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Mercenaries for Hire

Dear author, may I ask why mercenary boats cannot board? If this is the setting of this mod, can you add a setting to allow boarding?

Can we have options to set cost by a percentage or something?

Like 50% of normal hiring cost or 150% of normal.

I mean in like mod menu so we can choose how we want to utilize mod cost wise more.

I LOVE your mods, but I suck lol, so I wanna play like a merc and hire your mercs to be my "fleet" I fight in to gain money, but sometimes it makes me go broke lol

So If I could spawn fleets either as a percentage I could hopefully find a sweet point, where I can hire mercs to do jobs and go with them as my "contract" with that empire and such.

P.S. Could I using headhunter etc, spawn a merc attack force, than change to other team and fight the mercs I just hired for rep gain and money? lol

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Loving the mod but there is an issue I've encountered, there is no difference between hiring rookies or elites, I spent over 10 million to hire elite mercs to take out a defence platform and they sat right next to it, 6 destroyers and 10 fighters got wrecked by pulse turrets in about 2 minutes and did virtually no damage. I know the problem is likely egosoft's legendarily crappy AI and not a problem with the mod but is there a way to implement smarter use of tactics or better positioning for higher price mercs? If so then that's a change I'd love to see.

I like that idea too. I'll note it if I return to modding X4 at some point.
@Rekkit: it's possible, yeah. Probably implement a monthly "invoice" for their services that's automatically deducted. With some work done to make sure their fleet is replenished if destroyed which the current time limit sidesteps.

Is there a way to implement permanent hiring? I like the idea of being a trade/mining mogul and out sourcing security and such. Berys32's idea of different prices providing different level of service would be awesome as well.

Love the idea, Berkys32

Idea - there could be option under which flag they fight.
1) Regular price - they would be in player faction (affecting its reputation as if player doing it itself)
2) Increased price - they could just pretend theyre pirates (so stations will take defensive measure sooner)
3) Expensive price - they could pretend they are another faction (maybe chance to reveal player as real backer with huge rep loss?)
4) Really, really expensive price - fighting under their own flag, so no rep loss to player

Haha. Unintended consequences are fun. I ran with the idea of having the mercs factionless to avoid them getting caught up in these kind of issues but found that it was also kind of lame, when it comes to station sieges, that the enemy ships and station would just ignore them lining up until they actually fire on the station. Like you could send a siege fleet deep in to Xenon territory and they'd just waltz right by all Xenon and setup shop on the station unopposed.

tried again on another station and the destroyers ended up chasing a Kha'ak fighter while the fighters killed the station