Routine employment is the lowest level of task. Once the credit score reaches a certain standard, low-level tasks will no longer increase credit. This grading system is easy to understand, allowing employers to intuitively understand the mercenary group's capabilities and ensure they can hire a suitable team.
120 points is precisely the first standard. This is the first threshold for screening mercenary groups. Reaching 120 points qualifies them as a "formal" mercenary group, opening up more employment applications.
Professional players are very efficient. Two days later, the mercenary group's credit accumulated to 120 points. Han Xiao issued the faction mission rewards, with Wang Hou Jiang Xiang, Hao Tian, and the Mad Tusk Squad's captain Yan Ran contributing the most credit, ranking in the top three. Besides the four major guilds, the high-level players recruited by Han Xiao also included top-ranked clubs in the league, such as Stormwind and Mad Tusk. Stormwind was doing alright, with Jiang Yu Luo, a beautiful woman, garnering quite a bit of attention. In contrast, Mad Tusk was particularly tragic. Despite being a top-tier club, their presence was extremely weak. Honestly, if Yan Ran hadn't ranked third this time, Master Technician Han would have almost forgotten about him…
Han Xiao issued extra rewards to the three, while using encouraging words to express that the organization would definitely reward members for their contributions to the mercenary group. The extra reward was the latest 【sin-a Type Carbon-Based Organism Detector (Helmet)】 he manufactured. Exchanging it required 800 faction contribution points, but he gave it to the three of them, as if they earned 800 contribution points for free, immediately causing envy among the other players.
At this moment, Han Xiao said, "This detection helmet can greatly improve your field of vision and adapt to various harsh environments…" He introduced the functions, implying that this was essential equipment for off-site employment and recommending everyone to exchange for it.
The three who received the detection helmets tried out the functions. A built-in screen displayed various environmental factor analyses, energy analyses, and so on. They could also adjust various functions, and their uses were clear at a glance. It also had the function of protecting the vital parts of the head, making it suitable equipment for all classes.
Mad Blade and Hao Tian were close. He borrowed it for a while and couldn't help but nod, saying, "It really is a good thing."
Seeing this, others followed suit. The three helmets were passed around, and everyone experienced the functions, deeply feeling that the functions were very practical, and they all had the idea of exchanging for them.
The first batch of veteran rewards, plus the faction mission rewards, allowed all players… well, most players to accumulate 600 faction contribution points, just 200 points short of exchanging for the helmet. They were itching with desire.
Han Xiao deliberately priced it at 800, using this mentality to give players the feeling that they were only a little bit short of the contribution points needed to get the prize. And besides doing missions, another way to obtain contribution points was obvious: sacrificing items and money!
Seemingly giving 600 contribution points to all… most players for free, in reality, this was the bait to lure players to spend money, a very common promotional model. Han Xiao implemented the method of giving value to favorability. This time, it was giving actual value to the faction relationship. Not only were his things high-quality and cheap, but with the promotional effect of the faction relationship, he could ensure that players prioritized spending money at his place.
The exchange ratio he temporarily set was: within the indifferent-friendly range (0~1000 contribution points), 50 Enas could be exchanged for 100 faction relationship points. So, in the players' eyes, the detection helmet was worth 400 Enas, but they could now get it for only 25% of the original price, only 100 yuan, which was too good of a deal.
Half of the players earned 1500 Enas from the Short Horn Star mission, so they were rich and generous, and they exchanged for it with a wave of their hands. The other half of the players did daily tasks for a few days, but the rewards were very small, but they were cunning and directly borrowed money from the other half, with roughly this dialogue:
"We are all leaders in the same industry, we see each other all the time, a mere 100 yuan, how can you be embarrassed not to lend it?"
"You won't give it? Are you looking down on me!"
"Hey, everyone is brothers, we will definitely pay you back when we earn money in the future, and don't worry about us not paying you back, a monk can run away but the temple can't, lend me money, and I owe you a favor."
After a chaotic scene, this group of players finally exchanged for the detection helmet in the form of debt.
Of course, the people from the Temple owed the most, and Li Ge felt very uncomfortable.
More than fifty customers, small profits but quick turnover, more than 6000 Enas in revenue, allowed Master Technician Han's savings to recover a wave of blood, and he was very satisfied.
The raw materials for this batch of helmets were supplies brought from Aquamarine Star, with extremely low costs, and the profit margin was simply outrageous.
……
Everyone came to the Mercenary Hall, and Han Xiao prepared to open the mercenary interface to accept the Sunil clan's employment mission, but suddenly found that today's Mercenary Hall was a bit abnormal. A group of mercenaries crowded in a corner of the hall, noisy and clamorous.
Han Xiao was curious and walked over. He saw a short, blue-skinned person surrounded by the crowd, wearing loose and luxurious robes, with hair like steel nails, pointed ears, no nose, and two pairs of eyes, all narrowed into slits, and lips that were downward-curved semicircles… commonly known as a bitter melon face. This race was called the Nilan people, and they looked very similar to a certain emoji.
The biggest impression the Nilan people gave to other races was that they were stingy and liked to speculate. This Nilan person came from a resource exploration team funded by a certain consortium. He was recruiting mercenaries offline in the Mercenary Hall in order to avoid the small service fees of the Mercenary Alliance.
This Nilan person was called Ma Ding, and he was introducing the job requirements, "I am from a resource exploration team and will be going to Gadon-791 star for a three-day field exploration. Now we need to recruit a group of bodyguards, 400 Enas per person, responsible for protecting the exploration team, clearing surface beasts, and exploring dangerous areas, requiring a credit score of at least 120 points…"
The surrounding mercenaries had a cold look.jpg. This job's reward was so-so, and it didn't go through the Mercenary Alliance channel, which meant accepting work privately, not being recorded in the resume, and not being able to improve the credit score, which was really not attractive to them. They were all watching from the sidelines, and no one came forward to recruit.
Han Xiao's eyes flashed, and he looked at the star map. "Gadon-791 star is near the Sunil clan's territory. This trip can earn some extra money along the way. Although it's only 400 Enas, my team has more than fifty people, and accumulating small amounts can also be considerable."
Some lifeless barren planets have a name that is the galaxy + a number, which is convenient for positioning and is basically only used for collecting resources.
Han Xiao squeezed through the crowd and stepped forward, asking, "Black Star Mercenary Group, with a scale of more than fifty people, only accepts collective employment for the time being."
"Let me see the credit score." Ma Ding looked Han Xiao up and down, somewhat delighted. His throat was hoarse from shouting for a long time, and someone finally came to recruit.
Han Xiao called out the mercenary group interface and turned it to Ma Ding.
Ma Ding was overjoyed to see that the credit score met the standard, and he was about to agree, but after looking down at it again, his face suddenly changed, and he said in surprise, "You have never accepted combat employment?"
The Black Star Mercenary Group's displayed resume had dozens of consecutive entries of routine work at the Hub, mostly cleaning tasks. Normal mercenaries would not bother to do this kind of work, which was almost no different from hard labor.
This resume made Ma Ding very surprised. He had never seen such a strange "mercenary group".