Goonhub
02-01-2013, 08:16 AM
The QM has two ways of increasing their budget: nagging the hop for cash, or hoarding metal from the market and selling it back as ore.
Crewmembers have such abysmally low wages that it takes all the money of five persons to buy a single engineering crate. And they will be left with a few bucks for the rest of the round.
What if wages were substantially increased, so that a couple of persons could pool their money a few minutes into the round and reach 1000$, which is what most useful crate cost.
And then the money that is used by the QM to buy supplies was returned to the main station budget every few minutes, so it would become a self-sustaining process.
Wages > purchases at QM > Centcom sends the money to the station budget > HoP puts money in the payroll > wages again.
Money would have practical use, and the QM would work by actually fulfilling people's orders.
Crewmembers have such abysmally low wages that it takes all the money of five persons to buy a single engineering crate. And they will be left with a few bucks for the rest of the round.
What if wages were substantially increased, so that a couple of persons could pool their money a few minutes into the round and reach 1000$, which is what most useful crate cost.
And then the money that is used by the QM to buy supplies was returned to the main station budget every few minutes, so it would become a self-sustaining process.
Wages > purchases at QM > Centcom sends the money to the station budget > HoP puts money in the payroll > wages again.
Money would have practical use, and the QM would work by actually fulfilling people's orders.