feedback5 WY: a newly merged elite 拉普兰德 is a new 拉普兰德 — its first manual refresh this round adds +8 even when its copies already fired (GitHub #169; the owner's decision of 2026-10-06)

garrison_123 「<刷新时>若为本回合首次主动刷新…此干员在整备区时也有效」 counts per piece (§21.1). No source says whether a
merge resets the count; since 0.1.1 _mergeChess carried the copies' highest per-piece round count onto the elite
([ASSUMED], conservative), so two white copies that had fired this round made an elite that did not fire again. The
owner decided on 2026-10-06 that a newly merged elite counts as a new 拉普兰德.

server/match/player/acquire.js _mergeChess no longer carries the per-piece round counters (拉普兰德's refresh count,
garrison:SERVER_GAIN_BOND_LAYER_BY_REFRESH_CNT:refreshes, is the only one): the elite starts at 0 like any new piece;
an in-place promotion keeps its count. test/match/feedback1-meta.test.js: the test that locked the old inherit is
updated on purpose (the elite adds +8 on its next refresh, once), and the case "two white copies refreshed this round,
merge, refresh → +8" is new; both fail without the change. Docs: META (counter API, edge cases), PLAYING, the comments
(PlayerState, pieces, effectsMeta, garrisons/meta), DESIGN §25.13.3 and the §25.10 table.
Golden unchanged (no corpus match merges 拉普兰德 after a refresh in the same round).

docs/META.md

@@ -398,8 +398,8 @@ board() hand() temp() piece(uid) pieceAt(row, col) pieceBonds(uid) garrisonsOf(u
 shopSlots() effect(id)` (`piece(uid)` adds `area`, `holderUid`, `idx`; "身前一格" of (r, c) is (r, c + 1)),
 counters `counter(k) setCounter(k, v) incCounter(k, n)` (player scope, persistent; prefix keys with your module) and
 `pieceCounter(uid, k) incPieceCounter(uid, k, n)` (per piece, current round only: 0 in a new round and for a new piece —
-bought, granted, transformed —; a move keeps it; an elite merged this round keeps the highest of its copies'
-[ASSUMED]; `PlayerState.pieceRoundCount`; prefix keys with your module too) — 拉普兰德's "本回合首次主动刷新" is the
+bought, granted, transformed, or an elite merged this round (GitHub #169, the owner's decision of 2026-10-06) —; a move
+keeps it; `PlayerState.pieceRoundCount`; prefix keys with your module too) — 拉普兰德's "本回合首次主动刷新" is the
 first manual refresh that copy witnesses (player feedback after 0.1.0: "获得该干员后该回合的首次刷新" also stacks; a copy
 bought after selling one this round is a new copy and fires on its own first refresh [ASSUMED]).
 
@@ -825,11 +825,11 @@ round was over. The official 1 s `broadcastBeginDelay` is not modelled.
 * Promotions by effects (升华, 博士投影) keep the equipment; merges return it; 突变细胞's transformation returns it (the
   cell included) before its new operator is gained into the 整备区 — the carrier's tile is left empty (official footage,
   DESIGN §21.1).
-* An elite merged in a round keeps the highest per-piece round counter of its copies (`pieceRoundCount`): an elite made
-  from 拉普兰德 copies that already fired this round does not fire again before the next round (conservative; the
-  official server's instance handling is not observable). A 拉普兰德 bought after selling one in the same round is a new
-  copy and fires on its own first refresh ("获得该干员后"; each such +4 costs 3 + 1 refresh − 1 refund and needs her in
-  the shop).
+* An elite merged in a round is a new piece: its per-piece round counters start at 0 (`pieceRoundCount`), so an elite
+  拉普兰德 fires +8 on its own first manual refresh of the round even when its copies already fired (GitHub #169; the
+  owner's decision of 2026-10-06 — a newly merged elite counts as a new 拉普兰德; until 0.2.0 it kept the highest count of
+  its copies). A 拉普兰德 bought after selling one in the same round is a new copy and fires on its own first refresh
+  ("获得该干员后"; each such +4 costs 3 + 1 refresh − 1 refund and needs her in the shop).
 * Chess granted by effects need a free pool copy unless `requirePool: false` (then they hold 0 copies).
 * Boss-round `local` pack spawns (boss parts) all spawn; content scripts (bosses.js) decide their behaviour.
 * The Final Assault ends as a defeat when every field finished with the boss pool above 0 (boss escaped).