Desktop Edition Build Plan

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• Fights are not simulated; on-ice altercations don't happen in games yet.
• 4-on-4 situations, like early overtime under some rules, aren't modeled as their own distinct play style yet.

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• No penalties can be called once a game reaches overtime, so overtime power plays don't happen.

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• An injured skater can still be sent back out for shifts after getting hurt instead of being pulled from the lineup.
• The lineup doesn't automatically adjust to play a man short when a player is hurt mid-game.

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• Even-strength and power-play goal rates are currently a little too high and need to be tuned down.
• Faceoff win rates aren't fully calibrated to real hockey yet.
• Shot distribution across a team's lines, top line versus fourth line, doesn't yet match realistic usage patterns.

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• Shift charts showing each player's exact shift-by-shift ice time are still being checked for accuracy.

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• Advancing straight to the next event, like the next game or decision point, is still being checked for reliability.
• Calendar visual representation.

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• Whether every key league date, like the trade deadline, draft, and playoffs, is correctly pinned in every scenario is still being checked.

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• The draft currently happens later in the offseason sequence than it should relative to other moves.
• Fixing the draft's timing changes how games replay identically, so the reorder is being rolled out carefully.

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• Design work is still underway on how much pro, junior, and college levels of play should differ in actual simulated behavior, not just in labels.
• It hasn't been settled how far to separate level of play from the way games are simulated under the hood.

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• Teams can't yet have multiple affiliation agreements at once, such as separate deals at different levels.
• The underlying data for tracking affiliation agreements is still being built out.

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• No playoff-odds percentages are shown anywhere in the standings.
• No magic number tracking for clinching a spot, a division, or a bye.
• No visual flag for teams that are mathematically eliminated.

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• No lottery odds, ball draws, or lottery night presentation exists.
• Draft order for non-playoff teams cannot be finalized under league rules.
• No lottery results screen or history of past lottery outcomes.

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• No settings screen lets you view the league's cap and rulebook configuration.
• No way to edit these settings from within the game.
• The read-only settings preview promised at new-game creation is not built yet.

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• This page needs a serious polish pass, performance pass, and feedback.

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• Goalie rotation only lets you choose the starting goalie for a game.
• No control over rest patterns, back-to-back handling, or a deeper rotation plan.

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• Waivers do not exist, so no player ever has to clear waivers.
• Long-term injured reserve (LTIR) is not implemented.

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• The junior and affiliate team low-fidelity system is janky. This needs to be worked on.
• Farm-team standings and stats may not be reliable until this is built.

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• Lines and pairs have no chemistry or familiarity rating.
• Keeping a line together or breaking it up has no performance effect yet.
• No way to see which combinations are clicking or which are not. There is WOWY data, but it's not used in any type of pairing or line settings.

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• Cap space during the resign phase is not fully accounted for.
• Phantom offers are not yet supported.
• Cap reconciliation at key checkpoints is incomplete.
• Signing bonus overage handling is not finished.

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• Salary arbitration cases are not modeled, so no arbitrator sets a contract number.
• Rival teams cannot send your restricted free agents an offer sheet.
• No offer sheet mechanic exists for you to use against other teams either.

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• Some free-agency screens and panels still have polish and layout improvements planned.

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• Performance bonus clauses, like games-played or award bonuses, cannot be added to contracts.
• No bonus overage cap consequences exist yet since bonuses themselves are missing.

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• Contract termination behavior is still being checked for accuracy in unusual cases.

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• Agents are not modeled as individual people with their own personalities.
• Negotiations happen without a named agent representing the player.
• No agent relationships, reputations, or negotiating styles to learn and manage.

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• There is no side-by-side comparable-player tool yet.
• The AI trade market still needs the same team-specific valuation migration before scouting is enabled by default.

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• Salary retention terms in a trade are still being checked for correctness.
• Conditional pick language, like 'if the pick lands in the top ten', is still being verified.

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• No tool reveals a team's true private asking price for a player.
• Finding the real price still means making offers and negotiating back and forth.

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• Deadline day has no countdown, special presentation, or added drama yet.
• No deadline-specific news coverage or buyer-versus-seller framing exists yet.

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• How many years deep the pick inventory tracks correctly is still being checked.

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• The overall draft-day experience feels thin beyond the basic pick loop
• Trading picks during the draft itself is still being checked for problems
• More draft-day atmosphere and pacing, like a proper war-room feel, is planned

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• There is no draft lottery yet; picks go out in straight reverse-standings order
• Lottery odds, the drawing itself, and any pick movement from it are not built

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• The formal record book, single-game and single-season marks, is still thin
• Milestone alerts and record-chase storylines are not built yet

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• No Hall of Fame exists yet for any player to be inducted into
• No induction voting, ceremony, or gallery of past honorees is built
• Retired legends get no lasting recognition beyond their career stat line

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• No way exists yet to retire a jersey number for a franchise legend
• Retired numbers are not displayed anywhere, like a rafters banner list
• Future players can still be issued any number, since none are set aside

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• No way to choose a training focus or development plan for a player yet
• Players develop generically rather than along a direction you set
• No visible payoff yet for steering a prospect toward a particular skill

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• How captaincy carries over after a trade or retirement is still being checked
• Jersey number handling around trades, call-ups, and number conflicts is still being checked

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• Locker room chemistry effects from your personality mix are not built yet
• Veteran mentorship of young players has no in-game effect yet

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• Goalies cannot be injured at all yet, an unrealistic gap
• Whether injuries leave lingering effects on a player after recovery is still being checked

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• Not every kind of career milestone or honor a long career should earn is tracked yet
• Coverage across different achievement categories is uneven, so some noteworthy moments can be missed

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• Some expandable detail panels on the page still need polish
• A few of the numbers shown are calculated in ways that need to be made more consistent

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• Deeper comparative analytics between franchises are still limited in scope
• More advanced breakdowns for judging one franchise against another are not built out yet

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• The tier bands are basic and don't yet capture finer distinctions within a draft class
• Public rankings need to build up in stages over the season rather than appear as one flat list

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• A fuller amateur scouting portfolio, covering the whole draft-eligible pool the way a real scouting staff tracks it, is still coming

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• How complete and accurate the historical draft records are across every past season is still being verified

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• Amateur Scouting and Professional Scouting are not yet split into separate departments
• There is no visible reliability rating showing how much to trust a scouting department
• Named individual scouts and staff-level scouting gameplay are not planned at this stage

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• There is no view of how many scouting work slots exist or how busy a department is
• There is no queue, forecast, or pause and cancel control for scouting work
• Scouting deadlines don't yet exist as something a GM can see and track over time

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• There is no way to commission a scouting department with a specific hockey question and a deadline
• Requesting an extra deep dive on a single player is not available yet

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• Dedicated draft-day scouting coverage is not built as its own workflow yet
• Dedicated pro-roster decision coverage is not built as its own workflow yet
• Both are meant to share the same team knowledge rules once they exist, but neither is in place to test that against

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• Written scouting reports explaining why a view on a player changed are not in place yet
• These profiles are still staged rather than enabled by default across the shipped league

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• Scouting judgments don't yet factor in a player's ice time, role, or the strength of opponents faced
• A GM cannot yet see when a scouting read is thin simply because a player hasn't had much opportunity

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• No written scouting reports or department dossiers you can browse for a player
• No history view to look back at what a prospect was rated in past seasons
• No way to see how past scouting projections compare to what actually happened once a player developed
• Scout grading is not in yet since it needs a real way to act on quality, not just a self-scored number

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• A player's public deployment needs to show the lineup he actually played in, not a hidden ability label
• Lineup deployment still needs an owner decision about how a club acts when its scouting file is thin; the game does not yet claim same-fog lineup fairness

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• Scouting department costs are not tied to team finances yet
• This waits on the owner and team budget systems being built first, so there is no temporary money cost for scouting

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• The write-up explaining exactly how the public rating is calculated has not been published in the game yet

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• The team is still checking that watchlists never accidentally hand you scouting knowledge or capacity you have not earned

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• No analytics staff to hire, manage, or assign to your team
• AI-run teams are designed to rely only on the public rating model and will never hire this staff, so this stays a human-GM-only feature still to come

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• Whether and how a team could build its own private rating model, separate from the public one, is still being worked out
• This would depend on first hiring the analytics staff who would build and run that model

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• No side-by-side view comparing an old scouting report to what a player actually became
• No department accuracy grade, since that needs a real way for you to act on scouting quality and a fair method for scoring it

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• Everyday practices, games, and deployment do not automatically feed extra information about your own players yet, you have to use the contact action by hand

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• Some filter options and search angles a GM would want, like combining several advanced criteria at once, are still missing
• Not every report format is available on every screen yet

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• Only one default coaching policy exists so far, distinct coaching philosophies between teams are not in yet
• Whether the policy correctly matches lines and pairings to the players it has is still being checked

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• The negotiation logic that would factor in an AI team's overall plan and strategy is currently switched off
• AI teams do not yet actively hunt the league for trade targets or counter-offer opportunities on their own

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• Hiring and firing a head coach is not possible yet
• Coaching contracts do not exist
• Assistant coaches and goalie coaches are not in the game
• Coaches do not vary in quality or coaching style

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• No pool of available coaching candidates to browse
• No way to evaluate a coach's strengths or fit before hiring
• No coaching interviews or hiring process of any kind

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• Whether a GM's career record carries over between jobs is still being verified
• No confirmed way to view a GM's history as a persistent character in the league
• The underlying pieces may exist but no player-facing experience has been confirmed

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• No system generates new staff candidates over time
• Staff do not age or retire
• Retiring or underperforming staff are not automatically replaced

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• No end-of-season review grading the GM's performance
• No sense of the franchise or job becoming more or less appealing
• No way for the owner to fire the GM
• No way for the GM to quit and hand the franchise to someone else

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• Several other AI-facing decisions still have coverage gaps
• AI cannot make coaching decisions because coaching staff do not exist yet
• AI cannot make budget decisions because there is no budget system yet

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• Narrow personality traits are not yet active
• Deadline-specific personality behavior is turned off

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• The fuller strategy experience still needs more plan reasoning surfaced across decision screens
• Broader execution delegation beyond posture and needs assessment remains future work

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• The player profile's public deployment must show the lineup a player actually played in rather than a hidden ability label
• AI lineup deployment must stop reading hidden player ability; its replacement behavior for a thin scouting file remains an owner decision

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• No unified checklist covers believability across trades, free agency, draft, and lineups together
• This judgment currently relies on hands-on review rather than a documented standard

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• No rumored or speculative trades show up before a deal is finalized
• The league digest has no rumor section at all

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• The digest does not yet prioritize which events actually matter
• Digest entries still need more natural, readable texture

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• The full game, draft, and offseason cycle can be run manually across decades but is not yet automated
• Long-term league health for the complete season loop, not just population, still needs decades-long automated proof

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• Goalies do not yet appear on career leaderboards
• Goalies are not yet eligible to be recognized as retired legends

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• No owner-set spending envelope exists yet outside the salary cap
• This broader money layer is planned for later, beyond the demo
• The related question of what the owner expects from you is tracked separately

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• Scouting and staff spending is not yet tied to any budget envelope
• This is broader long-term direction, not scoped for the current demo

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• No revenue simulation tied to team success exists yet
• This is broader long-term direction, not scoped for the current demo

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• No finance screens exist for the GM to review money matters
• This is broader long-term direction, not scoped for the current demo

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• There is no way to replay or watch a game once it has been simulated
• No playback screen exists for reliving a game's key moments

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• Running a binge across multiple full seasons in a row has not been measured for reliability or pacing

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• Coverage and polish of what belongs in each mode is still being filled in

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• A mid-season trade offer still requires your own answer, it cannot be handed off
• A returning injured player who would push the roster over its limit still requires your own call

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• With-or-without-you (WOWY) impact numbers are still being checked for accuracy
• Zone-start numbers are still being checked for accuracy

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• Depth and coverage of the event browser are still being filled in
• Digest content and presentation are still being refined

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• Choosing a starting template or era before your first season begins
• Picking which team you take over when a career starts
• Setting a difficulty level for your career
• Entering a seed number so a world can be recreated exactly
• Any other new-career setup options, such as season length or league size

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• Choosing a ready-made starting history instead of the current hidden default
• Choosing a freshly generated history built just for your world
• Choosing to actually play through the league's earlier seasons before your career starts
• Any screen that explains what kind of history your career is starting with

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• A screen listing all of your saved careers
• Renaming a save so you can tell your careers apart
• Deleting an old save you no longer want
• Setting how often the game autosaves for you

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• A clear, stated promise to players that saves will always survive future updates
• Full proof, across every kind of save, that no update can silently damage a career

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• A screen showing all of your active careers at once
• A way to switch from one open career to another without leaving the game
• Any on-screen indication that more than one career can exist

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• A welcome or first-run screen for brand-new players
• A tutorial walking a new GM through their first decisions
• In-game explanations attached to screens that are not self-evident
• Any general help system a confused player can turn to mid-career

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• Showing the player how large their save file has grown
• Offering a cleanup option when a long career's save gets large
• Telling the player what older career data is safe to trim
• Surfacing the existing shrink-your-save tools somewhere the player can reach them

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• Importing a custom set of players and teams when creating a universe
• Any file format or process for bringing outside rosters into the game
• Validation or feedback when an imported roster has a problem

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• A clear opt-in screen asking whether you want to share crash reports or usage data
• A way to see or change that choice later without reinstalling
• A plain explanation of exactly what would be collected if you opt in

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• A proper installer for a desktop version of the game
• Automatic updates that install without manual steps
• Full offline play without a server connection
• A store listing where the game can be purchased and downloaded

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• An in-game editor for adjusting individual players and their attributes
• An in-game editor for league-wide details like teams and divisions
• Rules for what an editor can safely change without breaking an ongoing career

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• A clear choice between a protected career mode and an open sandbox mode
• Rules for what a sandbox mode is allowed to reveal or change that a career mode must never allow
• Any warning when an action would cross from one mode's boundary into the other

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• An in-game way to browse, apply, or swap customizations without editing files by hand
• Player-facing documentation explaining what can be customized and how
• A clear list of which customizations the studio actually supports

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• A public, written reference describing what creators can rely on when building tools or content
• Clear guidance on which save and league formats are safe to script against
• A promise about what stays stable between updates for anyone building on top of the game

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• Coverage across every save shape and every past version is not yet complete
• Some upgrade paths still rely on manual checking rather than an automatic test
• Older or less common save configurations still need their own upgrade tests written

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• A playable demo build a new player could download and try
• A published Early Access plan describing what ships first and what follows
• A store page with the description, screenshots, and details a buyer sees before purchasing

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• Related design documents still need to be brought in line with the rewritten foundation
• Some supporting reference material still points to an older version of this plan by outdated line numbers
• A full pass to make every downstream document consistent with the rewrite has not been completed

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• Some planned screens in the inventory are not built yet
• The desktop layout and navigation structure are not finalized across every screen
• Consistency in how screens are organized and reached still needs work

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• Sorting, filtering, and empty-state handling are inconsistent from screen to screen
• Some screens still need to be brought up to the same standard as the best ones
• A full pass to make density and readability consistent everywhere has not happened

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• No accessibility options exist beyond text size
• No simulation options for the GM to configure how the game runs
• No dedicated settings screen; these controls do not yet live in one place

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• The legal review of team identity content is still being double-checked for completeness
• Confirmation that no real team names, logos, or marks slipped through is not finished

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• A real desktop window with its own sizing, minimize, and maximize behavior
• Defined behavior for multiple monitors and different screen resolutions as a desktop app
• The move from a browser-page layout to an actual installed desktop window

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• The checker does not yet compare what actually renders on screen against the intended design
• A screen could reference the right mock and still look wrong without being caught
• This gap in the conformance check has been confirmed and is still open

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• Screen load times and responsiveness have not been measured
• No performance bar exists yet for how quickly screens should open or update
• Slow screens would not currently be caught by any measurement

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• A clean way to capture a screenshot from within the game
• Exporting a screen or view as an image file
• Copying a screen to the clipboard to paste elsewhere

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• A known set of dead ends remain where a GM can reach a screen with no clear way forward
• These remaining dead ends still need to be identified individually and fixed