Document GP-DOC-08: Field Operations

The Pool

GP-7, "the Pool," is a volcanic island concession terraformed by Genopool Industries™ into ten climate-containment sectors, each held by climate pylons, plus the Hollow Depths underworld and the Campus Zero hub. The player is a contracted Field Handler working the Recovery Program, sold publicly as a "Participatory Genetic Census." Three of the legal guardrails are diegetic here: the lasso is issued, not sold; the scan is free before a paid cage; sectors open by clearances that are won, never bought.

The world is presented continuous but implemented as a graph of zone-rooms (one room per biome, plus hub and Hollow), transitions dressed as containment portals in under 500 ms. Tile is 32 px. Surface canvas is 1152 × 768 tiles plus the separate Hollow map: roughly 970,000 tiles, ~60% walkable.

Movement is equal for everyone, forever

Locked: overworld movement speed is fixed and identical for every player, permanently. No creature stat and no currency modifies it. A speed that could be bought or stat-boosted would be a paid spawn/positioning advantage, a direct guardrail violation. Pay-to-go-fast lives in the market and the races, never in the walk.

walk    5.5 tiles/s (176 px/s)
sprint  8.0 tiles/s   gauge 6 s, recharge 4 s
crouch  2.75 tiles/s  (stealth approach)

server anti-cheat : v_max = sprint × 1.25 = 10 tiles/s
                    -> <= 32 px per 100 ms update, else snapback

The ten sectors

Danger is always deterministic and telegraphed (0% RNG): it punishes reading, never luck. Cold (Borealis) and heat (Caldera / Hollow) are hard gates at the portal, not gauges to manage in play.

#	Sector	Engine biome	Clearance	Note
01	Verdant	FLAT / forest	H-A (starter)	Tutorial sector, zero danger.
04	Littora	TIDAL	H-A	Tide cycle 2 h (even hours = low tide); one-third of the map changes.
10	Stagnis	WATER / mud	H-A	Mud is 40% speed off the boardwalk: slow by design.
06	Umbra	ICE / turns proxy	H-B	Mist forest, reduced visibility; webs -40% (deterministic).
05	Glacius	ICE	H-B	Slide physics; thin-ice pattern re-seeded hourly.
02	Aridis	FLAT / sand	H-B	Sandstorm corridor rotates hourly; endurance sector.
03	Borealis	INCLINE	H-C	Cable-car access; river source; underworld roof.
08	Reliquary	corridors	H-C	Site Alpha ruins: lore terminals open here.
09	Caldera	PWR / heat	H-D	Prestige sector: rarer spawns, raised tiers. Geothermal vents, cycle 6 s.
07	Hollow	GAP / dark	H-D	The hexapod spot; endgame shortcut network. Head-lamp radius 8 tiles.

Sector 00, The Crest, is a sealed, non-terraformed ridge behind a monumental containment door: inert, lore only, a sealed Season 2 teaser. Nothing behind it is live.

Terrain clearances H-A → H-D

Clearances (Habilitations de terrain) are issued by the Containment & Recovery Division, distinct from the C1-C6 piloting license grades (see Ratings & Divisions). Everything is won by playing. No clearance, key, or access equipment is purchasable in any currency: rare-spawn access is a competitive advantage, strictly out of commerce. Each tier is doubled by equivalent field contracts (anti-wall), so no player is stuck behind a race-win condition they cannot land.

Clearance	Sectors opened	v0 conditions (OR equivalent field contracts)	Equipment issued free
H-A (at signup, ~10 min tutorial)	Hub, Verdant, Littora, Stagnis	-	Lasso Mk.I, Field Scanner
H-B temperate	Umbra, Glacius, Aridis	8 captures + 3 official races finished + 4 H-A landmarks visited	Crampons
H-C altitude & classified	Borealis, Reliquary	20 captures + 10 races finished incl. 3 top-3 + scans of 3 distinct species	Thermal Harness
H-D red zone	Hollow, Caldera	40 captures + 25 races incl. 1 win + 1 lab cross completed	Head-lamp, Thermal Shield

Issued equipment has no effect on race stats; it is a pure overworld terrain gate.

World events

All timings and targets derive from the on-chain hour/day seeds, so they are announceable and verifiable. The rule of event attribution is: never first-come. First-come rewards movement speed and latency and breeds kill-steal toxicity. Event attribution is always a personal attempt or a best-score contest of skill. (Standard shared spawns use the engagement lock instead, see Wild Spawns: once a Handler engages, nobody can steal or spook the attempt.)

Event	Cadence	Rule (never first-come)
Calibration Rush	Every hour, the hour's circuit biome	Spawn cap +50%, interval -33% in that biome (applied before the √n population scaling). Collective benefit: more shared specimens for everyone; attribution stays the engagement lock.
Migration	Every 3 h, 12-min window	Each player present ≥ 2 min and having scanned ≥ 1 migrant materializes 1 personal migrant (rare species, Q ≥ Q2, seed account-bound). Parallel captures, zero rivalry.
Containment Anomaly	1/day, 18:00-23:00 UTC	1 unique Alpha (Q4 + 1 rare allele guaranteed). Attribution by 90 s skill contest: everyone plays the same deterministic pattern, best score wins the capture right, ties broken by first server timestamp. Consolation (score ≥ 80% of best): +1 lasso + 50 SCRIP.
Exploration Bounty	Once per landmark	First visit to an undiscovered landmark: +1 lasso + 25 SCRIP. Personal, non-competitive.

The Alpha contest is the anti-toxicity guardrail: nobody steals the Alpha by arriving first; each Handler plays their own containment fight on an identical plan, talent decides, and the server re-simulates the input trace (anti-cheat for free, see Provably Fair).

Continue to Wild Spawns for how specimens are generated, and to Capture & Caging for the second-by-second loop.