Inputs before outputs.
Current cash begins at the official $10,000 starting value. Once edited, it represents your own balance. Reserve, income, survival rate, and every loadout price are always user-entered. The calculator does not ship with an item-price database.
1. Loadout total
Every non-negative line price is added once.
2. Consecutive-loss runway
The runway counts how many full loadout totals fit between current cash and the protected reserve. It rounds down because a partial loadout is not counted as a fully funded loss.
When the loadout total is zero, the result is shown as “—” instead of pretending the runway is infinite.
3. Expected cost per life
This planning model treats the entered survival rate as the chance of avoiding one full modeled loadout loss. It is a simplification, not a statement about the game’s exact inventory rules.
4. Expected net per life
Positive expected net means the scenario grows cash on average under your assumptions. Negative expected net means it consumes cash on average.
5. One-loss recovery
Recovery uses expected net, not gross income, because later lives still carry modeled loss risk. If expected net is zero or negative, the calculator reports “No recovery.”