Phase 45 · geometry as infrastructure / local reservoir accounting

Cheap trip or prepaid trip?

AT-0353 → AT-0362, canonical AT-0381 → AT-0390. Deterministic toy benchmark seed 353. Phase 44 left exactly one mechanism class standing: a medium charged up in advance. This package prices it. Every edge of the route holds a stored resource, every transit drains it, recharge is bounded and local, and the marginal figure is never quoted without the fully amortized one beside it.

The lesson before the numbers

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SeedSeed 353 reproduces the recorded infrastructure benchmark.Route edges — 60Length of the prepared route, in edges.Preload per edge — 6.0Stored resource placed on every edge before the first trip. Somebody pays this.Capacity per edge — 6.0Maximum an edge can hold. Caps how many trips one loading can serve.Draw per edge — 0.80Resource each transit removes from every edge it crosses.Recharge rate — 0.010Bounded local refill, per edge per model time unit.Recharge window — 7Idle time between trips during which edges refill.Recharge efficiency — 1.00External input required per unit of stored resource restored. Never below one.Trigger per trip — 0.20Cost of starting a trip. Independent of route length, which is why it flatters.Trips attempted — 8Lifetime of one loading, in attempted transits.Ordinary cost per edge — 0.80Simply covering the distance with no prepared geometry at all.Transport loss — 2.0%Loss per edge when the loading is delivered locally from a depot.

Running the infrastructure accounting package…