Balanced NPC Hiring Fee

This mod changes the original hiring fee formula with a more streamlined one.

Vanilla X4 uses a simple formula that works until a certain pilot skill value (20); when pilot skill value exceeds the threshold then it abruptly raises crew hiring cost to extremely high values, with 4-5 stars pilots costing hundred of millions / billions of credits (!).

This mod aims to prevent this from happening. New formula uses a serie of "do_if" conditions to separate different skill tiers.

The results as follows:

Combined Skill | Price

10     2250

20    20000

30    45000

40    200000

50    1250000

60    3000000

70    5250000

80    8000000

90    18000000

100  25000000

- Every tier uses a different coefficient - easily configurable.

- Maximum cost in Cr is (roughly) the average value of an Asgard.

- Lower tier crew members will cost more (not that much). Average crew members will cost at least one million.

- Under tier 10 it still uses original $combinedskill * 225 formula.

Someone would argue that new values are too cheap for money-sinking endgame solutions like 4-5 stars pilots, but personally I find too strange even in a game like X4 that a single pilot would cost more than an ultimate battleship.

Feel free to adjust values to your liking anyway.

I suggest to use this mod alongside my first mod, Crew Skill Leveling Revised.