Officer pay?

[LupisLight]

I'm early in my first game, like sector 3 or 4, and having lots of fun. Question about officers, though: I'm aware that each officer gets paid 1% per EXP level of everything I make. But what happens if that total percentage goes to 100% or above? (For instance if I have five other officers all LVL 20 or above) Do I start losing money every time I sell something?

Actually, can my officers' levels get that high? If there is a level cap, I don't think the game has told me about it.

[tekhedd]

I can't answer your question, but I do love that the first promotion comes with a 100% increase in pay! I gotta talk to my boss on Monday.

[DARI]

The total officer paid percentage seems to be capped - although the calculations or displayed results are still different:
got 4 level 9 officers and one level 10 officer - everyone of them gets 5% - so my guess is that 5% is the limit (if there was none or the % per level would be much higher one could choose also to not promote!)
Now in the statistics screen i see "Officer Salary: 30%"
But still nothing to worry about your credits - iam already at 8 digits flying around sector 32-48.

Regarding a level cap:
Level 9 to 10 needs around 20K EXP.
Level 10 to 11 needs around 27K EXP.
Even if there would be a hard officer cap at Level 10: at this stage they are useful enough
and you will have to find/craft better gear to get additional power.
The more important cap and difficult decision, is which of the officer passive skills to select, since there is a limit of 6 skills per officer (unless it was changed in some updates)

[IBOL17]

your officers will never take more than 30% of your income.

There is no "hard" level cap. Numbers go up, like everything else ;)

Even skills can go up forever, if you get your officers leveled up enough.

[DARI]

Originally posted by IBOL17:

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Even skills can go up forever, if you get your officers leveled up enough.

*Forever* is the right word for the time it takes once your officers hits the 2nd digit.
And 40something xp quest rewards are pretty much irrelevant at this stage.