30/1000 * 0.75 = 0.0225 per torton resurrected. 8/0.0225 = 356 Tortons resurrected, not 80.
Your equation places the number of tortons resurrected as a result of cost of creation divided out to individual tortons (30/1000). That is why I focused on the cost per torton resurrected.
As for you being unpleasant due to the recent events in game, that sucks, but its largely due to you getting outspent. The way you assumed the portal thing would work out would mean crazyabe spent 10 IP for an effect and Ardent Debater spent 9 IP to have his effect "noped" by crazyabe and AD's points would have just evaporated. Which would have been quite unfair. Plus some Luminites would have made it out, no matter how much crazyabe spent. But really that's an issue that crazyabe should be bringing up, if anyone. And sending your soldiers in to take a fortified position was gonna cost you lots of lives no matter what. To put it in DF terms, you sent your cheesemakers and weavers and other civilian dwarves to invade a fortified goblin camp full of equipped trained dwarf hating goblins. Having a Retinazer helps a lot, but it can only kill so many so fast.
C) Sure you could, but you wouldn't get anything out of it until all the points are invested. So if you want to make a race and do it in 10 point installments, you wont have a race until the third installment.
My main complaint about the portal is that it blindsided me. I didn't expect that crazy Abe's mountain would completely stop the portal, but my problem is that it did absolutely nothing to the portal despite the entire motivation of the action being to effect the portal. If I knew that would happen, I'd have done something myself
As to the resurrection, I'd be fine paying installments to resurrect all the Tortons together at the end if it means I don't need to pay these ridiculous prices