Early solvency + Captain Bridge game UX

name: Solvency and bridge polish overview: Stop early-campaign cash death (lien + idle premium + free-run burn), and restyle Captain Bridge from Fluent/ops console into a tramp freighter bridge—using concrete economy and UI leverage points, plus project Cursor hooks so follow-up agents stay on-brief. todos:

• id: econ-lien-grace

content: Lien soft-start (21d grace, then 4%/40) + opening cash factor 0.50 in CampaignWorld/LienPulse status: completed

• id: econ-idle-premium

content: Docked idle premium accrual at 0.15× operating; UI/coach show effective rate status: completed

• id: econ-hardpause

content: Avalonia/human session default HardPause; keep RunAlways for headless/autopilot status: completed

• id: ui-palette-buttons

content: CalypsoPalette + Primary/Secondary/Danger button styles; rewire CTAs status: completed

• id: ui-voyage-boards

content: Hero voyage metrics, contract-style board rows, tuck Ops chrome, feedback strip status: completed

• id: ui-map-type

content: Display typography + map atmosphere (Calypso-local or careful StarMap tint) status: completed

• id: cursor-hooks

content: Project sessionStart + afterFileEdit hooks for Calypso solvency/UX brief status: completed

• id: verify-play

content: Idle-burn check + Avalonia rebuild smoke; nuget/project-ref policy scripts status: completed isProject: false

Diagnosis

Money: Calypso opens at 6,300 cash (OpeningFirmCash × 0.35) with a 4,500 restoration lien serviced at max(80, 8%/day) ≈ 360/d in `LienPulse.cs`. Insurance now accrues full ~14/d even when docked (`InsurancePulse.cs`). Default `RunAlways` keeps the calendar moving while “awaiting James,” so idle berths burn ~386/d with zero revenue (~16 days to empty).

UI: `MainWindow.cs` is imperative C# on Fluent Dark + Inter, monospace briefing widgets, identical Fluent buttons, map-as-scatter-plot — Studio/EMR chrome, not a voyage game.

flowchart LR
  subgraph sinks [Early daily sinks]
    Lien["Lien ~360/d"]
    Prem["Premium full ~14/d docked"]
    Dock["Capital dock 12/d"]
  end
  Cash["Cash 6300"] --> Lien
  Cash --> Prem
  Cash --> Dock
  RunAlways["RunAlways idle"] --> sinks

Economy: early solvency package

All knobs live in campaign code (no GPR/economy package publish required for the main fixes).

1. Lien soft-start in `LienPulse.cs` + constants in `CampaignWorld.cs`:

• Days 1–21: no lien cash service (principal frozen; still visible on bridge).
• After grace: service 4% of principal (floor 40), not 8%/80.
• Keep principal at 4,500 so the debt story remains; only the early cash vacuum changes.

1. Idle standing premium (keep wage-style accrual model):

• In `InsurancePulse.cs`, when insured and not IsOperating, accrue QuotePremiumDue × IdleStandingFactor (0.15), memo idle standing.
• Underway / operating: full daily accrual as now.
• Burned/suspended path unchanged (standing band already exists via quotes).
• Update bridge copy in `CaptainBridgeModel` / coach so “premium X/d” reflects the effective accrual rate when docked.

1. Opening cash: raise `PlayerOpeningCashFactor` 0.35 → 0.50 → 9,000 opening (still lean vs fleet 18k / rivals 12.6k).

1. Interactive clock default: Avalonia / human session sessions start on `HardPause` so berth decisions don’t auto-burn days. Headless, autopilot, warm/replay, and explicit RunAlways benches stay free-running. Touch `PlayerControlState` defaults only where interactive launch sets attention (`MainWindow` / campaign boot for Avalonia mode)—do not break CLI throughput tests.

1. Docs: one paragraph in `ship-law-and-transit.md` for grace + idle standing factor.

Target feel: first ~3 weeks are playable (freight + empty steam), not a lien treadmill; insurance still accrues while docked but as standing fee, not full operating tax.

UI: tramp freighter bridge (not medical instrument)

Direction (locked): deep navy / teal atmosphere, warm copper–amber accent (keep #d4a017 family), chart-table energy. Avoid purple SaaS, cream+terracotta, and broadsheet density. Stay C#-built layout (no AXAML rewrite); extract tokens and styles.

Leverage points (highest ROI first)

1. `CalypsoPalette` + button styles — new small type in Ui/ (e.g. CalypsoTheme.cs): surfaces, text, accent, danger, success; Styles for Primary / Secondary / Danger buttons. Wire Travel / Accept / Depart as primary; Step/Continue secondary; soft-fail actions muted.

1. Typography — stop Inter-as-brand. Load one expressive display face for “Calypso” / voyage status (e.g. a distinctive serif or condensed display already redistributable, or ship a single font asset under Sins Assets/Fonts if license-clear). Body: readable non-Inter UI face. Keep mono only for Raw / debug ledgers.

1. Voyage as hero panel — restructure right-rail voyage stack: large phase line (Dock / Underway), cash + life as metric chips (reuse `DualMetricStrip` patterns with Calypso colors), coach as secondary gold whisper; demote registry/money DataGrids behind a closed “Ship papers” expander/tab.

1. Boards as contract rows — replace single-string ListBox items with a simple DataTemplate / custom row control: origin→dest, margin, distance, at-dock badge. Still bound to SpotJobs / charters; no gameplay change.

1. Tuck clinical chrome — Attention / Speed / clock into a compact “Ops” expander (default collapsed in Avalonia). Transport row stays visible but visually quieter than Travel/Accept.

1. Map atmosphere — in `StarMapControl` or a thin Calypso wrapper: vignette / faint grid, slightly warmer edge tint; keep selection/route/ship orange. Prefer Calypso-local wrapper overrides if StarMap is shared elsewhere so other products don’t inherit game chrome.

1. Feedback — replace LightGreen/OrangeRed Studio flashes with palette gold/rust banner strip in bridge feedback path.

Brand-first first viewport: Calypso remains the hero word; one voyage status; one primary CTA group; map as the visual plane—not a wall of equal Fluent buttons.

Cursor hooks (keep agents on-brief)

Add project hooks under `.cursor/hooks.json` + `.cursor/hooks/`:

Fail open; command or prompt hooks per existing Cursor hook skill. Scope: novolis project hooks only.

Verification

• Headless / unit: early 30-day idle dock burn with HardPause ≈ premium standing + dock fee only (no lien during grace); with RunAlways + grace, cash lasts far past day 16.
• Avalonia smoke: new game opens HardPause; Travel enabled to suggested remote on barren berth; voyage panel reads as bridge not EMR.
• verify-nuget-only / verify-project-ref-mode -SkipBuild unchanged (UI/economy local to apps + optional StarMap tweak).
• Rebuild requires stopping running SinsOfACapitalismTycoon.exe.

Out of scope

• Rewriting SurvivalCaptain AI / soft-fail rules beyond clock default.
• Full AXAML migration or new art pipeline.
• Changing mega/fleet NPC economy balance.