Wild's Network upgrades, costs and Wild's Favor

Joe Wild visits on day 7, gives you starting Wild’s Favor (300 on Cozy, 200 on Normal, 100 on Hard, none on Challenge) and leaves his number, 8376. Call it on the telephone and choose Browse Wild’s Service. Favor is spent before credits, one favor per credit. Prices below are base prices: Thin Margins adds 50%, Red Ink 100%, and the Wild’s Favorite perk takes 10% off.

Earning Wild’s Favor

Source	Favor
Meeting Joe Wild on day 7	300 / 200 / 100 / 0 by difficulty
Each point of Lower Levels reputation gained	+40
Paying a Wild nightly service fee	75% of the fee back on Cozy, 50% Normal, 25% Hard, 15% Challenge
Counter trades	A small amount, Cozy and Normal only
Wild’s bailout (once, Cozy and Normal, when your wealth keeps falling)	+250

New businesses (Referral)

Each referral gives a starter kit immediately; the retired trader then visits the next day and weekly after that. Their markup is 0% on Cozy, 15% on Normal, 30% on Hard and 45% on Challenge.

Upgrade	Cost	Needs	What you get
Retired Chemist	1,000	—	Blender, Heating Plate, Evaporator, Chem Finisher, Composition Spectrometer, droppers, cylinders and Chemical Supplies
Ranching	750	—	Animal Cage with feeder, 6 rats, Meat Cleaver, Labeler, Marking Pen
Retired Gunsmith	650	—	Worn 3D Printer, .22 Pistol chip, filament and gun mods
Aquaculture	400	Water Trading	Recirculating Aquaculture System, fertilized roe, fish feed
Retired Farmer	350	—	Old Hydroponic System, manual, seeds and nutrient tablets
Water Trading	300	—	Manual, test strips, purification tablets, Water Pitcher and Filter, HydraTech purifier
Retired Winemaker	200	—	3 Wine Bottles, 3 Yeast, 2 BloomBerries, fermenting guide
Plant Genetics	1,250	Retired Farmer	DNA Manipulator, Gene Scanner, blank DNA Data Disks
Aquaculture II	1,200	Aquaculture	Bigger fish from the aquafarmer, plus two young eels

Buyer and Seller Referral Services (200 each, 10 credits a night) send more customers. Criminal Networking (350, 45 credits every three nights) sends a high-budget contraband buyer and a little Black Market reputation.

Security help (Informant and Favor)

Upgrade	Cost	Nightly fee	Effect
Rent Grace	100	—	Next missed rent rolls into next week. 15-day cooldown.
Clemency	250	—	Next arrest-level inspection ends with a warning.
Inspection Early Warning Service	300	10	Night-log warnings before regular inspections; none for surprise inspections.
Wild’s Fixers	350	25	Each suspected crime drops 15%, then 50, every night.
Wild’s Fixers II	450	45	20%, then 150.
Wild’s Fixers III	550	70	25%, then 400.
Evidence Removal	500	—	Resets investigation progress to 0. 14-day cooldown, +100 credits each use.

How these interact with investigations is covered in inspections and investigations.

Suppliers and Dr. Jackson

Upgrade	Cost	Effect
GP Mining Coop	250	Phone orders of Metal Ore. Minor Shareholder (900): +15% courier discount and 6 ore every Friday.
Lower Levels Chemist	250	Phone orders of cheap illegal drugs. Shareholder (1,440): 8 street-grade Dream Dust every Saturday.
Red Imp Brewery	200	Beer by phone. Shareholder (1,450): a case every Thursday.
Upper Level Pharmacist	300	Legal medication. Shareholder (2,500): 5 Oxymore Injectors every Sunday.
Jackson Investment I and II	400, 650	Dr. Jackson carries more stock and always has Modules.
Monday’s Special Stock	1,250	Dr. Jackson opens on Mondays with rarer items at a premium.

Metal Ore from GP Mining Coop is the input for High-purity ingots in the Furnace.

Store and power

Upgrade	Cost	Effect
Showcase Expansion I / II	200 / 500	Bigger Display Case and one more display buyer per day each.
Store Renovation I / II / III	500 / 750 / 1,000	+150 base attractiveness each. All three help with the Shiny achievement (1,000 attractiveness).
Vending Machine / Vending Fountain	1,200 each	Sell goods or water overnight.
Marketplace Requests	250	Delivery requests on your PC.
Power Line Hijack	300	Free nightly Power Service. Since 1.0.0.12 it also makes Current Converters 15% cheaper and lets them run during blackouts; Hijack II and III cut the converter cost further.
Commercial Grade Power Supply Unit	350	Recharger and PowerBloc charge twice as fast.
Weapon Permit I / II / III	300 / 600 / 900	Delivered at 20 / 50 / 80 Security reputation.

The two power upgrades are not offered if you took the Makeshift Reactor perk.

After the buyout

Owning the store opens the Advanced tab: the Hypertech Smuggler (2,500, then 500 credits every five nights) sells Hypertech Power Cells, Turbo Boosters, Storage Bays and Electronic Parts (Hypertech); Wild’s Endorsement I, II and III (2,500, 5,000 and 10,000) each give customers 25% more budget. See buying the store.