diff --git a/config.js b/config.js
index 9064a42..4011ceb 100644
--- a/config.js
+++ b/config.js
@@ -168,10 +168,12 @@ export const TUNE = {
                     // court — so every downward pull picked the same body and the angle felt inert.
                     // 0.10 gives ±2.9 m out there: you have to actually point at a lane.
   pullHintAfter: 1.5, // s of doing nothing in the serve stance before the pull gesture demos itself
-  shotTail: 0,      // HOW THE AIM BAND BEHAVES ONCE FIRED. 0 = a short WAKE ahead of the ball,
+  shotTail: 1,      // HOW THE AIM BAND BEHAVES ONCE FIRED. 0 = a short WAKE ahead of the ball,
                     // dissolving; 1 = a short TAIL behind it and nothing ahead at all. Both keep
                     // the aiming band itself untouched — full arc, full colour, that part is the
-                    // information you act on. Flip it live in the T panel; it is read per frame.
+                    // information you act on. Read per frame, so the T panel flips it live — but
+                    // the panel is keyboard-only ('T'), so on a phone this default is the setting.
+                    // 1 is Oliver's pick; the losing branch stays until a real playtest confirms it.
   aimTie: 0.12,     // how much worse-aimed a NEARER body may be and still win the lane (0..1 of the
                     // cone half-width). 0 = pure best-aligned wins; 1 = the old "nearest in the
                     // lane always wins", which is what made the magnet grab the wrong shambler.