Iron Wolf Saber
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Posted - 2013.02.11 04:54:00 -
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Essentially we're cost effective.
A single Gallente Black Eagle Operative, costs 1.4 million isk to procure and train. 20 years of growing, and then an additional 10 years of intense special operations training, then their equipment costs, my lordly the equipment costs are sometimes more expensive than some battleships.
Now I just shot the poor sob... he's dead, 1.4 million isk. gone just like that. Not only that, I also shot down the drop-ship carrying his entire team of 30 guys.
Now then, take use cloners. Who cares the plasma rifle has lethal amounts of radiation? that mass driver recoil was designed for shock absorbency of a vehicle mount? Or the electical flow of the railgun is enough to fry a normal person? Oh and the shield systems is so totally unhealthy for the body, and that drop uplink, you'd be lucky to survive by end of the day from the warp bubble.
The whole reason why our tech is cheaper, more effective, and far deadlier. Because operator safety is not much of a concern. Clones are disposable.
Also our training does not die with us, every time we die we just come back a wee bit more pissed off at the guy who killed us.
We're allowed to make mistakes. we're allowed to learn from the fatal ones, we're not allowed to die however. |
Iron Wolf Saber
BetaMax.
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Posted - 2013.02.11 13:32:00 -
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as for the reasons why government procure and go though the entire hassle of generating pod pilots out of the 1 in a billion that are genetically qualified. There is usually a 10-25% retention rate. Also overall capsuleers loyalist or not typically increase economic growth and oftenly remote pirate problems freeing up the navies to shoot each other.
Current as it stands our planetary isk is not valued the same as the interstellar one yet. Hence the no currency trades yet, eventually there will be a value added, and conversion rates, then eventually they will be balanced out if they figure out the magic balance numbers.
Overall expect some equipment to become much cheaper, other equipment to cost much more (you think prototype suits are cheap now? imagine them at 3 million a pop + modules) |