How Does MercNet Work

MercNet allows for the short-term hiring of Mercenaries to perform a specific task.
Current Requirements to participate as a Merc:
* Vetted career
* In Game MRB score of at least 600
* Carry the Merc role on discord
* Be unallied in game
When fulfilled, Mercs may notice green flashpoint style markers on some star systems on the star map. These represent worlds where one or more contracts have been posted. The description on the system will tell you what contracts are available.
Contract Rewards:
* The mercenary company that completes the requirements of the contract will receive a lootbox of items taken from the faction-shop or black-market of the faction who posted the contract (not necessarily the faction the contract calls you to aid.) In the event that there is not enough items in the shops of that faction, additional gear discarded from other blackmarkets will be pulled in to make up the shortfall.
* Every drop/mission that a merc company takes that works towards the contract's goal, but does not complete it, will earn the company a merc token, upon collecting a required amount (currently 12), a lootbox will also be generated, allowing mercs who miss out on closing the contract but still participate to earn a reward.
Contract Types:
At this time, the following contracts are available:
Attack: This contract type requires mercenaries to take contracts for the contracting faction against the target faction. Completion is achieved by bringing the target's control level to 0 (does not require the contracting faction to take control of the world, only wiping out the target)
Fortify: This contract type requires mercenaries to take contracts for the contracting faction to bring their control up to the stated level.
Deniable Asset: This mode allows contractors to impersonate another faction, listing the contract in their name, the true contractor will never be revealed, except via the liaison's list command of the true contractor
False Flag: Works the same as Deniable Assest mode, except that upon contract completion, MRBC will reveal the true contractor, if you want to show you fooled someone, also a bit cheaper than Deniable Asset mode.
Priority Contracts:
These contracts are significantly more expensive to create, but give greater rewards to the mercs undertaking them. Mercs will see them flash as a different color.
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Contracts making:'''
there are 2 ways for contracts to be created:
* Merc Liaisons for a faction may open them using resources from the faction's resource pool
* On occasion the system may decide to spice things up by opening contracts on its own in a warzone or to spuriously cause shenanigans (to represent that rogue elements within a faction may hire mercs for a job regardless of their superior's goals.
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Merc resources:'''
Each faction maintains a resource pool used to hire mercs. currently this resource is generated and scaled based on a factions active players. total players, systems controlled and control gains within the past few days. Smaller/less active factions will receive more resources than larger, more successful factions. The intent is that these factions would have more need of mercenaries than those able to rely on a larger and powerful regular armed forces. despite in lore clans hating mercs, they too will be able to hire them here for balance purposes. factions without any active players for 7 days or more will cease generating resources. there is also a resource cap, so be sure to use your resources fairly often.
In some cases the server may also generate resources out-of-band for a faction depending on the circumstances (for those, oh crap moments).
A faction's available resources and open contracts are only available to the liaisons, they can determine if they wish to disclose that to the rest of the faction.
Contract expiry:
Any contract will expire 72-96 hours after being opened if left uncompleted. Note: resources are not refunded to the faction if a contract expires.
Merc Shops:
Mercs using MercNet gain access to shared MercNet shops available on the worlds of: Solaris, Outreach, Cabanatuan, Strana Mechty, Bruges, Gotterdammerung, Herotitus & Tukayyid
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