v0.8.0.7 — the Salvage Yard had nothing to say, and phases too little time to read

The Salvage Yard was face up all along; its tile just read "a card". apply.ts
pushes a synthetic train-<n> id on trainScheduled, nothing in s.cards matches it,
and cardName fell through to its default — and since a train is scheduled several
times a Day that id is on top most of the time. Measured before touching anything:
the tile read "a card" from the opening frame through 60 pushes while its depth
climbed from 2 to 8. cardName resolves it now, in sim/view.ts, because this is a
name.

The engine half is filed as Gitea#23 rather than fixed here. reshuffleIfDepleted
sweeps the Salvage Yard back into the draw deck, so that synthetic id can be
shuffled in and drawn into a hand as an id with no card behind it. Eight games
driven to 4000 moves across eight seeds produced zero reshuffles, so it is latent;
there are two defensible fixes and the choice turns on what the synthetic id is
for, which is not a call to make while fixing a label.

And phases scale with the speed control again, damped to a third of the rate. They
were pinned in v0.8.0.3 because scaling them walled off a player's own turn; pinned
turns out to be too short to read at 10x. Damped satisfies both: 1x unchanged, 10x
lands exactly on the four-times guess. Bounded because phase beats cluster rather
than accumulate — 1.0 per push on average, 4 at worst, so the wait after a move is
~2.4s typical.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01X6cF1iYvJ1kNmzYBzu4QX6
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## 0.8.0.7 — 2026-09-10
### The Salvage Yard was face up and had nothing to say
*"Why is salvage deck not face up? I should see the card played onto salvage."* It always was — the
tile reads the top card. It just said **"a card"**.
`apply.ts` pushes a **synthetic id** on `trainScheduled`:
```ts
s.decks.salvageYard.push(`train-${e.trainNumber}`);
```
Nothing in `s.cards` matches that, so `cardName()` fell through to its "a card" default — and since a
train is scheduled several times a Day, that id is on top of the pile most of the time. Measured
before touching anything: a session's Salvage tile read `"a card"` from the opening frame through 60
pushes, never once changing, while its depth climbed from 2 to 8.
`cardName()` resolves `train-<n>` now, so the tile reads **Train 3**, **Train 2** as cards land.
Resolved in `sim/view.ts` because this is a NAME, which is that file's job.
**The engine half is filed, not fixed — Gitea#23.** `reshuffleIfDepleted()` sweeps the Salvage Yard
back into the draw deck, so a synthetic id can be shuffled in and drawn into a hand as an id with no
card behind it. Not reachable in ordinary play: eight games driven to 4000 moves across eight seeds
produced **zero** reshuffles. There are two defensible fixes and the choice turns on what that
synthetic id is *for*, which is not a call to make in passing while fixing a label.
### Phases scale with the speed control again — at a third of the rate
*"Phases displayed on the upper line go by too quickly still. Should be 4 times as long — at a guess.
Maybe use the speed multiplier for that too?"*
Two complaints from opposite directions, and the answer is between them. v0.8.0.3 **pinned** phases at
their tabled beat because scaling them walled off a player's own turn — *"that makes no sense"*. At
10× that pinned beat is too short to read the sentence on it.
So they scale, damped to a third of the rate: **1× unchanged, 10× lands exactly on the four-times
guess**, 20× gives 4400ms. The cost stays bounded because phase beats cluster rather than accumulate
— measured over 60 pushes, a push carries **1.0 phase beat on average and 4 at worst**, so the wait
after a move is ~2.4s typical and ~10s at its very worst, against the minutes a full multiplier would
have cost. A player's own move still outlasts a phase beat at every speed, which is the ordering that
matters.
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## 0.8.0.6 — 2026-09-10
Playing v0.8.0.5: *"saw bot's office area now — much better."* Three things still wrong, and one of