Development Update #5 — A City That Remembers

How we rebuilt persistence so businesses, courts and characters carry consequences across every session.

The biggest thing we shipped so far isn't visible on a screenshot — it's the memory layer underneath the city. Chandrasurya now persists business ledgers, court judgments, property damage and reputation between every session.

What does that mean in practice? If a judge signs a warrant on Tuesday, it's still active on Friday. If your restaurant failed to pay its supplier for a week, deliveries stop. If you ate a felony conviction, the next judge you stand before will read it.

We call it consequence RP: the world reacts to what players actually did, not to what a script reset at midnight.

Next up: the reputation layer for player-owned businesses, and the long-awaited rewrite of the phone's banking app.