Support persistent residents with normal resurrection and closer companions

ale/azerothai_lifecycle.lua

@@ -1,6 +1,13 @@
 -- Persistent hardcore retirement. The native random-bot manager fills vacancies
 -- from its factory-created, unused starting-level reserve; identities are never reset.
 -- Install only after deploy/playable/install-lifecycle.py has seeded the registry.
+-- The persisted mode is synchronized from dashboard settings by operations-agent.
+AuthDBExecute("CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS azerothai_realm_rules (id TINYINT PRIMARY KEY,hardcore TINYINT NOT NULL)")
+AuthDBExecute("INSERT IGNORE INTO azerothai_realm_rules VALUES (1,1)")
+function AzerothAIHardcoreEnabled()
+ local q=AuthDBQuery("SELECT hardcore FROM azerothai_realm_rules WHERE id=1")
+ return not q or q:GetUInt32(0)~=0
+end
 local residents = {}
 local ready = false
 local vetoAt = {}
@@ -68,6 +75,7 @@ local function identity(player)
 end
 
 local function recordDeath(player)
+ if not AzerothAIHardcoreEnabled() then return end
  local row,guid=identity(player)
  if not row or row.state=="dead" or row.state=="blocked" then return end
  row.state="dead"
@@ -77,6 +85,7 @@ local function recordDeath(player)
 end
 
 local function enforce()
+ local hardcore=AzerothAIHardcoreEnabled()
  if not ready then reload() end
  -- The dashboard may receive a verified death from an older transport backlog
  -- after this process seeded its registry. Import terminal states only; never
@@ -114,7 +123,7 @@ local function enforce()
  for _,player in pairs(players) do
   local guid=player:GetGUIDLow()
   local row=residents[guid]
-  if row and row.state=="active" and row.account==player:GetAccountId() and row.name==player:GetName() and not player:IsDead() then
+  if row and row.state=="active" and row.account==player:GetAccountId() and row.name==player:GetName() and (not hardcore or not player:IsDead()) then
    returning[#returning+1]={player=player,row=row,guid=guid}
   end
  end
@@ -203,4 +212,4 @@ end,1000,0)
 
 reload()
 enforce()
-PrintInfo("[AzerothAI] Persistent hardcore retirement and reserve replacement enabled")
+PrintInfo("[AzerothAI] Persistent residents and faction cap enabled; hardcore="..tostring(AzerothAIHardcoreEnabled()))