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Solo earnings · max-stats per sub-PC
Clan Server Planner
BTC
$—
stale
Server cluster
NET (cluster-wide)
— Mbit
Total RAM
— MB
Total CPU
— GHz
Viruses
Warezv—
$—/hr
$—/day
NPC max: v14.0 · research starts above
Spamv—
$—/hr
$—/day
NPC max: v12.0 · research starts above
Minerv—
$—/hr
$—/day
NPC max: v15.0 · research starts above
— BTC/hr
ROI · Next sub-PC
Δ if planting spam
Add sub-PC #9
+$0/hr · costs $0
payback — days
Cluster #1→#8:
—
ROI · Next research bump
bumping spam
v— → v—
+$0/hr · costs $0
payback —
Research v12.0 → v—:
—
Research progression table
From v— upward
(at or above NPC max).
Each row is one whole-version research target.
What do these columns mean?
- Target
- Version you're researching up to. Each row is one whole-version step.
- + $/hr
- Earnings gain over the row above (or over the effective base for the first row). Cumulative — v25.0's gain stacks on top of v24.0's, not on top of the NPC-base row.
- Single-tick cost
- Cost to research just this one version, with no batching surcharge. You'd queue it on its own, let it finish, then start the next.
- Batched cost
- Cost to research from your current version up to this one in a single queued batch. Includes the batching surcharge — bigger batches pay more per version.
- Payback (single)
- How long the new + $/hr takes to repay the single-tick cost.
- Payback (batch)
- How long the new + $/hr takes to repay the batched cost. You only realize the gain once the whole batch finishes.
| Target | + $/hr | Single-tick cost | Batched cost | Payback (single) | Payback (batch) |
|---|
Sub-PC purchase ladder
Each fully-kitted sub-PC adds $0/hr
at your current spam settings.
Fully kitted = the CPU tier you picked (i9 13900k 6 GHz / $15,000) +
the RAM tier you picked (Deadly DDR4 4 GB / $5,000) +
SSD2 2 GB HDD ($1,000, baked in) → kit total
$21,000.
Server price climbs through #9, then floors at $1,000,000 for #10+.
What do these columns mean?
- #
- Which sub-PC this would be in your cluster. #2 is your second sub-PC (your localhost is #1 and isn't shown here).
- Server
- Base server price for this slot. Climbs through #9, then floors at $1,000,000 from #10 onward.
- + Kit
- Added cost to fully kit this sub-PC: the CPU tier you picked + the RAM tier you picked + SSD2 2 GB HDD ($1,000). Same per sub-PC regardless of slot.
- Marginal
- Total cost to add just this one sub-PC (Server + Kit). What you actually pay if you stop here.
- Cumulative
- All-in cost of every sub-PC from #2 through this row, summed.
- Payback (this PC)
- How long this sub-PC's added $/hr takes to repay its own marginal cost — not the cumulative.
| # | Server | + Kit | Marginal | Cumulative | Payback (this PC) |
|---|