Spacebux

A fun little out-of-game system that rewards you for in-game time with funny out-of-game money for cosmetic things like shiny top hats, funky instruments, and the ability to go limbless. Consider it one of the many ways Goonstation thanks you for spending your precious time here.

Earn It

Spacebux earnings follow a simple rule:

(Part-Timer or Full-Timer Modifier * Base Spacebux Wage) - Penalties + Bonuses

Part-Timer or Full-Timer Modifier

Roughly a percentage of Base Spacebux Salary based on when you joined the round, or, in another way, how much time you'd spent playing through the round. If you join before roundstart or within minutes after, essentially sticking around for the whole round, you get the Full-Timer wage, and your Modifier will be 100%. In other words, your Base Spacebux Wage will be unaffected. If you join 8 or so minutes after the round starts however, you get the Part-Timer wage, which will reflect the amount of total round time in which you were present relative to the total length of the round. For example, if you join at 10 minutes and the round ends at 20 minutes, your modifier is 50%.

Base Spacebux Wage

The Base Space Wage all these modifier and penalties change is based solely on your Job, and, coincidentally, it happens to match the in-game credits payouts the job receives.(but not always.) In other words, the Unionized or Pawn Star traits will not affect Spacebux earnings and neither will the station payroll running out or you getting a raise or pay cut. If you transfer out of a job, you'll get the Base Spacebux Wage of your original role. As with in-game salaries, generally, the harder the job/the more responsibilities it requires, the higher the Spacebux wage.

If you die, regardless of the circumstances of your death, you'll get the Base Spacebux Wage of your original Job. If you're cloned, scientifically/magically revived, absorbed into a Changeling hivemind, and/or choose to Respawn as a Animal, you'll still get the Base Spacebux Wage of your original job.

Base Spacebux wage per Job

Job	Base Wage
Captain	$1700
AI	$1800
Cyborg	$1000
Head of Personnel	$1500
Chef	$500
Bartender	$500
Janitor	$400
Chaplain	$300
Chief Engineer	$1500
Engineer	$1000
Mechanic	$900
Miner	$1100
Quartermaster	$700
Head of Security	$1500
Security Officer	$1400
Detective	$600
Medical Director	$1500
Roboticist	$700
Geneticist	$1200
Medical Doctor	$800
Research Director	$1500
Scientist	$800
Communications Officer	$500
Staff Assistant	$200
Clown	$2
Mime	$4
Gimmick jobs	$200
Traitor Changeling Spy Thief Revolutionary Vampire Gang Leader Werewolf Grinch	Whatever salary your job has.
Nuclear Operative	$1600
Blob	$1600
Wraith	$1600
Wizard	$1600

Penalties

As of now, there is one main penalty: Did Not Escape. While there is technically a penalty based on Station Grade, it doesn't actually take any Spacebux away now. Traitors, blobs, wizards, and all the other Antagonists do not suffer any of these penalties here regardless of whether they escape or live. They also keep their held item.

Did Not Escape

This penalty takes 75% of your Base Spacebux Wage if you didn't make it to shuttle or weren't at CentComm at the end of the round. Unlike with certain antagonist escape objectives, the game actually tends to be pretty consistent on what counts as having escaped. Being in the CentCom area outside of the shuttle counts as having escaped, so you don't have to stay or wait on the shuttle in order to qualify. If it ever messes up, kindly report it to the coders via the Bug Report button in the top left of your game window.

One thing's for certain though: Did Not Escape doesn't factor in whether you were actually alive or not. If you die and your corpse was dragged onto the shuttle, you'll count as having escaped and won't get the penalty. Same business if you die on the shuttle, but aren't gibbed. If you are gibbed, or, as a borg, blown apart on the shuttle (or really anywhere), then you don't count as having Escaped and will get penalized. However, if you're absorbed by a Changeling, you'll count as escaped, so long as said Changeling escaped.

Also, if the round type has another end condition besides the Escape Shuttle docking at CentCom, you don't get this penalty. For example, if you played a Revolution, Nuke, or Blob round, you're exempt from this penalty. If you're the AI, regardless of the round type, you're exempt as well.

In addition, being in cryostorage counts as not escaping. So does being a Ghostdrone.

Bonuses

Crew Objective Bonus

You can earn bonuses to your Spacebux payout by completing your objectives. For every cleared objective you gain +50 Spacebux as well as an additional 100 for completing all of them on top that. For example, if you're a janitor, and your objectives are to keep the Bar, Medbay and the Brig spotless, and you happen to complete them all, you'll earn $150 for the objectives and then $100. These bonuses do not get deducted by penalties.

Pilot Bonus

On every escape shuttle, there's an extra fancy-looking blue chair in the "cockpit" area, usually somewhere near the shuttle console. If you're buckled into this chair when the shuttle arrives at Central Command, you get a snazzy extra 500 Spacebux. And you don't even have to do any actual piloting!

Spend It

Those Spacebux are only an intermediate reward. These trinkets and baubles are Goonstation's real gift to you for playing. You buy these at a special screen that appears when you decide to press the Declare Ready button to you join a round (and in the case of late joins, right when you're deciding what job to sign up as).

You can only buy one of these per a round, but they'll persist with you so long as you escape on the shuttle alive. If you're playing a Antagonist, went into the cryo unit, and/or playing nuke/blob/any game mode that can be ended without a shuttle call, you'll still keep the held item. Most of these will spawn in your backpack or similar, sort of like an extra trinket item. Nuclear Operatives do not get their Spacebux items.

Purchasable Items

Item	Cost	Notes
Crayon	$50	Allows you to draw cute bees and rude graffiti all over the station floor and walls.
Rainbow Paint Can	$1500	Paint everything with a can of paint whose colors shift with each use. The paint starts out red, then orange, yellow, blue, indigo, purple, and then red again--like a rainbow!
Plaid Paint Can	$3000	Paint everything in a random color with a random plaid design!
Sticker Box	$300	A box full of stickers. There are arrows, hearts, happy faces, sad faces, clovers, and...skulls?
Bee Egg	$550	Contains one greater domestic space bee egg, space mankind's greatest friend.
Harmonica	$150	A harmonica that plays exquisite jazz tunes that really suit a Brig atmosphere. Pairs well with Jailbird.
Air Horn	$800	A loud, obnoxious airhorn, for when honking a regular bike horn just isn't enough.
Dramatic Horn	$400	A bike horn that plays dramatic-sounding sound clips. Can be made into a Chefbot.
Saxophone	$600	Classical brass instrument that allows you to play custom saxophone songs through a piano-like interface.
Trumpet	$700	An excellent companion to the saxophone.
Fiddle	$700	A classic wooden fiddle that plays some nice folk music tunes. Keep away from devils.
Gold Zippo	$500	What's better than flicking a zippo and lighting like a badass? Flicking a golden one and lighting like a rich badass! Otherwise identical to the ordinary zippo.
Toy Sword	$900	Strike fear into the hearts of men, and see them driven before you with this replica cyalume saber. Perfect for miscreants.
Sound Synthesizer	$14000	Just like the ones Brobocops have, available for both humans and cyborgs! Remember that you can click on yourself to change the sound, and click on the synthesizer to actually produce the sound. Suitable for taking the Clown's job.
Record	$2000	If you can find the right equipment for it, you can play to everyone on the server, like a divine DJ! Maybe it has an epic action track! Or a remix of a classic 80s song! Or perhaps it's just the Tetris theme but with clowns and farts. Oshan Lab and Manta both have on-site radio stations that can play these things. Other stations don't, but there's a radio outpost in the Debris Field that can.
Sparkler Box	$1000	Box of five sparklers, which make pretty lights when lit. Fun for parties and other celebrations!
Dabbing License	$4200	Nifty card worn in the ID slot that keeps track of amount of dabs, brain damage and limbs lost through dabbing, and number of times you've dabbed over someone while wearing this. If you're dab that cannot naturally dab, also lets you dab! Proof you abandoned God. Dabs are done through the *dab emote, which works like all other manually-inputted emotes.
Clue Scroll	$3500	A scroll containing a hint for one random ingredient in a random secret chemical recipe! Each hint can only be read once, so feel free to sell it to others.
Alternate Jumpsuit	$1500	You spawn wearing an alternate version of the jumpsuit associated with your job; if your job spawns with special outerwear (e.g. Geneticist), it'll also become the alternate version. It'll have the same design, but the colors will be opposite/complementary to the usual ones or otherwise just plain silly. The Botanists get red jumpsuits with blue stripes, everybody and everyone in the Engineering department gets purple uniforms, the Head of Security and their Security Officer underlings get blue jackets, things like that. There's one for basically every job except Chef, Bartender, Clown, Chaplain, Detective, Head of Personnel, and Captain.
Alternate Clown Suit	$200	A clown mask, suit, and shoes set in a different color scheme, available in yellow, pink, blue and, purple. Note that you have to join/spawn as a Clown to get the outfit. If you spawn/join as another job, you won't get the outfit, though you will get the Spacebux refunded.
Rucksack	$1400	Backpack reskin, randomly comes in either yellow or red. It's a bit bigger than the usual ones (though, being a reskin, it obviously still has just as much space) and presumably made of that canvas "outdoorsy", "adventure-loving" types apparently like. Also comes in a satchel variant.
Randoseru	$1500	Also a backpack reskin. Quintessentially Space Japanese: modestly-sized, rather inconspicuous, and designed for schoolchildren. Also comes in a satchel variant.
Travel Backpack	$1600	Another backpack reskin, for the sort of people who actually like wearing Space Hawaiian shirts and carrying around huge, heaving sacks of stuff.
NT Backpack	$600	Instead of the dull light-grey backpack, you spawn with a stylish dark matte grey and blue one. You can even convert it into a NT satchel with the Fish medal reward.
No Limbs	$10000	You start with no limbs at all, so you move veeeery slowly unless you have someone to drag you around, have somebody give you new limbs, or hitch a ride.
No Legs	$5000	You start with no legs, so you move really slowly, though not as much as having no limbs at all. No, you don't get a wheelchair to help you out, so you gotta obtain one on your own. Alternatively find a suitable vehicle or get someone to pull you around. Doesn't work if you spawn as a Cyborg.
Corpse	$15000	You start off where you'd usually spawn, but dead! Better hope someone hauls you to Medbay before you rot. If you spawn as AI or Cyborg, you'll start off alive, and your reward will be returned. You can still be Antagonist and spawn with this, unless you are an Nuclear Operative, which does not get Spacebux items. Unlike other items, this does not persist between rounds.
Space Diner Patron	$5000	You spawn somewhere in the Space/Sea Diner. If you want to get to the main ship/station, you might want to board the nearby Space Pods/minisubs in the parking area. If you're on a map set in outer space, you can also try calling the Mining Shuttle through the mining shuttle console.
Mail Order	$5000	You spawn inside a crate that'll enter the station through the Cargo Bay's shipment receiving area.
Missile Arrival	$20000	Instead of simply spawning in like a normal person, you enter via a "human capsule missile" that crashes into a room with harmless sparks and debris, similar to Oshan. You can end up in any random place on the station, so long as it normally doesn't block teleportation (i.e. you can't end up in Sec, but you can wind up in the Captain's Quarters), and if it somehow "misses" the ship/station, the missile will try to land again. To counter the fact that you'll be suffocating en-route, you also spawn wearing a breath mask and an emergency O2 tank in your backpack.
Lunchbox	$600	You start with an adorable lunchbox (essentially a reskinned box) with three random foods and a note with a pop culture reference. Yummy.
Alt Ghost Critter	$1000	When you die and choose to respawn as a ghost critter, you may start out as a boogiebot or a toy figure.
Golden Ghost	$1500	Your ghostly form is piss yellow brass old gold, with a tasteful golden glitter. Makes fantastic non-human ghosts.
Fruit Hat	$150	Guaranteed to be free of the ghost of Carmen Miranda.
Pride-O-Matic Jumpsuit	$1200	You spawn with a pride-o-Matic jumpsuit, a pride jumpsuit that cycles through other pride jumpsuit color schemes when used in-hand. Celebrate tolerance.
Hoodie	$1500	Buy the option to wear casual wear to work, when just finding a tracksuit isn't for you. Game randomly picks between the blue and orange versions.
Stripe Outfit	$1400	A relic of a (gladly) bygone era.
Discount Fake Moustache	$500	Won't hide your identity like a real Syndie 'stache and you can't twirl it, but it'll still provide the same villainous style.
Golden Top Hat	$900	The next stage of cranial adornment, suitable for the modern space-faring gentleman/lady. It even sparkles like real gold!
Dancin Shoes	$2000	With these suave shoes, you can dance more often, since they reduce the cooldown on the *dance emote.
Alohamaton Skin	$4000	Cyborg only (if you respawn as something not a Cyborg, you'll get refunded the Spacebux.) When you spawn as a Cyborg, you'll look like a certain automaton on vacation. This also turns your *snap emotes (Hotkey: Ctrl + Z) into something weird.
AI Hat	$1000	AI only, as the tin says. (if you don't spawn as AI, you'll get refunded the Spacebux.) When you spawn as an AI, you'll start wearing a neat hat. Draws from list of all possible hats!

Transfer It

Giving your farty spaceperson funny money to someone is easy as slipping on the Clown's banana peel. To transfer your Spacebux to someone, find an ATM and choose to transfer your Spacebux. When prompted, enter an amount and select a recipient, shown as a list of BYOND usernames of everyone on the server. After a confirmation prompt, the Spacebux should instantly be transferred over. Easy as that.

If you don't know the BYOND username of the person you want to grant your Spacebux to or simply prefer a more tangible means of currency exchange, you can also use an ATM to dispense a Spacebux token (shown above) worth a custom amount of Spacebux, via similar steps as above. Thanks to imcoder magic, you can redeem a token simply by clicking on ATM while holding one--no need to mess with PINs or cards. However, that also means muggers can take your token and cash it in themselves, so keep them safe!

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