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[Greybox_Inception]

How can shepard make more credits? How would you want you shepard make more credits?

 Alliance is the galactic government of many worlds/resources/economies, and they have alot of credits in their budget, alot.

Corporations with their own personal militaries (some probably), could be considered mercenary work, or maybe not. depends.

Cerberus is just a organization that's funded by alot of private investors, they have alot of credits, but a far less compared to the alliance

Mercs probably get decent amounts of credits, depending on who they are mercenaries for...

pirates rely on heists, and uncertainty (often liekly blind or don't fully understand the nature of what they want to pirate). i think being a pirate is like being promised a huge lottery payout, and someone (pirate leader) kept promising you a big pay out for years like 11 years where as you still haven't recieved one credit chit since, or the big winnings ("hey guys let's steal this really awesome spaceship that has alot of dangerous technology we know nothing about, and try to gain control over stuff we shouldn't bother because we're not authorized to mess with this stuff. we could endangering ourselves, and everything else.", pirate). that's like a hacker trying to hack something for 2 consecutive years, and still no results, yet a normal hacker would have left stuff alone within hours if they haven't gotten any desired results (even a obsessed hacker would have left stuff alone within months of no results).

i wonder if shepard could become a spokeperson/endorsed poster boy/model by corporations and companies to earn pay bonuses/salary/endorsement deals (like for products, promoting them with his image). he could hand something over like the collectors base to the systems alliance, science corporations, technological corporations, and biological corporations as they'd pick it up as a alliance government contracted corporate research project. shepard could even start his own company, like protection firm. all of these ideas combined could probably land shepard a awesome career in the future, with geat salary+pay bonuses.

[KenKenpachi]

A soldier tends not to make much, well ever. Doubt thats changed in the future,
 
Cerberus I'm not sure, I mean do they mainly grab people with an axe to grind, fanatics? Or do they Hire Mercs. Its like Current day Jihadists and PMC's the former is fighting for an idea and in some cases revenge. Pay isn't so much for them, provided they are feed and have ammo with a small amount of money they are fine. say less than 5 bucks a day. They arn't in it to get rich, just to smoke the enemy. Now the Later in the PMC he's there for the cash only and for his skills, talents, or in some cases to crush his morals, they arn't cheap. A typical PMC operative tends to make 70-100K a year. Or it could be a mix of the too, made up of mercs who for one reasson or another don't work with a normal company.

Then you got your pirates, piracy is like fishing depends on your luck. If you can get away with it and hit ships often you can rake in millions. If your crew is slopy, well you'll be dead/arrested the dead soon enough.

Least this is based off of IRL, current and even historical. But maybe not the same later on.

Modifié par KenKenpachi, 18 février 2011 - 12:55 .

[Greybox_Inception]

KenKenpachi wrote...

A soldier tends not to make much, well ever. Doubt thats changed in the future,
 
Cerberus I'm not sure, I mean do they mainly grab people with an axe to grind, fanatics? Or do they Hire Mercs. Its like Current day Jihadists and PMC's the former is fighting for an idea and in some cases revenge. Pay isn't so much for them, provided they are feed and have ammo with a small amount of money they are fine. say less than 5 bucks a day. They arn't in it to get rich, just to smoke the enemy. Now the Later in the PMC he's there for the cash only and for his skills, talents, or in some cases to crush his morals, they arn't cheap. A typical PMC operative tends to make 70-100K a year. Or it could be a mix of the too, made up of mercs who for one reasson or another don't work with a normal company.

Then you got your pirates, piracy is like fishing depends on your luck. If you can get away with it and hit ships often you can rake in millions. If your crew is slopy, well you'll be dead/arrested the dead soon enough.

Least this is based off of IRL, current and even historical. But maybe not the same later on.

i'm talking about space ships. say if quarian or batarian pirates wanted to steal the SR2, yet don't how to use the Thanix cannon, and mssed around with screwing with it? what if pirates get screwed over thinking they're going to be wealthy by stealing a ship to salvage it or to sell it yet don't get what they expected?

[KenKenpachi]

Well what if they got screwed over, they are pirates. Just pissed off have nots of the thrid world(s). If they were a real military threat they would not be pirates. Being able to use the ship is of no importance to them but the buyer. As to Salvaging it, oh yeah you can jack a car and sell it to a junkyard with a bad rep. But uh...Try stealing a destroyer from a US Shipyard, thats another matter.

Over all even if they escape with it, they well ALL be wanted by everyone as the tech in the SR2 is well next gen, the people buying it if they have a buyer (they are stupid if they still it on a whim) most likely will know what it is and kill them or have a plan to kill them and take the ship. Also in a situation where a target needs to be taken alive or undamaged, the advantage is with the target, not his attackers.

So in the end the pirates are dead men. They might get some money, but its like this Say I stole a B-2 bomber, and sold it to China, if they didn't kill me, say I was a rouge and then striped it of all hardware, copied it and sent it back to America I'm lucky. If I live and get rich and stay in China I have no doubt one day I'll die falling after a bag of oranges on a highrise apartment I just moved in to.

Modifié par KenKenpachi, 18 février 2011 - 01:38 .

[RinpocheSchnozberry]

Ninja. Chicks just give it up to ninjas.

[Adugan]

RinpocheSchnozberry wrote...

Ninja. Chicks just give it up to ninjas.

Pirate > Ninja

[AventuroLegendary]

Adugan wrote...

RinpocheSchnozberry wrote...

Ninja. Chicks just give it up to ninjas.

Pirate > Ninja

Ninjas beat pirates! 

[Splinter Cell 108]

I'm guessing mercenaries and pirates make the most. Soldiers don't get a lot of money and Cerberus probably invests more in their technology, scientific projects and their missions than in their operatives.

[pumpkinman13]

I think Shep makes more as a Cerberus Op in ME2 than she makes in ME1, but then she's not exactly directly on the Alliance payroll, being more a Spectre.

[Maeson]

To the brass tacks of the OP's question. It largely depends on the rank/position we are talking about. If you mean the grunt level operative then the pay would be quite even. For a corporate merc it'd probably be a bit higher since for them, money=loyalty. Soldiers (that includes Cerberus) are in it partly because of ideology. They fight what they believe in.
As for the pirate, there's a bit of overlap with the merc, but in a sense, they don't have the stable pay of a corporate merc or a soldier, but they do have the potential of "the one big haul". Basically getting that one heist done and you're loaded. But such heists are few and far in between, so I'm guessing the pirates would mostly be living counting pennies in between the bigger hauls.

As for Shepard.
In ME1 Shep makes most as he/she is basically a self-contained arms trafficking ring.
In ME2 Shep basically steals money, gets it as reward for a some deed (read: contract) or as Cerberus "Bonus Pay". So in ME2, Shep is in all senses of the word, a mercenary.
In ME3... that was the game where I honestly felt low on cash for a while. I honestly didn't feel like the Alliance or the Council were properly invested in Shep's crusade to SAVE EVERYONE. Why the hell did I even have to PAY for anything? Shepards name ALONE should of bought him/her half a fleet and a private army.

PS: If anyone payed attention for the ME2's ingame news feet thing. There was a long article chain about a war waged on a krogan held planet Garvug by a corporate forces. And they had it all, space stations, fleets, infantry.
So it's safe to assume that corporate grunts get higher stable pay. Cerbrus are an exception as they are basically ideological soldiers, and with their indoctrination it's easy to assume they work for pennies, despite on one datapad it is said something along the lines that "Doing this mistake will see a severe reduction of combat pay"