diff --git a/web/js/flight/tuning.js b/web/js/flight/tuning.js
index 2c48f60..73003d5 100644
--- a/web/js/flight/tuning.js
+++ b/web/js/flight/tuning.js
@@ -68,9 +68,18 @@ export const TUNING = {
 
   // --- movement inside the cross-section disc ---------------------------------------
   disc: {
-    accel: 78,                // u/s²
-    maxSpeed: 13,             // u/s — crosses the ~16 u tube in ~1.2 s: dodgeable, not twitchy
-    damping: 6.5,             // /s exponential drag => coasts to rest in ~0.3 s
+    // PLAYTEST FIX (round 3): "ship movement feels sluggish", and it measurably was.
+    // `damping` is applied every step AFTER accel, so the real cap is not `maxSpeed` at all —
+    // it is accel/damping. At 78/6.5 that made terminal 12 u/s in theory and a MEASURED 10.16,
+    // so the old maxSpeed 13 was unreachable and a full tube crossing took 1.95 s. Two seconds
+    // of lateral travel against 12-20 u/s of forward flow means you cannot answer anything you
+    // read late — which is exactly what "sluggish" feels like from the cockpit.
+    // Now: accel 155 with maxSpeed 19 makes maxSpeed the ACTUAL cap (155/6.5 = 23.8 > 19),
+    // reached in 0.12 s, and the crossing drops to ~1.0 s. Damping is untouched on purpose —
+    // it is what makes the ship stop crisply, and precision was never the complaint.
+    accel: 155,               // u/s²
+    maxSpeed: 19,             // u/s — a full tube crossing in ~1 s
+    damping: 6.5,             // /s exponential drag => still coasts to rest in ~0.3 s
   },
 
   // --- arena / 6DOF: in a room, the anatomy stops carrying you -----------------------
@@ -79,8 +88,10 @@ export const TUNING = {
   // a room (s is the axial one, x/y are the cross-section) — it is that YOU own the forward
   // axis. You can stop. You can reverse. Nothing is shoving you at the boss.
   arena: {
-    thrust: 44,               // u/s² axial. Softer than disc accel 78: a room is read, not strafed
-    maxSpeed: 11,             // u/s — under the esophagus's 12-20 flow on purpose (GDD: "slower")
+    thrust: 90,               // u/s² axial. Still softer than the disc: a room is read, not strafed
+    maxSpeed: 16,             // u/s — under the esophagus's 12-20 flow on purpose (GDD: "slower"),
+                              // but raised with the disc so a room does not feel like treacle
+                              // next to the corridor that leads into it.
     damping: 2.2,             // /s — a long coast (no gravity), but it does come to rest
   },
 
@@ -96,7 +107,9 @@ export const TUNING = {
 
   // --- attitude: bank into lateral motion -------------------------------------------
   bank: {
-    gain: 0.055,              // rad of roll per u/s of lateral disc velocity
+    gain: 0.04,               // rad of roll per u/s. Rescaled for the faster disc: 19 u/s now
+                              // lands right at `max`, so full deflection = full roll and
+                              // everything below it still reads proportionally.
     max: 0.75,                // rad (~43°)
     rate: 7,                  // /s spring toward target roll
     pitchGain: 0.03,          // rad of pitch per u/s of vertical disc velocity