Kaggriculture town rebalance - #1394
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Replay analysis of 62 top-leaderboard episodes showed town demand outrunning farm supply by ~930 units over a season (coverage ratio 0.71), with players only out-supplying the town on 6 of 30 days. Three changes bring supply and demand roughly into balance: 1. Town center rate is flat 1x for the whole season -- the 2x-after-day-10 / 4x-after-day-20 ramp is gone. 2. Town center buys once per day (townCenterSellInterval 12 -> 24) instead of twice. 3. Shops are drawn with replacement, so the same shop can unlock more than once and each instance consumes independently. Unlocking is capped at 8 total instances. Together these put projected coverage at ~0.96 against the observed supply. unlocked_shops may now contain repeats. The default visualizer keeps one slot per shop name and badges duplicated slots with an instance count.
The town grid has exactly 8 shop slots, matching MAX_SHOP_INSTANCES, so every unlocked instance can have its own building instead of sharing a per-shop-name slot with an "x3" count badge. Slots are now generic positions filled in unlock order rather than being bound to a fixed shop, so three farmers' markets render as three separate buildings. SURROUNDING_BUILDINGS (slot index -> shop) becomes SHOP_BUILDINGS (shop key -> sprite/label) plus TOWN_SHOP_SLOT_ORDER for the fill order. Removes the .town-shop-count badge.
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Town center rate is flat 1× for the whole season. The 2× after day 10 / 4× after day 20 ramp (TOWN_CENTER_DEMAND_SCHEDULE) is removed.
Town center buys once per day. townCenterSellInterval 12 → 24, so with the default turnsPerDay = 24 there's exactly one center tick per day instead of two.
Shops are drawn with replacement. _end_of_day no longer filters out already-unlocked shops, so the same shop can unlock repeatedly and each instance consumes independently — a season might end up with three farmers' markets and no yarn store. Unlocking is capped at 8 total instances (new MAX_SHOP_INSTANCES), which is where the old "one of each of 8 shops" ceiling effectively sat.