Curious Queries

[Faust]

how much do you have to spend in order talk to the black market station boss?

[omniaddict]

how much do you have to spend in order talk to the black market station boss?

SPOILERS!



We can look at the code to try to find an answer:


The promotion seems to be keyed off of the variable "blackmarketxp", as seen here:


(setq intBlackMarketPromotion (lambda Nil
; Returns level that the player is promoted to (or Nil)

(block (xp newLevel)
(setq xp (objGetData gPlayerShip "blackMarketXP"))
(switch
(geq xp 10000)
(setq newLevel 6)

(geq xp 3000)
(setq newLevel 5)

(geq xp 1500)
(setq newLevel 4)

(geq xp 600)
(setq newLevel 3)

(geq xp 200)
(setq newLevel 2)

(setq newLevel 1)
)


elsewhere, we see that you can increase your bmxp by buying stuff:


; If the player bought items at a black market station then
; increase xp
(if (and
(objHasAttribute gSource "blackmarket")
(itmHasModifier itemsToBuy "Illegal")
)
(objIncData gPlayerShip "blackMarketXP" (divide (multiply itemCount itemCost) 100))
)
)
))





So to sum up, it looks like you get 1 BMXP per 100 credits spent, and you need 200 BMXP to get your first promotion, so you must spend 20k credits at the black market to see the boss for the first time. It takes 1 million credits spent to get to the top level.


Note number 1: This money is of course not lost. There are places where you can sell the drugs you buy. Or, oddly enough, you can give the drugs to the sistsers of dominia to gain favor with them.

note number 2: there are other things you can do to increase your BMXP. there are BM missions, and I think based on the code that your BMXP changes when you commit a crime out in the rest of the game.