balance: reduce echo meta upgrade costs for a more reasonable transcendence loop (#179)

apps/api/src/data/quests.ts

@@ -1793,4 +1793,52 @@ export const defaultQuests: Array<Quest> = [
     status: "locked",
     zoneId: "the_absolute",
   },
+  {
+    combatPowerRequired: 2e130,
+    description:
+      "A region beyond the final record — where even the concept of record has ended and only raw, unwitnessed existence remains. Your guild walks it anyway, because that is what your guild does.",
+    durationSeconds: 24 * 60 * 60,
+    id:              "post_absolute_wastes",
+    name:            "The Post-Absolute Wastes",
+    prerequisiteIds: [ "absolute_chronicle" ],
+    rewards:         [
+      { amount: 1e137, type: "gold" },
+      { amount: 3e133, type: "essence" },
+      { amount: 1.5e129, type: "crystals" },
+    ],
+    status: "locked",
+    zoneId: "the_absolute",
+  },
+  {
+    combatPowerRequired: 1e137,
+    description:
+      "The space between the final end and whatever follows it — a silence so complete that your guild's presence is the loudest thing that has ever existed here. They proceed in hushed awe.",
+    durationSeconds: 24 * 60 * 60,
+    id:              "terminal_silence",
+    name:            "The Terminal Silence",
+    prerequisiteIds: [ "post_absolute_wastes" ],
+    rewards:         [
+      { amount: 5e143, type: "gold" },
+      { amount: 1.5e140, type: "essence" },
+      { amount: 7e135, type: "crystals" },
+    ],
+    status: "locked",
+    zoneId: "the_absolute",
+  },
+  {
+    combatPowerRequired: 5e141,
+    description:
+      "The last thing your guild will ever witness before the Absolute One. Not a place. Not a moment. A threshold so final that crossing it means there is only one thing left in existence worth confronting. Your guild crosses it.",
+    durationSeconds: 24 * 60 * 60,
+    id:              "final_threshold",
+    name:            "The Final Threshold",
+    prerequisiteIds: [ "terminal_silence" ],
+    rewards:         [
+      { amount: 2e150, type: "gold" },
+      { amount: 6e146, type: "essence" },
+      { amount: 3e142, type: "crystals" },
+    ],
+    status: "locked",
+    zoneId: "the_absolute",
+  },
 ];

apps/api/src/data/transcendenceUpgrades.ts

@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ export const defaultTranscendenceUpgrades: Array<TranscendenceUpgrade> = [
   // ── Echo meta multipliers ───────────────────────────────────────────────────
   {
     category: "echo_meta",
-    cost:     25,
+    cost:     15,
     description:
       "Your transcendence resonates deeper, amplifying future echo yields by 25%.",
     id:         "echo_meta_1",
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ export const defaultTranscendenceUpgrades: Array<TranscendenceUpgrade> = [
   },
   {
     category: "echo_meta",
-    cost:     75,
+    cost:     45,
     description:
       "Each loop of existence makes the next more powerful — future echo yields +50%.",
     id:         "echo_meta_2",
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ export const defaultTranscendenceUpgrades: Array<TranscendenceUpgrade> = [
   },
   {
     category: "echo_meta",
-    cost:     200,
+    cost:     100,
     description:
       "You have mastered the infinite spiral of transcendence, doubling all future echo yields.",
     id:         "echo_meta_3",