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2 2  Updated for version 4.10
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15 15  Budgeted Custom Game Starts require the player to load an existing **unmodified** save before becoming functional, this requirement is based on the need for the budget limits to be calculated on game progress. Budget areas include:
16 16  
17 -* Financial Budget
20 +* Monetary Budget
18 18  * Knowledge
19 19  * Personnel
20 20  * Reputation
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27 27  Creative Custom Gamestarts do not require the player to load an existing save and players can experiment from the outset. Creative custom game starts permit the creation of a game start in the exact same way as a budgeted one but without any of the budgetary restrictions (although the player still has a 10,000,000Cr limit). The player also has full control over which plots and research items are completed even if they have not been completed in an un-modified game. Additionally, the player can adjust their faction relations with otherwise locked factions like the [[doc:Xenon]], [[Kha'ak>>doc:Kha'ak]] and [[doc:Scale Plate Pact]] (although this can often have unintended and undesirable consequences). Finally, players can choose whether or not they want highways enabled or disabled and can enable and disable local and ring highways separately.
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29 29  = Custom Start Metrics =
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30 30  
31 -== Money ==
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38 +== Monetary Budget Factors ==
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33 33  |=(% colspan="1" %)(% colspan="1" %)
34 34  (((
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283 283  (((
284 284  
285 285  )))
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286 286  
287 -== Knowledge ==
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296 +== Monetary Costs ==
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298 +Increasing the financial budget would intuitively increase the player's starting balance, however, it becomes quickly apparent that that is not the case. This is evidenced by the restriction of the player's starting balance to 10 000 000Cr which leaves a massive 123 890 000Cr left over when the maximum budget has been reached. Instead the overwhelming majority of the monetary budget is consumed by inventory items (limited to a select range that excludes paintmods, and technology modification components), ships and starting stations. Prices of stations and ships are taken to be that of the average cost and the player cannot select the Syn or the Asgard for their starting ship or other property. Finally, having any pre-built stations will require funds for the blueprint cost on top of the cost of the station's built components.
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304 +== Knowledge Budget Factors ==
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290 290  Variable
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451 451  
452 -== Personnel ==
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471 +== Knowledge Costs ==
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473 +The Knowledge component of the Budget determines whether or not a faction or a sector is initially known to a player and in the case of sectors if all stations are known. Knowledge of a faction is a fixed value of 2000 points per faction but the cost of knowing a sector is variable with more remote sectors having a greater cost (this is important as players can only start in known sectors). Finally, the cost of whether or not all stations in a given sector is also a fixed cost like faction knowledge and is set at 1800 points per sector.
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479 +== Personnel Budget Factors ==
480 +
454 454  |=(((
455 455  Variable
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653 653  (((
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656 656  
657 -== Reputation ==
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686 +== Personnel Costs ==
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688 +The personnel budget affects the quality of the crew on ships and managers on stations. If a crew level is not set in the custom game start editor a random level crew will be generated. Crew cost factors in both the quantity of crew and the quality, quantity is considered linearly but the cost of quality crew grows exponentially. The cost of crew is roughly equal to ((star level)/3)^3.5 for levels over 1/3, this means a five star crew member will cost 13 070 points.
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694 +== Reputation Budget Factors ==
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660 660  Variable
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817 817  First level 20 reputation ceremony bonus
818 818  )))|(% style="text-align: right;" %)(% style="text-align: right;" %)
819 819  (((
820 -20
857 +100
821 821  )))|(% style="text-align: right;" %)(% style="text-align: right;" %)
822 822  (((
823 -20
860 +100
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825 825  (((
826 826  1
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831 831  Subsequent level 20 reputation ceremonies
832 832  )))|(% style="text-align: right;" %)(% style="text-align: right;" %)
833 833  (((
834 -5
871 +25
835 835  )))|(% style="text-align: right;" %)(% style="text-align: right;" %)
836 836  (((
837 -75
874 +250
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839 839  (((
840 840  15
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876 876  Sum
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878 878  (((
879 -1345
916 +1600
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896 896  Test by starting the game and screenshotting the budget screen. Then load a saved game and compare the values.
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939 +== Reputation Costs ==
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941 +Reputation points exclusively affect relations with factions and can only be used to manipulate how the player interacts with the amicable [[factions>>doc:Factions]]. The default relations in the editor is identical to the 'Young gun' starting scenario with most factions preset and a value of 0 with the exception of the [[doc:Free Families]], [[doc:Fallen Families]], [[doc:Terran Protectorate]], [[doc:Yaki]] and [[doc:Zyarth Patriarchy]] which are set at -5, -5, -15, -25 and -15 respectively.
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943 +Changing relations comes at a cost of 1 point per reputation level between 1 and 10 (raising negative reputation levels up to 0 currently incurs no cost). Between 11 and 20 inclusive raising reputation by 1 level costs 10 points. Between 21 and 26 inclusive costs 100 points per level, the jump between 26 and 27 costs 300 points and for every level over 27 it costs 200 points. The total cost of raising a factions reputation is hence 1 610 points.
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