Weekly Earnings Cap
automated jobs only

When you reach your cap, you'll find that npcs start telling you to come back Friday. We recognize that everyone has busy lives and that the weekends are the most likely time when you might have the largest stretch of free time, so we've set things up to reset on Friday for the weekend.

Now, this does not impact salaried jobs (though collecting your salary will count against the cap), this does not impact the business you conduct as part of actual roleplaying with player and non-player characters. It is our hope that you see the automated sources of money as something to turn to only when you need to.

I believe I got the majority of the money sources I was looking for, but we've got a lot of sources and I may have missed some. If you come across something that you think isn't bound by this limitation, you need to report it. Not doing so may result in game suspensions or worse.

You are going to find this restrictive, you will begin to feel short of chyen. We're not trying to frustrate you, but if you're not struggling a little to make ends meet on Red, you're not getting the experience we set out to deliver. We hope you use this as cause to create conflict, to hurt each other, to scheme, to overcome this adversity.

Or is it set up like this on purpose?

I do think that (assuming you are buying stuff from market, or nice dreams machine or whatever) selling things to gangers shouldn't be capped simply because that's also putting a HUGE cap on how hard it is to get rep with gangers. Rep is quickly becoming a bigger part of the game, and I think that stifling it in any way is a bad idea.

If there was a way for the *profit* to be applied against the cap rather than the entirety of the *revenue*, that would make more sense too.

I know that's probably impossible to implement. Getting an item for free or subtantial discount and selling it on the street is the same revenue but very different profit, compared to running to NiceDreams and back for a very modest markup.

But still. If it's intende to be a cap on automated *income*, it's a penalty to someone who has to spend money to make money.

I'm sorry, but I really doubt that the gangs, scavengers, courier services, corps and bars are not sharing your earnings with each other so they can enforce an IC earnings cap. There is no IC earnings cap in my opinion. The ganger doesn't care that you made X chy from a topside courier service and earned X chy selling to a scavenger. They probably don't even know unless you told them.

Yes, we know OOCly that the ganger isn't buying your 'fancy cheese' because you hit the OOC earnings cap. But please just take the ganger at his IC word. Something like, "I don't want to buy from you right now but maybe later." Don't pretend he is telling you that it is because of some Dome wide conspiracy. Same thing with courier services. Take them at their word as to IC reasoning.

None of these NPCs are required to give you work. Just like your character can give PC Bob a job one day but decide they don't want to the next. So I see nothing strange with an NPC having work for you sometimes but not at other times.

If an NPC's response isn't good enough for your PC (as far as explaining why they aren't getting a job or making a sale), they are free to try to find out why that NPC isn't doing biz with them right now ICly by asking or something. I just don't understand how any character, outside of a conspiracy nut, would jump to the conclusion that all of these people are teaming up to enforce some strange IC earnings cap.

The act of attempting to earn when you can't is what triggers the message now, not the act of exceeding the cap.