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How do you envision a person flying a Cutlass Red or MISC Endeavour Hospital ship making money? Will we receive a payment once our medical bay heals somebody?asked by Gleep

TL;DRThe aim is a system where players can charge for services like healing, with a transactional job board that enforces payment and uses ratings, though whether prices would be regulated is undecided.

On the healing and charging for stuff, there are several aspects, like rescue and recovery, then healing etc. We're definitely building a system where players could charge for services like this, so in this case you could say ok, I'll heal you for so many credits and make money that way. Sort of a transaction done, I've talked about a transactional job board system where either party can rate someone, and it'll also be the bartering system board where once you're in there, it'd make sure that a mission can only be accepted if the person posting it actually has the credits to pay it and vice versa so it'll prevent people from saying they'd pay then not actually paying. So you'd say "This is what I do, pay me and I'll do it" and the mission board would enforce paying. I imagine if a person reneged on the service they were supposed to provide they would be forced to refund the credits or perhaps be banned from the services board until they are found to be performing the services/some kind of review process. A bit like the way that Uber works. I don't know whether we'd regulate prices for healing or something, but I guess we'd do something like Uber, which is a great system to rip off.

10 for the Chairman›Episode 45 (2014.11.17)·
Published on this date.17 Nov 2014