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# How Production Works

Gross output, bonuses, wages, ceiling — and who you sit at which desk.

Your output is worked out the same way every tick: **gross → bonuses → wages → ceiling.**

![How your output is worked out](https://3552858075-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FGyJ2fCw8mpbx6YAYcG8z%2Fuploads%2FcBrUWZy1xfxa83ghIRj2%2Ffig-11-production.svg?alt=media)

## 1. What you produce

Your income comes from two very different places.

**Terminals only earn when they are complete.** A terminal needs someone sitting at it *and* a server slot behind it. Whichever of the three you have fewest of decides how many terminals actually run.

{% hint style="warning" %}
**Three terminals with one trader earn exactly what one terminal earns.** Your next purchase should almost always be whichever of the three — terminals, staff, server slots — you have the least of.
{% endhint %}

Your office comes with **2 server slots** already, so your first terminals run before you buy any hardware at all.

**Quant cores just run.** They need no trader, no seat and no server, and add 60 points a tick for every level. That independence is what the 500,000 $DEFUND price buys you.

Your CEO desk adds its 25 on top, always.

## Who sits where

A trader is placed onto a **particular terminal** and keeps that desk until you move them. Nobody rearranges your floor for you.

That matters as soon as your desks stop being identical. A terminal's level raises what the person at it produces, and traders do not all produce the same amount — an exclusive trader makes 1.5× what an ordinary one does. So the same pieces, seated two different ways, are worth two different amounts.

| Your floor                                                             | Seating                       |    What it makes |
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------- | ---------------: |
| One level-5 desk, one level-1 desk, one exclusive trader, one ordinary | Exclusive at the level-5 desk | **115 pts/tick** |
| The same four pieces                                                   | Exclusive at the level-1 desk |     103 pts/tick |

{% hint style="success" %}
Twelve points a tick is **8,640 points an hour** for noticing something and dragging one person two squares. Put your best trader at your best desk.
{% endhint %}

{% hint style="info" %}
A trader whose desk you sell is left standing — they cost nothing and earn nothing until you seat them again. Two traders cannot share one terminal.
{% endhint %}

## 2. Two kinds of bonus

| Bonus       | Lifts                  | How copies stack              | Ceiling |
| ----------- | ---------------------- | ----------------------------- | ------: |
| **Systems** | Everything you produce | Straight addition             |   +150% |
| **Comfort** | What traders produce   | Each extra copy is worth less |    +60% |

Comfort never helps a quant core — nobody is sitting at it. And comfort works across the whole office, so a nap pod in the far corner helps every desk equally.

Legendary hires add to the systems bonus, but only the strongest one counts in full: every legend after that is worth **50%** of its printed bonus.

## 3. Wages

Wages are only paid to people **in a seat** — 5 points a tick for an ordinary trader, up to 32 for Satoshi. Staff you own but cannot seat draw nothing. Wages come off after the bonuses.

## 4. The ceiling

![Full value, then a bend](https://3552858075-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FGyJ2fCw8mpbx6YAYcG8z%2Fuploads%2FEejYY3K9c7NwP9AceIry%2Ffig-12-softcap.svg?alt=media)

You are paid in full up to **250 points a tick**. Past that the curve bends toward a ceiling of **500**:

| What you produce | What you are paid |
| ---------------: | ----------------: |
|              100 |               100 |
|              250 |               250 |
|              400 |               363 |
|              600 |               438 |
|            1,000 |               488 |
|            2,000 |               500 |

A small office is never penalised for being small, and past the bend every extra desk still adds something. Nothing you buy ever counts for literally zero.


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