Fare system

Trying to earn money is a big part of CST. You earn money when you have passengers on board and sail them around. If your ship does not move you are not actively earning money.

You get paid once you unload passengers and every midnight. This includes bonuses that can be achieved depending on your ship's customization and route.

There is two separate GUIs for each of those instances:

Final Fare Breakdown
This UI pops up once you offloaded passengers and disappears after a few moments given you a chance to review your income and expenses if you have crew members. If you have more than one ship, there is a good chance that your loading and unloading of passengers is not synced. And you see a separate UI showing the Final Fare Breakdown for every ship in your fleet every time passengers leave a ship.

Daily Fare Breakdown
You also get paid every ingame midnight so this UI pops up every midnight. It shows a breakdown of all the ships in a fleet on the same UI. You can hit each tab to review the details per ship.

Here is a brief explanation of the different categories on these breakdowns:

Base Daily Fare
Passengers pay per room. The Base Daily Fare is the sum of all the occupied room charges. This is the base you would earn if you sailed passengers for the full 24 ingame hours.

Hours
This is a time multiplier. If you sail the full 24 hours hours it will times your base fare by 100% ( 24 hours = x100%). Sailing less than 24 hours equates to a smaller percentage (i.e. 18 hours = x75%).

Did you know that the ingame daynight cycle (24 hours) last 12 human time minutes with the nights going by faster than days?

Nautical Miles
The more nautical mileage you put in the greater the percentage. If your ship does not move the percentage drops. The faster you go the more mileage you can cover but make sure you can actually afford the energy it takes to create the speed.

New Port Visited
For every port that you visit besides the one you loaded your passengers on, you will get a +15% bonus if you manage to hit the additional ports before midnight. The more ports you dock at the greater the bonus you can get. Visiting a port more than once with the same set of passengers does not result in more bonuses. The bonus is limited to visiting a port once with the same set of passengers.

Star Rating
Star Rating based on the overall ship rating. The more stars the ship gets the higher the bonus for this category. 5 stars can get you x200%.

Crew Salaries
These are the expenses for your crew. Depending on the type and quantity of crew members the amount that gets deducted varies. If you wanted to save on some of these costs, you can do most crew jobs yourself such as piloting the ship and cleaning rooms in edit mode. You cannot however do the work of the engineers that look after nuclear reactors.

The breakdowns do not take refuel, recharge and resupply costs into consideration. You have manage those costs yourself.

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