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.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01X6cF1iYvJ1kNmzYBzu4QX6

src/sim/pacing.ts

@@ -177,6 +177,28 @@ export function dwellFor(cause: StepCause, pace = 1): number {
   return Math.round(DWELL[kindOf(cause)] * Math.min(MAX_PACE, Math.max(0, pace)));
 }
 
+/**
+ * How much of the speed control a PHASE gets — damped, not the full multiplier.
+ *
+ * Phases were pinned at their tabled beat in v0.8.0.3, because scaling them with everything else put
+ * a wall of clock-ticking after a player's own move. That was right about the cost and wrong about
+ * the need: at 10× the caption row goes past faster than the sentence on it can be read. Jesse,
+ * 2026-09-10: *"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?"*
+ *
+ * So they scale, at a third of the rate. That lands exactly on his guess — 10× gives a phase four
+ * times its tabled beat — while leaving 1× untouched, and it stays affordable 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 goes to ~2.4s typical and ~10s at its very
+ * worst rather than the minutes a full multiplier would have cost.
+ *
+ * Below 1× it simply follows the multiplier: somebody asking for everything faster means the phases
+ * too.
+ */
+function phaseSpeed(pace: number): number {
+  return pace <= 1 ? pace : 1 + (pace - 1) / 3;
+}
+
 /**
  * How long to show one STEP — the form the queue actually uses.
  *
@@ -204,7 +226,7 @@ export function dwellForStep(
    * The phase still gets its beat (TODO #18) — it just does not get longer because somebody wanted
    * to watch a bot shunt cars.
    */
-  const speed = step.player === null ? 1 : pace;
+  const speed = step.player === null ? phaseSpeed(pace) : pace;
   if (step.lines.length > 0) return dwellFor(step.cause, speed);
   /**
    * A SILENT STEP EARNS A BEAT ONLY WHEN THE CLOCK TURNED OVER — which is TODO #18 exactly: "give

src/sim/view.ts

@@ -1791,6 +1791,23 @@ export function snapshot(
 
 /** A card id turned into something a person can read. */
 export function cardName(s: GameState, id: string): string {
+  /**
+   * A SCHEDULED TRAIN IS IN THE SALVAGE YARD UNDER A SYNTHETIC ID, and without this the pile that is
+   * supposed to be face up reads "a card".
+   *
+   * `trainScheduled` pushes `train-<number>` rather than the id of the card that was played
+   * (`apply.ts`), so there is nothing in `s.cards` to look up — and since a train is scheduled
+   * several times a Day, that synthetic id is on top of the Salvage Yard most of the time. Reported
+   * by Jesse 2026-09-10 as "why is salvage deck not face up. I should see the card played onto
+   * salvage": it was face up all along and simply had nothing to say.
+   *
+   * Resolved here rather than in the engine because this is a NAME, which is this file's job. Whether
+   * the engine should be pushing a real card id instead is a separate question with a separate
+   * consequence — the Salvage Yard is swept back into the draw deck when it runs out — and is filed
+   * rather than answered in passing.
+   */
+  const scheduled = /^train-(\d+)$/.exec(id);
+  if (scheduled) return `Train ${scheduled[1]}`;
   const k = s.cards.get(id)?.kind;
   if (!k) return 'a card';
   switch (k.kind) {