Economy & Contracts

All economy tuning lives in config/contracts.lua. Values are read live by the server and pushed to the Schedule UI — restart lx-busjob after changes.

Pay scale

Route pay derives automatically from route length, so long hauls pay more without per-route tuning:

Config.PayScale = {
    stopPayBase = 18,        -- stopPay = floor(base + length / divisor)
    stopPayDivisor = 450,
    tipMaxBase = 10,         -- tipMax = floor(base + length / divisor)
    tipMaxDivisor = 700,
    completionBase = 80,     -- completionBonus = floor(base + length / divisor)
    completionDivisor = 80,
}

• Raise stopPayBase / lower stopPayDivisor → higher wages overall
• tipMax is the per-drop-off tip ceiling; the driver’s score decides how much of it they actually get

Daily contract board

Config.Contracts = {
    enabled = true,
    allowFreeplay = true,   -- false = assignments only
    offerCount = 6,         -- assignments on the daily board
    resetHour = 5,          -- local server hour when the board rolls over

    bonusMultiplier = 0.35, -- per-assignment bonus as fraction of estimated wage
    bonusFloor = 75,        -- minimum bonus dollars per assignment

    boardClearBonus = 250,  -- flat cash for clearing the whole board (0 = off)

    freeplayBoost = 0.05,   -- freeplay wage boost after board clear (+5%)
    freeplayBoostMax = 0.10,
}

Contract bonus formula:

bonus = max(bonusFloor, floor(estimatedShiftWage × bonusMultiplier))
estimatedShiftWage ≈ (stopPay × stops) + completionBonus

Quick recipes:

Goal	Change
Quieter economy	bonusMultiplier = 0.20
Disable per-route bonuses	bonusMultiplier = 0, bonusFloor = 0
No board-clear reward	boardClearBonus = 0
No post-clear boost	freeplayBoost = 0

freeplayBoostMax is a safety clamp — the server always applies min(boost, max), so a typo cannot inflate your economy.

Optional objectives

Daily assignments can roll bonus objectives (freeplay ignores these):

Config.Objectives = {
    enabled = true,
    pickCount = 1, -- objectives per assignment
    catalog = {
        { id = 'no_crash',        label = 'Clean run',       bonus = 80 },
        { id = 'no_speeding',     label = 'Legal pace',      bonus = 65 },
        { id = 'door_discipline', label = 'Door discipline', bonus = 55 },
    },
}

Bonuses stack when all rolled objectives are met. Set enabled = false to turn the system off, or raise pickCount to roll more per assignment.