E's five caches landed at 3-6x shops (292 total: katoomba 20→80, fremantle 21→80, newtown 18→72,
bendigo 9→36, castlemaine 6→24). All five absorb cleanly and still place 3 venues; the R20 poster cap
auto-scaled off the live shop count exactly as designed (katoomba 111 posters at 80 shops).
- CAPACITY WIDENED (the R18 overflow fence, load-tested). At 4x the dominant drop cause was OVERFLOW —
an edge-side holding more shops than fit (katoomba 10 of 11 drops). Tightened the run: NODE_CLEAR 6→3
and a ROADS-ONLY RGAP 2→0.5 (the shared marched GAP is untouched ⇒ marched fixtures stay frozen).
Drops 7.9% → 5.5% (16/292). 0.5m also reads truer — a real AU main street is continuous terrace
shopfronts, not detached boxes. Stopped there deliberately: the next lever (spilling overflow onto a
DIFFERENT street) buys ~1% by putting a shop on a road it isn't on — dropping a crowded shop is the
honest trade. Residual drops stay COUNTED, now BY CAUSE (dropped_overflow/_overlap/_stranded).
- VENUE FACADE BIAS NOW COVERS pub. R16 exempted pub ('spine-fronted, +Z always open') — true on the
synthetic/marched towns, but on a REAL graph at density the pub landed where its frontage poster
overhung a cross street (newtown, -0.91m). The POSTER_CLEAR filter now covers every venue kind; still a
NO-OP on synthetic (every pub candidate already clears) ⇒ gig golden 0xb1d48ea1 frozen.
- Goldens re-pinned ONCE (base + gig, all five towns). classic 0x3fa36874 / gig 0xb1d48ea1 / marched
fixtures FROZEN. selfcheck ALL GREEN 51866/51866; scaffold + consistency GREEN; cross-process
deterministic.
- Fixed: my real-cache loader globbed *.json and tried to validate E's new index.json as a town cache —
it now skips it (that's B's selector index, not a cache).
Handshake → all: densities absorbed, goldens pinned. → F: re-measure venue_night + gate the five towns.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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