ROOT CAUSE, one line. openfut-import-fifa17 emitted `"overall": 0` for every
non-player Core definition while `d.rating` already held EA's authoritative
`value` -- and the very next block wrote that same number correctly to the
adapter catalog. So the tier existed host-side but never reached Core:
Core overall 0 -> /collection effective_overall 0 -> CoreOwnedItem.rating 0 ->
tier_for_rating(0) = Bronze for a Gold (88) manager. That silent mis-grant is
exactly what the 409 was protecting against, so the refusal was correct.
The emitter now also writes `source_rating`, keeping `overall` at 0. Regenerating
the production pack changes exactly 18 entries and exactly one field each
(source_rating None -> value); same 1710 ids, same fingerprint 28c333f1e833338a.
WHY value IS the tier source, and why the thresholds are the player ladder:
LIVE_PROVEN, not inferred. The client re-rates staff from its own
managercards/*coachcards/physiocards by carddbid and applies discard_level's
65/75 ladder; coach_probe/discard_probe agree 4/4 (manager value 88 -> level 3,
coaches 66 -> level 2). The shipped coach tables corroborate: each family has
exactly 3 tiers x 2 rarities, and only 65/75 splits them 2/2/2.
Manager contracts stop refusing and now resolve the TARGET's tier from
Core-owned state. Still fail-closed everywhere it matters: a coach or physio is
`contract_target_not_a_manager` (only cardsubtypeid 4 is a manager), and a
manager Core carries no source_rating for is `manager_tier_unknown` rather than
a guessed tier. Core's own content_kind token is sent as target_kind, because
Core calls the squad manager `manager` while the catalog classifies it
`staff`+subtype 4.
NOT implemented, unchanged: STORED_MANAGER_BONUS and MATCH_CONTRACT_DECREMENT.
POST /ut/game/fifa17/item/resource/<rid> {"apply":[{"id":N}]} now performs a
durable atomic contract application instead of falling through to Python.
THE RULE. grant = fcc_contractcards[card][tier(TARGET.rating)], then
min(99, contract + grant). The column is keyed on the TARGET's tier, NOT the
card's own -- all 36 cells of EA's shipped table match the published FIFA 17
matrix, and staging discriminates the two readings outright: a bronze-RARE
card on a rating-89 player granted 3 (the gold column), where the card-level
reading predicts 15.
No client binary reads fcc_contractcards -- a string scan of every .exe/.dll
in the install finds it referenced nowhere, and CardsDLL reads only 14 fcc_
tables (fcc_discardcoins among them, which is why quick-sell prices locally).
Consumable effects are server-authoritative, so EA's shipped table is the only
non-invented source and the client renders whatever we persist and re-serve.
The host computes the grant, Core owns the mutation -- the same split
quick-sell already uses (host prices via discard_value, Core performs
sell_item), and what migration 0027 means by "Core defines NO per-category
formula".
FAILS CLOSED, never 200-and-do-nothing: manager contracts 409 because staff
ratings are unimported so the target tier is unknowable; every other family
409 as unproven; batch 400; unresolvable operand 404. Core's deterministic
refusals pass through with their own status instead of collapsing to 503,
which would tell the client to retry a request that can never succeed.
`contract: 7` stops being a hardcode in shape_item/shape_staff_item and
becomes the fallback for an instance Core tracks no contract for. `fitness: 99`
is the same class of hardcode and is deliberately untouched.
CLEAN CUTOVER: Route::ConsumableApplyProbe, its handler, apply_probe_enabled,
the OPENFUT_FIFA17_APPLY_PROBE gate and both probe scripts are deleted. A
handler no classifier can reach is this repo's recurring defect class, and the
new economy arm preempts the probe. fifa17-migration-rehearse.py also drove
the probe (spelled "apply probe", so an apply-probe grep missed it) and would
have eaten a card off the rehearsal profile; retargeted to a non-mutating
assertion.
Not implemented, on purpose: the stored-manager bonus (real mechanic, rule
appears in no shipped table -- guessing it would corrupt the proven part) and
contract decrement per match (nothing spends contracts yet).
Quick-sell paid an invented five-tier rating ladder (its own comment said
"PLACEHOLDER, not EA-authentic"). It was blind to card type and rareflag, so a
94-rated TOTW special and a 94-rated gold common both sold for 1500, and every
non-player -- whose Core overall is 0 -- sold for the flat 150 floor. The ladder
existed in three places (adapter wire, host payout, an integration test's private
copy), which is a drift waiting to happen.
Add openfut-adapter-fifa17::fut::discard: the client's own fcc_discardcoins
table and its formula, round_half_up(rating * price / 100), keyed
(cardtype, level, rare). All of it is already reversed in
plan-2026-08-05-store-subsystem.md 3.6 and was verified there against 22 live
club items, 22 of 22 exact. DISCARD_COINS is generated from
fifa17-recon/data/tables/fcc_discardcoins.json and a test re-reads that file and
asserts row-for-row agreement, so the transcription cannot drift.
Collapse the three ladders into one method. ItemIdentityResolver::discard_value
both stamps the wire discardValue and prices the sale, because a non-zero
discardValue suppresses the client's local computation -- whatever is sent is
what the player is promised. The host's quick_sell_value is deleted and the
integration test's copy now calls the single implementation. A test with a
resolver double returning an impossible price proves the credit follows the wire;
reverting the payout to a ladder fails it.
Gated on OPENFUT_FIFA17_DISCARD_TABLE=1, default off: switching revalues the real
1991-item club 10.5x (1,820,400 -> 19,128,955 coins if wholly liquidated), up for
specials and DOWN for consumables, which the ladder overpaid 5.5x. That is an
operator's decision.
Staff decline to the ladder rather than pay 0: the client re-rates cardtypes
2/3/4/5/10 from its own DB and their rating is not imported. Deliberately not
guessed -- see the falsifier in the doc.
Verified on staging with the real club, both modes: flag off 1500 wire / 1500
paid; flag on 23760 wire / 23760 paid on an r99 rareflag-11 card (99*24000/100).
Consumables price from their catalog rating and agree with the client's own
computation. Adapter 244 lib tests, host 121 lib + 45 host_test, fmt and clippy
clean.
The operator picked a manager in the FUT hub, then found no manager on the
pre-match squad. The save was NOT the problem: the host logged three
`route=squad-replace status=200 outcome=ok detail=[]` with no unresolved ref,
Core wrote the `squad_managers` row, and every read projected the assignment
back. The client simply had nothing to draw.
`squad.manager[]` was emitted as a bare `[{id, dream}]`. That looked
retail-faithful, and the previous commit defended it on the grounds that no
capture had ever shown otherwise. Re-reading the captures with a populated
manager in hand shows why that was the wrong conclusion: every retail capture
carrying the bare form has `id: 0` — an EMPTY manager. None of them ever
demonstrated that a POPULATED ref renders without its item, because none of them
had one. `plan-2026-08-05-families.md` says as much outright: "FUN_18013d1f0 was
never read for a staff member".
The squad object is self-contained everywhere else: `players[].itemData` carries
the whole card rather than an id resolved out of band. The manager is the same
kind of slot in the same object, and the one implementation that ever drove a
working manager — the Python oracle's squad — emits `id` BESIDE `itemData`.
The element shapes differ and both are now pinned by tests: a player slot is
`{index, itemData, kitNumber}`, the manager is `{id, itemData, dream}`.
So the manager is projected through `resolve_staff` and its item embedded with
`shape_staff_item`, the same 11-key record `/club` serves. An assignment with no
resolvable staff identity still yields `[]` rather than a fabricated ref.
`STAFF_CONTRACT` moves next to `shape_staff_item` in `fut::item` (re-exported
from `club_response`) so `/club` and the squad cannot disagree about the
contract the client checks before kickoff.
Verified on the restored club: userMassInfo, /squad/0 and /squad/active all
carry the manager with resourceId 1000509, contract 7 and the nation/league/team
the client cannot supply itself. Adapter 217 lib + 25 integration, host 114 lib +
36 host_test and every economy suite green.
Move the squad manager from an opaque, unvalidated wire ref in the squad
extension to a resolved, ownership-backed assignment (Core migration 0023
squad_managers).
- squad::to_proposed reverse-resolves the manager wire ref to a Core
owned_card_id on ProposedSquad; an unresolvable manager is reported as
an unresolved wire id (a live save is refused rather than assigning a
manager the club does not own).
- squad_ext: drop the opaque manager field from Fifa17SquadExtensionV1
(clean cutover) and the now-unused SquadEntityRef->WireItemRef From.
- squad_projection: project the manager as the STATIC_REVERSED [{id,dream}]
wire ref resolved from the owned assignment; absent -> [] (never faked).
Richer manager itemData (contract/league/nation) is INFERRED-only and
left out pending wire reversal.
- import(apply): drop a historical dangling manager ref rather than
failing the whole import (live PUTs still refuse an unresolved manager).
shape_item hardcoded rareflag=1, so all 1949 cards shaped as basic rare gold
regardless of type; informs/specials lost their card art. The dev fixture is
base-only, so this was invisible until the real profile (10 distinct rareflag
values) exposed it on .105.
rareflag is definition-level FIFA identity metadata OBSERVED from the profile
(the raw wire integer, never a guessed marketing label), so it lives in the
FIFA catalog like asset_id/version, not in generic Core:
- ObservedDefinition.rareflag + emitted into the production catalog entry.
- Fifa17CardCatalog RawCard/Fifa17CardIdentity gain rareflag (default 1 when a
base-only catalog omits it, preserving prior wire behaviour).
- Fifa17Identity.rareflag; host resolver populates it from the catalog.
- shape_item emits id.rareflag instead of a hardcoded 1.
Verified on the real staged /club: wire rareflag distribution == source exactly
(0 per-item mismatches across 1949; e.g. rareflag 3 x591, 24 x302, 21 x256).
adapter 111 + host 24 + importer 25 tests green; clippy -D clean. rareflag lives
in the host catalog, not Core, so no re-import was needed.
shape_item emitted resourceId/definitionId = asset_id (base), collapsing every
versioned (special) card onto its base definition on the /club and squad wire.
The dev 32-card fixture is base-only (version 0), so Slice 7 never exposed it;
the real profile (1531 versioned cards) did.
Fifa17Identity now carries resource_id (= (version<<24)|asset_id, == asset_id
for a base card). shape_item emits resourceId/definitionId from resource_id and
assetId/cardassetid from asset_id — versioned and base stay distinct. The host
resolver populates resource_id from the catalog's reconstructed resource_id
(the catalog already parsed version; it was dropped before shaping).
Regression test: versioned 117617092 (v7 of asset 176580) shapes resourceId/
definitionId=117617092, assetId/cardassetid=176580.
Verified on the real staged /club: 1949 items, wire-id set exact, 0
wire->resourceId mismatches, 0 duplicate-multiplicity mismatches vs the source
manifest. adapter 111 + host 24 tests green; clippy -D warnings clean.
Formatting-only. Runs the project formatter over the files authored/edited
this session (host lib+tests, adapter item/squad_ext/squad_projection/mod +
projection test). The intentionally-preserved dirty catalog.rs and
pre-existing /club-era host drift beyond these files are out of scope.
fut::squad_projection is the ONE projector for every squad read shape.
project_squad(canonical squad + Fresh extension + owned items) -> the FIFA
17 squad wire object; user_mass_info_squad and squad_list are envelope-only
wrappers over the same output (no per-endpoint domain model).
Design guarantees exercised by tests:
- purity / no N+1: consumes a host-assembled input (read_squad_with_ext +
one batch owned-cards fetch + in-memory card defs); no per-slot lookup
- shared shaper: every occupied slot is shaped by fut::item::shape_item,
so squad items and /club items cannot drift
- Fresh -> full projection; Stale -> never applied (verdict surfaced);
Missing -> explicit, never fabricated
- captain projects as the resolved WIRE id (never resourceId); index and
formation round-trip verbatim; kit follows the player; two owned copies
of one definition stay distinct
Adds committed sanitized fixtures decoded from the squad session capture
(swap, f433, persisted userMassInfo.squad read, squad/list) and
tests/squad_projection.rs: baseline / swap / formation-change / persisted
read-after-write round-trips asserted by ownership class (canonical,
extension, shadow, derived identity), plus one-projector no-divergence.
funman300