Introduce yourself — where are you joining from?

Every guide I can find skips the part I am actually stuck on. The in-game explanation and the actual behaviour do not appear to match.

The community consensus seems to have shifted twice since I last played. Thanks in advance to anyone who chips in.

Worth checking first: temperature is the usual culprit when performance degrades over a session.

I went through this last month. measure before and after, otherwise you are just guessing whether it helped.

Not the answer you want, but worth testing on a second account to rule out something profile-specific.