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Track materials spent, traded and engineered (Engineering card stale after a material trader) - #222

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Problem

After using a material trader the Engineering card (and the Materials card) did not update, and the user reported that "a lot of my materials inventory doesn't work".

Cause

The game writes a full Materials snapshot only when it launches or relogs. Between snapshots the app followed exactly one event, MaterialCollected, which only ever adds. So trading, engineering, synthesis, discarding and research were invisible, and every later count was wrong by the amount spent. The Engineering card itself was fine: it recomputes its plan from state on every refresh, so it only needed the data to be right.

A real commander's last 12 journals contain 17 MaterialTrade, 66 EngineerCraft and 1 EngineerContribution, none of which were handled.

How I found the complete rule set (not just the reported case)

Every game launch writes a full snapshot, and nothing changes while the game is closed, so previous snapshot + the events in between must equal the next snapshot. I used that as a ground-truth oracle against real journals, first with a throwaway Python model to find the rules, then with the real C# StateTracker:

Rules Snapshot transitions off Total error
Before (collect only) 2 of 15 179 items
+ trade, craft, etc. 1 of 15 2 items
+ capacity caps 0 of 15 0

The 2-item residual was not a missing event. Imperial Shielding is grade 5 (cap 100); a pickup took the tracked count to 102, but the game only holds 100, so after a 26-item trade the card said 76 and the game said 74. A correct tracker also has to apply each material's grade cap, which the repo's catalog already knows.

Change (StateTracker only; one writer)

  • New handlers: MaterialTrade (paid leaves, received arrives), MaterialDiscarded, EngineerCraft (ingredients have no category, so they are looked up across all three buckets), Synthesis, TechnologyBroker (materials only; commodities are cargo), EngineerContribution (Type: Material only), ScientificResearch.
  • Pickups and trade receipts are capped at the material's cap (never lowering an existing count, and a material the catalog does not know is not capped).
  • Spending never goes below zero and never invents stock for a material that was never seen. One MaterialsChanged per event, none when nothing changed.
  • All parsing is defensive: malformed or missing fields change nothing and never throw.

Verified

  • MaterialsTrackingTests: 18 new tests using the real event shapes from a journal, including the snapshot-plus-events-equals-next-snapshot property and the exact capped-then-traded case. 14 of the 18 fail on the old tracker; the other 4 are baselines that should hold either way (e.g. a new snapshot replaces tracked state).
  • The real C# tracker replayed over the commander's real journals: 0 error across all 15 snapshot transitions (old tracker: 179 items out). The throwaway scratch test that did this read a personal journal folder, so it is deliberately not committed.
  • Whole solution run twice: 24 + 28 + 214 + 421 + 1144 tests, 0 build warnings.

Not covered (found while checking, left alone)

  • Odyssey micro-resources (components, data, items, consumables) are corrected by the ShipLocker snapshot, which the game rewrites after each change, so they were not part of this.
  • Events I did not see in the sampled journals (MaterialDiscarded, Synthesis, TechnologyBroker, ScientificResearch) are implemented from the journal documentation and covered by tests, not observed against real data.

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  • New Features
    • Material inventories now update as trades, crafting, discarding, synthesis, research, technology unlocks, and engineer contributions occur.
    • Eligible mission rewards and material pickups are added to inventory, and inventory changes trigger update notifications.
    • A new inventory snapshot replaces counts accumulated from events.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Material pickups and trade rewards respect catalog limits; spending cannot reduce counts below zero or create stock.
    • Invalid quantities are ignored, and spending correctly locates materials even when an event’s category is incorrect.

The game writes a full Materials snapshot only at launch and relog. Between
snapshots only MaterialCollected (which only adds) was followed, so trading,
engineering, synthesis, discarding and research left every later count wrong
and the Engineering card stale after a material trader.

StateTracker now follows MaterialTrade, MaterialDiscarded, EngineerCraft,
Synthesis, TechnologyBroker (materials only), EngineerContribution (materials
only) and ScientificResearch. Ingredients carry no category, so they are looked
up across the three buckets. Pickups and trade receipts are capped at the
material's grade cap, since the game logs a pickup but only holds up to the cap
(Imperial Shielding, grade 5: 100); counting it all left a 2 item error that
carried through every later spend. Spending never goes below zero or invents
stock; malformed events change nothing.

Found by reconciling against real journals (previous Materials snapshot plus the
events after it must equal the next snapshot): the old tracker was off by 179
items across 15 snapshot transitions; this one is off by 0. 14 of the 18 new
tests fail on the old tracker.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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StateTracker now updates material inventory from material-related journal events. Gains use catalog limits, and spending checks material names, quantities, and categories. Tests cover event handling, inventory bounds, change notifications, and snapshot replacement.

Changes: Material inventory tracking

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Journal event inventory updates
src/EDNexus.Core/State/StateTracker.cs, tests/EDNexus.Tests/State/MaterialsTrackingTests.cs
StateTracker subscribes to material trade, discard, crafting, synthesis, broker unlock, engineer contribution, and scientific research events. Handlers apply gains or spending and raise one change notification when inventory changes. Tests cover event effects and notification behavior.
Inventory limits and spending rules
src/EDNexus.Core/State/StateTracker.cs, tests/EDNexus.Tests/State/MaterialsTrackingTests.cs
Material gains ignore nonpositive quantities and apply catalog caps. Spending ignores invalid or unavailable quantities and does not reduce counts below zero. Tests cover caps, malformed events, and snapshot replacement.

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Change: Bug fix

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sequenceDiagram
  participant JournalEventSource
  participant StateTracker
  participant MaterialsChangedSubscribers
  JournalEventSource->>StateTracker: Publish material journal event
  StateTracker->>StateTracker: Update material inventory
  StateTracker-->>MaterialsChangedSubscribers: Raise MaterialsChanged when inventory changes
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Malformed material entries can incorrectly reduce displayed stock, while unchanged entries can trigger unnecessary updates. These bounded issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging.

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Review comments at @src/EDNexus.Core/State/StateTracker.cs:
- Around line 354-359: Update Spend so it returns true only when the held count
changes: compute the clamped next value, store it, and compare it with the
previous held value before returning. Keep the existing bucket lookup and
clamping behavior.
- Around line 330-339: Update Gain to return whether the material count actually
changed, including when an existing count is already at its cap. In
OnMaterialCollected, raise MaterialsChanged only when Gain returns true,
consistent with the other callers. Add a test confirming that a pickup at the
cap produces zero MaterialsChanged notifications.
- Around line 365-369: Update the Int helper to return the fallback only when a
property is absent and null when a present value is invalid; adjust its callers
in the EngineerCraft, Synthesis, TechnologyBroker, and related quantity-handling
paths to skip spending or gaining when the result is null, while preserving
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demortes and others added 2 commits October 21, 2026 20:13
…nusable quantities

- Gain/Spend now return whether the stored count changed, so a pickup at the cap or a
  spend from zero no longer raises MaterialsChanged. MaterialCollected uses the result.
- Int() distinguishes an absent property (default, e.g. 1) from a present but unusable
  one (string, null, fractional, out of int range), which is now ignored instead of
  being read as one item. All quantity readers use it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ons by material

Review follow-ups on the materials tracking:
- MissionCompleted.MaterialsReward adds ship materials (Raw/Manufactured/Encoded only;
  Odyssey $MICRORESOURCE_* rewards are ignored). EngineerLegacyConvert spends its
  Ingredients unless IsPreview.
- EngineerContribution is read by the Material it names rather than an exact Type string.
- MaterialDiscarded and ScientificResearch share one handler.
- Tests for each, plus Spend's wrong-category fallback.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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