Quartermaster
You're a Quartermaster! Lets make Money!
Number One Hustla':
Your 'official' job capacity is to take orders from the crew for such things as medicines, bots, and weapons. In all actuality, most of the crew will never order anything, and if they do, it will almost certainly be weapons, and they will yell at you over the radio instead of ordering the item(s) at the request console.
All this free time allows you to a great many other things! lets see what those are!
Making Money!:
At the start of the game, the Quartermaster budget stands at a measly 10,000 space credits. You're not going to get very far with that! See that orange console near the airlock? time to get acquainted with it. You're going to be spending a large amount of time glued to it.
Managed to get over to the console without serious injury? well Done! click on the console and then click on 'view market'. This screen shows you the value of various commodities on the station, such as metal, robot parts, glass etc. What we want to do is find a commodity with a very high price/value, then sell it, giving us more money in our budget!
If you're lucky, something common like metal or glass might have a high price. Order metal and glass from the console, then resell it for a neat profit. Also consider bugging the miners for gems or the minerals Syreline and Cobryl; The miners can't use these, but they command a nice price on the market!
Selling and Ordering
All this talk of making money, and you don't even know how to order or sell things yet. Let's fix that!
Still on the quartermaster console? still breathing! Great!
To order items, get onto the 'order items' menu. What a dazzling array of options! all you need to do now is click on the item you want to order, then, if you feel like it, writing a reason for the order in the box that follows. But we're not done yet!
Finished ordering 10 crates of booze? lets get them to the station! From your console, select the option 'send to station' and the shuttle will arrive in around 3 minuets.
Want to sell the useless crap you stole or begged mining for? just drag the item (or the container it's in)into the quartermaster shuttle. you did call the shuttle, right? Once you've put everything inside the shuttle, go to your beloved console and click 'return supply shuttle' The quartermaster budget will be updated according to the value of items you just sent. Wow!
Items you can order!
Empty Crate: Cost: 10 Credits: Contents: Nothing (crate only:
Paint Cans Cost: 1000 Credits Contents: A selection of random paints.
200 Metal Sheets Cost: 2000 Credits Contents: x200 Metal Sheets
100 Metal Sheets Cost: 1000 Credits Contents: x100 Metal Sheets
50 Metal Sheets Cost: 500 Credits Contents: x50 Metal Sheets
200 Glass Sheets Cost: 2000 Credits Contents: x200 Glass Sheets
100 Glass Sheets Cost: 1000 Credits Contents: x100 Glass Sheets
50 Glass Sheets Cost: 500 Credits Contents: x50 Glass Sheets
Internals Crate Cost: 500 Credits Contents: x3 Gas Mask, x3 Air Tank
Cooking Supplies Crate Cost: 250 Credits Contents: x40 Assorted Cooking Ingredients
Electrical Supplies Crate - 4 pack Cost: 1000 Credits Contents: x4 Cabling Box (x28 lengths of Cable)
Electrical Supplies Crate - 2 pack Cost: 500 Credits Contents: x2 Cabling Box (x14 lengths of Cable)
Engineering Crate Cost: 1000 Credits Contents: x2 Mechanical Toolbox, x2 Welding Mask, x2 Insulated Gloves
Experimental Local Generator Cost: 10000 Credits Contents: x1 Experimental Local Generator
Medical Crate Cost: 1000 Credits Contents: x1 Regular, Fire and Toxin First Aid Kits, x1 Anti-toxin, Inaprovaline and Sleep Toxin bottles, x1 Syringe Kit
Janitorial Supplies Cost: 500 Credits Contents: x3 Buckets, x1 Mop, x3 Wet Floor Signs, x3 Cleaning Grenades, x1 Mop Bucket
Hydroponics Equipment Cost: 500 Credits Contents: x2 Watering Cans, x4 Compost Bags, x3 Weedkiller bottles, x2 Plant Analyzers, x2 Plant Pots
Mining Equipment Cost: 500 Credits Contents: x1 Powered Pickaxe, x1 Power Hammer, x1 Optical Meson Scanner, x1 Geological Scanner, x2 Mining Satchel, x3 Mining Explosives
Lab Monkey Crate - 2 pack Cost: 250 Credits Contents: x2 Monkey
Lab Monkey Crate - 4 pack Cost: 500 Credits Contents: x4 Monkey
Plasma Assembly Crate (Cardlocked [Research]) Cost: 500 Credits Contents: x3 Plasma Tank, x3 Igniter, x3 Proximity Sensor, x3 Timer
Weapons Crate - 4 pack (Cardlocked [Security]) Cost: 10000 Credits Contents: x4 Laser Gun
Weapons Crate - 2 Pack (Cardlocked [Security]) Cost: 5000 Credits Contents: x2 Laser Gun
Experimental Weapons Crate (Cardlocked [Heads of Staff]) Cost: 2500 Credits Contents: x3 Plasma Tank, x3 Incendiary Grenade, x1 Stun Gloves
Emergency Equipment Cost: 1500 Credits Contents: x4 Floor Bot, x5 Air Tank, x5 Gas Mask
Alcohol Crate Cost: 300 Credits Contents: x8 Assorted Liquor
Robotics Crate Cost: 2000 Credits Contents: x1 Security, Floor Repair, Cleaning, Medical, Firefighting and Mining Bots
Novelty Clothing Crate Cost: 15000 Credits Contents: x7 Assorted Novelty Clothing