Buy an online ad cost: $100 effect: One additional game sold per cycle
Recruit an analyst to track business metrics cost: $1,000 effect: enables business metrics panel
Develop a new $20 game cost: $10,000 effect: increases game revenue per sale by $20
Launch a blockbuster franchise cost: $50,000,000 effect: 10x profit multiplier
Profit sharing cost: 10% of profit effect: +5 trust
Make a beloved educational game cost: $30,000 effect: +2 trust
Start a family office cost: $1,000,000 effect: 2x profit multiplier
Host a charity gaming event cost: $50,000 effect: +3 trust
Implement employee wellness program cost: $75,000 effect: +4 trust, +5% productivity
Implement sustainability initiative cost: $2,000,000 effect: +10 trust
Word of mouth cost: 12 trust effect: 100x sales multiplier
Sell your game company for a 10x multiple of yearly profit and start a space company
Develop advanced rocket propulsion cost: $10,000,000 effect: enables rocket launches
Secure a launch contract cost: $5E9 effect: +$50,000,000 profit per cycle
Develop reusable rockets cost: $5E11 effect: 5x launch contract profit
Develop robotic satellite systems cost: $5E12 effect: 2x launch contract profit
Start regolith mining operations cost: $5E11 effect: enables regolith mining
Secure a regolith mining contract cost: $5E9 effect: +$50,000,000 profit per cycle
Develop regolith processing technology cost: $1E13 effect: 4x regolith mining profit
Develop regolith solar panels cost: $4E13 effect: 8x regolith mining profit
Develop regolith batteries cost: $5E14 effect: 5x regolith mining profit
Develop regolith superconductor cost: $1E15 effect: 10x regolith mining profit
Implement carbon capture for fuel production cost: $5E14 effect: +10 trust
Donate small payloads to universities and non-profits cost: $1E8 effect: +5 trust
Livestream rocket recoveries cost: $5,000,000 effect: +3 trust
Fund orbital debris tracking cost: $5E11 effect: +7 trust
Beam solar array power to Earth cost: $1E16 effect: +40 trust
Provide governments with real-time natural disaster data cost: $1E8 effect: +15 trust
Open source battery technology cost: $2E8 effect: +25 trust
Convince world governments to allow moon mass driver construction cost: 100 trust effect: enables mass driver construction
Secure a regolith mining contract cost: $5E7 effect: +$200,000,000 profit per cycle
Build rotary pellet launcher cost: $1E12 effect: +10 tons per cycle
Build transport linear accelerator cost: $1E14 effect: +1,000 tons per cycle
Develop advanced alloys cost: $1E15 effect: 3x mass driver output and 6x mining profit
Implement dynamic magnetic levitation cost: $5E15 effect: 3x mass driver output
Research increased battery draw cost: $8E15 effect: 5x mass driver output, 5x mining profit
Develop magnetic field hypercontrol cost: $2E16 effect: 5x mass driver output, 10x mining profit
Implement advanced cooling systems cost: $1E17 effect: 3x mass driver output
Develop self-repairing structures cost: $5E17 effect: 10x mass driver output
Construct the O'Neill Cylinder cost: 1E10 tons effect: enables swarm stage
Establish asteroid mining operations cost: 1E11 tons effect: enables mining platforms
Build mining platform cost: 1E11 tons effect: +1 billion tons per cycle
Build habitat shipyard cost: 1E12 tons effect: +1 cylinder per cycle
Electromagnetic scoop cost: 5E11 tons effect: 4x mining platform output
Controlled moon fragmentation cost: 5E11 tons effect: 8x mining platform output
Solar mirror system network cost: 8E13 tons effect: 5x mining platform output
Von Neumann retrofit for mining platforms cost: 1E16 tons effect: mining platforms self-replicate every cycle
Dismantle rocky planets cost: 2E15 tons effect: 10x mining platform output
Construction volunteers cost: 1E14 tons effect: scale habitat production by population
Von Neumann retrofit for shipyards cost: 3E17 tons effect: shipyards self-replicate every cycle
Begin star lifting cost: 1E18 tons effect: 500x mining platform output
Repurpose 1E5 mining platforms to produce habitats effect: converts 1E5 of mining platforms to shipyards
Implement quantum-scale shipyard optimization cost: 1E20 tons effect: 100x shipyard output