Tenebrous Pirate
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Why? Well, why not?
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Post by Tenebrous Pirate on Jun 16, 2011 8:30:10 GMT -5
Oh, profit sharing for officers is perfectly capitalistic Abs. They are like the corporate execs. It is profit sharing for the common grunts who do all the menial labor that is so blatantly communistic.
Why should I share our hard won loot with some lowly, bastard-son crewman whose only value to the galaxy is to get torn in half by a booby trap or slavering alien so that I don't have to?
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Post by absimiliard on Jun 16, 2011 8:38:30 GMT -5
Oh please TB. Crewmen (or women, or things) have more value than that.
They also provide handy plasma-bullet shields for when I'm boarding enemy vessels with my officers at my side. After all, without them to die in our places how could I ever find the enemy captain so I can open his throat in a duel?
So I guess we're probably violently agreeing with each other. *grin*
But I guess Sebastien could not be an officer, provided the captain supported such ridiculous things as "paying" the crew in profit-sharing. Personally I pay my crew in " . . . the right to bask in my Glorious Presence. Now get back to scrubbing that deck, it's not spotless yet." So chalk me up on the not-commie side of things.
-abs
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Tenebrous Pirate
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[ Star Traders 2 Supporter ]
Why? Well, why not?
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Post by Tenebrous Pirate on Jun 16, 2011 9:00:21 GMT -5
Hear hear!!! What type of schmuck would pay his crew? Hah!
Yeah, I don't even spring for spice for the worthless bastards. If morale is hurting, I just go blow up a bunch of independents until they are worked up into a fanatical bloodlust frenzy.
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Post by absimiliard on Jun 16, 2011 9:17:16 GMT -5
Ahhhh, piracy. Gotta love it.
I think the "doesn't lose morale when fighting Indeps" is a seriously under-rated ability. The opportunity to get cash/morale/etc. by blockading Indep worlds and only targetting Indep ships is pretty damn sweet.
(My non-pirate captains do use Spice and "Entertainers", but only if I've just come off a fuel-less run through space and need a morale-boost. Usually this is because I was foolishly desperate to not let a contract expire by landing for water-fuel, so it's pretty rare. But I don't like getting wounds due to mutinies, killing the mutinous scum might be satisfying but replacing the missing arm/ear/eye/whatever gets pricey over time....)
-abs
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Post by captain nemo on Jun 16, 2011 22:53:43 GMT -5
Dental Plan ?? Your crew is healthy enough to have teeth !!!  baby food & ensure drinks are much easier to store & take up less room... ;D |
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