Measured over the full log (264 maintenance cycles):
town.buy_consumables 74.1s avg 33 runs 8 fails (24%)
town.repair 16.8s avg 158 runs 0 fails
buy_consumables from A5 is an A5->A4 waypoint round trip. Jamella herself is
not the problem — 267 clicks against 2 timeouts — the navigation is, and it
also leaves the character in Act 4, where the return trip has been producing
click_red_portal failures.
Selling never justified that trip. The repair step a few entries below already
sells (sell_items is one of its triggers) and it runs at Larzuk IN ACT 5, with
158 runs and zero failures. Ordering is buy -> stash -> repair, and sell_items
is recomputed after stash, so pending sales still reach Larzuk in the same
maintenance pass; anything missed is still pending next game.
Checked the obvious alternative first and rejected it on evidence: switching
buy_consumables to A5 Malah to avoid the trip entirely. Malah measures 54
clicks against 24 timeouts (31% failure) with hover scores topping out at 0.675
— never reaching the 0.98-1.00 cluster real hits produce. The "Malah
unreliable" comment predates the Bug 30 threshold fix but is still true, and
switching would have traded a 24% failure for a 31% one.
Consumables still trigger the trip; only sales no longer do.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
