Drafted by Claude (Opus 4.8) at andy5995's direction.
Umbrella/tracking issue for bringing IB's inter-BBS ("interplanetary") play up to parity with real BRE. I drove a two-board BRE 0.988 InterBBS league (coordinator + member, direct-read, no mailer) and compared its PLANETARY exchange against IB's Option A packet.
Validated as matching BRE: the file-drop + planetary-maintenance flow; the League Coordinator ruleset broadcast (IB's LeagueConfig fields map onto BRE's config editor); score sharing, cross-board group attacks, terror ops, and returned results; the BRNODES.DAT node-list layout reuse.
Gaps BRE exchanges but IB does not yet (sub-issues):
- Cross-board reconnaissance (recon requests/responses)
- Individual interplanetary attacks (Indiv. Attack Force)
- Cross-board Doomer Kaboomer status propagation
- Coordinator node-list broadcast (roster sync)
- Coordinator-driven league-wide reset (new season across all boards)
The wire-format difference (BRE uses FidoNet .MSG + a compressed binary packet; IB uses JSON) is an intentional clean-room choice, not a gap.
Umbrella/tracking issue for bringing IB's inter-BBS ("interplanetary") play up to parity with real BRE. I drove a two-board BRE 0.988 InterBBS league (coordinator + member, direct-read, no mailer) and compared its
PLANETARYexchange against IB's Option A packet.Validated as matching BRE: the file-drop + planetary-maintenance flow; the League Coordinator ruleset broadcast (IB's
LeagueConfigfields map onto BRE's config editor); score sharing, cross-board group attacks, terror ops, and returned results; theBRNODES.DATnode-list layout reuse.Gaps BRE exchanges but IB does not yet (sub-issues):
The wire-format difference (BRE uses FidoNet
.MSG+ a compressed binary packet; IB uses JSON) is an intentional clean-room choice, not a gap.