Additional cash and full budget differ
Enter current resources and any existing slider investment. The featured amount is extra slider cash, excluding the Paragon upgrade. Optional available cash must be your balance after reserving the upgrade purchase. Insufficient balance can make an otherwise possible slider solution infeasible.
Eligible non-T5 placed cash converts at price / 20,000. Slider cash uses price × 1.05 / 20,000 in the maintained reference model. Both feed a single capped category, so placed sacrifices reduce useful room left for injection. An override supports an actual displayed upgrade price.
Minimum means forward-checked
The solver searches whole-dollar additions within the supported slider limit. It checks the proposed result in the forward engine; tests also verify that one dollar less fails for a positive minimum. It does not simply divide the gap by an approximate conversion rate.
For Medium Ascended Shadow at $500,000, 20,000 cash Power requires $525,000 slider investment if no cash is already contributing. Filling the same target with placed eligible cash costs $500,000. Once the category is full, additional money cannot replace missing damage.
Rounding and UI limit evidence
The expanded 80,000 v57 cap corresponds to 420% of upgrade price from slider alone in the 1.05 model. An older maintained page still lists a 315% UI limit, conflicting with the new cap. Exact UI limits and last-dollar rounding remain unverified and are not described as game-tested.
Excess slider input is clamped with a warning. An infeasible result means another category or more available balance is needed; it does not mean every possible Degree plan fails.