Record actual towers
Choose family, difficulty and version first. Each row records path, quantity and per-tower paid cost, damage and qualifying income. Quantity multiplies all counters; split towers into separate rows when their costs or history differ. Prices are deliberately manual because individual upgrades have not been independently audited.
Use actual paid costs after discounts, not sell value. Do not scale an aggregate Medium total once and call it an exact Hard cost. Game purchase rounding applies individually. Changing difficulty or family clears rows to prevent an old cost assumption from silently carrying over.
Paths and prerequisites
A tower may use two paths at most, with only one exceeding Tier 2. 0-2-4, 2-0-4 and 5-0-0 are accepted; 3-3-0 and 2-2-2 are rejected. Invalid paths, family mismatch, quantity or numeric values block the summary.
Represent 5-0-0, 0-5-0 and 0-0-5 to meet creation requirements. Their cash remains in total setup spending, but this model excludes all T5 cash from cash Power. T5 damage and eligible income still count. Extras are constrained by standard solo limits until you open the full planner and choose co-op.
A small worked row
For Medium Ascended Shadow, a 0-2-4 Ninja with actual paid cost $10,000 and no counters contributes 400 cash Power. Its six tiers add zero in v57 and 600 in v56.3. This example is a user-entered paid amount, not a claim that the path’s undiscounted game price is $10,000.
The single row is not a buildable Paragon because the three distinct T5 paths are missing. Add their real setup costs separately. The budget subtotal and eligible cash subtotal remain separate so expensive prerequisites do not falsely become cash Power.
Save and compare
Save is browser-local and keyed by version, difficulty and family. Restore validates the stored rows; JSON export gives a reviewable record. Sending totals to the full calculator includes an explicit version in the URL and allows Geraldo, co-op and slider planning.
The approximate slider equivalent compares eligible cash only. It does not replace a tower’s damage, income or T5 contribution, and it remains subject to integer rounding and the shared cash cap.