field guide: file-editing is THE feedback method -- Discord-reply protocol removed; YOUR NOTES block (callsign-first entry lines) inserted after all 9 WE NEED YOUR MEMORY sections; head/tail instructions rewritten (edit the file, post it back)

docs/WEAPONS_FIELD_GUIDE.txt

@@ -15,16 +15,12 @@
  if a section simply matches what you remember, a one-word "matches" is
  genuinely useful data.
 
- HOW TO REPLY -- two ways, both welcome:
+ HOW TO REPLY: EDIT THIS FILE. Every section that needs your input
- (a) Discord weapons thread, one reply per section, starting with the
+ ends with a YOUR NOTES block -- write directly in it (callsign first,
-     section name in caps (e.g. "GAUSS:"). Then MATCHES / CONTRADICTS /
+ then MATCHES / CONTRADICTS / CAN'T RECALL, then your detail) and post
-     CAN'T RECALL, then whatever detail you have.
+ the edited file back when you're done. Which floor, which revision,
- (b) OR mark up THIS FILE the way the issues list gets marked up: add
+ which mech you flew -- machine-room details turn weak memories into
-     your notes directly under any section (prefix lines with your
+ strong evidence.
-     callsign) and post the edited file back to the thread. Spreadsheet
-     exports welcome too -- whatever is easiest keeps the data coming.
- Which floor, which revision, which mech you flew -- machine-room
- details turn weak memories into strong evidence.
 
  ONE RETRACTION UP FRONT: the last issues handout (#27) told you
  ballistic rounds could now "genuinely MISS a moving target". The
@@ -77,6 +73,12 @@ WE NEED YOUR MEMORY
     charge (with an electrical alarm)? A yes pins down a control path
     we have not been able to identify from the code alone.
 
+
+  YOUR NOTES (callsign first, one entry per line):
+  >
+  >
+  >
+
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 2. THE CHARGE GEAR (ALL ENERGY WEAPONS) -- AND THE BRICK THE ARCADE SHIPPED
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@@ -103,6 +105,12 @@ WE NEED YOUR MEMORY
     weapon DARK -- charged but refusing to fire until re-arm? If pods
     genuinely ate weapons this way, some of you will remember it.
 
+
+  YOUR NOTES (callsign first, one entry per line):
+  >
+  >
+  >
+
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 3. PPC AND ER PPC
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@@ -138,6 +146,12 @@ WE NEED YOUR MEMORY (this one really matters)
   - Separately: after taking PPC hits, do you remember the generator
     browning out or your weapons losing charge (the short rider)?
 
+
+  YOUR NOTES (callsign first, one entry per line):
+  >
+  >
+  >
+
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 4. AUTOCANNONS -- AFC25 / AFC50 / AFC100
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@@ -190,6 +204,12 @@ WE NEED YOUR MEMORY
   - Round pace: roughly how fast did cannon rounds visibly fly?
     About a second to cross full range, or very different?
 
+
+  YOUR NOTES (callsign first, one entry per line):
+  >
+  >
+  >
+
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 5. GAUSS                                        ** THE HEADLINE QUESTION **
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@@ -223,6 +243,12 @@ WE NEED YOUR MEMORY (the headline)
     floor revision shipped content for the dead mechanism, content
     we do not have.
 
+
+  YOUR NOTES (callsign first, one entry per line):
+  >
+  >
+  >
+
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 6. MISSILES -- HOW EVERY RACK REALLY FIRES
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@@ -304,6 +330,12 @@ WE NEED YOUR MEMORY
     into a wall or an adjacent mech? Our port says no; the original's
     code will not tell us. Your memory is the tiebreaker.
 
+
+  YOUR NOTES (callsign first, one entry per line):
+  >
+  >
+  >
+
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 8. HOMING AGILITY, THE LRM ARC, AND THE NARC
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@@ -354,6 +386,12 @@ WE NEED YOUR MEMORY
     (Range on a missile is display-only either way -- the rounds fly
     on physics -- but your answer dates our content revision.)
 
+
+  YOUR NOTES (callsign first, one entry per line):
+  >
+  >
+  >
+
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 9. AMMO, EJECT, AND JAMS (CANNONS AND RACKS)
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@@ -391,6 +429,12 @@ WE NEED YOUR MEMORY
     our own nights: an SRM6 latched out with 19 rounds left. Whether
     that could happen at authentic intensity is an open question.)
 
+
+  YOUR NOTES (callsign first, one entry per line):
+  >
+  >
+  >
+
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 10. INCOMING-MISSILE WARNING
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@@ -409,6 +453,12 @@ WE NEED YOUR MEMORY
     change, a lamp -- anything. If it did not, #83 closes for free.
     If it did, describe it and we build exactly that.
 
+
+  YOUR NOTES (callsign first, one entry per line):
+  >
+  >
+  >
+
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 APPENDIX A -- THE AUTHORED NUMBERS (straight from the shipped content)
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@@ -466,8 +516,7 @@ FLIGHT PROFILES (authored on the round, not the rack)
   up to 10 seconds before fizzling.
 
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- HOW TO REPLY (again, because it matters): Discord weapons thread, one
+ WHEN YOU'RE DONE: post your edited copy of this file back to the
- reply per section, section name first, then MATCHES / CONTRADICTS /
+ weapons thread. "MATCHES" alone in a notes block is real data. The
- CAN'T RECALL and your detail. "Matches" alone is real data. The GAUSS
+ GAUSS and PPC-HIT questions are the two we cannot answer without you.
- and PPC-HIT questions are the two we cannot answer without you.
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