Static RE exhausted CardsDLL on the one open question: for a closed row
IS_GLOW = (bidState != none) and INBOX = (bidState in {highest, buyNow}), so
closed/highest and closed/buyNow are BIT-IDENTICAL natively. But bidState is
published to the movie verbatim as YOURBID, so the FUT ActionScript CAN separate
them. This builds the controlled experiment that asks the client which one it
treats as the seller's sale.
PRODUCTION SAFETY IS THE FIRST CONCERN
New module openfut-utas-host/src/sold_experiment.rs. Every knob is OFF unless its
env var is set, an unrecognised value is OFF rather than a default token (silently
picking one would fabricate the answer being measured), and the host logs a startup
banner naming the active variant so a staging capture can never be mistaken for a
production one. With no env set, /tradePile and /trade/status emit only real active
auctions (the Fix A invariant) and counts still report sold: 0. The entire existing
test suite now passes SoldExperiment::OFF explicitly, making it a regression guard.
OPENFUT_FIFA17_SOLD_EXPERIMENT = highest | buyNow (else OFF)
OPENFUT_FIFA17_SOLD_COINS_PROCESSED = 1 (else 0)
OPENFUT_FIFA17_SOLD_COUNT_MODE = active_plus_sold (else active)
WHAT THE EXPERIMENT PROJECTS
Uncleared sold listings appear in /tradePile and /trade/status as tradeState
"closed" with the token under test and currentBid = the sale price; counts report
the real sold tally. There is ONE record builder, so the A/B changes only what is
passed into it, and a test asserts that EXACTLY ONE field differs between the two
variants -- without that control the client's reaction is not attributable to the
token and the whole experiment is void. coinsProcessed (Flash COINS_AWARDED) varies
independently so the third pass cannot be confounded with the first.
CLEAR-SOLD, PE-PROVEN
New EconomyRoute::MarketClearSold for DELETE .../trade/sold, classified BEFORE the
generic trade cancel arm -- a `sold` tail carries no id, so the cancel handler would
have parsed nothing and acked while clearing nothing. Builder 0x1801647c0 emits
"/sold" when the tradeId field is zero and "/%lld" otherwise; the client calls it
RemoveAllSoldFromTradePile. New market-store column cleared_at records the seller's
acknowledgement SEPARATELY from the sale, so clearing can never be mistaken for
re-settling: it is presentation only, moves no coins and no ownership, and is
idempotent for client retries.
FOUND AND FIXED A LATENT STORE BUG
Adding a column via the additive ALTER path immediately after CREATE TABLE in the
same open() desynced sqlx's per-connection schema cache: a fresh store then read a
12-column row while metadata said 13, panicking a pool worker with an index
out-of-bounds and silently returning zero listings. Declaring cleared_at in
CREATE_LISTINGS fixes it; the ALTER now only serves pre-existing stores. This would
have bitten the next column too.
STAGING, WITHOUT TOUCHING PRODUCTION
The client learns the UTAS base from BLAZE (blaze_responder_v3b.py:646 hardcodes
:8099), and it dials that port directly, so redirecting UTAS means changing Blaze or
port 8099 -- both production. 10.10.0.121 is unreachable. The compliant path is a
parallel stack on spare ports plus a one-line change to the CLIENT's own config:
* scripts/sold-staging-up.py / sold-staging-down.py -- staging Core 18081,
utas-host 8299, Blaze 42327/42330/42331 advertising :8299, two seeded identities,
own DBs under /home/alex/openfut-sold-staging/. Patches a COPY of the Blaze
responder and asserts every substitution applied, so a silent no-op cannot leave
it pointing at production. Kills only recorded pids whose cmdline contains the
staging dir (openfut-utas-host matches BOTH, so pkill-by-pattern is banned).
* docs/SOLD_STAGING_RUNBOOK.md -- the exact client change and its revert.
* src/bin/staging_sell.rs -- the synthetic Buyer B, running the REAL settlement
(CoreEconomy::settle_sale) then mark_sold. Settle-first ordering: a failure
leaves the listing live with nothing moved. Refuses any path containing
openfut-promotion or the production ports.
* scripts/sold-wire-check.py -- proves the whole flow headless before any operator
time is spent.
WIRE CHECK: 35/35 PASS on the canonical 150-coin sale. Seller 1,000 -> 1,143 (fee 7,
proceeds 143), buyer 20,000 -> 19,850, ownership transferred, exactly ONE
authoritative instance, economy shrank by exactly the fee. Sold row: closed,
currentBid 150, expires 0, twelve atoms, counts sold 1 / selling 0, /trade/status
agreeing. Variant B differs only in bidState and coinsProcessed. Clear: 200 {}, row
gone, counts.sold 0, no coins moved, buyer keeps the item, second clear a safe no-op.
Gates: 104 host lib tests (+9), all 7 host targets green, clippy clean, zero fmt
diffs in the new code. Settlement candidate unchanged. NOT PROMOTED.
Production untouched: prod-host pid 3631953 uptime 2h44m restarts=0, coins and
/tradePile unchanged, nothing under /home/alex/openfut-promotion/state/ opened.
The A/B itself is NOT yet run: it needs a real FIFA client, which is operator work.
Task A, static phase. Ghidra 12.1.2 headless via the repo's own pyghidra harness
over CardsDLL_Win64_retail.dll (13,382 functions). Queries and raw decompiler
output committed under docs/evidence/market-sold-re-2026-08-17/.
RECOVERED FROM THE BINARY
1. No sold token, now EXHAUSTIVELY: both vocabularies dumped to their sentinels
rather than sampled. tradeState is exactly 4 rows; itemState is exactly 12
(invalid/free/WAITING_FOR_GAME/inGame/forSale/offered/activeBadge/
activeHomeKit/activeAwayKit/activeBall/activeStadium/active=255). A sold row
MUST therefore be a combination of existing atoms.
2. What closed does, complete, from the auctionInfo deserializer 0x18013e410:
IS_GLOW = (tradeState==closed) ? bidState != none
: bidState in {outbid, buyNow}
INBOX = bidState in {highest, buyNow}
3. The full record -> Flash map from the publisher 0x1801bf030, superseding the
partial list. The prize: record +0xbf is published as COINS_AWARDED, fed by the
coinsProcessed atom 0x2f4. The corpus had recorded that atom's type and noted
its consumer was never found; it is now traced. DURATION also renders the
localised FUT_AUCTION_EXPIRED when expires underflows.
4. highest vs buyNow on a closed row is UNDECIDABLE from CardsDLL, by proof: both
yield IS_GLOW=1/INBOX=1, bit-identical. But bidState is ALSO published verbatim
as YOURBID alongside STATE and COINS_AWARDED, so the movie does receive the raw
values - the discrimination exists and lives entirely in unread ActionScript.
This retires the question as a static target, and it contradicts the
third-party lore that a seller's sold row is closed+buyNow (the corpus's own
lifecycle table says closed+highest and assigns buyNow to the buyer).
5. The clear-sold verb EXISTS. Builder 0x1801647c0 emits "/sold" when the tradeId
field is zero and "/%lld" otherwise, on route base ut/delete/%s/trade, response
class RS4 FutISRemoveTradeServerResponse. Confirmed by the client's own
request-name table entry RemoveAllSoldFromTradePile. A BULK clear-sold verb only
makes sense if sold rows PERSIST in the seller's pile until cleared, which is
incompatible with our Fix A invariant - so the sold path will require revisiting
it under live validation.
6. The seller's SOLD counter is real, proven end to end with no inference: the hub
tradePile sub-deserializer 0x18013ead0 writes atom sold 0x2c9 to +0x1d8, and the
tile publisher 0x1800b1dc0 renders +0x1d8 as Flash TEXT3 under the localised
caption FUT_TF_SOLD. Siblings: selling -> +0x1d2 -> FUT_TF_SELLING,
count -> +0x1d4 -> FUT_UC_ITEMS, plus FUT_TF_WINNING/FUT_TF_OUTBID on the
Transfer Targets tile. We and the Python oracle both hardcode sold:0, so that
bucket can never fill.
7. Reusable method: an atom id is the INDEX into the alphabetical atom-name pointer
table at base 0x1802d2760. Validated 12/12 against the known auctionInfo atoms
and cross-checked against fifa17-recon/docs/fut_atoms.tsv. Documented gotcha:
resolve a name by the pointer slot INSIDE the table, never by the first matching
string in the binary, or you get confident nonsense.
8. An auction-outcome vocabulary exists (auctionSoldBid 0x39, auctionSoldBuyNow
0x3a, auctionWon*/auctionLost*) but NO deserializer consumes it - every
candidate function was checked for the value-SKIP/atom-loop signature and none
qualifies. Server-side or telemetry only; it does not carry sold state here.
TASK B IS UNDECIDABLE FROM THE CLIENT, and this is a proof of absence: no 0.95 or
0.05 constant of either width, no tax/fee/net/proceeds caption, and no fee
arithmetic anywhere. The client never computes or displays a net, so no experiment
against our own server can measure the rounding - whatever we credit is what it
displays, and there is no oracle. Only an original EA-era seller-balance capture
could settle it. The rule stays an explicit CHOICE (floor the fee, so
fee + proceeds == gross exactly) and is now pinned at the requested boundaries
100/101/119/120/149/150/151/199/200 plus 15,000 and i64::MAX.
Settlement NOT promoted. No production process, port or database was touched.
Return to Club is durable across a full FUT exit/re-entry — the last claim the
forSale promotion could only make server-side.
Same disposable card as Gap 1 (75 ST, res 212188, wire 100000178, tradeId
1000000178), after the 1h auction expired NATURALLY. No timestamp was mutated in
either gap; a read-only sampler watched the whole hour (55 samples), because
`expires` is derived from created_at + duration and watching is the only honest way
to see expiry:
active expires 3175 -> counting down -> expired expires 0, itemState forSale
(absent) total 0 <- Return to Club
itemState stayed forSale across active -> expired, the one state change Fix B had
never been watched through live.
The host log then shows the coupled transition and TWO session boundaries:
route=move-items wire=100000178 pile=club auction_cancelled=1
route=auth-delete
route=auth ... sid_opened=true (fresh session, x2)
route=hub clubPlayers=1966 auctionCount=0
route=club total=1986 emitted=1966
auction_cancelled=1 is cancel_active_for_core_item firing, so pile membership and
auction lifecycle cannot disagree. Two independent fresh sessions each rebuilt the
state from durable storage and the operator confirmed the card was still in My Club;
one boundary was the requirement.
18/18 server checks pass IDENTICALLY before and after re-entry: /tradePile total 0,
counts all zero, tradeId -> closed with expires 0 (still resolves, correctly
terminal), /club 1966 with itemState free, 0 duplicate ids, market store cancelled
with 0 active and 0 reserved, coins 29,843,976 unchanged throughout.
No code change was required for EITHER gap. Both tests existed to find out whether
the promoted implementation was already correct on paths it had not been exercised
on, and it was.
Also freezes the full CLUB -> list -> active -> expired -> Return to Club -> CLUB
lifecycle as the reference baseline, with the eight invariants it pins, so a future
change that alters any line is a regression until proven otherwise. Explicitly NOT
established: the SOLD path, /tradePile/counts semantics, the AVM1 gate.
Core gains the generic settlement (gitlink 31ab4a6); the FIFA-specific parts live
here.
FEE (openfut-adapter-fifa17/src/fut/economy_policy.rs), beside pack_price and
match_reward_total because 5% is a game policy constant and Core must stay
game-neutral — Core only validates 0 <= fee <= gross and never computes a rate:
TRANSFER_MARKET_FEE_PERCENT = 5
transfer_market_fee(gross) = floor(gross * 5 / 100), i128 intermediate
seller_proceeds(gross) = gross - fee
Integer only. Floating point is never used for coin settlement: 0.05 is not
representable in binary and a f64 round trip can create or destroy a coin at large
prices. Widening to i128 makes overflow unreachable for any i64 price, so no price
ceiling has to be assumed.
ROUNDING IS A CHOICE AND IT IS NOT CONFIRMED. The fee is floored, so the seller
keeps the fractional coin, chosen because it makes fee + proceeds == gross hold
exactly at every input — the property the accounting invariant rests on. The
discriminating case against flooring the seller's 95% instead is a gross of 150:
this rule pays 143, the alternative 142. Nothing in the corpus or the client binary
settles which the real server did (the client is only ever told the gross; no
tax/netPrice/sellerProceeds wire field exists). Pinned at 0/1/19/20/21/39/40/100/
150/200/1_000/15_000/15_000_000/i64::MAX plus a fee+proceeds==gross sweep.
HOST: CoreEconomy gains settle_sale + EconomySale/EconomySaleReceipt, implemented on
HttpCoreClient as POST /economy/settle-sale. Request field names were checked
against Core's actual SettleSaleRequest/SaleReceipt rather than assumed. Absent club
ids are OMITTED from the body (not null), which is what Core's Outside/active-club
defaults depend on, so a unit test pins that body shape. handle_market_buy is
deliberately untouched: the synthetic buy path has no counterparty, so minting there
is correct.
HARNESS: scripts/settlement-staging.py, stdlib only, drives a REAL Core over real
HTTP on an ephemeral port against a throwaway DB (production 8099/8199/18080 in a
hard deny-list checked in three places), seeds the canonical two-party fixture,
prints BEFORE/PURCHASE/AFTER with PASS-FAIL lines, cleans up in a finally. 31/31
pass. It found the rejection-precedence bug fixed in Core, and that Core's content
preflight aborts startup on an owned card whose CardDefinitionId no pack defines.
Gates: Core 194, adapter 217, host 127, harness 31/31, clippy clean, new code
fmt-clean. Nothing deployed; no production process, port or database was touched.
The one claim the Fix B promotion left open: no active listing existed during
that session, so only the expired path had been exercised.
Closed with a disposable card (75 ST, res 212188, wire id 100000178 — one of
three identical copies, not in the squad) listed through the real FIFA 17 client
at 150/200 for 1h, so expiry arrives naturally. No timestamp touched.
Wire: itemState=forSale, tradeState=active, 12 atoms, prices intact, expires
3562 -> 3556 over a 6s sample (live clock), /trade/status coherent, counts
{count:1, selling:1}, coins unchanged, zero inactive rows (Fix A intact).
The decisive evidence is client-side, not ours: a read-only /proc/<pid>/mem
decode of the live trade-pile auction record returned
itemState=5(forSale)
on the very field that read -1(<unrecognised>) under listFS. Direct A/B on the
only changed field, taken from the client's own memory.
Operator confirmed the row renders under LISTED ITEMS with correct prices, a
counting-down timer, normal art, and correctly non-actionable while active.
No code change required — the promoted implementation was already correct on the
active path. Claim boundary unchanged: this proves the client DECODES the token
and says nothing about the Flash action-gate term.
Operator drove the expired row 1000000155 (res 158023, 93 RW) in FIFA 17 with the
candidate deployed: the row was still actionable, Return to Club was offered, and
it worked — "the card is back in my club".
Server-verified durable afterwards, which is what a fresh session reconstructs:
/tradePile total 0 with zero rows, /tradePile/counts all zero, the card present in
/club (1965 -> 1966 items, itemState "free"), zero duplicate ids, no stale active
listing anywhere in the store (both rows cancelled), and the ended auction
projecting as `closed` (4) on /trade/status. Fix A intact: zero `inactive` rows.
So `listFS` -> `forSale` is protocol-correct AND behaviour-preserving on the path
that matters, and `listFS` is gone from production serialization.
Also worth recording what the result rules out: CARD_OFFERSTATE is NOT a gate term
that requires -1. Every actionable row we had ever seen carried itemState -1, which
looked like a possible client rule; it was a coincidence of our own invalid token.
An expired row decoding CARD_OFFERSTATE = 5 stayed actionable.
Deliberately NOT claimed: anything about the Flash action gate itself. STATE and
the RESERVEDPRICE/MAX_CREDITS pair are untouched and still confounded, so the gate
remains Category C / STRONGLY SUPPORTED / not proven, and AVM1 disassembly of
tradepile.isInActiveAuction is still the separate next investigation.
One gap left open honestly: no ACTIVE seller row existed during the session, so
active-row rendering under `forSale` is unverified. /transfermarket has always
emitted `forSale` on active rows, so it is expected-safe, but it has not been seen.
Single-field protocol-correctness fix, deployed as a candidate for a live A/B.
`itemData.itemState: "listFS"` on the seller's own auction rows is not a FIFA 17
token at all: zero occurrences in `CardsDLL_Win64_retail.dll` (md5
4de3493131d7d2ff7f8b360c5ac9b655), zero in 4.26 GiB of live client memory, and it
decodes to -1 through `FUN_180166660` — so the client was handed an unrecognised
`CARD_OFFERSTATE`. FIFA 17's value for an item offered for sale is `forSale` (5),
from the 12-row table at 0x180229cc0.
Changed only where the invalid token was emitted: `handle_market_query`
(GET …/tradePile) and `handle_market_status` (GET …/trade/status). The market
search path already emitted `forSale` and is untouched — which is also why the
risk here was lower than it looked: the client has been decoding `forSale` on a
live route all along, and only the seller's own pile carried the bad value.
Wire A/B on the same expired row: EXACTLY one field differs. tradeId, tradeState,
expires, startingBid, buyNowPrice, currentBid, bidState, sellerName,
sellerEstablished, watched, coinsProcessed, the twelve-atom count and the whole
itemData card are byte-identical; coins unchanged at 29,843,976; Fix A's zero
`inactive` rows intact.
The differential asserted PARITY on this field and therefore passed while BOTH
sides were wrong — the exact mechanism by which the defect survived every run.
`market query tradePile` is now DIFFERENT-BY-DESIGN, pinning oracle == "listFS"
and rust == "forSale" so the divergence cannot silently close again. Where the
FIFA 17 binary contradicts the Python oracle, the binary wins.
Gates: 126 host tests, 214 adapter tests, fmt clean, clippy clean.
NOT claimed: that this preserves the list -> expire -> Return-to-Club lifecycle.
That needs an operator FIFA 17 session and has NOT been observed yet. Also not
claimed: anything about the Flash action gate — `CARD_OFFERSTATE` is one of three
still-confounded candidates and this change does not test it. Revert is one line
if the live test fails.
RE of the FUT front-end closed the question the Actions-panel investigation left
open, and the answer retracts Q2 rather than completing it.
`tradeState` reaches exactly ONE native branch in CardsDLL — `cmp …,0x4` at
`0x18013e619`, "is it closed?" — and `inactive`(2) and `expired`(3) take the same
edge, producing bit-identical `flagA`/`flagB` (exhaustive 22-site census of
`[reg+0x88]` reads across the PE; confirmed live, both classes read glow=0
inbox=0). The value is then handed to the movie verbatim as the Flash property
`STATE`, and the action gate lives in the APT/ActionScript FUT front-end: the
trade-pile class partitions rows with `getCardsInAuction`/`isInActiveAuction`
(traces `initPile() - IN AUCTION:` / `- NOT IN AUCTION:`) and only auction rows
reach `PreCheckCardOptions` -> `handleTradeCardAction`. A non-auction row renders
and can never be acted on, which is exactly what the operator saw.
So the rows were never usable. "LIVE-CONFIRMED" established that they RENDER,
which is not the same claim, and I treated it as if it were.
The corpus said this before any of it was built —
`plan-2026-08-06-transfer-market.md:731-733`: "`inactive` decodes but no client
path treats it specially; do not emit it." The earlier note explaining that the
warning "was written about the PRESENTATION function" was motivated reasoning.
This also fires the corpus's own pre-registered falsifier E3 (:368-373).
Removed: the `inactive` projection from `GET …/tradePile` and `…/trade/status`,
`UnlistedCandidate`, `resolve_unlisted_pile`, `unlisted_record`,
`Server::resolve_trade_pile`, and the two helpers that existed only to feed them
(`MarketStore::blocking_core_items`, `Fifa17IdentityResolver::wire_for_owned_id`).
Unlisted trade-pile membership is now internal state with no wire expression.
Nothing is stranded: `/club` excludes only items with an ACTIVE listing, so an
unlisted pile member stays visible in the club, which is where the client can act
on it. Verified live after deploy — `/tradePile` total 7 -> 1 with zero `inactive`
rows, `/trade/status` resolving only the real auction, coins unchanged at
29,843,976, and all six former rows present in `/club` (1965 items).
Tests: 126 pass, fmt + clippy clean. Two guards replace the three tests that
pinned the old behaviour: `the_trade_pile_advertises_only_real_auctions` and
`trade_status_answers_only_about_real_auctions`.
NOT fixed here, deliberately: `itemData.itemState: "listFS"` is not a FIFA 17
token (0 occurrences in CardsDLL md5 4de3493131d7d2ff7f8b360c5ac9b655, 0 in
4.26 GiB of process memory, decodes to -1; the real value is `forSale` = 5, and
the Python oracle emits `listFS` too — which is why the differential never caught
it). `CARD_OFFERSTATE` is one of three unresolved action-gate candidates and
every actionable row observed carried -1, so that change ships alone with its own
live A/B.
Explains and fixes the Phase C partial failure WITHOUT changing a single wire field.
The operator saw a difference between the one-item probe (Time Remaining "-") and the
generalized rows (Time Remaining "Expired"). Cause: route coverage, not encoding.
/tradePile advertised the unlisted tradeIds while ISVIEWTRADE (GET .../trade/status)
resolved ids from the market store only -- and an unlisted pile member has no listing
row, so the poll returned an empty auctionInfo. Observed live as
`route=market-status requested=1 returned=0` repeating for the row the operator had
selected, while that same id was present in /tradePile. The client polls status for
the row it displays and degrades it when the answer is empty, which is also why no
actions were offered. The probe showed "-" only because the client had not yet polled
that id (logs of the time show only tradeIds=1000000097).
So expires, tradeState, itemData.itemState and pile were all innocent. Nothing was
guessed and no field changed: both routes now share one pile enumeration
(Server::resolve_trade_pile), so an id advertised by /tradePile always resolves on
/trade/status. The corpus predicted exactly this -- tradeId must resolve across
/transfermarket, /tradePile, /watchList AND /trade/status; we had stability but not
coverage. Same defect class as the original empty-trade/status bug.
Status still answers only the ids actually asked about, and a real auction always wins
over an inactive row for the same tradeId. Regression test covers all four cases.
Records the downgraded conclusion: "inactive" is a CONFIRMED section/lifecycle
discriminator; whether the full actionable contract is now complete is the operator's
next test. itemState/pile recovery was queued on the assumption the encoding was
incomplete -- neither was touched, and both remain the next candidates if actions are
still absent.
342 tests pass, 0 failed, clippy clean. Verified live: the six inactive ids went from
returned=0 to returned=6.
Q2 is LIVE-CONFIRMED (operator saw the inactive row under TRANSFER LIST with Start
Price 0 and no Buy Now / Current Bid / timer, active rows still separate under LISTED
ITEMS, and the state survived a full FUT exit/re-entry). Promoting from the bounded
one-item probe to the real behaviour: the env gate is gone and /tradePile now
enumerates the whole trade pile.
Mechanism: read the pile (async), resolve each member to a shaped card (sync, because
the identity/Core resolvers are not `Send`), then build the response (async). The
core->wire lookup is `wire_for_owned_id`, which uses the identity store's
NON-allocating `external_for` -- enumerating a pile is a READ and must never mint a
wire id for an item the client has not seen. Items with no mapping, no Core record or
no resolvable FIFA identity are skipped, never faked.
Includes a bug the DIFFERENTIAL caught and unit tests did not: a pile row OUTLIVES its
auction, so after a sale the seller's `trade` row is stale, and filtering only on
ACTIVE listings re-advertised a SOLD card as an owned unlisted item. Suppression is now
by listing state via `blocking_core_items()` -- active (real auction shown instead),
reserved (sale in flight) and sold (card gone) -- while `cancelled` is deliberately NOT
suppressed, because a cancelled listing means the card came back to the pile. New test
covers all three plus the store-level rule.
counts semantics deliberately unchanged: `count`/`selling` still track auctions only.
341 tests pass, 0 failed, clippy clean. Deployed: the 6 previously stranded pile items
now render, alongside the 1 active listing, with Ronaldo correctly in /club and out of
the pile. Body preserved as phase-c-full-pile-exposed.json.
Operator confirmed in the real client that a tradeState "inactive" row lands under the
right-hand TRANSFER LIST section and renders Start Price 0 with Buy Now, Current Bid
and Time Remaining all absent, while an active row in the same body continued to
render separately under LISTED ITEMS. That is the Q2 representation confirmed live,
with the token itself dumped from the client's own string table rather than guessed.
Records the observed wire->UI contract as a table plus a fixture
(inactive-row-live-confirmed.json), and names the regression tests that pin it,
including the two guards that the row is never emitted for an item outside the trade
pile and never duplicates a real auction.
Also records the expired->Club coupled transition verified server-side: the listing
went to `cancelled`, the pile went to `club`, /tradePile dropped the item, /club
regained it, and clubPlayers went 1964 -> 1965. That is durable store state rather
than a client-local view, so it survives a session boundary by construction; tagged
pending the operator's final exit/re-enter confirmation.
Adds the counts observation table. `count` currently tracks AUCTION entries and not
total Transfer List membership; semantics deliberately left unchanged until the full
state set has been observed.
No behaviour change in this commit.
PHASE A settled the token from the CLIENT ITSELF, so this is not a guessed enum.
vocab_dump.py (new; static, read-only, VA->offset through the real PE section table)
dumps CardsDLL's NULL-terminated {const char*, int} vocabularies. The tradeState
table at 0x180229e40 reads exactly:
'active' = 1 'inactive' = 2 'expired' = 3 'closed' = 4
The sibling tables (type/zone/lev/pos) match the corpus verbatim, which validates the
dumper. So "inactive" is a token the client's own parser decodes.
PHASE B, bounded as instructed. `OPENFUT_FIFA17_UNLISTED_PROBE=<wire id>` exposes
EXACTLY ONE unlisted trade-pile item on /tradePile as a non-active record; unset,
behaviour is byte-identical to before. The other stranded pile items are untouched --
no bulk migration.
Why this shape is forced rather than chosen: the route table has exactly one
trade-pile route, it carries only twelve-atom auction records, `pile` (0x226) has no
deserializer arm so membership comes from the owning list, and of those atoms only
tradeState expresses lifecycle. The row carries tradeState "inactive" with
expires/prices/bid all zero so it cannot render a countdown or a price, and reuses the
item's stable tradeId because the client keys its record store on tradeId and
re-parents itemData -- so listing the item later UPDATES the row instead of leaving a
duplicate ghost.
Both preconditions are re-checked at response time: the item must actually be in the
`trade` pile, and it must not already own a listing. Two tests cover exactly those.
counts semantics deliberately unchanged -- the inactive row is not counted.
340 tests pass, 0 failed, clippy clean. Deployed; the wire now carries all three
lifecycle states at once (expired 1000000097, active 1000000155, inactive 1000000059)
and that body is preserved as a fixture.
Re-entry discriminator came back a CONFIRMED BUG: an unlisted transfer-list item does
not survive a fresh FUT session, so our representation cannot reconstruct trade-pile
membership. Evidence acquisition per instruction, corpus and PE first, no guessing.
Adds route_table_dump.py: static read-only dump of CardsDLL's route table from the
on-disk PE, resolving VA->file offset through the real section table instead of
assuming a single .text mapping. Output preserved as evidence. It settles "is
/tradePile the only relevant route?" -- the table holds 45 routes plus 3 empty admin
slots, and row 30 `ut/%s/tradePile` is the ONLY trade-pile route. There is no
trade-pile items route.
That plus three existing PE facts narrows the representation to exactly one candidate
by ELIMINATION rather than choice: the route carries only twelve-atom auction records;
`pile` (0x226) has no arm in the item deserializer so membership is conferred by the
owning list and cannot be added as a field; of the twelve atoms only tradeState
expresses lifecycle; and tradeState's closed vocabulary (active=1 inactive=2
expired=3 closed=4) has exactly one value not already spoken for.
So an unlisted item can only be an auctionInfo record with tradeState "inactive".
Tagged INFERRED-BY-ELIMINATION, not CONFIRMED: the remaining unknown is whether the
Flash Transfer List RENDERS such a record in the unlisted section. Records the
acceptance test (survive a full FUT reload) and the revised invariant that a
transition is complete only when a fresh session reconstructs the same visible state.
No behaviour change in this commit.
Q2 measured, not guessed. The operator moved a card Club -> Transfer List without
listing it (PUT /item, no POST /auctionhouse) and the state was captured read-only.
Finding: we do not represent the unlisted state on the wire AT ALL. Such an item is
byte-identical to a club item -- itemState `free`, no `pile` field emitted, still
returned in /club and counted in clubPlayers -- while an actively-listed item is
correctly excluded from /club and present in tradePile. Only the host's own pile
store knows the difference. Trade pile held 6 items: 1 listed, 5 unlisted.
The FIFA 17 ENCODING of that state stays UNKNOWN on purpose: returned itemData.pile
is numeric with an unrecovered mapping, and tradeState is a closed table walk where
an unrecognised bidState is silently swallowed as `none`, so a wrong enum produces a
plausible-looking but wrong UI. The corpus warns `inactive` decodes but no client
path treats it specially. One client-only discriminator is recorded instead.
Also models the domain boundary both limbo bugs came from: pile membership and
auction lifecycle are separate facts requiring coordinated transitions. States the
testable invariant -- an item must never be simultaneously excluded from /club and
absent from /tradePile -- with the two ways it was reachable and the commits that
closed each.
CLOSES the active-own-auction Actions-panel investigation. Live client plus the RE
corpus plus historical FUT behaviour all agree: an active auction is COMMITTED until
sale or expiry and is not seller-actionable, while an expired unsold item becomes
actionable (relist / return to club). Every observation fits that lifecycle --
active+frozen expires was non-selectable, expired was selectable and relisted fine,
relisting made it active and non-selectable again, and the client never emits a
cancel. Documented with confidence tags, and the dead ends are named so they are not
retried: MAY_BE_REMOVED is a constant 1, and the eight-flag array is the CLUB-CARD
menu with no auction-cancellation flag in it.
Implements the return-to-club transition that closure exposes. A pile move to `club`
now cancels any ACTIVE listing on that item, because the auction that put the card
in the pile has to end with it. Otherwise the pile reads `club` while the row stays
`active`, so the card is filtered out of /club (exclusion keys on active listings)
AND still rendered in the Transfer List: the move appears to do nothing. This is the
same limbo class as the earlier pile-vs-listing bug, found by reasoning about the
transition rather than by another live failure.
Scoped to `active` only: a `reserved` row is mid-sale and a `sold` row is already
gone, so cancelling either would let one card be both sold and returned. Two tests
cover exactly that boundary.
338 tests pass, 0 failed, clippy clean.
Records the live-client resolution so the market shape is now a fixture rather than
folklore, and so a future agent cannot burn deployments on tradeOwner again.
Confidence notes updated: tradeOwner remains FIFA17-HISTORICAL (it does exist in
the FIFA 17-era API) but "required by FIFA17.exe Transfer List Actions" is now
DISPROVEN for this client path -- it is not among the twelve atoms the client's
auctionInfo deserializer reads, and it was implemented, deployed, observed inert
and removed.
The real blockers are recorded as CONFIRMED live-client findings: trade/status
polling is load-bearing, `expires` must EVOLVE with wall-clock time (a frozen
value is structurally valid and behaviourally broken), and relist must persist
through the PK conflict that FIFA's re-sent ISStart necessarily causes.
Freezes the known-good bodies under docs/evidence/market-lifecycle-2026-08-17/
with a machine-checkable countdown proof (_index.json._countdown_proof records
expires decrementing, frozen:false) rather than asserting the clock in prose.
States the general rule this cost us: a response can pass differential parity and
render perfectly while still being wrong, because FIFA expects an evolving
server-side state machine, not a static object that resembles one.
Adds trade_gate_probe.py (read-only: /proc/<pid>/mem O_RDONLY + pread, slide proven
against the on-disk FNV prologue), extending gate_byte_probe.py to vtable slot
+0x270 exactly as the transfer-market analysis asked for.
Measured: IS_TRADING_ENABLED=1 (was 0 in the Python era), TRADE_PILE_SIZE=100
(was 0), watchListSize=50 (was 0), with four controls reading 1. So every
CardsDLL-supplied input that analysis named as a market blocker is now OPEN, which
the Rust host achieves by construction -- it emits userInfo.feature as {} so the
kill switch at 0x180174f19 never arms, and it already sends pileSizeClientData
keys 2 and 4.
This narrows the Actions-panel question to the exe-side UI script term, and rules
out ownership fields, the gate bytes, the cancel route and the state vocabularies
as candidates -- each on measured or PE-derived evidence rather than inference.
Records the auction-record field set, route spellings, pile encoding and the four
open UNKNOWNs so future agents neither reopen settled questions nor re-guess enum
values. Each claim tagged CONFIRMED / FIFA17-HISTORICAL / INFERRED / UNKNOWN.
Captures the key methodological lesson: oracle parity is necessary but NOT
sufficient for a flow the oracle itself never served -- our auction record matched
the oracle key-for-key while both omitted the FIFA 17 ownership fields.
Operator-supplied research document (authored outside this repo) describing the
player-visible FUT hub state machine. Stored verbatim so it cannot drift, with a
provenance header pinning its standing: it is a BEHAVIOUR target, never a protocol
reference. Its own §43 already forbids inventing route/field/sentinel/empty-state
details from it, which matches project policy (guessing wire spellings is the
documented client-freeze class).
Appended a repo-grounded cross-check that tags each relevant claim CONFIRMED /
CONFLICT / GAP / UNVERIFIED, so a future agent cannot mistake the aspirational
parts for observed behaviour. Notably it CONFLICTS with the recovered client
tables twice (Manager League is deliberately excluded from the consumable
overlay; there is no apply-consumable endpoint upstream at all), and it usefully
confirms that "sent to the Transfer List but not currently listed" is a real FUT
state -- which is exactly the limbo f2c4927 worked around.
Keying the club exclusion on the `trade` pile put cards in limbo: the pile can
hold cards with no active listing (a bare "Place on Transfer Market" move, or a
listing later cancelled/sold), and `/tradePile` renders ONLY active listings — so
those cards were invisible in BOTH views. Live prod had 5 trade-pile rows but 1
active listing, so 4 owned cards had no reachable screen (clubPlayers 1966->1961).
Key on the ACTIVE LISTING instead (market store `core_item_id` of `state=active`).
This is self-healing: the moment a listing stops being active the card is back in
the club, with no extra transition to maintain and no need to invent an
"unlisted transfer-list" wire shape (`tradeState` has no verified spelling for
that state, and guessing enum spellings is the documented client-freeze class).
A bare pile move therefore no longer hides a card. That is deliberate: our
`/tradePile` shows only active listings, so hiding on the move alone would
reintroduce the limbo it is meant to prevent.
Verified live: clubPlayers 1961 -> 1965 (exactly the one listed card hidden, the
4 stranded cards recovered); listed wire still absent from /club; counts and
tradePile unchanged. 14 targets green + clippy clean.
Four defects found by driving a real FIFA 17 client. Each was independently
sufficient to break listing, so all four had to go:
1. Every owned card was shaped `untradeable: true` (adapter item.rs), so the
client greyed out "Place/List on Transfer Market" for the whole club. Owned
and pack-pulled cards are TRADEABLE in FIFA 17; the oracle forces this off
for owned copies too (item_def keeps `true`; instances do not).
2. `POST /auctionhouse` required `itemData.resourceId`, which the client's
FutISStart body never sends (the oracle lists by wire id ALONE). Missing it,
the handler fail-closed and returned 200 while persisting NOTHING. It now
resolves server-side: wire id -> Core owned instance -> its card_id (minted on
a synthetic buy) + FIFA resourceId (the auction record). This also enforces
that a listing can only name a card the club actually owns.
3. An auction record's `itemData` was a 4-field STUB, so the Transfer List had a
row the client could not draw -> "1 item listed" but no visible sale. A
listing now persists a full shaped-card SNAPSHOT (new `listings.item_json`,
additive migration) built by the same `shape_item` shaper `/club` and the
squad projection use, so the auction card renders identically to the club
card. The seller's own pile stamps `itemState: listFS`; market search keeps
`forSale` (the oracle distinguishes these).
4. `/tradePile/counts` shared a handler with `/tradePile`. They are DIFFERENT
deserializers: `/counts` is FutGetAuctionCount, five scalar ints
(count/maxAuctionsAllowed/offered/selling/sold) that it reads and skips
everything else. Served the `auctionInfo` body it left every count at 0, so
the Transfer List screen showed no active sale while the hub tile showed one.
New Route::MarketCounts, classified BEFORE the base tradePile matcher (which
also accepts the /counts path).
Also: a listed card no longer appears in the club. `/club` and the hub's
`clubPlayers` now exclude the transfer pile. Pile membership is host-owned state
Core cannot filter on, so when anything is hidden `/club` reuses the existing
local-filter path (the one `rare=SP` already needed) and paginates the
club-visible set -- letting Core paginate would return short pages. With nothing
hidden the fast Core-paginated path is untouched, and only an EXPLICIT non-club
pile hides a card, so no-pile-row items still default to the club.
Fixed 5 pre-existing test fixtures across 4 targets that listed FABRICATED wire
ids -- only "valid" because the old handler skipped the ownership check.
Tests: 14 targets green + clippy clean, incl. new coverage for the 5-int tally
(asserting it must NOT carry auctionInfo), the full-card snapshot + listFS, and
club pile-exclusion with full-width pagination. The differential test against the
live Python oracle passes.
Verified live on prod: listed=true with a 21-field snapshot; counts
{count:1,selling:1,maxAuctionsAllowed:100}; tradePile renders the 94-rated card;
clubPlayers 1966 -> 1961 (exactly the 5 trade-pile items); listed wire absent
from the club page. Operator confirmed the card is visible in the Transfer List.
Two more real client-hit reads move off the Python proxy:
- GET /item/resource, /defid (Route::ItemDefs): build {itemData:[item_def…]}
for every >=3-digit id in the query, replicating the oracle's item_def
(assetId = resourceId & 0xffffff; hardcoded Ronaldo asset 20801 + a generic
"Player" 75 CM placeholder). The client renders the real card from its local
DB, so the placeholder is exact parity.
- GET /marketdata (+ /marketdata/pricelimits) (Route::MarketData): suggested
pricing, constant band 150..15000. /pricelimits returns a BARE ARRAY (one
{defId,minPrice,maxPrice} per queried defId); plain /marketdata returns an
OBJECT {minPrice,maxPrice}. The container type is load-bearing — object-where-
array froze a live client at the listing screen, so the handler picks it from
the path.
Adds extract_long_ints / extract_defid_param query parsers, shape+parser unit
tests (incl. the freeze-critical container-type assertions), and classify-table
coverage. Deployed to prod-host 2026-08-17; verified owner=RUST 200 for all four
(Ronaldo/placeholder resolve, pricelimits=array, marketdata=object).
Docs: PRODUCTION_AUTHORITY_MATRIX + PYTHON_RETIREMENT_PLAN updated. Remaining
Python tail is now only mutation (user/club), no-Core-model (squad/<n>), and
unimplemented modes (draft/leaderboards/sbs).
FUT modes (Seasons/Tournaments/FUT Champions) and the club-identity service are
disabled in this emulator, so these GET reads return {} verbatim from the Python
oracle. Serve them directly from Rust via a new Route::FeatureOffEmpty +
non_economy::feature_off_body() -> {} (byte-identical to the flag-off oracle),
reducing the proxied Python surface.
- The mutating club rename (user/club) stays on Python (needs a Core write).
- Enabling a mode later requires a real Rust handler here, never a Python
fallback (no split authority).
- classify tests: 5 routes owned + user/club/wrong-method lookalikes stay
Passthrough; updated the stale clubUser assertion.
- Deployed to prod-host 2026-08-17; verified owner=RUST 200 {} for all five.
Docs: PRODUCTION_AUTHORITY_MATRIX + PYTHON_RETIREMENT_PLAN updated.
Host/adapter (deployed to prod-host):
- POST /ut/auth (+/ut/delete/auth): Rust mints sid, opens Rust session, adopts
persona from body; POST /openfut/account/sync full Rust envelope.
- GET /userMassInfo: full Rust (was proxy+overlay), shared build_user_mass_info.
- GET/PUT /clientdata/<key>: new clientdata_store.rs (JSON-persisted).
- GET /club/stats/{country,league,team}: context-aware club_stats_body
(nation/league/team buckets).
- GET /store,/match/keepalive,/captcha,/tfa,/livemessage,/activeMessage: StaticAck.
- GET /watchList, /squad/0, /user: Rust handlers.
- host_test.rs updated for the new routing.
Launcher: bump gitlink to c277213 (shareholder-grade redesign + live account panel).
Docs: PRODUCTION_AUTHORITY_MATRIX, PYTHON_RETIREMENT_PLAN, MATCH_LIFECYCLE, and
route-shapes-2026-08-17 reference fixtures for the still-Python tail.
Fix extractor truncation (bound each HTTP message by Content-Length): userMassInfo
(8 KB) and purchasegroup responses are now complete in the committed corpus, not
cut at 4 KB. Document the userMassInfo envelope contract (target shape for a future
full-Rust migration; needs the clubAbbr/established account triad Core lacks).
Rebuilds the primary-capture corpus lost to .gitignore (Known Issues #200): 10
real-client requests + 12 responses captured during the post-P1 staging A/B on a
real FIFA 17 client, sanitised (SID/authCode/deviceId/MAC/tokens redacted; raw pcap
withheld). Documents the account/sync, empty-My-Packs 65534 sentinel, and userMassInfo
contracts, incl. the finding that account/sync is coupled to Python active-profile
selection (so it can't migrate standalone from the userMassInfo hybrid).
Global MY-CLUB stat set now Rust (staging-verified RUST route=club-stats
owned=1982 players=1962); only club/stats/{country,league,team} nation-bucket
context sub-screens remain proxied (low value, inert atoms).
Record the overnight launcher-lineage reconciliation (merge ca7ce26 retaining both
feat/launcher-arming 13339c1 and feat/sbc-hook-tracing 958ff24; only src/process.rs
conflict, resolved keep-deleted), the deferred superproject gitlink bump (blocked by
uncommitted openfut-hook WIP overlapping the merged hook content), the validated
deployment-candidate commit tuple + local build artifacts, and the controlled A/B/C
deployment sequence. Production stays P2 active-sentinel until the A/B passes.
Record the per-IP -> per-session correction: why source-IP-only was unsafe (two
FIFA processes share an IP), the authoritative per-login X-UT-SID key with IP and
persona as auxiliary, the Capability/StoreMode state machine, the single-use
short-TTL launcher->session pending hand-off, activity-based session cleanup, and
the documented fail-closed residual for genuinely simultaneous same-(ip,persona)
logins. Design history is retained; the per-IP prototype is marked superseded.
Design + cross-component contract for verified patched-client capability
negotiation: architecture inventory, transport choice (autopatch stdout ->
launcher, sibling /openfut/fifa17/capability endpoint), the versioned capability
and its VERIFIED semantics, autopatch verification states, launcher per-process
state, source-IP binding, the session-stable freeze point, the additive store
switch, the trust model (local preservation, not attestation), the fail-closed
matrix, and P2 retention.
Land the client-side empty-My-Packs resolver evidence and the session-stability
invariant established by the F3/R1 experiments.
- PART III (F3, CONFOUNDED CRASH): a mid-process sentinel -> no-sentinel flip
left a stale POSITIVE My-Packs ordinal that still took the resolve branch and
crashed at 0x180014882. Preserved verbatim (not a guard failure).
- PART IV (R1, SUCCESS): backend set no-sentinel first, then a FRESH FIFA
process; genuine purchasegroup response ids [1,5,6,7] is byte-identical to the
F3 capture, so client process lifetime is the only changed variable. Store
opens on Browse Packs, no crash, no dialog. Guard PROVEN on the tested build.
- New INVARIANT: empty-My-Packs capability MUST be session-stable -- the server
must not switch a running client between sentinel-present and sentinel-absent
for the My Packs group within one FIFA process, because the client caches the
group ordinal and a stale positive ordinal still crashes the resolver.
- Both no-sentinel captures kept: client_guard (F3) and freshretest (R1).
Backend P2 active-sentinel (65534) remains production default; no capability
handshake is implemented yet.
Investigation + design only (no client/backend/binary changes, no live
Store experiment). Reconfirmed CardsDLL_Win64_retail.dll (4706a881..,
unpacked) against a freshly rebuilt Ghidra project on .105; FIFA17.exe
(29c31cef..) is Denuvo-packed so the Scaleform decision is unreadable.
PART II added to docs/plans/FIFA17_EMPTY_MYPACKS_CLIENT_FIX.md:
- Native category path traced: FUN_18007dab0 (store render, RVA 0x7dab0)
reads screen+0x290; My Packs funnels through FUN_1800147f0 (0x147f0) ->
FUN_180014420 (0x14420, NULL on ordinal miss) -> crash MOV [RDX+0x8] at
0x14882 ([NULL+0x48]), matching the Exp-B minidump. Tab->ordinal map
FUN_180014580 (0=mypacks..5=special); category 0 = list-all (Browse).
- Unopened-pack count is a data-manager singleton (vtbl[0x4d8] get /
[0x4e0] set), reachable from the store resolver.
- Vehicle: existing openfut-hook -> version.dll proxy (already deployed);
reuse ssl_patch signature-scan + connect_hook inline detour. No new loader.
- Preferred strategy A: entry-hook FUN_18007dab0; when the requested
category is My Packs and unopened count==0, force screen+0x290=0 (Browse).
Removes crash + fake 65534 tile + dialog + nav gate; count>0 untouched.
- Ranked B (resolver NULL fallback, higher risk) and C (null-guard, crash-only).
- Build guard: module gate + SHA/PE + signature scan; unknown build -> no
patch, backend sentinel remains fallback.
- First experiment design (needs a later, separately-authorized backend
empty-no-sentinel test mode) + client rollback (config flag / dll swap).
- Keep backend 65534 sentinel deployed until strategy A is verified.
Describes the FIFA 17 client/data model only; not OpenFUT Core assumptions.
Single source of truth for FIFA 17 FUT card families, reconciled against
the authoritative shipped fcc_*.json + staff tables (verified byte-identical
between .105 and this repo, 36/36 sha256).
- docs/CARD_TAXONOMY.md: family -> table/rowcount/subtype/carddbid/cardassetid,
with OBSERVED/INFERRED/HYPOTHESIS/UNKNOWN labels. Corrects four superseded
claims (chem styles are 250-273 not 91-136; 6300/6400xxx are kits not badges;
5004xxx misc and 8010xxx league logos exist). Manager-league precision kept
distinct: shipped table 300-340 (41 rows) vs client enum 300-341 (341 defined,
unshipped). Club-item wire subtype->family mapping preserved as UNKNOWN.
- docs/evidence/fifa17-recon/table-hashes.sha256: 36-file provenance manifest
(31 fcc_*.json + 5 staff tables), combined hash 10f239ad...
Describes the FIFA 17 data/client model only; not OpenFUT Core assumptions.
Full investigation record for bug 6c: baseline + Experiments A/B/C', Candidate F (contradicted), the explicit active-placeholder selection test, the minidump-confirmed CardsDLL crash, and the P2 decision. Marks ROOT CAUSE ESTABLISHED and documents the known UX limitations and the client-side follow-up.
Files: docs/evidence/STORE_TILE_6C.md, docs/evidence/FIFA17_EMPTY_MYPACKS_CLIENT_CONTRACT.md, the four genuine /store/purchasegroup captures (baseline, mypacks70, empty_no_sentinel, active_placeholder), and docs/plans/FIFA17_EMPTY_MYPACKS_CLIENT_FIX.md (client-side design/research).
Records the operator-assisted live A/B on the REAL imported club (1949/1962, 13
Legends deferred): real club render, clean pagination, Special filter (1665, 0
base leaked), squad edit persistence + cold relaunch, and rollback->Python->Rust
re-enable. Documents the three real-data fidelity fixes (versioned resourceId
e187cd4, rareflag 626c972, rare=SP filter 6f16a23) and the nation/league/team
model correction (44fcf24). Marks PRODUCTION NOT READY pending .105 Legends name
data for the 13 deferred assets. Aggregate counts only; no private identity.
Record the staged retail A/B: FIFA consumed the Rust squad path end-to-end
(userMassInfo overlay, in-game swap -> squad-replace {"id":0}, formation
f442->f433 persisted to Core, cold relaunch returned the persisted squad),
with Python rollback / Rust re-enable proven by host-log presence. Note the
OPENFUT_DEV_CONTENT_GAMES=fifa17 startup requirement (silent empty /collection
if omitted) as a needed deployment/preflight assertion.
Adds the app-centric FLE bridge direction (direction.md) replacing the
Blaze-backend route as primary plan, plus a corrected foundational test
procedure and snapshot/diff/apply tooling for reverse-engineering FLE's
Freeze Lineup write mechanism. Also picks up prior untracked research docs
(status-review, fut-integration-options, fifa23-startup-flow, track-c) and
existing capture/export tooling that hadn't been committed yet.
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