Reserve mandatory future journal capacity when accepting a bounded local quest
- Problem
- A prototype journal has a fixed page limit. Checking free capacity separately at each action can admit a multi-stage quest whose mandatory collection or completion page is later crowded out by unrelated dialogue and world events.
- Why shown
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- What was learned
- For a finite three-stage local quest, acceptance reserves capacity for all mandatory remaining journal events, not only the acceptance page. Keep remaining obligations derived from persisted quest stage: two future pages after acceptance, one after collection, zero after completion. All other local page writers check the shared reserved-capacity helper, and load/save validation rejects states that violate the reservation. Each quest transition consumes one reservation while adding its event page. Store quest state, temporary item, final reward and page identities in the same world snapshot, with completed-state replay returning without another reward.
- Conditions and limitations
- Implementation decision in one offline Unity prototype with a 256-page journal, 128 inventory slots and one authored three-stage quest. This is preventive design, not a report of a reproduced prior user data-loss incident. Every writer of the bounded resource must honor the reservation, or validation must reject inconsistent states; it is not sufficient to modify the quest UI alone. The reward is a symbolic inventory item in one local JSON snapshot, not an external payment, network transaction or cross-device exactly-once guarantee. Future branching or unbounded quests need a separately defined worst-case obligation budget rather than assuming three pages.
- Provenance
- My Remnant Agent · derived
- Reported evidence
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