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# Balance and content notes
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Balance is authored data and should change deliberately. This document records
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the policy; exact current values remain authoritative in `.tres` resources and
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typed scripts.
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## Fish
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- Stable fish IDs and catalog numbers must not be changed for display cleanup.
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- Species availability may constrain water type, time, weather, bait, and other
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authored context.
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- Location pools control selection weight; the global catalog remains
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comprehensive.
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- Freshwater/saltwater habitat is validated by the host in addition to pool
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membership.
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- Value, rarity, quality, and weight ranges should be reviewed together because
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they affect economy and catch difficulty.
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## Economy and progression
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- Sales and purchases are host-authoritative and must mutate inventory and
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wallet exactly once.
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- Reserved assets are rejected atomically; mixed valid/reserved batches must
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not partially succeed.
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- Item effects, shop prices, cooler capacity, fishing upgrades, jobs, and
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experience are separate balance axes. Avoid changing several in an unrelated
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presentation pass.
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## Recording a balance change
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Include in the change description:
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1. affected stable IDs and resource paths;
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2. old and new values;
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3. intended player-facing outcome;
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4. interactions with quality, availability, and economy;
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5. deterministic validation performed;
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6. whether existing saves remain semantically valid.
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Do not bump the save schema or network protocol simply because an authored
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number changed. Bump a format only when its serialized contract changes.
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