1.9: Worldsim gate cleared

TODO: rewrite this as prose for players. What follows is the raw material.

• •Shared Advertise rules Advertise action costs and favorability gain share a portable rules module.
• •Restore Ask access for migrated client accounts Migrated accounts can use their current game session for the Ask sign-in handoff. The account-link screen names the mobile or desktop client and confirms success only after linking completes.
• •More reliable sign-out and password updates Sign-out confirms session revocation, and password updates detect concurrent account changes.
• •More reliable admin password resets Admin password resets confirm the credential write and detect concurrent account changes.
• •Add account deletion command primitives Add tested internal command state for future resumable account cleanup.
• •Improve bank console hierarchy Makes bank health, limits, and the controls that affect them easier to find.
• •Shared Build Donor Network rules Build Donor Network action costs and level gain share a portable rules module.
• •Set wages across corporate holdings CEOs can preview and apply wage settings by sector type or across a country.
• •Cabinet residuals saturate smoothly instead of pinning at the cap Cabinet-driven political residuals used a hard per-source clamp, so any channel at or above 0.8 points per turn sat at exactly 8.0 and extra investment bought nothing. Pinned regions then rendered identical values. The fold now approaches the same cap of 8 asymptotically, so a bigger push always buys a strictly bigger residual.
• •Shared Campaign rules Campaign action costs, eligibility and influence gain share a portable rules module.
• •See who is backing your campaign, and every action you have taken The campaign ledger now has two tabs. Activity keeps the full history of what you bought rather than only the last ten entries, and a new Endorsements tab lists everyone currently backing you, filterable by players or politicians.
• •See where you built campaign presence this turn Campaign Presence now marks states already invested in during the current turn.
• •Guided chat mode for character creation Character creation has an opt-in guided chat mode that walks through the same steps one at a time. The classic all-steps form stays the default.
• •Edit your coalition identity Coalition chairs can update their coalition name, abbreviation, and colour.
• •Close private enterprise in command economies Command economies no longer admit private corporations by any route. Whether a country permits private enterprise now follows its marketization level, so a country that converts to or away from a planned economy is honoured automatically instead of relying on a fixed list.
• •Command shortage reads country physical gaps Command economies include observed country commodity shortages in shortage pressure.
• •Commodity prices now follow inflation
• •Commodity prices explain what moved them
• •Shared Personal Donation rules Personal Campaign Donation conversion, infamy and quote share a portable rules module.
• •Shared Personal Donation card cost The Personal Campaign Donation action card reads its AP cost from the shared portable ConvertCash rules.
• •Stronger stock valuations for profitable corporations Share prices now track operating performance more closely: earnings carry more weight in the price, expanding corporations earn a growth premium from actual enterprise-value growth, and sector asking prices sit nearer fair value.
• •Account permissions stay consistent after role changes Staff access now always reflects the current account record.
• •Check current account authority before deletion
• •Safer Google and Discord linking Provider link and unlink now verify the current session and detect concurrent account changes.
• •Current account state gates optional API personalization Public election, auction, corporation, bond, suggestion and government views now resolve optional player details from the current account record.
• •Shared Debate Prep rules Debate Prep action cost, odds and eligibility share a portable rules module across quote, gate and display.
• •Demand signals and automated plant cleanup Severe shortages hidden by market caps now guide expansion, while automated corporations stop carrying plants that lose money for many turns.
• •Democratic health shapes presidential elections Presidential races now account for institutional strain, with deeper democratic-health failures weighing more heavily on the ruling party and the sitting President. Constitutional crises add temporary, consequential choices around that pressure.
• •See when election summaries omit candidates Election summaries link to the full field when candidates have no reported votes or polling share.
• •Stabilize equity market valuation and liquidity Equity prices now recognize retained cash after primary share sales, while market liquidity and share settlement preserve finite cash and inventory.
• •Shared Fundraise rules Fundraise action cost, yield and eligibility share a portable rules module.
• •Identity history for duplicate-account review Admins and moderators can expand an account in the Players panel to see every IP and browser fingerprint it has been seen on, with start and end dates. Values an account has rotated away from now keep linking it to other accounts for 90 days, so changing a fingerprint no longer hides a group.
• •Protect account credentials during login migration
• •Choose which alerts you receive Settings now exposes notification mute controls and direct-message badge preferences.
• •Presidential seating vacates incompatible legislative offices
• •Politician endorsements generate campaign actions again Endorsements from non-player politicians once again add to a campaign's action income each turn, matching the figure the campaign desk has been promising. Player endorsements are unchanged.
• •1991 and 2019 presets seat real historical NPPs with ages and V5 mortality Every seated NPP in the 1991 and 2019 presets is now a real historical office-holder with a verified birth year and portrait where findable. Under V5 rules they age, die (Gompertz mortality), and are replaced by new random NPPs from the same party.
• •Open NPP management from analytics Analytics links open the selected NPP in the correct management scope and region.
• •Find trading partners through open supply offers CEOs can advertise buy and sell interest and start a private negotiation from an offer.
• •Keep membership tenure through party mergers Party mergers no longer restart the leadership eligibility wait for absorbed members.
• •Shared Poll rules Poll action costs share a portable rules module across quote, debit and display.
• •Shared Poll client costs Poll action cards and the poll page display costs from the shared portable Poll rules.
• •Shared Poll dashboard costs Turn dashboard poll costs derive from the portable Poll rules.
• •More reliable sign-in after signing out Password, Discord and Google sign-in now handle recent sign-outs consistently.
• •Signed-out sessions stay signed out Signing out now stays in effect even if another page was still finishing its work.
• •Explore political, military and business profiles Your profile and other characters now share three role-based views.
• •More consistent session checks before pages and reads load Page and internal read gating now uses the same current-account session check.
• •Correct public economy guides and wiki sitemap URLs Public guides now describe the current commodity roster and distinguish floating currencies from fixed rates. Wiki sitemaps point to the canonical wiki pages.
• •Separate production growth from sales prices Plants economies measure their cyclical output trend using production at constant commodity values, keeping price changes out of the volume signal.
• •Understand changes in regime health Leaders can inspect the causes of legitimacy and party confidence changes.
• •Require replica-set transactions for coordinated account writes Add a required-transaction helper for coordinated account writes.
• •Stricter session token checks Sign-in sessions now validate the token algorithm and timestamps more strictly.
• •Shared Rest rules Rest action cost shares a portable rules module across quote, debit and display.
• •Validate stored session revocation state Session checks consistently require valid account revocation data.
• •A one-party Supreme Court hurts democratic health Packing the Court with one party's justices subtracts from democratic health on a sliding scale. A 5-4 split is free. A 9-0 bench is the most expensive.
• •Supreme Court vacancies go to the President When a justice leaves, the President nominates and the Senate confirms. Later historical justices are never seated automatically, and the Court page no longer labels those successors as Original Roster.
• •Conserve duplicate shares in account cleanup Account cleanup now returns every share an exiting holder owns to the public float, including split positions, and retries safely when the ledger changes mid-cleanup.
• •Shared Fundraise rules Fundraise action costs, donor prerequisites and yields share a portable rules module.
• •Repair permanent head-of-state governments on local load Existing permanent head-of-state worlds now restore their canonical parliamentary government formation when the local server starts.
• •Source password ownership proof kernel
• •Source password ownership helper for future migration
• •Source security snapshot helper for future ownership proof binding
• •Expand anonymous single-player telemetry aggregates Local single-player statistics reports can include GDP, population, inflation, unemployment, approval, election counts, and government formation totals, still without names, ids, or save documents.
• •Leadership chairs no longer sit empty with no election Every congressional leadership seat that falls vacant now opens an election straight away, and losing your chamber seat is noticed on the turn it happens rather than whenever someone next opens the page.
• •Bilateral supply agreement negotiations Corporation CEOs can now negotiate private supply agreements with opening offers, counter-offers, fixed terms, and inbox reminders.
• •Targeted ad audiences are grouped by demographic The targeted ads audience list now groups age with age, income with income, and the rest of each country's voter categories, using the same names as other campaign targeting.
• •Require UK prime ministers to retain a Commons seat A prime minister who loses their Commons seat leaves office and government formation reopens.
• •Open executive seats no longer carry an incumbency bonus A governor or president race for a vacant office is an open race. It no longer borrows the last winner's margin as an incumbency shield, so challengers stop being dragged by a result they had nothing to do with.
• •Withdrawn candidates leave Campaign Operations A candidate who withdraws no longer appears in a race's Campaign Operations list, and their campaign stops drawing income while they are out.

Follow-up changes merged after the initial 1.9.0 cut

• •Country- and era-aware economic baselines Campaign costs and fund projections now respect the country and historical preset you are playing.
• •Commons vacancies, recalls, and by-elections Vacancies and recall petitions persist correctly, and special elections add seats without disturbing sitting MPs.
• •Cabinet reshuffles and minister departures Parliamentary cabinets now support reshuffles, resignations, and Chief Whip actions.
• •More texture in 1953 regional politics Playable regions now receive deterministic, bounded political differences while national averages remain stable.
• •More reliable commodity and money-supply signals Commodity clearing warnings use one canonical basis, and sovereign bond-pool cash no longer creates fake M2 growth.
• •Crash-safe agreed acquisitions Acquisition payouts resume safely after interruptions without duplicating money movements.
• •Better sandbox simulation coverage Synthetic actors can exercise real game mechanics in sandbox runs, with explicit coverage reporting.
• •Clearer sovereign issuance diagnostics Sovereign demand and tranche diagnostics are available when the optional feature gate is enabled.