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[micelus]

Gamma thinks, rubbing at their cloud with an adamantine tentacle.
The point of the Superhighway's to make sure we get as much of the soul as possible. Feathers, could you ask him how much efficiency we'd expect to lose from the micrafters? But I think I understand the reasoning.

Antonine states that he plans two lines of projects.

1. Mass commercial advertising reincarnationators (name subject to change). The idea being that, souls are shown a advertising for a project and then shoved back into life to begin again. A few cycles of this, and you have a soul that unconsciously gravitates to certain products. This won't be something that all souls are exposed to, nor will Antonine be extracting direct SC income from the Soul Transit business from this.

2. Afterlifenettes (name subject to change). Minature afterlives that drain the soul of energies, spitting them out for reincarnation or otherwise. These will directly harm SEC SC revenues. Antonine states that he needs someway of recouping his investment.

"How much efficiency should we expect to lose from your afterlifenettes?"

Antonine says that if he runs things conservatively, he expects a 15% loss of 'efficiency'.

[TricMagic]

"Note I have reason to believe that the Rodgini's future souls will be severely impacted by these practices, as they are designed to give their souls away. If they are given away to a product or these afterlives, the resulting soul will likely be severely degraded. I am leading them to believe giving away parts of their souls will strengthen them, and those souls will regrow. Giving them to the gods result in stronger minds and bodies. Trough that belief and plasticity of the soul, SC income will be increased, and we will receive a greater amount of soul ourselves as well while they live."

"There is no major reason to rush the highway's construction, as by the time it is needed it shall be complete. And hopefully with no major detours and stops."

[Glass]

Gamma is going to start trying to figure out how much his Superhighway is actually likely to help soulflow to the Point.

[TricMagic]

"As I understand it souls will naturally flow to the Point. Your highway would draw them in and ferry them along, reducing spread and speeding travel. This is only useful if you don't give so much of the souls quality away that you would be better off with natural progress. The issue with degraded quality is also that it makes species less profitable than mortals. Such a highway is more suited to be a labor of love and hard work that does it's job with no distraction. Someone already leased 20% of their soul, and so 20% of what they eat will be taken, like a divine tapeworm."

[Glass]

Quiet, I'm doing calculations and calculus and matrix algebra and stuff.

[Dustan Hache]

Dalarin sculpts one of the regions in the hairball archipelago into a isolated valley, being careful to pick away any non-plant entities and to add a ring of basic structures for the dying god's followers to inhabit while their god laid in the center for their tomb. The followers would likely have to make the tools and buildings beyond Dalarin's initial cave-homes, but it would suffice till a mortal affairs officer could give them proper treatment. He then promptly deploys the dead god's followers into their new residence valley.

[micelus]

Gamma is going to start trying to figure out how much his Superhighway is actually likely to help soulflow to the Point.

Gamma predicts a 28% increase in efficiency.

[Rockeater]

Use an EBA to build the Mausoleum

Spoiler: The Dying God's Mausoleum (click to show/hide)

A sprawling fortress-mausoleum the size of a country dedicated to the Dying God and built in the traditional style of post-Fall temples to Feathers's master. (I.e. vaguely gothic with subtle crow motifs integrated into the structure and a complete and utter lack of any places that are particularly useful for worship.) Substantial portions of it are devoted to gardens and fertile land, so that the inhabitants need not import food.

This is to be built atop a region of the Discus affected by Feathers's influence, and is designed to harness the ambient magical forces -- be they necromantic or otherwise -- to produce and empower ghostly guardians as necessary. This serves as a sort of afterlife for all those who live within the Mausoleum, and the Mausoleum will strive to maintain a fairly large and stable garrison even if not threatened, allowing the oldest ghosts to pass on to the Point only as people die to replace them. The Mausoleum considers anything that would desecrate it (neither building temples to other gods within the Mausoleum nor any other normal process of civilization count as desecration), attack the Dying God's people, or disturb the Dying God's corpse an enemy.

The actual place where the Dying God is to be entombed is a simple, well-hidden coffin perhaps twenty kilometers from the center of the Mausoleum.

Use another EBA to make a flat continent with very fertile land

Use third EBA to create the cave of sound, built with a raised platform, it is designed in such a way that the voice of the being that stand on that platform would be clearly heard from all across the cave

Finally make a giant spire, it base is the size of a large town and it goes many kilometers up in the air, with it becoming more and more challenging to climb the higher it get

[Glass]

Gamma is going to start trying to figure out how much his Superhighway is actually likely to help soulflow to the Point.

Gamma predicts a 28% increase in efficiency.

So getting the extra funding would mean we have 13% net increased efficiency... and given current Act availability and assuming no help from Kęklos...
Five-cycle difference in the time taken to construct the Superhighway. Hey, does anyone know the ratio of how much the bosses care about immediate earnings compared to over time stuff? Because unless they're really patient, it's likely better to take the deal.

(OOC note: I did some calculations using geometric series and levels of patience. Basically, assuming a 5-turn difference in construction time, the 1.13 multiplier is worth more than the 5-turn-delayed 1.28 multiplied unless the present value of the souls goes down by less than 97.54% per turn. If we call it .13 and .28 instead, it's 85.77% instead.
Basically, if the SEC will be satisfied with souls no matter when they come, the Superhighway is best built on our own. If they want them now, though, we should take the deal.)

That said, Kęklos, if you spend your time actually helping me with the construction rather than... whatever you're doing, we can have this done only a cycle after it would be if I worked on this by myself with the aid from Mr. Antonine. Could we please do that?

(OOC note: if we do this, the required patience is 88.28125% if we assume 1.13 and 1.28 or just 46.43% if we assume .13 and .28. Either way, big improvement.)

[TricMagic]

(Souls will naturally drift to the Point anyway, so waiting for the increase in effeciecy will have better long-term effects. That and we can't trust they will stick to contract, they only gave the lowball number, not the higher ones. Just look at the slime.)

[Glass]

Feathers, would you ask him about the upper bound?

[TheImmortalRyukan]

Kęklos offers to help GOD in his endeavors in creating a Superhighway.

[Glass]

Thank you!

[ShadowDragon]

Feathers, would you ask him about the upper bound?

"Sure! Also, if we do accept his offer, we should explicitly state how much of our output he's entitled to."

Feathers then approaches Antonine. "And how much efficiency would we lose if you ran the afterlifenettes at full capacity?"

Use an EBA to build the Mausoleum

Spoiler: The Dying God's Mausoleum (click to show/hide)

A sprawling fortress-mausoleum the size of a country dedicated to the Dying God and built in the traditional style of post-Fall temples to Feathers's master. (I.e. vaguely gothic with subtle crow motifs integrated into the structure and a complete and utter lack of any places that are particularly useful for worship.) Substantial portions of it are devoted to gardens and fertile land, so that the inhabitants need not import food.

This is to be built atop a region of the Discus affected by Feathers's influence, and is designed to harness the ambient magical forces -- be they necromantic or otherwise -- to produce and empower ghostly guardians as necessary. This serves as a sort of afterlife for all those who live within the Mausoleum, and the Mausoleum will strive to maintain a fairly large and stable garrison even if not threatened, allowing the oldest ghosts to pass on to the Point only as people die to replace them. The Mausoleum considers anything that would desecrate it (neither building temples to other gods within the Mausoleum nor any other normal process of civilization count as desecration), attack the Dying God's people, or disturb the Dying God's corpse an enemy.

The actual place where the Dying God is to be entombed is a simple, well-hidden coffin perhaps twenty kilometers from the center of the Mausoleum.

"Thank you."
Assist the construction of the Mausoleum with Deathly Pointers.

[micelus]

Feathers, would you ask him about the upper bound?

"Sure! Also, if we do accept his offer, we should explicitly state how much of our output he's entitled to."

Feathers then approaches Antonine. "And how much efficiency would we lose if you ran the afterlifenettes at full capacity?"

Use an EBA to build the Mausoleum

Spoiler: The Dying God's Mausoleum (click to show/hide)

A sprawling fortress-mausoleum the size of a country dedicated to the Dying God and built in the traditional style of post-Fall temples to Feathers's master. (I.e. vaguely gothic with subtle crow motifs integrated into the structure and a complete and utter lack of any places that are particularly useful for worship.) Substantial portions of it are devoted to gardens and fertile land, so that the inhabitants need not import food.

This is to be built atop a region of the Discus affected by Feathers's influence, and is designed to harness the ambient magical forces -- be they necromantic or otherwise -- to produce and empower ghostly guardians as necessary. This serves as a sort of afterlife for all those who live within the Mausoleum, and the Mausoleum will strive to maintain a fairly large and stable garrison even if not threatened, allowing the oldest ghosts to pass on to the Point only as people die to replace them. The Mausoleum considers anything that would desecrate it (neither building temples to other gods within the Mausoleum nor any other normal process of civilization count as desecration), attack the Dying God's people, or disturb the Dying God's corpse an enemy.

The actual place where the Dying God is to be entombed is a simple, well-hidden coffin perhaps twenty kilometers from the center of the Mausoleum.

"Thank you."
Assist the construction of the Mausoleum with Deathly Pointers.

Antonine chuckles. "Why, all of it. Which is why I plan to run it conservatively."