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- Soft-cool kill, courtship, intent, construction, status fx, hatch, rest, and worldlog meta - Block cooled tips from resuming after a cut-in - Name only dead theater partners in stands-over aftermath - Add harness gates through 0.28.54
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# Event reasons (camera + orange dossier)
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## A/B layers
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| Layer | What | Gate |
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|-------|------|------|
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| **B ticker** | Activity / Life / chronicle prose for live ids | Always may write when the game fires |
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| **A story camera** | Interest candidates, orange reason, camera cuts | `EventCatalog.IsCameraWorthy` only |
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Story commitment (climax → aftermath → epilogue) is owned by [`StoryPlanner`](story-planner.md); orange aftermath Labels come from `StoryReason` and must stay subject-led for presentability.
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Happiness: `Presentation.Signal` = A; `Ambient` / `Aggregate` = B-only.
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Discrete / status / WorldLog: `CreatesInterest` = A gate.
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`InterestDirector` only ranks A candidates. It does not author inventory.
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Character fill runs only when the pending **EventLed** queue is empty, and uses an empty Label (task chip only).
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Orange dossier reason = the owning A event’s `Label` while the scene is active (`InterestDirector.TryGetOwnedReasonCandidate`).
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The focused unit must be a tip principal:
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- Life / discrete tips: SubjectId + RelatedId (Follow alone is not enough after a handoff).
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- Pair-locked duels: PairOwner/PairPartner only.
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- Mass/war/plot/family/outbreak: sticky roster members OK.
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Dossier identity also rejects subject-led Labels that name another living unit
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(e.g. Hillih must not show “Iksssssa shares intimacy…”).
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Quiet grace / inactive dwell clears the reason even if focus has not switched yet.
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## Activity History peek freshness
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Layer B ring stays append-only (Lore Activity = full journal).
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Dossier History peek uses `ActivityRelevance` / `ActivityLog.LatestRelevantForSubject`:
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- Soft window (~8s): newest beats always show.
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- After that: same verb/family as live task, or family live predicates (combat ↔ attack target / in_combat, haul ↔ carrying, status ↔ still has/lost status).
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- Milestones always peek-worthy.
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- Peek refreshes when live AI fingerprint changes (task, attack target, carrying), not only when the ring grows.
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Drops (ambient, createsInterest=false, identity filter, below margin, …) go to `InterestDropLog`.
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## Live ensembles (escalating multi-actor)
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Combat is the first consumer of `LiveEnsemble` ([`Events/LiveEnsemble.cs`](../IdleSpectator/Events/LiveEnsemble.cs)).
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Sticky scoreboard state lives on `InterestCandidate.Sticky` (`LiveSceneStickyState`);
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`StickyScoreboard` owns lock / enroll / refresh / scale-hold / follow-promote.
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The director only decides camera + completion policy and calls those helpers while `CombatActive` stays hot.
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| Scale | Fighters | Typical reason |
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|-------|----------|----------------|
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| Pair | ≤2 | `Duel - Rosado vs Waaf` |
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| Skirmish / Battle | 3+ | `Battle - Essiona (10) vs Northreach (3)` or `Battle - humans (10) vs wolves (3)` |
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| Mass | ≥8 (`massCrowdThreshold`) | `Mass - humans (12) vs wolves (8)` |
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Optional kingdom brackets on species sides: `Battle - [Essiona] humans (10) vs wolves (3)`.
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Side framing priority: kingdom vs kingdom → species vs species → count-only melee.
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Never use unit proper names as mass-side labels (no `Battle - Waf (6) vs Eaderbert (1)`).
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Same-species camps with no opposing sticky keys use a single pack line (`Mass - Wolves (n)`).
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Sticky opposing camps lock once and enroll member ids while they fight.
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Counts stay on those tracked members while alive (combat or not) until combat grace clears the scene - so a wiped side can hit `0` while survivors remain counted.
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New combatants matching a sticky key are enrolled; dead ids are pruned.
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Orphan pair tips use `{name} is fighting` instead of `Duel - Name` with no foe.
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Names are humanized (no raw `nomads_human` ids).
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Scale hold (~2.5s peak hysteresis on `Sticky.ScaleDropSince`) keeps Mass/Battle from flapping to Duel on brief count dips.
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Combat camera hysteresis only applies between living fighters - sleepers/bystanders never stick.
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### Module layout (sticky)
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| Piece | Owns |
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|-------|------|
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| `LiveEnsemble` | Kind/scale/frame snapshot + combat (and later war/plot) **builders** |
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| `LiveSceneStickyState` | Durable side keys, member id rosters, peak/scale-hold |
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| `StickyScoreboard` | Lock sides, enroll, refresh counts, promote follow, format reason |
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| `InterestDirector` | Camera maintain, completion, when to call scoreboard |
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| `EventReason.Ensemble` / `.Combat` / `.WarFront` / `.PlotCell` / `.FamilyPack` / `.StatusOutbreak` | Orange prose from a snapshot |
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Compat: `InterestCandidate.CombatSide*` forwarders still work for harness / older call sites.
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### Discovery: next sticky consumers (game reflection)
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Verified against `Assembly-CSharp` multi-actor containers that already expose rosters / opposing sides:
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| Priority | Kind | Live game surface | Why sticky fits | Fit notes |
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|----------|------|-------------------|-----------------|-----------|
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| done | **WarFront** | `War.main_attacker` / `main_defender`, kingdom pop | Natural A/B camps | Implemented (`War - A (n) vs B (m)`) |
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| done | **PlotCell** | `Plot.units` (2+), `target_kingdom` / city / actor | Plotters vs target kingdom | Implemented (`Plot - Plotters (n) vs A (m)`; solo → unit Plot tip) |
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| done | **FamilyPack** | `Family.units`, `getAlpha` / `setAlpha` | Pack identity + alpha handoff | Implemented (`Pack - Species (n) · gathering`) |
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| done | **StatusOutbreak** | Scan actors with same `StatusAsset` id in radius | Spatial cluster like combat | Implemented (`Outbreak - Cursed (n)`) |
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| 5 | **Army / Clan** | `Army.units` + captain; `Clan.units` + chief | Ready member lists | Usually feed WarFront / siege framing rather than a separate orange scene |
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| later | Alliance | `Alliance.kingdoms_hashset`, `getUnits()` | Meta-side aggregation | Prefer war sides unless alliance-vs-alliance tips are wanted |
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| later | DiscoveryCluster | pending first-seens near anchor | Soft cluster | Lower stakes; optional |
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Do **not** invent inventory from catalogs: builders must read live `World.world.wars` / `plots` / `families` / unit status like combat already does.
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### Other families (same snapshot later)
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| Kind | Live signal | Side framing | Status |
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|------|-------------|--------------|--------|
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| Combat | attack_target / in_combat cluster | kingdom → species → camps | Done |
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| WarFront | `War` attackers/defenders + kingdom pop | kingdom vs kingdom (`War - A (n) vs B (m)`) | Done |
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| PlotCell | `Plot.units` (2+) + target kingdom | plotters vs kingdom (`Plot - Plotters (n) vs A (m)`) | Done |
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| FamilyPack | `Family.units` + alpha | soft species pack (`Pack - Wolves (5) · gathering`); yields to discrete unit events | Done |
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| StatusOutbreak | same status id in radius, **2+ carriers**; affliction/disease only (deny stun/shield/recovery_* and short combat FX via live duration) | status carriers (`Outbreak - Cursed (4)`; drowning OK as group) | Done |
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| DiscoveryCluster | pending first-seens near anchor | species | Optional |
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Roadmap + shared contract: [`sticky-ensemble-plan.md`](sticky-ensemble-plan.md).
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Shared pieces: `LiveEnsemble` builders, `StickyScoreboard`, `EventReason.Ensemble`.
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## EventReason
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[`IdleSpectator/Events/EventReason.cs`](../IdleSpectator/Events/EventReason.cs) is the sole Label factory for camera candidates.
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It lives in the Events module with catalogs (not in the director).
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Feeds call typed helpers (`Fight`, `BuildingEat`, `SeekingLover`, …) or `Apply(template, a, b, id)`.
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## Events module layout
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| Path | Role |
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| `Events/EventCatalog.cs` (+ `Catalogs/EventCatalog.*.cs`) | **One inventory** - nested domains + `IsCameraWorthy` |
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| `Events/Feeds/` | Build + register **A** candidates from catalog dials |
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| `Events/Patches/` | Harmony hooks → feeds / Activity |
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| `Events/EventReason.cs` | Orange reason sentences |
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| `Events/LiveEnsemble.cs` | Multi-actor snapshot + combat builders |
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| `Events/LiveSceneStickyState.cs` | Durable sticky scoreboard on a candidate |
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| `Events/StickyScoreboard.cs` | Lock / enroll / refresh / promote / scale-hold |
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| `Events/EventFeedUtil.cs` | Shared Register path |
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| `Events/InterestDropLog.cs` | Why a beat stayed B or missed A |
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| `Events/DiscreteEventEntry.cs` | Shared catalog row shape |
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Rules:
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- Sentence form with names: `{a} is fighting {b}`, `{a} is eating a beehive`, `{a} decides to change the kingdom's culture`.
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Decision orange reasons use the `action` field (infinitive after "decides to").
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Other domains use `label` or happiness `variantsWithRelated` / `variantsWithoutRelated`.
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All of that - plus per-id `strength` - lives in [`event-catalog.json`](../IdleSpectator/event-catalog.json).
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`EventReason.Decision` only formats `{name} decides to {phrase}`.
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Species/character score overlays live in the same JSON; global formula stays in `scoring-model.json`.
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- Set `RelatedUnit` when the sentence names a second party.
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- Never invent stranger subjects for unit-led events.
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- Never use engine jargon that misstates the action.
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## Removed crumbs
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Do not author these as orange reasons:
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- `In action`
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- bare `Duel` / `Fight (N)` without a named sentence
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- identity titles (`King of X`, `Leader of X`, `Lone beetle`)
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- `Consumes a building` / `Damages a building: {a}` crumb form
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## Strength dial (Layer A only)
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`CreatesInterest` / Signal gates whether an id registers for the camera; `EventStrength` ranks among A.
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Instant cut-in when `next.TotalScore >= current + cutInMargin` (sticky scenes use `stickyCutInMargin`).
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See `scoring-model.json`.
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## Dossier display
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`UnitDossier.EventLabelBeat` keeps EventReason / `Name verb …` sentences.
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It rejects identity/weak crumbs and scrubs living stranger names (`ReasonNamesStranger` / `LeadsWithForeignName`).
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Active EventLed A scenes should not silently blank a valid Label.
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`EventPresentability.WouldShow` is the shared gate so unpresentable Labels never win Watching.
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## See also
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- [`camera-presentability-plan.md`](camera-presentability-plan.md) - selection = presentation; fall class demotion
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- [`event-e2e.md`](event-e2e.md) - catalog inject + live outcome suite
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- [`event-observation.md`](event-observation.md) - observe → confirm → emit (Beh Continue is not success)
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- [`event-audit.md`](event-audit.md) - sources, MaxWatch, A demotion set
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- [`event-prose-audit.md`](event-prose-audit.md) - prose vs game call sites
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- [`scoring-model.md`](scoring-model.md) - score weights
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