What changed in the simulator, when, and why. Newest first. We ship in small, verified steps; every entry below was tested on the live site before being listed here.
July 23, 2026 — Smarter solver, clearer ball placement, cleaner rules
- Difficulty now accounts for stroke harshness: shots that need very high power or heavy spin are no longer sold as "easy" — soft, near-centre strokes win the easy slots.
- In free carom, suggestions whose point depends on the two object balls colliding first (fragile kiss chains) are kept out of the easy tiers.
- Rules fix: the red ball can no longer be selected as the cue ball — in real carom the cue ball is always white or yellow.
- Ball-placement mode is now unmistakable: a gold frame around the table, live trajectory lines that follow the ball while you drag, and a one-tap shortcut from the placement chip straight to the Shot view.
- New graded Assist dial on the table: full trajectory → up to first contact → line-free exam mode. Tap any empty spot or diamond to aim through it, and feel a subtle vibration on ball contact (Android).
- On phones the table now centres in the visible area above the control bar — the dead black band at the bottom is gone.
- This page — dated release notes — is now part of the site.
July 22, 2026 — Mobile ball placement and measured difficulty
- The Move flow was rebuilt for phones: the panel gets out of the way, you tap or drag directly on the table, overlaps resolve visibly, and live cm coordinates show while you place.
- Every solver suggestion is now re-simulated 14 times with small human errors; cards carry a 🎯 tolerance badge, sort easiest-first, and unrepeatable fluke shots are filtered out.
- Difficulty labels derive from that measurement — calibrated separately for three-cushion and free carom.
July 17, 2026 — Mobile loading speed 47 → 99
- The simulator page went from a mobile performance score of 47 to 99: duplicate downloads, forced reloads and ad-chain delays were eliminated (largest paint ~10s → 1.7s).
- On low-power devices the 3D table now starts on demand instead of freezing the page.
Earlier milestones
Early July 2026 brought physics v2 — a real cushion-contact model, massé shots with cue elevation and slow/normal/fast cloth presets — plus a rebuilt solver search. In June the app grew to 10 languages with Italian, and gained the diamond calculator, the average calculator and the match scoreboard.