Reputation "bonus" is being subtracted from mission payout instead of being added

[jskoker]

ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue: Reputation “bonus” is being subtracted from mission payout instead of being added.

Base income 2,741,420 - Skip cost 627,930 = 2,113,490 before Reputation bonus

2,113,490 + 301,930 Reputation bonus should = 2,414,420 as the total income

2,113,490 - 301,930 Reputation bonus that the game is actually doing gives 1,811,560 as the total income, which means I lost out on 603,860 in income.

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

Depends on which mission is being flown. I have experienced it mostly when skipping the cruise phase of VIP missions. Others have said that it does not happen when not skipping or in other career missions.

REPRODUCTION STEPS

Please list clear steps you took in order to help our test team reproduce the same issue:

1. Play a VIP flight in carrer mode

2. Skip cruise phase of flight

YOUR SETTINGS

If the issue still occurs with no mods and add-ons, please continue to report your issue. If not, please move this post to the User Support Hub.

What peripherals are you using:

[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it? - No

MEDIA

See above.

[ShiLong83]

Same here, was just about to write another bug report and found yours first!

Basic math doesn’t check out anymore. Career just felt one step forward and two steps back with this update.

[MiddayDisco]

Having the exact same issue.

[MiddayDisco]

Here is another example, instead of subtracting only the Skip Cost it subtracts the Reputation and the Bad Weather Bonus from the base;

11,921,950 − 597,950 − 865,030 − 471,830 = 9,987,140

Also another bug can be seen on the screengrab where using DLSS Performance mode on Native 4K resolution monitor with DLSS 4.5 does that to portraits.

[ThingFish5399]

Same here, although I cannot make any sense out of the income calculation. Happens on all the flights (medium freight as well) and income is now hugely less than expected. Sometimes it decreases the income with skip costs although I didn’t skip any part.

[Diavidi]

[Bambihunter1971]

Ever since SU5 I have been having to sell planes just to keep my remaining fleet flying. This must be part of it. I have also had issues where the game will crash and when I restart, the mission I am currently flying will get paid for that portion, but all of the passive fleet won’t get ANY passive income for whatever duration from the beginning of the flight. That wouldn’t be that bad except that it still causes the wear that has to be repaired. I went from 168 planes with ~80% of them 787 and 747’s down to ~100 just since SU5 has came out. My career is going backwards. Like those above, I have an S rating, fly bad weather, etc. I guess this explains some of it. Has anyone else been having a hard time “paying the bills” for your passive fleet? I imagine it isn’t real common as most aren’t getting several crashes to desktop per day. I’m building a new PC this fall/winter but my PC is still quite good.

[ISniffingWolf]

I did a skydiving job without skipping anything and got an insane amount of skip cost, didn’t use simrate or anything.

[jurat817]

ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue: Reputation Bonus is subtracted from payout instead of added. Notice how the Total income = (Base Income - Skip Cost - Reputation Bonus) exactly.

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)? Every time.

REPRODUCTION STEPS

Please list clear steps you took in order to help our test team reproduce the same issue:

1. Launch a career mode mission.

2. Use the in-game skip feature to skip portions of the flight.

3. Complete the mission.

YOUR SETTINGS

If the issue still occurs with no mods and add-ons, please continue to report your issue. If not, please move this post to the User Support Hub.

What peripherals are you using:

[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it?

[PC, MSFS 2020 Only] Are you using DX11 or DX12?

[PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use?

[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share?

MEDIA

[Shodan1979]

I just completed the first available Skydiving mission in Career Mode and noticed an issue with the mission payout.

I did not use any skip function during the mission, but the payout screen still charged me 880 Cr. as “Skip Cost.”

The payout calculation also appears to be incorrect:

Base income: +38,120 Cr.
Employer Commission: -32,270 Cr.
Skip Cost: -880 Cr.
Reputation Bonus: +70 Cr.
Bad Weather Bonus: +770 Cr.

Based on those values, the total should be 5,810 Cr., but the game only paid 4,130 Cr.

Interestingly, 4,130 Cr. is exactly what you get if the Reputation Bonus and Bad Weather Bonus are subtracted instead of added.

So there seem to be two possible issues here:

1. Skip Cost is being charged even though no part of the mission was skipped.
2. Positive bonuses are being subtracted from the final payout.

This happened on the first available Skydiving mission. Screenshot attached.