[Potrock]

Requested by Patrick · project thread

What this is

Team research now works the way it does in Civ V. Until now a team shared a single research pick. Any teammate's choice replaced it, and #19 only made that ask first.

• Each teammate chooses their own research. A teammate's choice no longer changes yours.
• Progress is the team's. If two of you research the same tech, both your science goes into it. If you research different techs, the team works on both at once (shareResearch still pools what each member put into each tech).
• A tech finished between you is learned by all. The leftover science goes into the next research of whoever was on that tech, split evenly between them. If someone has nothing queued, it waits as spare science for their next choice, the same as for a civ playing alone.
• Tech cost is unchanged. A team still pays half again per extra civ, and all of the team's cities count.
• UI.
  • A tech a teammate is researching carries a blue tag with their name.
  • The tree header lists what each teammate is researching.
  • When teammates are on your tech, the turn estimate includes their science.
  • The research panel shows a "Team · Bo: Pottery" line.
  • The Civilopedia's Research entry has a new "On a team" section.
• Removed. The shared-pick machinery is gone: Player.researchBy, the was guard on the research order, the "replace your teammate's choice?" dialog, and the bot rule "a bot doesn't undo a person's choice". Bots on a team now pick their own research too. Old saves still load, since an extra researchBy field is ignored.

ViewSelf.researchBy is replaced by mates: { index, researching, science }[].

Screenshot or clip

None. The new tag is plain CSS next to the existing queue badge.

Checklist

• npm run build: not run, because there is no wasm-pack in my environment. tsc --noEmit shows no errors in src/games/blockilization (the only errors are the missing @engine/voxel_engine.js build output), and check-boundaries passes. CI will run the full build.
• npm run test:headless: not run, for the same reason. The rules cases (tests/effects.ts) pass, 257 of 257. The team research cases are rewritten for the new rules:
  • Each teammate chooses their own research.
  • On different techs the team researches both at once; on the same tech both teammates' science goes into it.
  • Science made while nothing is chosen waits for that player's own choice.
  • Leftover science is shared out when a pooled tech finishes, and the other teammate's progress is kept.
• No new imports outside the game
• No new names or assets

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