip for landing and takeoff clips in SurfaceScene so players can cut to the deck or flight world immediately
- Push restored mineral hold through the upper-right HUD on load so the readout matches the saved value instead of staying at zero
- Replace removed Phaser v4 Container.removeChildren() with removeAll(true) in JumpGate and Station destroy paths
- Update landing.json shop entries for terran frames 2–3 and document the new skip behavior
- Add dev harnesses for surface-skip, hold-restore, scene-restart, container-probe, and import probes; extend comms-click and saves-ui tests to cover the new interactions
- New CommsPanel UI: world-anchored rusty-metal/green-phosphor console that opens on planet or station click, showing name decode, reputation bar (41 marks, -20 to +20), and REQUEST LANDING / LAND / CANCEL buttons
- New Station entity with procedural rendering (deep-space station ring + solar wings, or waypoint beacon), solid collision, and comms-target support
- data/stations.json configures station kinds, sizes, ship clearance; added to manifest
- GameScene wires click-to-fly + panel open together, handles button/outside/ESC close race, ESC priority, and commsAction seam for future landing logic
- Reputation.marksFor() computes lit-mark count for the gauge; covered by new unit tests in dev/reputation.test.mjs
- Dev tooling: comms-click (real-input interaction test), comms-shot (screenshot states), wdshot setup-step logging
Brian Fertig