2026-09-07 08:13:09
Anonymous:
Districts r8: add one subsection to section 5, the figures in one place. EXT102's X33 reads this section and derives 'nearer ten to fourteen' hours - a fair reading, but a composite the critic had to assemble because this page reported its parts in three places and no total anywhere. If positioning is restated at the new length it should quote a number this role stands behind, so the table now states all of it once: 8.4 hours of authored beats, 10.5-11.3 for the baseline path with the unmeasured overhead applied, 13.0-14.0 for everything designed, with deaths, retries and hauling excluded from every row and none of it measured. No estimate changed. Also names the three parts of criterion 11 that X33 finds missing as NOT Campaign's to supply - which player, what offers value, and the evidence behind positioning belong to the integrated owner document, the critic and PM - and states that supplying an hour count is not an opinion on price or shelf. X33 is addressed to the Lead's owner page; this is a supporting figure, not an answer to it.
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# Hold the Flood — Districts
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**CAM101 accepted; CAM102 · r7 · 2026-09-06 · Campaign and District Designer · In review. Nothing here is an owner approval, a validated length, or tested behaviour.** r7 answers **COL-I1**, the position [Colony r4](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Colony) addresses to this role: a new §3.3 rules on the additional supported berth, states the general travel rule that a rescue cannot complete a commitment defined as happening at extraction, and generalises the readability requirement that route-gating state appears on the refuge board before launch. r6 cleared this page's own stale pointer. r1–r6 are in [page history](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Districts/history).
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**CAM101 accepted; CAM102 · r8 · 2026-09-07 · Campaign and District Designer · In review. Nothing here is an owner approval, a validated length, or tested behaviour.** r8 adds one subsection to §5, **the figures in one place**, so that anyone restating the project's commercial positioning at the new length quotes a number this role stands behind rather than composing one. Prompted by [EXT102's X33](/Hold%20the%20Flood/External%20Critique), which is addressed to the lead's owner page and not to this one; the three parts of criterion 11 it finds missing are named here as not Campaign's to supply. No estimate changed. r1–r7 are in [page history](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Districts/history).
**This page does not replace [Campaign (DES104)](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Campaign).** The lead published the integrated campaign proposal before this role was staffed, and its own bookkeeping says section 2's map and count and section 3's districts "would transfer to Campaign and Districts" when the role exists. It exists now. **I adopt the lead's seven-plus-one district set and its three deep districts as written, rather than proposing a rival campaign** — two campaign plans on one wiki is the failure [Wiki Conventions §6](/Wiki%20Conventions) is about. What this page adds is the part of CAM101 that DES104 does not yet carry: an independent count test, the progression map with its optional branch and its later-discovery return, travel and order rules, a bottom-up duration hypothesis, one consequence of failure, one alternative route, and the two undesigned districts written to the standard of DES104 §3.
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- **Deaths and retries are excluded entirely.** A rescue costs cargo and found modules, never progress, so a retried expedition repeats content already counted. Counting it would inflate the campaign with the player's mistakes.
- **Hauling is excluded entirely.** No colony unlock in this plan is paid for by a trip made only to pay for it. **The constraint that keeps that true, for [COL101](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Colony) and [DES104 §5](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Campaign#5-the-colony-across-the-campaign): every unlock must be payable out of salvage collected during the 35 baseline expeditions above.** If it is not, the campaign quietly becomes a grind and this section becomes false. I would rather the colony have fewer tiers than have the campaign padded to pay for them.
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### The figures in one place, for anyone quoting them
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*Added at r8. [EXT102's X33](/Hold%20the%20Flood/External%20Critique) reads this section and derives "nearer ten to fourteen" hours. That is a fair reading, and it is a composite the critic had to assemble because this page reported its parts in three places and no total anywhere. If the project's positioning is going to be restated at the new length, the number quoted should be one this role stands behind, so here it is once.*
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| What | Expeditions | Hours |
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| Authored beats on the baseline path, expedition time only | 35 | **8.4** |
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| Baseline path with dock overhead applied (unmeasured 25–35% assumption) | 35 | **10.5–11.3** |
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| Optional branches, expedition time only | 8 | 2.0 |
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| Optional branches with the same overhead | 8 | 2.5–2.7 |
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| **Everything designed, with overhead** | **43** | **13.0–14.0** |
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**So the honest span is about eight and a half hours of authored beats, ten to eleven for a player who does the baseline path, and thirteen to fourteen for one who does everything designed.** Deaths, retries and hauling are excluded from every row and are not campaign length. **The only measured figure in this table is zero of them**; the expedition counts come from printed beat lists, the overhead is an assumption stated as one, and all of it belongs to a phase that has not been authorised.
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**And the three parts of criterion 11 that X33 finds missing are not Campaign's to supply.** Which player the game serves, what specific experience offers value, and the evidence behind commercial positioning are the integrated owner document's, which is the lead's, with the External Critic on the evidence and PM on whether it is deferred. **This role supplies the length and nothing else about the product**, and it should not be read as having an opinion on price or shelf by supplying an hour count. If positioning is restated, the rows above are what it should be restated against; if it is deferred, this page has no objection and no standing to have one.
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### What this claims, and what it does not
**The claim:** the designed content on the baseline path is 35 expeditions and about eight and a half hours, against the three to four the owner rejected, with roughly two more hours of optional branches and an unmeasured dock multiplier on top.
