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# Caps & Guardrails

The four limits you will actually run into, and what each one is for.

Four limits shape how far an office can be pushed.

## 1. Your output ceiling

**500 points a tick** — twenty times the desk you started with. You approach it rather than hit it, and you keep gaining from every purchase on the way.

## 2. Comfort gets less useful in bulk

Each extra copy of the **same** comfort item is worth **0.6** of the one before it:

| Copies of one item | Worth |
| :----------------: | ----: |
|          1         | 1.00× |
|          2         | 1.60× |
|          3         | 1.96× |
|          4         | 2.18× |
|          5         | 2.31× |
|         10         | 2.48× |

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**Variety beats quantity.** Ten different comfort items each pay in full. Ten coffee machines pay barely more than four. Upgrading a copy you already own is never wasted, though — the strongest one always counts in full.
{% endhint %}

Comfort in total is capped at **+60%**.

## 3. Systems bonuses cap out, and legends stop stacking

Systems and legendary bonuses together stop at **+150%**, so a floor of nothing but boards and screens is not a strategy.

Legends thin out sooner than that. Your best seated legend gives its full bonus; every legend after it gives **50%** of theirs. A room of five legends is worth much less than five times one.

## 4. The terminal can only double the office

Whatever your office produced during a cycle, the terminal can add at most that much again on top. Win more than that and the excess is burned when the cycle settles.

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This is the limit that keeps the game about building. A big office raises the ceiling on everything the terminal can add, so the desk rewards the room rather than replacing it. [Reward Weight](https://degen-capital-1.gitbook.io/degen-capital-docs/degen-capital/the-prize-pool/reward-weight) works it through.
{% endhint %}

There is no ceiling in the other direction: terminal losses are not capped, and they come off the balance the prize pool pays on.


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