[newbe] cloth-balls don't bounce back

[Ralf]

ah, that did the trick. it was indeed set to 'sticky'

"Linear" increases the size for frame 0 to 1 a bit, but my problem has be solved in 1 sentence  
i play around with settings/dymamicmode

thank you tyFlow for this advice and from tyflow as a whole

(offcourse i have follow-up questions, like "how to put size in relation to the object-bind length with maxscript" orso... but for now, many thanks)