Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25370154-20150419103209/@comment-25467429-20150419161551

It is a quite plausible if you're talking about someone that is that dedicated to spending money. Even assuming you averaged 4000 points a sortie, which would be impossible this tournament since they didn't marathon forced sorties the whole thing like they've done in the past, that would be 500 sorties. Over 14 days that would be about 35-36 sorties a day. Assuming a mission cycle of ten minutes (entering/ starting a room, filling it, fuel selection, plane selection, mission, mission completion/rewards, re-filling the room, starting a new mission) that's about six hours a day.

Even with a full-time job it's possible, though nor exactly realistic. Even for a kid I imagine it's hard to sit down and play six hours worth of a single game every day for two weeks. But what constantly kills me more than the time is the cost. 500 sorties, with max forced sorties to acheive that 4000 point average, would be 1500 units of fuel. 1500!!!

The learder isn't really quite that high yet, and far enough away that it is plausbile that they won't actually make it to an even 2M, so those fuel/time/cost estimates will come down a bit. But right now you're still talking about around 375-400 sorites, 26-29 sorties a day, and a total of somewhere between 1100 and 1200 units of fuel.