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Last modified by Daniel Turner on 2023/09/21 14:42
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18 18  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:
19 19  
20 -* Financial Budget
20 +* Monetary Budget
21 21  * Knowledge
22 22  * Personnel
23 23  * Reputation
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294 294  
295 295  {{layout-cell}}
296 296  == Monetary Costs ==
297 +
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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467 467  
468 468  {{layout-cell}}
469 469  == Knowledge Costs ==
472 +
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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680 680  
681 681  {{layout-cell}}
682 682  == Personnel Costs ==
687 +
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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684 684  {{/layout-section}}
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848 848  First level 20 reputation ceremony bonus
849 849  )))|(% style="text-align: right;" %)(% style="text-align: right;" %)
850 850  (((
851 -20
857 +100
852 852  )))|(% style="text-align: right;" %)(% style="text-align: right;" %)
853 853  (((
854 -20
860 +100
855 855  )))|(% style="text-align: right;" %)(% style="text-align: right;" %)
856 856  (((
857 857  1
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862 862  Subsequent level 20 reputation ceremonies
863 863  )))|(% style="text-align: right;" %)(% style="text-align: right;" %)
864 864  (((
865 -5
871 +25
866 866  )))|(% style="text-align: right;" %)(% style="text-align: right;" %)
867 867  (((
868 -75
874 +250
869 869  )))|(% style="text-align: right;" %)(% style="text-align: right;" %)
870 870  (((
871 871  15
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907 907  Sum
908 908  )))|(% colspan="1" %)(% colspan="1" %)
909 909  (((
910 -1345
916 +1600
911 911  )))|(% colspan="1" %)(% colspan="1" %)
912 912  (((
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931 931  
932 932  {{layout-cell}}
933 933  == Reputation Costs ==
940 +
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.
942 +
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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935 935  {{/layout-section}}
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