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[Peter2000]

People have complained about Faction/Merc relationships for some time. Factions claim that Mercs refuse to play along with their foreign policy goals when those conflict with the mercs’ objectives (good, frequent matches) while Mercs complain that they don’t want people who don’t do anything for them to dictate what they may or may not do. However, for the first time in Community Warfare, the relationship has changed. The 228th IBR [228] has been HIRED by private interests within Clan Smoke Jaguar. As a result, faction loyalists have effectively swayed Merc policy by offering C-Bills, and conditions of employment they expect the Mercs to uphold in exchange.

While I am not at liberty to disclose the exact details, the contract hired [228] for Smoke Jaguar for an unspecified time in exchange for an undisclosed donor contributing a 9-figure C-Bill sum into our coffers (join, pay, leave), with the opportunity to earn performance-based bonuses.

It is my hope that other factions follow this example and bid on the services of not only [228], but other Merc Units - especially those with a reputation for shifting the balance of power in CW. Ideally if this practice becomes prevalent enough, it will warrant a change in the way PGI handles contracts and Mercs. Hopefully dynamic Merc behavior balanced by C-Bill hires can revitalize CW.

Edited by Peter2000, 27 February 2015 - 01:48 PM.

[Suzumiya Haruhi no Kerensky]

[CyclonerM]

I truly hope so..

[hopterque]

lmao 100+ million cbills into the unit coffers that don't even do anything that's pretty sick actually how was anybody stupid enough to fall for that.


Please please please tell us who paid this outrageous sum that isn't even useable.

[shaqtacular]

Merc Pig Go Home

[Gas Guzzler]

Cool, now we have 2 fronts to choose from if we want good fights.

[Sputty]

[Dungeon Keeper]

Greetings from VRGD. You are not first already

[Onmyoudo]

Oh man, this sounds like a terrible mechanic. Who's carrying that kind of c-bills around? How consistently could anybody hire mercs (not for long at those rates)? Sure, house loyalists should be hiring mercs - but mercs then shouldn't also be getting the full payout from their matches, or there better be a damn good reason to spend space money on changing dot colours for no gain.

Whoever paid you guys is a sucker.

[Suzumiya Haruhi no Kerensky]

if you give me real money i will buy a box of crayons and draw colored dots on a real map for you

[Tasker]

Wow. Over 100,000,000 c-bill? Impressive.

*bows 29.5 degrees*

Who hire you for such outrageous sum?

[Harvey Batchall Kerensky at Law]

Dear Coordinator says,

A sad fool and his space buck representation of a wasted life is soon parted.

[RedDevil]

How do you give people C-Bills?

[Peter2000]

Dungeon Keeper, on 27 February 2015 - 02:13 PM, said:

Greetings from VRGD. You are not first already

Ah fair point. After researching the topic after work, I have found you are correct. However, it was not well publicized.

In any case, it's rare, and will hopefully become more common.

Edited by Peter2000, 27 February 2015 - 02:47 PM.

[Minimum Viable Kieransky]

Peter2000, on 27 February 2015 - 02:44 PM, said:

Ah fair point. After researching the topic after work, I have found you are correct. However, it was not well publicized.

I wonder why trading massive amounts of monopoly money to fight over dots hasn't been well publicized...

[YCSLiesmith]

reddevil, on 27 February 2015 - 02:36 PM, said:

How do you give people C-Bills?

each unit has a 'unit coffers' thing that has no purpose ingame at the moment, you cant buy anything with unit cbills. presumably someone with a hundred million cbills joined the unit for a minute, deposited the cbills, and then returned to their own unit. kind of a long way to go for roleplay but whatever, merc pig inevitably go home

[An Anime Princess]

oh yeah well i paid tasker a mcdonald's apple pie to play group queue with me while we grind for the free mech this weekend. top that, idiots!!

[QueenBlade]

An Anime Princess, on 27 February 2015 - 03:01 PM, said:

oh yeah well i paid tasker a mcdonald's apple pie to play group queue with me while we grind for the free mech this weekend. top that, idiots!!

So under your logic... you did the same thing, by giving something to get an agreement to do certain actions. Wouldn't that also make you an equal idiot?

[Harvey Batchall Kerensky at Law]

QueenBlade, on 27 February 2015 - 03:06 PM, said:

So under your logic... you did the same thing, by giving something to get an agreement to do certain actions. Wouldn't that also make you an equal idiot?

It's like when you become a trinary nova captain your ability to detect sarcasm goes completely out the window

[Suzumiya Haruhi no Kerensky]

QueenBlade, on 27 February 2015 - 03:06 PM, said:

So under your logic... you did the same thing, by giving something to get an agreement to do certain actions. Wouldn't that also make you an equal idiot?