Valve forensics + KB: the boost mechanic is real; the field cook-off was a detent question

Measured A/B/C (Blackhawk, sustained autofire, 150s soaks): SRM6 on
Condenser2 plateaus ~531 and COOLS at share 0.91 (boost 2), climbs to
the jam band at balanced (0.167), and runs at the 2000 failure line
starved (0.018).  MoveValve reruns the redistribute every press;
veteran passes the novice guard.  The field 'boosted loop 2 still
cooked' therefore means the valve was NOT at the 50 detent during the
fight -- the 1->5->50->0 cycle turns the loop OFF one press past max.
MoveValve presses now log always-on ('[valve] <name> -> detent N' +
a CLOSED warning) so the next field session records the detents.

Also: solo mission clock verified live (60s egg self-ends,
'[mission] solo game clock expired' -> RunMissions returns).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

game/reconstructed/heatfamily_reslice.cpp

@@ -175,9 +175,14 @@ void
 		case 0:  valveState = 1;  break;		// @4ae499
 		case 1:  valveState = 5;  break;		// @4ae4a5
 		case 5:  valveState = 50; break;		// @4ae4b1 (0x32)
-		case 50: valveState = 0;  break;		// @4ae4bd
+		case 50: valveState = 0;  break;		// @4ae4bd -- one past max = CLOSED
 		default: return;						// @4ae497 unknown -> no change / no recompute
 	}
+	// ALWAYS log a valve press (rare + forensic -- the 2026-07-23 "boosted loop
+	// still cooked" field case could not be reconstructed without the detents)
+	DEBUG_STREAM << "[valve] " << GetName() << " valve -> detent " << valveState
+		<< (valveState == 0 ? "  (CLOSED -- this loop is now UNCOOLED)" : "")
+		<< "\n" << std::flush;
 	BTRecomputeCondenserValves((Entity *)owner);	// FUN_0049f788(this[0xd0]=owner Mech)
 }