Cost Of Living - Simple Taxes

Outpost Registration

If you attempt to place an Outpost in a Settled System, a registration fee will be incurred.

The registration fee varies depending on which faction controls the system, and how desirable the planet is.

UC space is more expensive than Freestar space. Capitol planets and their moons are more expensive than outlying worlds.

There are also some Skill and Faction Rank checks to reduce prices.

For example, Rangers get a discount in Freestar space, and UC Citizens get a discount in UC space.

All costs are scaled slightly on Commerce and outpost related skills.

Additionally, there is a very small chance to evade detection when setting up an Outpost Beacon.

This is influenced by skills like Scanning or Deception.

If you refuse to pay the registration fee, you may receive a bounty if you proceed to set up the outpost.

This bounty will be double the original registration fee!

Home Ownership

Home ownership is now taxable, with taxes due every 14 days.

They will simply accumulate with interest each time you have insufficient credits.

Extensible Taxation

Cost of Living now includes easily extensible taxation so you can add your own costs to the handler.

See below for details.

Installation

Simply install with your mod manager and wait for the mod to initialize.

If you already own a home, expect to pay taxes in 14 days.

Compatibility

No vanilla records are touched and all operations are performed via script.

This makes Cost of Living, broadly speaking, compatible with everything.

If a house key is not present in your inventory, the system will assume you do not own the home.

Therefore, mods that allow removal of keys may have mixed results.

Mod-added homes are currently not supported by default in the taxation system for various reasons.

If you are a mod author and would like to add support, see below.

Recommendations

Cost of Spacing is this mod's stellar counterpart. It includes a complex and dynamic cost simulation for all costs relating to space travel. Neither currently requires the other, they function independently.

Spacefaring Economy is a lightweight vanilla+ economy overhaul and values here generally reflect its structure. It is not required and the costs here are not so excessive they will feel out of place in vanilla games, however.

Configuration

The mod can be toggled on and off entirely in the Gameplay Options menu.