Station Budget Watchdog

Station Budget Watchdog

Keeps player stations with configured name tags funded to a manual target you control, and reclaims their hoarded surplus. It can also bypass the name-tag filter and handle every player station using the vanilla planned budget, reproducing the original HappyStation style. No vanilla files are patched; safe to add to or remove from an existing save.

Why

The vanilla "expected operating budget" is calculated from a station's potential cargo volume, so a big warehouse politely asks you to donate more credits than you will gather in the entire playthrough - and then parks whatever it gets as unusable dead weight. A manual per-tag target keeps each station liquid enough to trade while your money keeps working elsewhere.

Game version compatibility

• []9. 00 release - supported[/]

  []9. 00 betas and release candidates - supported[/]

  []8. 00 release - supported[/]

  Dependencies

  • []SirNukes Mod Support APIs (link) - hard dependency; provides the Extension Options menu used for configuration.[/]

    How it works

    Put a tag like  in a station's name and give that tag a target budget T. On every check the watchdog looks at the live balance (default levels shown; all of them are sliders in the options menu):

    • []money < 1x T: grants credits up to the fill level (2x T), capped by your account. If you cannot afford that, it tries the plain deficit (back to 1x T); if you cannot afford even that, it warns and waits.[/]

      []money > trigger level (3x T): reclaims the surplus, leaving the leave level (1. 5x T) at the station.[/]

      []in between: leaves the station alone.[/]

      The wide deadband prevents back-and-forth transfers, and the watchdog clamps the levels at runtime so a fresh top-up can never itself trip the drain.

      Configuration

      Open Extension Options and use the Station Budget Watchdog menu to add or remove station-name tags and their target budgets, and to tune the watchdog:

      []Check interval - default: 30 s. How often all stations are checked.[/]

      []Minimum transfer - default: 1 M Cr. Floor for any single grant or drain.[/]

      []Minimum kept player money - default: 20 M Cr. Wallet reserve top-ups never dip into.[/]

      []Top-up fill level - default: 200 %. Balance a grant fills up to, in percent of target.[/]

      [*]Drain trigger lev