Mercs

[SA_Scavenger]

Well, reading the Reaver's post to become a official faction, I wanted to see what the views of the community are with respect to how one should go about being a mercenary and how to go about interacting with mercenaries.

Most people don't like mercenaries since they literally work to kill people without having a cause to do so. That's the logical stand point at any rate. Now obviously they are here to stay in freelancer. What I would like to discuss is the consequences of being a mercenary. Surely they shouldn't be able to kill certain people one day and be friendly with them the next. To me that doesn't make much sense.

I think the more they kill one faction the more they should become hostile to that faction. And I also think that they, notice that is "I" think, shouldn't be able to simply make deals to kill weak factions for weapons and ships. Maybe they should be rewarded for a long service to certain factions, but not simply drawing up a contract on the simple basis that they want the weapons of that faction. The contract should have come first, not the will to gain the weapons. In other words, the faction hiring the mercenaries should have drawn up a contract, the mercs finished the contract and then maybe the reward would be weapons and a ship or two. I don't think that it is right for the mercenaries to go to some arbitrary faction, saying, "We need your ships." and then be given a contract to kill another faction.

Maybe this has all be discussed before, I don't know, however, in the light of the Reaver application I thought it would be prudent to discuss the issues once more. Also, I have been playing for 3 months, so I don't know everything and thus try and discuss things to get a better understanding.

I am sure there are many other issues that need to be discussed about mercenaries. So please, have your say, keep it civil and let us have a proper debate.

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