Chapter 9: Gold Mine (3)
It would take two or maybe three range increases to max out the achievement. He was certain he would need at least two. The second would increase the range to ten thousand kilometers radius, which would encompass a large part of the Earth. That might be enough to capture one billion people in the snapshot, but if not, the next range extension, at one hundred thousand kilometers radius, definitely would. He checked his GP balance.
Genesis Points (GP): 1149
The next range extension would cost 100 GP, but the one after that would probably cost 1000 GP. And, while he had enough GP to purchase both, he didn't have enough EP capacity.
At Atomic level detail, a snapshot cost 1 EP per 10 meters of radius. The next range extension would put the limit at 100 kilometers for Atomic level detail, and that would cost 10,000 EP per snapshot. He had enough EP capacity for that. However, the next range extension after that would put the cost per snapshot at one million EP. The cost to raise his EP capacity to one million EP would cost 990 GP, and that meant he didn't have enough GP to both raise his range twice and his EP capacity to one million.
He would need to increase his range once, then take a new snapshot, hopefully earning more GP, then he could increase the range again and also increase his EP capacity. So he increased his snapshot range once.
[Snapshot Range Extended]
He checked, confirming his new snapshot ranges.
Snapshot Range
-Approximate: 10^6 kilometers
-Nominal: 10^4 kilometers
-Atomic: 100 kilometer