Aramarth makes a extremely valid RP point.

Yes and no. VO has no equivalent to a "retirement pension", veterans benefits, or even the standard pay received as a member of a real-world military (let alone the GI Bill or anything similar). Even the Legions were paid in salt for most of the life of the Roman Empire, otherwise their soldiers could not have provided for their families.

That said, the case could be made that the military does not pay well. The reasons for participation are supposedly a patriotic desire to fight on behalf of your Serco/Itani nation (or nation with whom you are aligned), as well as the potential to advance within a military structure, opening up new gameplay prospects.

We could, for the moment, make:

* Free repairs/ammo in capships to people on the mission
* Free replacement ships from BS-base stations (O3, etc), while on the mission.
* Some small reward monetary for killing enemies and contributing to the destruction of major capships/turrets. (on the order of maybe 1-5k per kill, or something small).
* No free addons/batteries. Giving some incentive to successful BS participation to offset these costs.

This may result in a lot of people hiding in capships and shooting stuff with turrets. But we could make turret kills unpaid, perhaps.

To make another real-world comparison, free ships, repairs and ammo could be construed as a kind of allowance, vs the pay provided for actual participation.

Anyway, further feedback welcome.

Inc, all of these suggestions would work, I'd rather see something simple done sooner than wait for something more complex.

Sounds good to me, Inc. I'll lobby my congressman about that Serco GI bill too. ;)

Quote: That said, the case could be made that the military does not pay well.

You are so right! However, we as soldiers do not pay for out ammunition, "ships", guns etc. Rather some would be mercenaries, and THEY pay very well!

It could open for a two-tiered mission tree. If you are on mission, ie part of the military you could get the below mentioned rewards including lousy pa; if you are just free booting it you would have to pay for ammunition and repairs but would get a bigger reward for killing enemy players.

Well, you figure it out Inc., I am sure you are on it.

FYI, I ticket-ized the "free reload/repair in capships, and free ship buyback" thing on Weds, targeted for tonight. I hope it makes it in, but I've been busy with marketing crap at home and haven't talked to Ray yet. Going to head in to the office shortly.

So anyway, FYI, we're on this. Free stuff asap, and then I'll get onto monetary rewards next week.

Free repairs?
Shouldn't this be supported with the resources for it?
Would be funny to support these free services by doing some simple mining work.

You include the lowlevel members of your guild this way.

I think in the case of Border Skirmish we can assume that the Serco and Itani nations have the necessary resources to supply their own capships. Of course, that could be some other aspect of BS participation.. "combat deliveries" or some such.

Anyway, requiring resources would make sense for player-owned caps, and the like.