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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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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Bay contract mass now comes from per-ship-size bands, and the first
contract in each band is a no-skill Standard job to a discovered
location, so a new player with only a Courier always has work.
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fireshaper