Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
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PAY YOUR WAY
Buy the feed lines from Karsten in Hexport. Details for this achievement will be revealed once unlocked
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How to unlock the PAY YOUR WAY achievement in Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector - Definitive Guide
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The feed lines cost 400 cryo and you have a limited time to raise those funds. As part of the story, Serafin will tell you about contracts and suggest you buy one from the local contract board. Do so and make sure you fill all the exploration clocks in Hexport so that you can meet Nia, get fuel, and get supplies. Make sure that before you leave for a contract, you spend all your dice and don't progress to the next cycle. If you wake up and travel you're wasting valuable dice.
Successfully completing this first contract will earn you 200 cryo and you can choose not to share that with Nia... there are no consequences to your ruthlessness.
When you take on Karsten's mission, you can harvest scrap from the cargo bay but even positive outcomes will damage the ship. I chose to completely ignore the objective in this contract and harvest all the scrap I could, but that's probably not necessary. You can sell this scrap back at Hexport for middling cryo.
To make up the rest of the 400 needed, you can do odd jobs around Hexport. Find one that takes a skill you're decent in and use your higher dice to ensure a positive outcome, if possible. Depending on your luck, you should be able to make 400 cryo in profits before Laine catches you.
Successfully completing this first contract will earn you 200 cryo and you can choose not to share that with Nia... there are no consequences to your ruthlessness.
When you take on Karsten's mission, you can harvest scrap from the cargo bay but even positive outcomes will damage the ship. I chose to completely ignore the objective in this contract and harvest all the scrap I could, but that's probably not necessary. You can sell this scrap back at Hexport for middling cryo.
To make up the rest of the 400 needed, you can do odd jobs around Hexport. Find one that takes a skill you're decent in and use your higher dice to ensure a positive outcome, if possible. Depending on your luck, you should be able to make 400 cryo in profits before Laine catches you.
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The easiest way to get the fuel pipes by paying is only doing the paid board contract and just not doing the ship core contract for Karsten at all. Doing it only for the scrap is not worth it, you'll earn more chit if you just spend that time doing odd jobs at the station.
When doing jobs at the station, use all of your dice, not just the good ones. The worst that can happen anywhere on a faillure is losing 1 energy, which costs 3.25 chit to replenish (if you buy a cantina meal for 13 to replenish four bars). You make the most money by using your good and mediocre dice for whichever job you are most proficient in (freight load for endure, data defusal for interface, scrapyard shift for engineer) and use your bad dice on scrapyard shift.
This might seem counterintuitive, since scrapyard is a dangerous job where you'll lose 1 energy on both neutral and negative outcomes, but you also earn 3 chit on negative and 10 chit on neutral, whereas you would get 0 chit on negative and only 7/8 on neutral at data defusal/freight load, losing 1 energy on a negative result.
So with a 50% chance for neutral or negative you would still make an average profit of 3.25 chit per bad die on scrapyard shift with only a very small loss (0.25 per die) in the worst case of getting only negatives. For data defusal or freight load you would only make an average profit of 1.625 or 2.375 with a risk to lose 3.25 per die if you get a bad streak of only negative results.
You don't have to fully optimize your work though to get the 400, I was comfortably over 400 even in my test run where I wasted a lot of good dice on the job I for which I had a minus 2 just to get all the payout numbers for all the outcomes.
Since this is at the very beginning of the game, I'd recommend to do this in a seperate new game that you scrap afterwards (takes less than 10 minutes if you skip through the text you have already seen) and use the game in which you succesfully extract the ship core (which is needed for another achievement) on the side for your actual playthrough.
When doing jobs at the station, use all of your dice, not just the good ones. The worst that can happen anywhere on a faillure is losing 1 energy, which costs 3.25 chit to replenish (if you buy a cantina meal for 13 to replenish four bars). You make the most money by using your good and mediocre dice for whichever job you are most proficient in (freight load for endure, data defusal for interface, scrapyard shift for engineer) and use your bad dice on scrapyard shift.
This might seem counterintuitive, since scrapyard is a dangerous job where you'll lose 1 energy on both neutral and negative outcomes, but you also earn 3 chit on negative and 10 chit on neutral, whereas you would get 0 chit on negative and only 7/8 on neutral at data defusal/freight load, losing 1 energy on a negative result.
So with a 50% chance for neutral or negative you would still make an average profit of 3.25 chit per bad die on scrapyard shift with only a very small loss (0.25 per die) in the worst case of getting only negatives. For data defusal or freight load you would only make an average profit of 1.625 or 2.375 with a risk to lose 3.25 per die if you get a bad streak of only negative results.
You don't have to fully optimize your work though to get the 400, I was comfortably over 400 even in my test run where I wasted a lot of good dice on the job I for which I had a minus 2 just to get all the payout numbers for all the outcomes.
Since this is at the very beginning of the game, I'd recommend to do this in a seperate new game that you scrap afterwards (takes less than 10 minutes if you skip through the text you have already seen) and use the game in which you succesfully extract the ship core (which is needed for another achievement) on the side for your actual playthrough.
By Hirntoht on 03 Feb 2025 06:15
