Jaiden Longshot
Pink Fluffy Bounty Hunterz
Noir. Mercenary Group
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Posted - 2013.04.29 12:47:00 -
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It's true that there will not be a contract system in place to make this job any easier but it is far from difficult to forsee mercenary work being able to fund a corporation.
Forms of payment at launch:
Dust ISK - Obvious
EVE ISK - If you have an EVE toon and this isn't an acceptable form of payment then you are doing it wrong
Services - You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours
Forms of payment (in the future):
ISK
Services
Gear
AUR?
Territory
I'm sure someone can come up with some more creative forms of payment as well. More importantly, there are plenty of ways to make the ISK than people are considering.
 District Acquisition - You take this district for us and then hand it over for a fee.
We need help - Power Block A vs Power Block B and you're looking to turn the tide, you're block is struggling, or maybe you just want to use all resources available to achieve victory
Griefing - We don't like this corp. Please make it suffer.
Extortion - I'm just going to sit here and pound on your districts until you make it worth my while to stop
Campaign - So, your corp/alliance is big enough to take a planet and defend it but it is simply more cost effective to bring in outside help to speed up the process.
Again....plenty more I'm probably leaving off. The point is that, as long as there is conflict, there will be work for mercenary corps and individuals. The key to this being lucrative is determining if you can complete the task, negotiating the fee and setting the payment parameters.
One simple example for acquisition comes to mind for those of you wondering how it could work:
Power Block A hires Merc Group 1 to take Ikoskio X District 4. Merc Group 1 suggests that the task can be completed in 1 attack and therefore suggests the following:
Power Block A will pay Merc Group One 100 Mil ISK up front for the attack (80 Mil to cover the Geno pack and 20 Mil for gear).
Merc Group One will obtain the district, retain through stasis period, and then remove all clones except 1 upon payment of the completion fee of 100 Mil ISK.
Right about now some of you are thinking nobody is going to pay that in Dust ISK....On day 1, I would agree with you. On day 60 there will be plenty of ISK in Corp wallets.
To Dubbs point of screwing someone over....Yes, it is possible. Just as it is possible in all other aspects of the meta. The difference here is that your actions have repercussions and if you want to be successful mercs for a long time, then you complete your contracts at a high rate and do so with some level of professionalism or else your business will not succeed.
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