42568a40ad
ci / verify (push) Successful in 48s
SimWorld knows nothing about characters, so Instance.add_peer builds a fresh SimPlayer -- level 1, base stats, empty inventory. Something has to give that player back its character, and only character SELECT ever did. Every portal into a dungeon and every escape back to the hub therefore reset the player's level, experience, upgrades and bag. The record on disk stayed correct throughout, which is what made it read as a display glitch: the level shown was 1 because the level being played really was 1, and the first kill's experience grant partially repaired it, so the numbers appeared to come and go. _place now adopts, through a single _adopt_character that every transfer runs. That let _enter_world_as drop its adopt/reset/adopt dance -- three lines that existed only because reset_for_instance clobbered the health adopt had just computed -- and let the level-up path derive maximum health through recompute_max_hp instead of keeping a second copy of the formula. diag_upgrades now walks hub -> dungeon -> hub after taking an upgrade and asserts level, experience, upgrades, damage, maximum health and inventory all survive each leg. With the fix reverted it reports exactly what was described: level 1, no upgrades, base damage, empty bag. One of the new checks compared health against a formula fed the player's own level, which agrees with itself even when the level is wrong; it compares against the character record instead. Also drops "(every upgrade)" from the choice cards. That a flat bonus rides along with all of them is a design principle, not something a player needs told -- the number is enough. check.sh clean, 409 tests, SMOKE PASS, all four diagnostics green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>