It's easy to cry troll when someone doesn't like your idea or finds the entire notion of wasting who knows how many people's time by 'hiring' them to service an overpriced service. You are however correct I didn't notice the change to the upfront fee. Still it doesn't say you have to succeed either as far as I can tell.
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Kirkeastment wrote:
If a player scans a planet they cannot invade themselves, they should sell the planet scan and pocket the ctp for themselves, and carry out the sale ASAP., and pocket the full value of the planet so they can buy themselves just as nice a planet when they are capable.
sounds like a better idea.
I'm sure you have better ideas than this "Planetary Assasins" but at least to me this doesn't seem effective at all.
It might be a better idea if perhaps you change your rates; reveal what you pay your Employees and what attack/def capabilities some of them have to bring to the table. Even going as to far as providing a # of people you have willing to do this kind of a thing with X #### to #### attack power (grouping). Also full financial disclosure on your profit margins for each job would also be a good idea

That way we can all see Employees get paid fairly for not filling up their own planetary databases and see the disparity levels between Administration and Worker.
Although some people prefer to employee anyone for a job while a growing number of people prefer fair trade Coffee over non fair trade coffee (although I've heard some jokes depending on the person for one way or the other).
Continually calling me a troll because I so far don't agree with the entire idea doesn't seem cool to me. I'm simply coming on here to say I wouldn't recommend this idea and you're calling me a troll because of it. Doesn't seem business like to me.