dcbef721f2
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.
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# FIFA 17 Transfer Market — wire findings
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Reverse-engineering record for the FIFA 17 UTAS transfer-market surface, kept so
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future agents do not reopen settled questions or re-guess enum spellings.
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Every claim carries a confidence tag:
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| Tag | Meaning |
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| **CONFIRMED** | Observed from our own FIFA17.exe client or live host capture |
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| **FIFA17-HISTORICAL** | Supported by contemporaneous FIFA 17 implementations (`lorenzh/fut-api`, `futapi/fut` v0.2.18 — the last pre-FIFA-18 release) |
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| **INFERRED** | Best explanation, not directly captured |
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| **UNKNOWN** | Requires instrumentation; do NOT implement from guesswork |
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Authority reminder: FIFA 17 field names, enum spellings, sentinel ids and
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empty-state shapes come from captures or the Python oracle — never from a modern
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FUT toolkit. Later-FIFA API drift is a known hazard, and reversing a container
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type or inventing an enum is the documented client-freeze class.
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---
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## The auction record (`auctionInfo[]`)
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What we emit today, on `/tradePile`, `/trade/status` and market browse:
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```json
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{
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"tradeId": 1000000097,
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"itemData": { "...full shaped card...": "", "itemState": "listFS" },
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"tradeState": "active",
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"buyNowPrice": 15000,
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"startingBid": 150,
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"currentBid": 0,
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"offers": 0,
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"bidState": "none",
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"expires": 3600,
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"tradeOwner": true,
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"sellerId": 33068179,
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"sellerName": "CAGE",
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"sellerEstablished": 1,
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"watched": false,
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"coinsProcessed": 0
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}
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```
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| Field | Confidence | Note |
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| `tradeOwner` (bool) | **FIFA17-HISTORICAL** | Exists in FIFA 17 auctionInfo. That it is *the* Actions-panel gate is **UNKNOWN** pending live confirmation. |
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| `sellerId` | **FIFA17-HISTORICAL** exists; type numeric is **INFERRED** | Set to the configured persona so it agrees with `tradeOwner`. Never baked in. |
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| `sellerName` | **CONFIRMED** it must be the player | `fut_account.py` annotates the persona property as "Blaze PDTL.DSNM / LSX GetProfileResponse Persona / **UTAS sellerName**". EA's `"EASFC"` here is wrong for an own listing. |
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| `offers` | **FIFA17-HISTORICAL** | `0` valid for active/unbid. |
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| `bidState: "none"` | **FIFA17-HISTORICAL** | Valid for active/unbid. Other observed concepts: `highest`, `buyNow`. Do NOT "fix" this. |
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| `expires` | **FIFA17-HISTORICAL** | **SECONDS REMAINING, not an epoch.** Historical durations: 3600, 10800, 21600, 43200, 86400, 259200. |
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| `itemData.itemState: "listFS"` | **UNKNOWN** | Plausible and unchanged. Public FIFA 17 material gives no trustworthy enumeration. Do not guess replacements — capture. |
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| `itemData.untradeable` | **FIFA17-HISTORICAL** field; our blanket `false` is **INFERRED** | See "Known debt" below. |
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| `marketDataMinPrice` / `marketDataMaxPrice` | **do NOT add** | These entered the public parser only after its FIFA 18 migration. |
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### Why the differential could not catch the missing fields
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Our record's key set was **identical to the Python oracle's**, so field-for-field
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parity was green. The oracle omits `tradeOwner` / `sellerId` / `offers` as well,
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because *its* remove flow was never driven by a real client either — the only
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historical live datapoint is a counts-tile bug. Oracle parity is therefore
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**necessary but not sufficient** for any flow the oracle never actually served.
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The differential now asserts we cover every oracle key AND that our extra keys are
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exactly `{offers, sellerId, tradeOwner}`, so the deliberate superset is pinned
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while a new unexplained divergence still fails.
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---
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## Routes
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| Route | Confidence | Behaviour |
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| `GET …/trade/status` | **CONFIRMED** the client polls it continuously | Live auction-state refresh. It previously fell through `starts_with("trade")` into the buy/view arm, where the tail has no numeric id, so **every poll returned `{"auctionInfo": []}`**. Now a real handler: optional `tradeIds` filter, else the whole active pile. Unknown ids are absent, never an error. |
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| `DELETE /ut/game/<sku>/trade/<id>` | **FIFA17-HISTORICAL** | The spelling contemporaneous FIFA 17 clients use, no body, no meaningful response body. Previously landed in the buy/view arm and **silently cancelled nothing while returning 200.** Now maps to MarketCancel. |
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| `DELETE /ut/delete/game/<sku>/trade/<id>` | **CONFIRMED** (oracle) | The oracle's spelling; retained because the differential exercises it. Whether FIFA17.exe ever uses it is **UNKNOWN**. |
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| `POST …/auctionhouse` | **CONFIRMED** | List for sale. The client sends only `itemData.id`; the server resolves wire id → Core instance → `card_id`/`resourceId` and enforces ownership. |
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| `GET …/tradePile/counts` | **INFERRED** | Five scalar ints (`count`, `maxAuctionsAllowed`, `offered`, `selling`, `sold`); a DISTINCT deserializer from `/tradePile`. Exact FIFA 17 semantics of `count` (active auctions vs whole pile) is **UNKNOWN** — we report active auctions and deliberately did NOT speculate. |
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| `PUT …/item` (move) | **FIFA17-HISTORICAL** | `{"itemData":[{"pile":"trade"|"club","id":ID}]}` → `{"itemData":[{id,pile,success}]}`. Transfer-List membership is a **separate operation from creating an auction**. |
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### Pile encoding
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* MOVE commands take a **string** pile (`"trade"`, `"club"`) — **FIFA17-HISTORICAL**.
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* Returned `itemData.pile` is documented **numeric** in FIFA 17 auction data — **FIFA17-HISTORICAL**.
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* The numeric mapping is **UNKNOWN**. Do not unify the two representations, and do
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not derive a mapping from unrelated `pileSize` keys.
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---
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## Q2 — Transfer List item that is not currently auctioned
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A real FUT state: an item in the Transfer List with no active auction (freshly
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moved, or expired unsold). **CONFIRMED** to exist as a concept (the external hub
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spec §27, and move-vs-list being separate operations).
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Its wire representation is **UNKNOWN**: `tradeId` 0 / omitted / null, `tradeState`
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value or omission, and `itemData.itemState` are all unestablished.
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Consequence, and the reason this matters: our `/tradePile` renders only `active`
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listings, so keying the `/club` exclusion on the `trade` **pile** stranded 4 cards
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in no screen at all (hidden from the club, absent from the Transfer List).
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Commit `f2c4927` keys exclusion on the **active listing** instead, which is
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self-healing. That is a workaround, not fidelity — the faithful model needs the
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unlisted state represented.
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**Required capture** (four states, full structural diff, not just a shortlist):
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```
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A. moved Club -> Transfer List, NEVER listed
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B. actively listed
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C. listing expired unsold
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D. listing sold
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```
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Diff at least: `tradeId`, `tradeOwner`, `tradeState`, `bidState`, `expires`,
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`offers`, `currentBid`, `startingBid`, `buyNowPrice`, `sellerId`, `sellerName`,
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`itemData.id`, `itemData.itemState`, `itemData.pile`, `itemData.untradeable`.
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Do NOT drop the unlisted state from the model just because its encoding is unknown.
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---
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## Deferred, with reasons
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* **5% transfer tax** — **INFERRED** architecture only: auction closes → Core
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settles → seller credited gross × 0.95, with `auctionInfo` continuing to carry
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gross. No trustworthy FIFA 17 field named `tax`/`netPrice`/`sellerProceeds` was
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recovered, and no separate settle operation. Not blocking; do not couple
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settlement to clearing the sold auction without a capture.
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* **Bid / Transfer Targets** — not implemented. Watched / active bid / winning /
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outbid / won / expired are distinct states and must not collapse to a flat list.
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* **Unassigned** — FIFA 17 had a dedicated Unassigned service; the exact FIFA 17
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URL is **UNKNOWN**. Our 29-item `purchased` pile is this state and is currently
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rendered inside `/club`. Do not manufacture a route from a modern toolkit.
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* **Match CREATE / READY / PLAY** — **UNKNOWN** and explicitly not portable from
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public FUT web-app work (the web app could not start matches). Instrument the
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real client from Play Match to kickoff before implementing.
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---
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## Known debt
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`shape_item` reports `untradeable: false` for **every** owned instance. Correct
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today (Core models no untradeable items) and necessary — a hardcoded `true` greyed
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out both list buttons — but it will misrepresent SBC / promo / loan rewards once
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those exist. `untradeable` belongs on the owned-item instance as authoritative
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state, not inferred from definition, resourceId or rarity.
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---
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## MEASURED in the live client — 2026-08-17
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Read out of the running `FIFA17.exe` (pid-resolved, CardsDLL slide proven against
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the on-disk FNV prologue) with `fifa17-recon/tools/trade_gate_probe.py`, which
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extends `gate_byte_probe.py` to vtable slot `+0x270` as the transfer-market
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analysis asked for. Read-only: `/proc/<pid>/mem` `O_RDONLY` + `pread`.
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| Gate | Python era (2026-08-06) | Now | Owner |
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| `IS_TRADING_ENABLED` `model+0x1fd2e` (slot `+0x270`) | **0** | **1** | settings struct `+0x28`; was zeroed by `userInfo.feature.trade` |
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| `TRADE_PILE_SIZE` `model+0x1fd1c` | **0** | **100** | `userMassInfo.pileSizeClientData` key 2 |
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| watch-list size `model+0x1fd20` | **0** | **50** | same member, key 4 |
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| `storeEnabled` `model+0x1fd2f` | 1 | 1 | control |
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| `IS_FRIENDLY_SEASON` / `IS_DRAFT_MODE` / `packOpeningAnimation` | 1 | 1 | controls |
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**CONFIRMED: every CardsDLL-supplied input the transfer-market analysis named as a
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blocker is now open.** The Rust host does this by construction — it emits
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`userInfo.feature` as `{}` (no `trade` member, so the kill switch at `0x180174f19`
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never arms: it fires only when atom `0x330` inside `0x11c` parses as exactly 1) and
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it already sends `pileSizeClientData` keys 2 and 4. Serving `tradingEnabled: 1` in
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the settings `configs` array would NOT have worked, because that tail runs after
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every member is parsed and would overwrite it.
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### What this rules out
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The Transfer List Actions panel not opening on an own listing is therefore **not**:
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* an ownership field — FIFA 17's auctionInfo has no `tradeOwner`/`sellerId` atom;
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* `IS_TRADING_ENABLED`, `TRADE_PILE_SIZE` or the watch-list size — all measured open;
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* the cancel route — `DELETE ut/delete/{ns}/trade/{tradeId}` is the PE's spelling and
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is what we serve;
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* `tradeState` / `bidState` / `expires` spellings — all three are the PE's own
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vocabularies and values.
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Per the analysis's own falsifier ("if the byte reads 1 and the screen still refuses,
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the exe-side predicate has a term we have not enumerated"), the remaining term is
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**exe-side UI script**, which CardsDLL does not own and the server cannot set.
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Status: **UNKNOWN**, and it is now the narrowest it has ever been.
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### Confirmed fidelity bug found on the way
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`expires` was a frozen `3600` on every poll, so the client's live countdown never
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moved and an auction could never run out. Now derived from `created_at + duration`
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(duration taken from the `ISStart` body), clamped at 0, with an aged-out active
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listing projecting as `expired`/`none` — FIFA 17's relistable state. Verified live:
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the standing listing correctly reads `expires: 0` once past its hour.
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