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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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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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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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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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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