We are correcting the design so that ordinary play delivers a discovery-focused survivorslike: massed enemies, expressive builds, urgency, surprising discoveries and a growing home. The owner resumed work on 9 September after finding that the earlier design was too small and deliberate, difficult to read, and weak on the player's experience.

The owner will receive a short revised pitch, one representative expedition and three contrasting build examples. The expedition must let a reader picture preparation, crowd pressure, a build breakthrough, a consequential discovery, a climax and relief. The builds must show visible behavior, player choices, growth and an earned payoff.

Systems writes the horde and build proposal. The Design Lead writes the pitch and expedition independently. The Reviewer saves criteria before reading either draft, then gives one combined critique. PM reads the actual proposals, resolves material conflicts through one bounded author response, and brings the resulting direction to the owner. Dates and actual worker states are on [Progress](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Progress).

- The ordinary expedition, not just an exceptional scene, is recognizably a survivorslike with massed enemies and consequential movement.

The reading path will run from the promise and an expedition to combat/builds, discovery and the changing station, people/home/story, and finally detailed reference. Main articles begin with player actions and examples. Each rule has one owning location; useful dependencies are linked and unfamiliar terms defined where introduced. Older debates and versions stay in revision history. Source hashes, review exchanges and delivery records stay in project administration or chat.

PM is preparing navigation and removing obsolete management layers now. Broader game-page rewrites follow the selected direction so that cleaner prose also describes a better game. Existing detailed samples are preserved for possible reuse; they do not constrain the correction.

This is design work. The selected engine is Unity and intended platform is Steam. Implementation, simulations, playtests and game assets await their relevant owner authorization. The hospital/godhood story remains a revisable leading proposal. The five earlier owner questions remain open; silence settles none of them.

After the owner reacts to the corrected proposal, PM will assign the main-article rewrites and update the detailed-campaign estimate. Additional permanent agents will be proposed only for a concrete independent workload. The earlier readiness declaration is withdrawn; the [readiness page](/Hold%20The%20Flood/V1%20Readiness) records the current decision.