Ranks

Ranks

Rank	Name	Nr. of ships	Guild dues	Commission (per ship)	SPF
0	Pilot	1	10%	n.a.	n.a.
1	Runner	2 - 9	15%	900	300
2	Courier	10 - 19	15%	800	300
3	Merchant	20 - 49	20%	700	300
4	Trader	50 - 99	20%	700	300
5	Trade baron(ess)	100 - 499	25%	600	300
6	Broker	500 - 999	25%	500	300
7	Mogul	1,000 - 9,999	30%	400	250
8	Captain	10,000 - 19,999	30%	300	unknown
9	Director	20,000 - ? plus flagship	30%	200	unknown
10	Guild leader	?	?	100 (assume)	?

Ship pricing formulas are as follows:

• Standard purchase formula: Price = SPF * (Ships Owned) * (Ships Owned)
• Discounted purchase formula: Price = SPF * .75 * (Ships Owned) * (Ships Owned)
• Standard sale formula: Price = SPF * .75 * (Ships Owned - 1) * (Ships Owned - 1)
• Bonus sale formula: Price = 1.2 * SPF * (Ships Owned) * (Ships Owned)

SPF is Ship Purchase Factor and is based on your current rank.

At some moment, when you are Trade Broker, prices of ships are leveled to round figures (upwards). So a ship costs - considering what's above - 2,346,280 credits, you pay 2.4 million.

I believe this is when a ship price reaches over 1 million

Limitations:

• Players with less than 5 ships of their own cannot recruit.
• Players with less than 5 ships cannot receive ships as gifts.
• You can only give gifts to a maximum of 1 rank above you or 3 ranks below you
• You can keep subs up to 5 ranks below your own.
• You cannot choose a superior more than 3 ranks above your own.

Upgrades

Upgrades become available based on the number of personal ships you own. Each upgrade improves the fleet efficiency by 50cr / ship The initial cost is the cost of the upgrade at the minimum number of ships; if you choose to purchase the upgrade later its cost will be: number of personal ships x multiplier. So the initial costs are only when you buy the upgrade at the minimal required amount of personal ships.

Note Ships and buy price do not match on most since please refer to price modifier since someone changed all the ships required

No. Ships	Upgrade	Initial Cost	Multiplier	Eff. bonus (total)
3	Repair Bot	300	100	50
9	Cargo Pods	28,800	3,200	100
15	Recalibrate Engines	108,000	7,200	150
21	Scanner Upgrade	268,800	12,800	200
27	VR Rigs	540,000	20,000	250
33	Plasma cooled refrigeration system	957,000	29,000	300
39	Merchant grade navigation system	1,528,800	39,200	350
45	Install an Ops module	2,349,000	52,200	400
51	Engine upgrade	3,304,800	64,800	450
57	Cloaking device	4,560,000	80,000	500
63	Second engine upgrade	6,098,400	96,800	550
69	Low-power thrusters	7,948,800	115,200	600
75	SUV's	10,140,000	135,200	650
81	Hire task master/fleet manager	12,700,800	156,800	700
87	Automated inventory module	15,660,000	180.000	750
93	Modern repair bots	19,046,400	204,800	800
99	Armor plating	22,888,800	231,200	850
105	Light-weight armor plating	27,216,000	259,200	900
111	Navigational maps	32,056,800	288,800	950
117	Newfangled VR rigs	?	?	1,000
117	Gravity Well Sling Shot	?	?	1,050
123	Many Tiny Ships	55,036,800	352,800	1,100
129	More Tiny Ships	?	?	1,150
135	Shrink Ray	72,790,400	423,200	1,200
141	Powerful Magnet for lost shrunk cargo	?	?	1250
147	New Cloaks	95,000,000	500,000	1,300
?	Modern Scanners	?	540,800	1,350
?	Ultimate Liquid Armor	?	583,200	1400