Contracts

Owned by The Dev Team
Jul 14, 2024
2 min read

Contracts are the way work gets done in FSNextGeneration! So saddle up and let’s learn about how they work. First and foremost, it’s important to note that contracts are on a give/take system. This means that if you want to be able to give contracts of a certain type, you have to take contracts of a certain type. This helps ensure an adequate pool of contract labor even when the majority of players may be running farms. For every contract “Category” a player will have a pool of vouchers. Posting a contract removes the voucher. Taking a contract for someone else of that category gives a voucher. A player can have up to 10 vouchers per contract type ‘stored up’.

 

Farm Labor Contracts

These are the most common contracts, and revolve around performing a task for a farm. It can be hauling items, harvesting a field, plowing or any other number of items.

NPC Labor Contracts

These are jobs assigned to farms to do work for the NPC farm on every map, and the work can be a wide range of items from plowing to harvesting.

Export Contracts

These contracts are created when a farm wishes to export it’s crops off of the map. Export contracts can only be assigned by crop brokerages, but every farm must participate in them in order to have vouchers on file with the brokerage to have their own crops exported.

Audit Contracts

These contracts are to update the current number of animals owned on a farm in specific pens, to check the number of production facilities owned, or to update a number of equipment items with current data.

Community Watch Contracts

These contracts assign a random farm to the contract-taker to audit against the FSN ruleset to make sure they are complying with the most important rules for server stability and fair play. You will never be assigned a farm on a server you reside on.

 

Paying For Contracts

Whenever you have a contract done for you, you will pay in two ways. Firstly you’ll pay the direct wage to the player, which will then have 25% tacked onto it in fees, simulating disability insurance and liability insurance for having that worker work for you. It’s worth noting that the contractor also receives a 10% fee representing income taxation.