Round 02 Synthesis

Round 02 amended baseline — synthesis complete. Completed cycles: 2/30.

This synthesis incorporates the actual Godz I/2/3/4 contributions, God I’s challenge [internal record ID omitted], and Godz 3’s acceptance of its corrections. It establishes a proposed interaction contract; no player validation has occurred. Round 01, both source-qualified v0.3 registers, naming uncertainty and all existing scope boundaries remain intact.

R02-01 — One interaction contract across three mornings

Adopt Godz4:R02-01’s informed inspection, Godz3:F-R02-01’s continuation-versus-switch decision, and GI-R02-XR’s corrections.

On Morning 1, players freely inspect the terrace, unfinished instrument and neighbor. They explicitly select Stillness, Craft or Connection and confirm the immediate activity before spending the morning’s substantial-practice opportunity. Describe what they will attempt and develop, without promising the eventual reward. Early observations, instrument tests and recollections prepare the investigation; the scheduled rain anomaly remains on Morning 3.

On Morning 2, show the queued routine before resolving it. Players may continue, switch, shorten or skip. Continuing develops the existing capability under provisional authored rules; switching preserves previous evidence and develops another partial approach. The activity includes concrete feedback: for example, testing and revising a calibration hypothesis. Corrections within that committed activity incur no second time charge. Record each practice outcome once.

On Morning 3, players investigate the scheduled rain using earned capabilities or accessible baseline actions. Preserve a meaningful finding and resolve one local question while leaving the larger mystery open. Shortening, skipping or mixing practices must remain compatible with completion.

R02-02 — Correct misleading commitments and capability grants

Modify Godz I:R02-MR-01: Stillness must be explicitly discoverable and selectable. Idleness, hesitation, reading time and accessibility delays cannot secretly choose it or advance the morning.

Modify Godz2:R02-01: a deferred approach may remain available at baseline, but Morning 3 cannot grant specialist evidence without the required practice. Ordinary conversation is distinct from a deeper investigation.

Modify Godz3:F-R02-01: say “not this morning”, rather than “another run,” unless the actual remaining opportunities justify that restriction. No manufactured scarcity.

Modify Godz4:R02-01: calling something “the device route” does not establish failure. Assess whether players understand their action, feedback and consequence, rather than policing vocabulary.

R02-03 — Preserve satisfaction and different replay motives

Accept Godz 2’s requirement for a complete local consequence. Withholding satisfaction to induce replay or sell continuation is rejected.

Preserve Godz I’s concern that replay counts can conceal different motives, with God I’s qualification: completionism is legitimate enjoyment. Record curiosity, collection, experimentation and repair of perceived deprivation separately. None alone proves demand for persistent parallel lives.

Remaining design uncertainty concerns capability thresholds, the value of shortened practice and the exact partial findings. This round does not settle those through invented numbers.

Next test

Retain the existing six-player exploratory G1 test and its directional gate. Let commitment and initial replay behavior occur without coaching; debrief afterward. Record accidental commitments, understood alternatives, observed consequences, local satisfaction and reasons for replay. Use spontaneous remarks where available; do not insert questions that coach the choice.

If players understand the trade-off but remain uninterested, revise the interaction. If replay chiefly repairs perceived deprivation, revise closure and recoverability. Completion alone does not demonstrate appeal.

Round 03 question: Using only the existing three mornings and objects, what exact action and retained evidence should each specialist, mixed-practice and baseline run receive—and which provisional capability rules make those experiences distinct without unearned mastery, dead ends or a universally superior route?

Round 03 has not been performed here.

Source appendix — exact simsim-local-v0.4 entries

These are assistant-authored integration entries, reproduced from the saved checkpoint—not additional source attachments or newly approved round decisions. Historical status wording below remains historical; the current round count is 2/30.

Source references:

• BS-004 / D22–33: founder message beginning “You are continuing the Becoming + Astrobot Master Plan v0.3,” containing the 28-part expansion. No message UUID is exposed here.
• BS-005 / D35–37: accompanying founder-supplied synthesis and attachments simsim_master_plan_v0.3.md (file_00000000878481fa85720d6b0bcc8851) and simsim_MAIN_AGENT_HANDOFF.md (file_00000000dcec820e99a4d3cd94509547). Supplied assistant recommendations remain recommendations.
• BS-006 / revised D34: founder’s thirty-round request and subsequent coordination/naming corrections. No message UUID is exposed here.