re: refute the OB entity-flag on the FULL enumeration -- the stationary-entity hole is closed
Every earlier refutation in this file carried the caveat that entities2.typed types entities by their position CHANGING, so a stationary objective is invisible to it. This session's definition-pointer enumeration does not have that limit, so the sweep was re-run against it (ob_flag_all.py, guarded route, stage asserted, HUD cropped beside each sample): A: HUD 004, 147 entities -> 152 candidates B: HUD 012, 133 entities -> 15 candidates intersection: 1 The lone survivor pos+0x0250 = 239d6732 is the same offset AND identical value this file already characterised as a per-group word. Membership test: all 12 holders are UN_e010_ADAN_Attacker_S, 12 of 16 live attackers. It is a squad parameter, and it survived only because that population equalled the counter at both samples. Also reconfirms "not a class head-count" on 147 entities including capital ships. Trap recorded: the first sweep reported 298 entities and a class with head-count exactly 4 -- a perfect-looking hit that was pure artifact. Deduping by ADDRESS leaves the measured exact 2x duplication (pairs 0x1000 apart, byte-identical positions) intact and doubles every population. Dedup on the position VALUE.
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**What is still not ruled out** is unchanged from the word-level pass: anything
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outside the window, and anything on entities `entities2.typed` cannot see (it
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types by position *changing*, so stationary objectives are invisible).
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---
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## 🔴 2026-08-27 — the last hole is closed: refuted on the FULL entity enumeration too
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Every refutation above carried the same caveat: *"anything on entities
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`entities2.typed` cannot see — it types by position **changing**, so a stationary
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objective is invisible to it."* That hole is now closed, because this session
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established an enumeration that does not have it — search for the **definition
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pointer** and take `position = hit - 0x130`
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([`two-entity-enumerations.md`](two-entity-enumerations.md)), which finds every
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entity moving or not, capital ships and the `ACROPOLIS` included.
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Re-run with that enumeration ([`ob_flag_all.py`](../../tools/re-capture/ob_flag_all.py)),
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guarded route, stage asserted, HUD cropped beside every sample:
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| pass | HUD | entities | candidates |
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|---|---|---|---|
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| A | `004` | **147** | 152 |
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| B | `012` | 133 | 15 |
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| **intersection** | | | **1** |
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The lone survivor is **`pos+0x0250 = 239d6732`** — and it is **the same offset and
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the identical value** this file already characterised as a per-group word. Put to
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the membership test rather than admired:
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```
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holders of pos+0x250 == 239d6732 : 12
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12 UN_e010_ADAN_Attacker_S (of 16 live attackers)
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```
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**All twelve are attackers.** It is a squad parameter or pointer shared by part of
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the `e010` population, and it survived only because that population happened to
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equal the counter at both samples. Not an objective flag.
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### What this adds
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* 🔴 The **"objectives are marked in the entity object"** family is now refuted on
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an enumeration that **includes stationary entities** — the limit every earlier
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pass had to state is gone, not merely narrowed.
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* 🔴 **"Not a class head-count" is reconfirmed on 147 entities including capital
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ships**: no class had a population of 4 at A or 12 at B.
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* ⚠️ **A trap worth having.** The first run of this sweep reported **298**
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entities and a class with head-count exactly 4 (`UN_f105_TCAF_Cruiser`) — an
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apparently perfect hit. It was an artifact: deduplicating by *address* leaves
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this session's measured **exact 2× duplication** (pairs `0x1000` apart holding
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byte-identical positions) intact, so every entity is counted twice and every
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population doubles. Deduplicating by **position value** gives 147 and the
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spurious class hit disappears. Any sweep of this shape must dedup on the
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position triple, not the address.
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### Still open
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* ❔ Anything **outside** the `-0x400 … +0xC00` window — unchanged.
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* ❔ Sample A's holder membership was not re-checked (the world had moved on), so
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"4 attackers at A" is inferred from B's membership plus this file's earlier
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identification of the same word, not measured.
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* ❔ What the counter *does* count. Still unexplained: it read `004` with ~118
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hostiles live, rose `004 → 012` as waves spawned, held through a third of the
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hostile population dying, and decremented once when the player killed.
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tools/re-capture/ob_flag_all.py
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"""Flag sweep over the DEFINITION-POINTER enumeration (sees stationary entities)."""
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import sys, os, struct, collections, json
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sys.path.insert(0, '/tmp/rc')
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import gmem, gworld, entities2 as E
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LO, HI = -0x400, 0xC00
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def entities(w):
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"""Every entity via its definition pointer: position = hit - 0x130."""
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defs = E.definitions(w)
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lo, hi = gmem.va_to_off(E.ENT_VA_LO), gmem.va_to_off(E.ENT_VA_HI)
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out = []
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for pat, nm in defs.items():
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for a, b in gmem.extents(w.fd, w.size):
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a, b = max(a, lo), min(b, hi)
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if b <= a: continue
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blob = os.pread(w.fd, b - a, a); i = 0
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while True:
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j = blob.find(pat, i)
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if j < 0: break
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off = a + j
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if off % 4 == 0: out.append((off - 0x130, nm))
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i = j + 4
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return out
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def sweep(w, ents, n):
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"""(offset, value) pairs shared by exactly n entities."""
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tally = collections.defaultdict(collections.Counter)
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for pos, nm in ents:
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buf = os.pread(w.fd, HI - LO, pos + LO)
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if len(buf) < HI - LO: continue
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for k in range(0, HI - LO, 4):
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tally[LO + k][struct.unpack('>I', buf[k:k+4])[0]] += 1
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return {(o, v) for o, c in tally.items() for v, k in c.items() if k == n}
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if __name__ == '__main__':
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n = int(sys.argv[1]); tag = sys.argv[2]
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w = gworld.World()
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ents = entities(w)
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# Dedup by POSITION VALUE, not by address: this session measured an exact
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# 2x duplication (pairs 0x1000 apart holding byte-identical positions), so
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# deduping on the address leaves every entity counted twice and the
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# "exactly N agree" test can never match.
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ded = {}
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for pos, nm in ents:
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b = os.pread(w.fd, 12, pos)
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if len(b) < 12: continue
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key = (nm, struct.unpack('>fff', b))
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ded.setdefault(key, pos)
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ents = [(pos, nm) for (nm, _), pos in ded.items()]
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print('entities (definition-pointer enumeration):', len(ents))
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c = collections.Counter(nm for _, nm in ents)
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print('classes whose head-count equals %d: %s' % (n, [k for k, v in c.items() if v == n] or 'NONE'))
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cand = sweep(w, ents, n)
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print('offsets where exactly %d entities agree: %d' % (n, len(cand)))
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json.dump([[o, v] for o, v in sorted(cand)], open('/tmp/flag_%s.json' % tag, 'w'))
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