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

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.

Anyways, the Base Spacebux Wage for each station Job is listed in the table below:

Job	Base Spacebux Wage
Captain	2000
AI	1800
Cyborg	1000
Head of Personnel	1500
Chef	500
Barman	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
Staff Assistant	200
Clown	2
Gimmick jobs	200
Traitor Changeling Spy Thief Revolutionary Vampire Gang Leader Werewolf Grinch	Whatever salary your job has.
Nuclear Operative	200
Blob	500
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 made it to shuttle and/or managed to reach 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 by posting about it in the Bug Reports subforums.

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.

Ass Day Bonus

For braving the horrors wonders that await you on every 13th day of the month on Goonstation #2 (but not on Goonstation #1), you get twice as much Spacebux as you normally would! Note that the Part-Time/Full-Time thing still applies, and the Spacebux is doubled after the penalties are imposed. So if you stay for the whole round, do surprisingly well in spite of all the chaos and anarchy, and live (ha!) to make it to the shuttle (ha ha!), you'll get rewarded with twice the Spacebux for the trouble!

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 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.

Purchasable Items

Item	Notes	Cost
Crayon	Allows you to draw cute bees and rude graffiti all over the station floor and walls.	$50
Rainbow Paint Can	Paint everything with a can full of paint that changes color every time you use it.	$1500
Plaid Paint Can	Like the rainbow paint can, but now you'll give everything you paint a plaid design too!	$3000
Sticker Box	A box full of stickers. There are arrows, hearts, happy faces, sad faces, clovers, and...skulls?	$300
Bee Egg	Contains one greater domestic space bee egg, space mankind's greatest friend.	$550
Harmonica	A harmonica that plays exquisite jazz tunes that really suit a Brig atmosphere. Pairs well with Jailbird.	$150
Air Horn	A loud, obnoxious airhorn, for when honking a regular bike horn just isn't enough.	$800
Dramatic Horn	A bike horn that plays dramatic-sounding sound clips. Can be made into a Chefbot.	$400
Trumpet	An excellent companion to the saxophone.	$700
Fiddle	A classic wooden fiddle that plays some nice folk music tunes. Keep away from devils.	$700
Gold Zippo	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.	$500
Toy Sword	Strike fear into the hearts of men, and see them driven before you with this replicia cyalume saber. Perfect for miscreants.	$900
Sound Synthesizer	Just like the ones Brobots 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.	$14000
Food Synthesizer	Just like the ones Brobots have, available for humans and cyborgs alike! You click on yourself to set/change what food it'll spit out and click on the synthesizer to spit it out. You're like a slightly more useful vending machine!	$8000
Record	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 has an on-site radio station that can play these things. Other stations don't, but there's a radio outpost in the northeast Debris Field that can.	$2000
Alternate Jumpsuit	You spawn wearing an alternate version of the jumpsuit associated with your job. 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, Barman, Clown, Chaplain, Detective, Head of Personnel, and Captain.	$1500
Alternate Clown Suit	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.	$200
File:Rucksack.png Rucksack	Backpack reskin. 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.	$1400
Randoseru	Also a backpack reskin. Quintessentially Space Japansese: modestly-sized, rather inconspicuous, and designed for schoolchildren.	$1500
Travel Backpack	Another backpack reskin, for the sort of people who actually like wearing Space Hawaiian shirts and carrying around huge, heaving sacks of stuff.	$1600
Reptillian	You start out with the Saurian Genetics mutation. You see slightly better in the dark and have a tendency to extend every s into a hiss. Your human status is rather murky, but you are still protected by the same anti-griefing and anti-racism protections as everyone.	$3000
Skeleton	You start out with the Ossification mutation. No in-game effects, but people often skeleton jokes around you. Your human status is rather murky, but you are still protected by the same anti-griefing protections as everyone.	$5000
No Limbs	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.	$10000
Lunchbox	You start with an adorable lunchbox (essentially a reskinned box) with three random foods and a note with a pop culture reference. Yummy.	$600
Who knows? Alt Ghost Critter	When you die and choose to respawn as a ghost critter, you start out as a something beyond mere mice and butterflies.	$1000
Golden Ghost	Your ghostly form is piss yellow brass old gold, with a tasteful golden glitter. Makes fantastic non-human ghosts.	$1500
Fruit Hat	Guaranteed to be free of the ghost of Carmen Miranda.	$150
Hoodie	Buy the option to wear casual wear to work, when just finding a tracksuit isn't for you.	$1500
Stripe Outfit	A relic of a (gladly) bygone era.	$1400
Discount Fake Moustache	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.	$500
Golden Top Hat	The next stage of cranial adornment, suitable for the modern space-faring gentleman/lady. It even sparkles like real gold!	$900
Alohamaton Skin	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.	$3000