(02-28-2014, 03:06 PM)Jihadjoe Wrote: How much do you think the houses would be spending on this? Then how much of that would be knocked off in various costs of keeping the hunters themselves in pay, maintaining the house-hunting vessels, supply costs, administration and employing the people to do the administration, the amount of credits lost to the "system" if you want... How much does it actually cost to build, crew, maintain and field a large warship?
The houses would have to be spending a significant portion of their GDP on merely employing bounty hunters... Are they doing this, in lore?
These are things to consider. I don't have the answers.
As far as bounty collection goes, from an in lore context, no-one has an actual answer. From an RP standpoint, the players here are generally considered the absolute elite of the NPC faction. That applies to all factions. So, within the space occupied by the houses, all of which have populations of many, many billions, you have to factor up earnings respectively. If we represent the top 0.5% of the NPC factions as players, then factor up the earnings of the faction by 200x. If we're the top 0.05% (which seems more realistic to me, but what do I know. I'm just a computer technician) then factor up by 2000x. So, inRP credit intake would be in the billions, if not trillions. How much does it cost to build a battleship, inRP? Does anyone have an answer to that? I doubt it. It's all just conjecture.
All we can go on is that the Core are an elite paramilitary group, with high levels of funding. Whether that's enough to justify the existance of the Mako is difficult to really quantify.
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