Paid Fighting For Denmark

Day 1,459, 08:06 Published in Denmark Germany by Flitwick
Good evening Denmark,

Some people may know, that in many other countries soldiers are paid for fighting. This will happen in Denmark too.
I had planned to implement paid fighting in Denmark a week ago, but there is not really anywhere we need to pay people to fight, so that is the reason why I have not launched it yet.

Denmark is a small nation with a small income, which means it is not possible for us to just pay for fights here and there. We need to use the money where they are really needed. And we will do this in the future, when the time comes.

How much will you get paid?
We have been a little back and forth on this subject but one thing is for sure, we will pay on a hit based formula and not an influence based formula, as it is done in Sweden.
Why?
Because it is more fair to everyone. If we paid on an influence based formula, the already strong, rich and powerful, would earn a lot of money on fighting. This can be great, if we need to attract a lot of influence. But it really sucks for the little guy, that has just as many expenses on the fighting as the big guy. Maybe even more, as the little guy probably is not producing his or her own weapons and food.

The formula will be 10 DKK per hit.
Then someone might say that they will just fight without weapons and earn money on it, but that will not help them. When you as a soldier have fought, you will report the influence you did. The system will then go get your strength and rank and then calculate how much influence you have done per hit, but with a Q5 Weapon. This means, if you do not use any weapons, you will get a smaller pay, than if you do.
The 10 DKK is based on the current prices of Q5 weapons and then a little extra for some food. It will not cover your expenses precisely, but you will only lose maybe 3 DKK per hit. And that is nothing.

As a little extra we will reward people that put in a lot of influence. If you put 200000 influence, you will get a reward of 500 DKK. If you put in 400000, you will get a reward of 1000 DKK. Or as you might already have noticed, a reward of 500 DKK for each 200000 influence you put into a paid battle.

I will release more about all this when we launch a fight where you will get paid. And at that time, you will also get a link to a website where you will have to report your influence.

Thank you for reading,
Flitwick
Minister of Defense