Completed the refusing-modes workflow (ground truth + 4 per-mode investigations +
adversarial verify each + synthesis). All four mode families -- Seasons, Draft,
SBC/Objectives, Tournaments -- are NOT_SERVER_REACHABLE, HIGH confidence, all four
adversarial refutations failed.
Live re-confirmed on pid 24653 (slide proven via FNV control): every named
mode-gating byte reads ENABLED=1 (IS_FRIENDLY_SEASON_ENABLED +0x1fd3a,
IS_TOURNAMENT_QUIT_ENABLED +0x1fd3b, IS_DRAFT_MODE_ENABLED +0x1fd3d, plus the
unnamed offline-draft-enable +0x1fd3e) yet the tiles stay greyed.
The new lead this pass added -- do the six /hub mode sub-objects gate availability?
-- is refuted: friendlySeason/offlineSeason/onlineSeason/draftSummary/tournament/
tournamentProgress carry only stats and display strings, no enabled/available/
unlocked atom. They are cosmetic, exactly like hub.tradePile. The one
server-writable input that exists (friendlySeasonsEnabled -> +0x1fd3a via applier
FUN_18011dc50) has its sole reader in the packed FIFA17.exe front-end via a vtable
getter with no CardsDLL caller, and it is already 1. The refusal is decided in the
Denuvo-packed Frostbite front-end, which has no server surface.
docs/plan-2026-08-06-refusing-modes.md: full evidence chains, gate-byte table, the
six sub-deser field maps, per-mode verdicts.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Lrx9to3pihN6Sm9sXgc8np
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