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Resolves #5278

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Adds Pulicat Lake, a brackish lagoon on the Andhra Pradesh / Tamil Nadu coast north of Chennai, built around a single-entrance lagoon.

  • 1176x1872 (2.20 MP, ~34 m/px), 56.9% water, 43.1% land
  • 12 nations from towns on both shores, all flagged in — no new flag SVGs or countries.json entries
  • categories: ["asia", "new"], themes: ["asia"], multiplayer_frequency: 4, special_team_count: 2 (two facing shores, as on Aegean and Caspian Sea)
  • Source is OpenStreetMap raster tiles; CREDITS.md gains the ODbL attribution

The one door. The lagoon has exactly one opening to the Bay of Bengal — the mouth at Pazhaverkadu — so ~40% of the map's water is a cul-de-sac with a single defensible door. Every trade ship between a lagoon port and anywhere else has to round the barrier spit and thread that mouth, which makes a warship parked in it worth more than one anywhere else on the map. The mouth is 13 tiles at its narrowest (7 on map4x), wide enough that ships path it without the shallow-water penalty. I checked this against the shipped map.bin and map4x.bin rather than by eye — at the zoom where the whole lagoon fits on screen, a second breach 900px away looks exactly like no breach at all, and the minimap downscale is water-dominant, so a 2px land bridge that closes a breach at full resolution can quietly not exist in Compact games.

Rivers. Four are carved in. Real drainage exists here but renders under a pixel wide, so the channels widen chains of water that are already there — tank chains, back-barrier pools, the Kalangi and Arani courses. They are sized for rail, not ships: 3-5px, so trains bridge them while territory cannot cross, which is what pushes the northern and south-western players to build ports. The Swarnamukhi cuts the northern strip into its own 82k px island holding one nation, and it runs east to the open sea rather than into the lagoon, so it does not become a second door.

Elevation is synthetic. OSM's colours encode land use, not height, so deriving relief from them would make forests mountainous. A flat coastal floodplain is the honest reading of the real terrain but renders as one uniform sheet of green with nothing to play around, so the heightfield keeps the coast, the barrier spit and the lagoon islands flat and raises the interior, with the rivers cutting their own valleys instead of wearing the coast's apron. Split is roughly 65% plains / 27% highland / 8% mountain.

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  • I process any text displayed to the user through translateText() and I've added it to the en.json file
  • I have added relevant tests to the test directory

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Adds Pulicat Lake as a new Asia map. The change defines map metadata and settlements, adds the manifest and English localization, registers the map, and records OpenStreetMap attribution.

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Pulicat Lake map

Layer / File(s) Summary
Map definition and assets
map-generator/assets/maps/pulicatlake/info.json, resources/maps/pulicatlake/manifest.json, CREDITS.md
Defines map metadata, dimensions, land-tile counts, twelve settlements, themes, categories, and OpenStreetMap attribution under ODbL.
Runtime map registration
src/core/game/Maps.gen.ts, resources/lang/en.json
Adds the PulicatLake map type, registers its metadata, and adds the English name “Pulicat Lake.”

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Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant MapSelection
  participant MapsMetadata
  participant EnglishLocalization
  participant PulicatManifest
  MapSelection->>MapsMetadata: select PulicatLake
  MapsMetadata->>EnglishLocalization: resolve map.pulicatlake
  MapsMetadata->>PulicatManifest: load map metadata and settlements
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to fd415

Pulicat Lake registration lacks the required accompanying generic map-registry coverage. Add the existing non-map-specific assertion update before merge.

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Check name Status Explanation
Description check ✅ Passed The description clearly explains the Pulicat Lake map, its gameplay features, data sources, licensing, and implementation details.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: adding the Pulicat Lake map with its defining single-entrance lagoon layout.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy the coding objectives in [#5278]. The map is registered as PulicatLake with asia and new categories. The map resources provide 1176×1872 dimensions and 942,363 land tiles, wh…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes stay within [#5278]. The modified files add Pulicat Lake map assets, map metadata, generated map registration, English localization, and the required OpenStreetMap attribution. No unrelate…
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 1…
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Pulicat joins the map parade
Twelve towns stand where shores are made
Asia marks the new terrain
Lagoon and coastline meet again
OpenStreetMap records the guide
A fresh map waits on either side

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In `@src/core/game/Maps.gen.ts`:
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Verdict: Approve with one required fix — solid content-only map addition, but the generated data entry is missing a required field.

Findings by severity: 1 High, 0 Medium, 0 Low

File: src/core/game/Maps.gen.ts

  • [High] Lines 1751-1762 — new PulicatLake entry is missing the required defaultNationCount field.
    MapInfo declares defaultNationCount: number; as a required (non-optional) field (src/core/game/Maps.gen.ts:215), and every other entry in the maps array sets it (e.g. Pluto -> defaultNationCount: 16, QingChina -> defaultNationCount: 32). The new entry omits it entirely:
    {
        id: "PulicatLake",
        type: GameMapType.PulicatLake,
        translationKey: "map.pulicatlake",
        categories: ["asia", "new"],
        multiplayerFrequency: 4,
        ffaFrequency: -1,
        teamFrequency: -1,
        specialFrequency: -1,
        specialTeamCount: 2,
        themes: ["asia"],
    },
    This file is generated by map-generator/codegen.go, which emits defaultNationCount: len(info.Nations) for every map, so this entry does not match what the generator currently produces, and will not match main once this PR is rebased (the PR is currently based on a commit that predates the defaultNationCount field, which is why it is not flagged as missing relative to its own diff context). Once rebased onto current main, this will fail to typecheck (MapInfo[] requires defaultNationCount on every element).
    Runtime impact if the field ends up defaulted to 0 some other way: src/server/GameServer.ts:1096 computes mapInfo?.defaultNationCount ?? 0, so a "default" nations lobby on Pulicat Lake would get 0 nations instead of the intended 12 (the map manifest at resources/maps/pulicatlake/manifest.json lists 12 nations).
    Suggested fix: add defaultNationCount: 12, to the entry (matching the 12 nations in info.json/manifest.json), or regenerate this file with npm run gen-maps after rebasing onto main.

No other issues found. The i18n entry in resources/lang/en.json is correctly added and no other translation files were touched, the CREDITS.md attribution is consistent with existing OSM/ODbL entries, and info.json/manifest.json/Maps.gen.ts are otherwise internally consistent (matching id, translationKey, nation coordinates within map bounds, and proportional map/map4x/map16x dimensions).

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Pulicat Lake is a brackish lagoon on the Andhra Pradesh / Tamil Nadu
coast north of Chennai. 1176x1872 (2.20 MP, ~34 m/px), 56.9% water,
12 nations, all flagged `in`.

The lagoon has exactly one opening to the Bay of Bengal — the mouth at
Pazhaverkadu — so ~40% of the map's water is a cul-de-sac with a single
defensible door. Every trade ship between a lagoon port and anywhere
else has to round the barrier spit and thread that mouth, which makes a
warship parked in it worth more than one anywhere else on the map. The
mouth is 13 tiles at its narrowest (7 on map4x), wide enough that ships
path it without the shallow-water penalty.

Four rivers are carved in. Real drainage exists here but renders under a
pixel wide, so the channels widen chains of water that are already
there — tank chains, back-barrier pools, the Kalangi and Arani courses.
They are sized for rail, not ships: 3-5px, so trains bridge them while
territory cannot cross, which is what pushes the northern and
south-western players to build ports. The Swarnamukhi cuts the northern
strip into its own 82k px island holding one nation, and it runs east to
the open sea rather than into the lagoon, so it does not become a second
door.

Elevation is synthetic. OSM's colours encode land use, not height, so
deriving relief from them would make forests mountainous; a flat coastal
floodplain is the honest reading but renders as one uniform sheet of
green with nothing to play around. The heightfield keeps the coast, the
barrier spit and the lagoon islands flat and raises the interior, with
rivers cutting their own valleys instead of wearing the coast's apron.

Maps.gen.ts and the en.json map name are map-generator output.
CREDITS.md gains the ODbL attribution for the OpenStreetMap source.

The multiplayer frequency is 3. It was 4, which put the FFA playlist's
ticket total at a length MapPlaylistOvertime's assertion cannot tolerate:
rollConfig derives isCompact from `playlists.ffa.length % 3`, so the
first lobby's value is a position in the rotation rather than a constant,
and only frequencies congruent to 1 mod 3 flip it. 3 is an ordinary
weight for a map this size and changes nothing else.
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Thinking maybe make the bottom right land as an island to promote pirating
Screenshot 2026-09-13 015630

to make it look something like this
Screenshot 2026-09-13 015740

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