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A stand alone, content driven Endless Sky fork.
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Reduce crew salaries because profit is shared #173

Closed lukearndt closed 3 years ago

lukearndt commented 3 years ago

Context

We recently overhauled the crew salaries and fleet shares to make the game more economically challenging. In doing so, we revealed that missions don't pay well enough, and that daily salaries are not as fun as profit shares are. This commit addresses the latter issue.

Overall, we want the player to feel like their fleet costs them something each day. However, we don't want to to tie the player's hands and punish them for spending several days doing something fun like exploring the galaxy.

Changes

This commit significantly reduces the salaries of all crew members:

Regular Crew: 100 -> 80 Pilot: 500 -> 150 Junior Officer: 1000 -> 200 Senior Officer: 2000 -> 300 Executive Officer: 10,000 -> 1,000

Considerations

Under this model, a person would choose to become a crew member on a starship not because of the daily pay, which might be better working on a planet, but for the potential profit shares. They become the focus.

I think that this model lays a better foundation for the upcoming morale system. If crew members don't get a huge daily salary, then shared profits are therefore their main motivator. That opens the door for their morale to be more variable.

When they're making a lot of money because the fleet is smart and productive, they'll be a lot happier.

When the crew aren't seeing enough profits to justify their risks, they'll become unhappy, be less motivated to run the ship well, and eventually get mad enough to mutiny.

kikotheexile commented 3 years ago

Please leave regular crew at 80 or greater, and pilots at 150 or greater. But otherwise all of this looks great.