An away scenario in the balance simulator: hired pilots fly Independent
for 8 hours and earn a median 56% of active play with the same fleet
(target 40-80%), never below the spending floor or stranded (CR-021).
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CR-020 and Phase 20 went to the Bridge dashboard, recorded first in
another session. Independent Pilots is CR-021 (decisions 0.5.122-0.5.130);
its Steps 20.1-20.5 commits are Steps 21.1-21.5.
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Pure functions for Independent pilots: the jobs they may take, profit
per hour, fuel bought only for the leg above the spending floor, and the
chosen action (decisions 0.5.120-0.5.124).
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CR-019 §6 amendments (plan 0.5.52, 0.5.53, 3.9, 9.4, 12.1; CR-002,
CR-006, CR-007). The balance player reads boards for the qualifying
fleet; e2e 12.6 learns Heavy Cargo before a Heavy job is offered.
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With a fleet, boards keep only candidates some pair can complete, up to
the board size or 200 attempts (decision 0.5.114). The balance player
keeps enough cash to refuel landed ships before buying one.
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permanentFailure, completability and qualifyingFleet: a job is
completable when some qualifying ship-and-pilot pair passes every
permanent check (decisions 0.5.114-0.5.116).
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New ships (deal or Market) come full on Manual refueling; save version
3 puts every existing ship on Manual. The balance simulator refuels only
when a job needs it (decisions 0.5.111, 0.5.112).
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Base fuel price 10 -> 5 cr/fu. No route is above 25% of the median
fitting payout but the Clipper's Mars -> Earth; the first purchase
window is now 30-95 min (user decisions, 0.5.110).
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For every purchasable ship and route it can fly, the leg's fuel at the
origin's price against the median payout of fitting contracts; the
balance script prints the table (decision 0.5.110).
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The tutorial timing test now sums the slowest job on each of the five
runs' boards and keeps the total under 7 real minutes.
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Tutorial runs earn their XP times the tutorial XP multiplier. At 2x
the five cheapest runs make exactly the 100 XP for level 1, so the
avatar always has a skill point at the deal.
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Every cell of the CR-015 reach table and the CR-016 additions holds with
the existing tanks, so no content changes: the step adds one test per
new cell, the Bulk Hauler's 900M km minimum, and the Courier's
Jupiter-system loop.
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Venus Cloud City, Io Sulfur Works and Europa Ice Station join the map
(fixed positions, Io and Europa riding with Jupiter), with their
fuel prices, range factors, shippers and sprites. Each makes a
Standard good so boards work there. The first-purchase balance window
widens to 45-95 minutes (user decision).
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Applies CR-015's amendments to the implementation plan (deferred list,
decisions, content, sim, client and phase notes). The balance check now
also confirms no simulated ship ever needs emergency fuel while the
player has credits on Auto top-up. Phase 15 is complete.
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The no-strand rule now asks whether the ship could leave the
destination on a full tank where fuel is sold, or on what is left
after the leg where it isn't. Emergency fuel is offered to an idle
ship that can't reach anywhere when the player can't afford the
shortfall: the cheapest leg's fuel at 2.5x the local price.
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Ships carry fuel: a leg burns from the tank at departure (no credits),
dispatch needs the fuel on board (not-enough-fuel), a leg's fuel cost
is fuel burned x the tank's average price, and Auto top-up refills on
landing with what the credits cover. The save gains tank fields (save
version 2, migration fills every tank). Market ships arrive full; the
deal's ships come with a quarter tank to keep the balance targets.
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Ships get a tank capacity and a burn rate instead of range and fuel
cost; locations get a fixed fuel price and a sellsFuel flag instead of
the launch cost multiplier. A leg burns burn rate x the economic
distance of (distance / origin factor), and reach is a full tank's
worth. Tanks are sized so every reach answer is unchanged.
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Positions, distances, range checks, trip times, fuel and the no-strand
rule no longer take a time argument; the 48-hour no-strand margin goes
with it. Tests now check that a route's pay, trip time and fuel are the
same whenever it is offered or flown.
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Locations get fixed polar coordinates (the Moon as an offset from
Earth) and astronomy-engine is removed, so positions now come from
content. Ranges move into CR-015's reach bands for the fixed distances,
and the Lighter's price drops to 36,000 to keep the balance targets.
Date-sampled tests become yes/no.
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