balance: smooth prestige income cliff, quadratic milestones, exponential combat scaling (#170, #171)
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Reduce income_10 cost 30k→22.5k and income_11 80k→60k (25% cut each)
to ease the late-prestige runestone cliff without collapsing the timeline.

Change prestige milestone bonus from linear (n×25) to quadratic (n²×25)
so high-prestige milestones feel meaningful (P100 = 10k stones).

Replace linear prestige combat multiplier (1 + count×0.1) with exponential
(4^count) in both the tick engine and server-side boss route. Without this
the final boss (2×10^145 HP) was unreachable by ~112 orders of magnitude;
base-4 makes it achievable around P190, consistent with the 6-month target.
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2026-03-31 15:05:41 -07:00
committed by Naomi Carrigan
parent f83728df57
commit 9cff54cfcd
5 changed files with 24 additions and 14 deletions
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@@ -84,6 +84,12 @@ const checkAchievements = (state: GameState): Array<Achievement> => {
});
};
/**
* Exponential base for the prestige combat multiplier: Math.pow(base, prestigeCount).
* Replaces the former linear formula (1 + count * 0.1) to enable late-game zone progression.
*/
export const PRESTIGE_COMBAT_BASE = 4;
/**
* Maximum value any resource can accumulate to. Beyond this JS floats lose all useful precision.
*/
@@ -296,8 +302,7 @@ export const computeEffectiveAdventurerStats = (
const runestonesIncome = state.prestige.runestonesIncomeMultiplier ?? 1;
const runestonesEssence = state.prestige.runestonesEssenceMultiplier ?? 1;
// eslint-disable-next-line stylistic/no-mixed-operators -- prestige count * factor is clear
const prestigeCombatMultiplier = 1 + state.prestige.count * 0.1;
const prestigeCombatMultiplier = Math.pow(PRESTIGE_COMBAT_BASE, state.prestige.count);
const echoIncome = state.transcendence?.echoIncomeMultiplier ?? 1;
const echoCombatMultiplier = state.transcendence?.echoCombatMultiplier ?? 1;
const craftedGoldMultiplier
@@ -378,8 +383,7 @@ export const computePartyCombatPower = (state: GameState): number => {
}
}
// eslint-disable-next-line stylistic/no-mixed-operators -- prestige count * factor is clear
const prestigeMultiplier = 1 + state.prestige.count * 0.1;
const prestigeMultiplier = Math.pow(PRESTIGE_COMBAT_BASE, state.prestige.count);
const equipmentCombatMultiplier = state.equipment.
filter((item) => {