Penalties are educational, not punitive — every fight result links to the relevant changelog entry so a losing loadout teaches the reader what to change.
Brain-Imbalance Penalty Introduced
A RAG layer without an Index now costs -15 Precision. VRAM ≫ RAM gap costs -10 Speed. Forces honest loadouts.
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rag-without-index
precision -15
Retrieval quality collapses without a vector index. The sim now punishes the shape of the loadout, not the individual parts.
vram-ram-imbalance
speed -10
VRAM tier more than two steps above RAM tier triggers swap thrash; Speed pays the cost.