Pirate Market

[Deadvickyart]

Keep in mind starstones, which take around 15 minutes to get and are intended to be the big money maker, will net you 300,000-1350000, with an average value of 750000, that is 15 minutes of work and is the best money maker in the game outside of highly rng methods like wish maker. Mars outpost grants you 8 bullions, which equals around 360000 credits (not to mention mars outpost is quite old so it shouldnt be taken to reflect modern balance standards). With several economy balances the profitabilty of things have actually been going down (see things like lottery nerf.). Having qms be able to spend 3 minutes hacking into RD and steal a bee to be set for the whole shift seems bad all around. I like these sprites but I feel like there could be better execution with the pricing and what is bought/sold.360000363

15 minutes of selling food to cargo merchants or weed to diner merchants gets you a million easily for very little effort. Best way of making money is still that, fishing for wishmakers (give about 10 mil for a successful wish, once per person), PTL hellburns or mindslaving HoP to steal station funds.

In any case even if someone does abuse the hell out of this and spends half a round scraping together 150 million space bucks in a round, there's only so much you can do with it. When the round ends, you get a chance to appear on the post-game score list and then it's all gone. Currently when cargo gets loads of money, they generally just sit on a huge budget or buy loads of novelty items like the hat crate. Not super unbalancing stuff.

Having qms be able to spend 3 minutes hacking into RD and steal a bee to be set for the whole shift seems bad all around. I like these sprites but I feel like there could be better execution with the pricing and what is bought/sold.360000363

Firstly, they'd only be able to do this if the round starts between xx:15 and xx:29 so they'll only be able to do this every 4 rounds on average. Secondly, Heisenbee has a persistant round tracker but currently the only legitimate reason to murder him is to fulfil a rare traitor objective (which can't appear on other antag types except sleeper agents/hard mode traitors) or to purposefully kill him just to interrupt the Heisenbee hat system. RD needs more of a reason to keep an eye on Heisenbee, he's left alone in his office too often for how valuable he's supposed to be. At the very least this incentivises RDs keeping him in the ID locker, out of reach of grubby thieving QMs.