He also confirmed that the snapshot costs were still the same. For Atomic level detail that was 1 EP per 10 meters of radius. Given that the volume of a sphere increased exponentially with the radius, he didn't know why the cost was linear with radius instead, and he didn't care. He was just glad he could get more range for his EP. Eager to earn more GP, he tried to create a new Atomic detail snapshot at max range snapshot but discovered he didn't have enough EP.
Energy Points (EP): 9,910/10,000 :-: (10/sec)
Genesis Points (GP): 1049
Soul Space Cost: 0/sec
He checked his status and realized he needed to wait a few more seconds before his EP was full. Nine seconds later, he tried again.
[Achievement: Captured 1,000 Sapiens in a Snapshot]
[Reward: 10,000 GP]
[Achievement: Captured 10,000 Sapiens in a Snapshot]
[Reward: 100,000 GP]
[Achievement: Captured 100,000 Sapiens in a Snapshot]
[Reward: 1,000,000 GP]
[Achievement: Captured 1,000,000 Sapiens in a Snapshot]
[Reward: 10,000,000 GP]
With a radius of 100 kilometers, that snapshot covered the entire Stetle metro area, which had approximately to 4 million people.
He checked his GP balance again.
Genesis Points (GP): 11,111,049
He was a GP millionaire! And now he had enough to increase his range again and increase his EP capacity. First, he purchased the next range extension and checked the results.
[Snapshot Range Extended]
Snapshot Range
-Approximate: 10^6 kilometers
-Nominal: 10^4 kilometers
-Atomic: 100 kilometer
-Subatomic: 10 kilometers
Then, he checked his status.
Energy Points (EP): 0/10,000 :-: (0/sec [10/sec])
Genesis Points (GP): 11,110,049
Soul Space Cost: 10/sec
He would need to raise his EP capacity to at least one million, but he would need to raise it to at least 100 million if he wanted to take a snapshot at the next range up. He didn't like having his EP storage completely emptied, so he decided to raise his EP capacity to one billion. Not wanting to have to make the purchase 999,990 times in a row, he examined the store item more closely and found there was an option to choose an amount of increase he wanted and it would tell him the cost.
[Energy Point Capacity Increased: 10,000 -> 1,000,000,000]
After increasing his EP capacity, he checked his status again.
Energy Points (EP): 0/1,000,000,000 :-: (10/sec)
Genesis Points (GP): 10,110,059
Soul Space Cost: 0/sec
Unless he wanted to wait a day for one million EP to accumulate, he would also need to increase his EP rate. He did some quick math and figured he had enough GP to raise his EP to 4500. He didn't like the idea of spending most of his recently earned GP so he raised his EP rate to 3000, a nice round number.
[Energy Point Rate Increased: 10/sec -> 3,000/sec]
At 3000/sec, it would take him about five minutes to accumulate the needed EP for a new max range snapshot. Eager to gain more GP, he "stared" at his status, watching the EP numbers increase. It was almost Zen like, watching the number grow.
Energy Points (EP): 159,000/1,000,000,000 :-: (3,000/sec)
Energy Points (EP): 468,000/1,000,000,000 :-: (3,000/sec)
Energy Points (EP): 879,000/1,000,000,000 :-: (3,000/sec)
Energy Points (EP): 963,000/1,000,000,000 :-: (3,000/sec)
Then finally...
Energy Points (EP): 1,002,000/1,000,000,000 :-: (3,000/sec)
As soon as his EP ticked over 1 million, he created a new Atomic detail snapshot at max range.
[Achievement: Captured 10,000,000 Sapiens in a Snapshot]
[Reward: 100,000,000 GP]
[Achievement: Captured 100,000,000 Sapiens in a Snapshot]
[Reward: 1,000,000,000 GP]
[Achievement: Captured 1,000,000,000 Sapiens in a Snapshot]
[Reward: 10,000,000,000 GP]
The earth had a radius of 6,371 kilometers. And with a snapshot radius of 10,000 kilometers centered on Stetle in Puget State, the sphere of the snapshot should encompass just over half the Earth. So he was a little surprised that he had already covered more than 1 billion people. Curious how that was possible, he checked the virtual Earth app on his phone and found that the opposite side of the Earth from Stetle was mostly ocean. So, his snapshot had already covered most of the world's population.
Since the Earth's population was less than 10 billion, even if he extended his snapshot range again, he would not earn any more GP. So he chose not to extend his snapshot range again, for now.
He checked his GP balance.
Genesis Points (GP): 11,105,608,614
Eleven billion points! He had no idea what he was going to do with that many GP. He could raise his EP/sec rate and capacity to the moon, but when he looked at his store catalog, he saw that more items had been added.
Unlock Linked Templates
Cost: 10,000 GP
Description: Link a template, or an instantiation to the physical object from which it was created. When a template is linked to its original, it can be updated to match the original at a fraction of the cost of the initial template creation. The update cost varies depending on the degree of change. When a template instantiation is linked to the original, changes made to the instantiation can be exported to original. The export cost varies depending on the degree of change. A template can be updated to match an instantiation at no cost.
Unlock Sentient Template Creation
Cost: 10,000 GP
Description: Create a template from a sentient, but not sapient, creature found in a snapshot. Instances of the creature's template can be instantiated inside your soul space. The loyalty, obedience, and other behavioral traits of the creature's soul space instance can be altered. An Atomic detail level snapshot is required for this feature.
The Linked Templates feature was similar to the Linked Self feature but for objects, and it would make a laptop in his soul space more useful. Assuming the cost wasn't crazy.
When he saw the second item, his first thought was, people templates, that's crazy, then noticed in the description that it said, "sentient, not sapient". He remembered that humans were considered both sentient and sapient, but that any animal with a capacity for emotion was considered sentient, at least from a scientific point of view.