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[Warchylde73]

Is this a glitch, or are all new Mercenary Contracts supposed to be offering a 0% CBILL bonus?

[Grus]

Considering there is a lack of a "loyalty" bonus i say...

[naterist]

ya, its broken AF.

[Warchylde73]

The Loyalist bonuses are twice as many rank up rewards as Mercenaries. Mercenaries get 10 ranks for the same amount of reputation Loyalists get 20 ranks for. In exchange, we make up to 50% more cbills, that's supposed to be the trade off.

[Kwea]

it's probably on purpose, as all IS and all Clan are fighting together. WHy would there be a bonus now that it doesn't matter which faction you choose? Think about it...

[McGoat]

The bonus for mercs was/is one of the benefits on CW as it further increased cbills per game.
Shrug, doesn't matter. They'll get to it after Solaris and chickenwings.

[Warchylde73]

It matters because I gave up the 40% bonus to end up with a 0% bonus.

[Davegt27]

I am just glad that after 701 days loyal I managed to get LT Col and get 1500 MC

[Elad]

Warchylde73, on 22 March 2018 - 06:45 AM, said:

It matters because I gave up the 40% bonus to end up with a 0% bonus.

Yeah, looks like I’m grandfathered in at 40% until I decide to cancel the contract. Good news is that it looks like contracts are now perpetual until you decide to cancel, rather than being for a week at a time.

Edited by Elad, 22 March 2018 - 02:02 PM.

[Tier5 Kerensky]

There's nothing on patch notes so it must be a bug.

[Terrorsdawn]

To bad everyone that got screwed as a Loyalist waiting for changes and decided to go Merc, just so they could get some rewards, got nailed with the huge penalties for breaking there contracts. Maybe PGI should payback the 20% penalties they nailed everyone with.

[FallingAce]

The merc bonus was supposed to entice players to fight for factions with low populations.

It didn't work in phase 3 and it's failure lead to buckits.

PGI then launched buckit warfare 4.1 with the same contract system which was an even bigger failure since there was only really 2 factions (I.S. and Clan).

PGI Still fails to compute population numbers properly. Players that havn't logged in since Phase 3 (18 months +) are still being counted . Then PGI tripled down on their incompetence by adding 3 new Clan subfactions that don't have the legacy (inactive) player base and ended up with +50% bonuses.

So the contract system actually made the population imbalance worse.

FAIL.

PGI response


No more 7 day contract for mercs.
No more 7 day desertion period for loyalist.
No more 25% loyalty points penalty for desertion.

The only real difference now between a merc and a "loyalist" is which reward tree you are farming.
(Unless you really want to count the 10 match probationary [penalty] period in exchange for voting on the meaningless planetary map)

Since everybody are now mercs, there's no need for mercs to get a contract bonus.

Tl;Dr. Mercs don't deserve a contract bonus.

[Perthro123]

with the removal of desertion penalty will be able to fight for both sides in the upcoming IS vs IS and Clan vs Clan battles ...

[Tier5 Kerensky]

Perthro123, on 25 March 2018 - 12:20 AM, said:

with the removal of desertion penalty will be able to fight for both sides in the upcoming IS vs IS and Clan vs Clan battles ...

Yep, many free warhorns.

[Smith Gibson]

The other question is, is it worthwhile to give up the +30% C-Bill bonus I have for my contract to the Free Worlds League to get the 2,000,000 C-Bills the event is offering. I'm currently under the impression that if I break my contract and start it up again later the new C-Bill bonus will be 0%. Giving me less C-Bills in the long run than if I just stuck with my contract permanently.

[Lyons De Flamand]

It'll take you 7 decent matches to make those 2 million, which is about half a Saturday for me...

[Tier5 Kerensky]

Smith Gibson, on 26 March 2018 - 12:48 AM, said:

The other question is, is it worthwhile to give up the +30% C-Bill bonus I have for my contract to the Free Worlds League to get the 2,000,000 C-Bills the event is offering.

But how could we possibly know ? We don't know what you have, we don't know what you want. Few million cbills is hardly worth much expect to new players who struggle to make not only regular but specially FP events. Personally I see the warhorns much a bigger reward.

And future events? And possibly temporarely closing of FP when Solaris 7 hits. Plus there's no way this current situation is intended, where some people will retain merc bonuses for indefinetly while others won't have access to them. But PGI is busy with next patch, they haven't released hotfix for the Bushwacker AC bug, and it doesn't seem they will release a hotfix.