Losing money over time...

[Joubarbe]

Hi,

I'm in a fresh game, one ship (8 marines), no station, flying hours : 05:54.
Every time, at exactly 05:55:30, I lose about 500k credits and I have no idea why.

I'm using XRM (start : Goner Witness) and some other scripts, and I'd like to know if that's a known problem from a script or the vanilla game ?

Thanks.

[RoverTX]

What scripts are you using? There are a number of possible scripts that have had this problem in the past. Never heard of this happening in Vanilia, unless you got some ship automatically buying stuff and you just don't remember. Sometimes UT will buy weapons to sell to docks, and it will show up a big dip.

[Joubarbe]

As I said, I only have one ship. The next lost of money happen at 6:11, then it seems that as soon as I get under 1 million, it doesn't happen anymore. (I'm at 6:50 and still at 935k)

My scripts :

OK Traders
Rename Ships With Expression
Salvage Command Suite 4.11
DCS2 Drone Carrier
FDNL
Abandoned ship spawner
Improved Boarding
Cartel Shield Hacker
Mobile Mining MK2
Marine Repairs and Training
Sector Take Over 1.57
All others small&essential scripts (no rep loss when hitting gates, follow me, dock lockup fix, bounce, etc.)

XRM
IEX

EDIT : Looking at your badass marines script, I've ejected my marines before 5:55 and I didn't lose any money ! I guess it comes from Marine Repairs and Training then, but my ship was in perfect shape...

EDIT2 : I confirm that it was coming from Marine Repairs and Training.

[DrBullwinkle]

Probably your marines are being trained.

You are using marines very early in your game. Most players have several millions before they begin using marines. There is nothing wrong with using marines early in your game, but you must be aware that training them can be expensive.

Play time has nothing to do with it.

[Joubarbe]

Marines receive on-the-job training while they are doing repairs.

When I read this, I understand that no training will occur if marines are not repairing anything. Thus, in a perfect condition ship, no marines will be trained.

It shouldn't be automatic ; "auto train" should have an option IMO.

[DrBullwinkle]

Bootcamp slowly trains marines up to two stars, so that they will be more effective at both boarding and repairs.

It is configurable in the language file.