When Associations work together, they can hire workers that give each member a bonus lasting 24 hours. These benefits can range from boosting the speed of your engines, reducing the cost of building station levels, getting more prestige, and many more.
A random worker will be available to bid for through an auction that can be found on your Association’s panel. Each hour a new auction will begin giving Associations the chance to gain benefits for their team. However, there are no auctions during the end game or for 48 hours before it starts.
The Association with the highest bid at the end of the auction is the one that will get the benefits of the worker. Do watch out for other Associations that bid in the last few seconds! Should you lose the auction the cash amount that each Avatar bid will be returned to their bank.
An Association can only bid on a worker if they do not own one of that type already, or they have use of it's benefits for less than 24 hours. Should your Association already have a worker of that type for 24 hours or more, you will be prevented from bidding on a new auction for that same type of worker.
When your Association Headquarters is at Level 1, one worker can be hired for free, whereas a maximum of three are available at Level 3. If your Headquarters is either Level 1 or 2, you can open a worker slot with 50 gold. The gold only opens the slot once and when the worker that occupies it expires you will either need a Headquarters of the right level, or to spend 50 gold to use that slot again.
When an Association is pre-registered its Headquarters will start again from level 1 and so will only have space for 1 worker until its upgraded.
