v0.8.0.3 — Skip on the left, a caption that says who, and a clock that stops

stretching

Three things from playing v0.8.0.2, all about the row rather than the mechanism.

Skip was on the far right and a player's eye is on the countdown. Moved to the
left, in front of the count.

The caption said what but never who. Measured over 40 turns of a real 3-seat game,
half the waiting is automatic phases — 21.0s of phases against 21.7s of other
players — and a phase narrates as "Mainline", which is accurate and no answer at
all to "who am I waiting on". A phase introduces itself now: "The Division:
Mainline phase". A player's move already carries its name from record(), so it is
left alone. The row was also hiding one step early, because it showed only while
behind > 0 — which goes false exactly when the last step of a burst goes up, so the
step most likely to be read lost its caption.

And the speed control was stretching the clock along with the players. It was not
his own move being replayed — own moves have cost nothing since v0.8.0.1 — it was
the phases behind it, which put 105 seconds of clock-ticking into a 5x game. pace
now scales a player's move and leaves a phase at its tabled beat, which is what the
control has always claimed to do. Off still means off for both.

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

test/pacing.test.ts

@@ -152,18 +152,37 @@ describe('pacing — dwell by kind', () => {
      * that changed the board" beat on every turn hand-off — `submit()` steps `advance()` about 4.6
      * times per intent — which came to a quarter of an hour a game.
      */
-    const silent = { cause: 'phase' as const, lines: [] as string[] };
+    const silent = { cause: 'phase' as const, player: null, lines: [] as string[] };
     assert.equal(dwellForStep({ ...silent, frame: { table: { actor: 2 } } }), 0, 'a turn hand-off shows nothing');
     assert.equal(dwellForStep({ ...silent, frame: { table: {} } }), 0, 'a step that changed nothing shows nothing');
     assert.equal(dwellForStep({ ...silent, frame: { table: { phase: 'mainline' } } }), DWELL.phase);
     assert.equal(dwellForStep({ ...silent, frame: { table: { stage: 4 } } }), DWELL.phase);
     // Narration always earns the dwell of whatever caused it, clock or no clock.
     assert.equal(
-      dwellForStep({ cause: 'switch.move', lines: ['moved'], frame: { table: {} } }),
+      dwellForStep({ cause: 'switch.move', player: 1, lines: ['moved'], frame: { table: {} } }),
       DWELL.switching,
     );
   });
 
+  it('the speed control stretches other people, not the clock', () => {
+    /**
+     * Jesse, from a real 5× game: *"after my turn, when I actually execute my turn, I'm still subject
+     * to that same delay before it moves on. That makes no sense."* It was not his move being
+     * replayed — it was the automatic phases behind it, which were scaling with `pace` along with
+     * everything else. Measured over 40 turns, the waiting split almost evenly between other players
+     * and phases turning over, so a 5× game spent 105 seconds on the clock alone.
+     */
+    const phase = { cause: 'phase' as const, player: null, lines: ['New Train'], frame: { table: { phase: 'newTrain' } } };
+    const theirs = { cause: 'switch.move' as const, player: 1, lines: ['moved'], frame: { table: {} } };
+    for (const pace of [1, 3, 5, 7]) {
+      assert.equal(dwellForStep(phase, pace), DWELL.phase, `a phase beat grew at ${pace}x`);
+      assert.equal(dwellForStep(theirs, pace), DWELL.switching * pace);
+    }
+    // Off still means off, for the clock as much as for anybody's move.
+    assert.equal(dwellForStep(phase, 0), 0);
+    assert.equal(dwellForStep(theirs, 0), 0);
+  });
+
   it('a real switching turn is watchable in a few seconds, not tens of them', () => {
     // Six moves is the engine's cap per crew ("N of 6 Moves left"), so this is the worst ordinary
     // case for one crew: the announcement, six moves, and an end that shows nothing.