The aim cloud goes quiet, and a mistimed flick falls short of the line

Hidden behind TUNE.aimCloud rather than deleted: the reading it gives — how
much width the swipe is buying, before the ball leaves — is the only teacher
the gesture has, and the panel can flip it back live for the next look at it.

And "a little harder to hit the out" is a number: flickReach 0.62 -> 0.52,
which halves the worst-case rate from about 15% to about 7%, with the test
tightened so it cannot drift back. The shape is untouched — a perfect flick
still never sails, a badly timed full swipe still can — but a mistimed one now
lands nearer the middle than the line, which is the only half of that trade a
player who cannot see his own timing can do anything about.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

src/config.js

@@ -69,12 +69,17 @@ export const TUNE = {
   flickWidth: 3.95,        // m off centre a PERFECTLY timed flick reaches. The singles line is 4.115,
                            // so this is the corner with 17 cm to spare. Raising it past the line does
                            // not make the flick punchier, it makes a perfect one go out.
-  flickReach: 0.62,        // how much of an aimed shot's width a MISTIMED flick gets (1 = all of it).
+  flickReach: 0.52,        // how much of an aimed shot's width a MISTIMED flick gets (1 = all of it).
                            // 0.42 made going out IMPOSSIBLE, which fixed the 8-in-10 bug and then
                            // overshot it: "flicking: too easy. i must be able to play out." At 0.62
-                           // a mistimed flick CAN sail (~15% of the time at quality 0, on the worst
-                           // half of the scatter) and a perfectly timed one never can — the risk is
-                           // back and it is timing, not a coin toss, that decides it.
+                           // a mistimed flick sailed ~15% of the time at quality 0 and a perfectly
+                           // timed one never could — the risk was back, and timing rather than a
+                           // coin toss decided it. 0.52 keeps that shape and halves the worst-case
+                           // rate to ~7% ("make it a little harder to hit the out"): a badly timed
+                           // flick now lands NEARER THE MIDDLE rather than nearer the line, which
+                           // is the only half of the trade a player who cannot see his own timing
+                           // can do anything about. THIS is the out dial — aimError is shared with
+                           // the opponent's returns and with every aimed shot in the gore modes.
                            // Reach x quality must stay under the sideline once aimError is added on
                            // top, or the flick goes out — which is exactly the bug this fixed:
                            // 3.3 * 0.45 + 2.4 = 3.89 against a 4.11 m line. Raise it and the flick
@@ -86,6 +91,11 @@ export const TUNE = {
   // of agency, the player can't really tell if there was skill or luck"). The serve already read its
   // flick as a continuous strength; the rally does now too, on the same shape of numbers.
   flickMin: 28,            // px before a drag counts as a flick at all — input.js's own threshold
+  aimCloud: 0,             // 1 draws the live aim cloud under the moving thumb (render's G.swipe
+                           // block); 0 hides it. OFF after its first playtest — "hide the indicator
+                           // for now" — kept as a switch rather than deleted because the reading it
+                           // gives (how much width the swipe is buying, before the ball leaves) is
+                           // the only teacher the gesture has, and the panel can flip it back live.
   flickFull: 130,          // ...and px of travel that buys the FULL width. About a third of a phone
                            // screen: a short swipe is a safe half-court ball, and only a committed
                            // one goes hunting the line, which is what makes going OUT a chosen risk.