Cargo income

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[edit] Overview

The amount of money earned when delivering a cargo is determined by four factors: cargo, amount, distance, and days in transit, and is the product of the cargo payment rate, amount of cargo, transit distance, and time factor determined by days in transit.

Transporting valuables a distance of less than 10 tiles yields no money.

The transit distance is measured as the manhattan distance between the origin station and the destination station.

The time scaler penalizes slow transportation. Each cargo type has two numbers, days1 and days2, that determine the boundaries between "fast", "medium", and "slow".

Income(cargo, amount, distance, time) = cargo payment rate ... , c_d1 = days1, c_d2 = days2

[edit] Magic Numbers

Here, "Base" means the cargo payment rate.

Cargo Type	Base	Days1	Days2
Batteries	4322	2	30
Bubbles	5077	20	80
Candyfloss	5005	10	25
Coal	5916	7	255
Cola	4892	5	75
Copper Ore	4892	12	255
Diamonds	5802	10	255
Fizzy Drinks	6250	30	50
Food	5688	0	30
Fruit	4209	0	15
Gold	5802	10	40
Goods	6144	5	28
Grain	4778	4	40
Iron Ore	5120	9	255
Livestock	4322	4	18
Mail	4550	20	90
Maize	4322	4	40
Oil	4437	25	255
Oil (subtropical)	4892	25	255
Paper	5461	7	60
Passengers	3185	0	24
Plastic	4664	30	255
Rubber	4437	2	20
Steel	5688	7	255
Sugar	4437	20	255
Sweets	6144	8	40
Toffee	4778	14	60
Toys	5574	25	255
Valuables	7509	1	32
Water	4664	20	80
Wheat	4778	4	40
Wood	5005	15	255
Wood (subtropical)	7964	15	255