User finding 2 (retail screenshot, houseless character): the House tab
shows "You do not currently own a house." ABOVE "You may buy another
house immediately." — ours showed only the second line, and the prior
session had REFUTED the first line outright ("no such string exists
anywhere in the 2013 dump").
Re-derivation: the string exists in the binary at data_7ab688 — it is
gmHouseUI::DisplayBuyPayment @0x004a2b30's HOUSELESS branch. Two
compounding misreads hid it: (a) DisplayBuyPayment was mislabeled
houseless-silent, but its m_pHouseData gate only selects WHICH text
(jne 0x4a2b63) — the ListBox emit (@0x004a2b80 onward,
AddItemFromTemplateList + SetTextWithFont) runs in BOTH branches; and
(b) BN's pseudo-C renders both push-literal operands as spurious
&vftable.RecvNotice_* symbol matches (the TS-85/F3 artifact class), so
text sweeps of the dump find nothing — capstone byte-decode of the
PDB-paired binary resolves houseless @0x004a2b57 push 0x7ab688 =
"You do not currently own a house." and owned @0x004a2b63 push
0x7ab65c = "The purchase price for this dwelling is:\n" (+
HousePaymentList::ComposeText, still #413 item-3 scope). The morning
brief's alternate DAT-string-table hypothesis was checked and is NOT
the mechanism — plain exe string-pool literal.
RuntimeHouseState.Recompute now renders the houseless case as retail's
exact two lines in gmHouseUI::Update's fixed builder order
(DisplayBuyPayment first, DisplayPurchaseTimeText last); the owned case
is unchanged (its DisplayBuyPayment content needs ComposeText, #413
item 3). Class doc + ISSUES #413 corrected honestly — the user's retail
evidence supersedes the earlier refutation. Runtime house tests updated
to pin both lines; 9/9 pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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