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Insurance[message #196916]

Mon, 22 September 2008 12:10

Will Gates is currently offline

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After more than eight years of playing JA2 I've only just started to use the insurance you can get for AIM types. Fantastic and really takes the sting out of those painful deaths. Last night in Grumm, Scope got hit by a 12.7mm sniper round to the head out of nowhere. Died instantly, no suffering. Still waiting for the payback but she was level 8 and had 19 days left to run. Should be some serious cash.

:angel:

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Sergeant Major

Re: Insurance[message #196924]

Mon, 22 September 2008 13:52

lockie is currently offline

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D'you know , I've never actually used it at all ! Good , you think ?

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Captain

Re: Insurance[message #196932]

Mon, 22 September 2008 15:05

Will Gates is currently offline

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I'll let you know if they pay-up or default in this case! It's only of use if you allow deaths of course; which I do (If Imp dies I tend to start new game).

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Sergeant Major

Re: Insurance[message #196934]

Mon, 22 September 2008 15:12

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OMG I don't think I've ever allowed a single merc to die. I consider it as having lost the war... I.E. immediate LOAD. Wink

Wink

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Sergeant Major

Re: Insurance[message #196937]

Mon, 22 September 2008 15:26

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I never used to. But too many re-loads ended up feeling like a kind of soft cheat to me. I only reload if the mouse slips or something (even then I spose I should put it down to the random nature of warfare and just deal with the result). Allowing deaths makes you play a very different game that's for sure; plus if it's going hideous wrong like it can, you can't even get new guys coz you're seen as a bad leader. End up being forced to use all of MERC & seek out all the locals urgently!

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Re: Insurance[message #196940]

Mon, 22 September 2008 16:01

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boggiboggwursdt

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The only way I care about the insurance, is the higher cost for an AIM-merc.

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Re: Insurance[message #196952]

Mon, 22 September 2008 19:00

Will Gates is currently offline

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No sh*t! Pure Cost vs. Lost Cash if they happen to get slotted. But like I said I only recently started using it. Just think it is one of the most underused aspects of the game.

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Sergeant Major

Re: Insurance[message #197025]

Tue, 23 September 2008 12:06

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They paid up. $89,000 in fact. Very nice.

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Sergeant Major

Re: Insurance[message #197026]

Tue, 23 September 2008 12:22

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19 days with scope alive would've netted you more, I should think. Wink

Wink

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Sergeant Major

Re: Insurance[message #197037]

Tue, 23 September 2008 14:28

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Indeed but her replacement is cheap, Maddog was the closest RPC geographically. I'd have rather it hadn't happened but like I said at the start of the thread it takes away some of the pain!

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Sergeant Major

Re: Insurance[message #197039]

Tue, 23 September 2008 14:48

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Yep, been using it since I discovered it (which would be the second week of playing or so). Great feature if you don't reload when your mercs die.

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Re: Insurance[message #197050]

Tue, 23 September 2008 16:00

deknegt is currently offline

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so you get the money back when their contract ends one way or another

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Sergeant

Re: Insurance[message #197790]

Tue, 30 September 2008 20:43

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Theres also another bonus to buying Insurance for AIM Mercenaries, they are much more likely to stay with you and the other Mercenaries on the site are happier to work for you by using Insurance.

I found this out in my 1st Game of JA2 when I was stumbling across the links in the AIM site for Bobby Rays and Insurance, my first team of Trevor and Lynx were apprehensive to stay and came out with excuses [ Its my week with the volunteer fire Dept ? lol ] but reloaded, tried it with Insurance premium paid and they signed on for longer.

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Corporal

Re: Insurance[message #197818]

Wed, 01 October 2008 10:44

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boggiboggwursdt

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As far as I know, this doesn't influence their willing to stay. They care more about moral and mercs you hired, which they dislike. And I thought there was a stat that came into calculation as well. Guess it was exp-lvl.

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Re: Insurance[message #197853]

Wed, 01 October 2008 17:44

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You might be right mate, but I'm pretty sure it effected it because the save game I had, both of them were going to bugger off with some piss poor excuses as to why - tried reloading the game, buying Insurance for both of them then when I clicked extend they were happy to stay on. I did remember reading in the old manual somewhere in one of the tips parts that Insurance can make Mercs happier to stay on but as for the actual coding info, I wouldnt have the foggiest idea.

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Corporal

Re: Insurance[message #197867]

Wed, 01 October 2008 20:41

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Insurance does not come into play as I found when I just looked at the code (it's WillMercRenew in Merc Contract.C.

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First Sergeant

Re: Insurance[message #197912]

Thu, 02 October 2008 11:20

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But it does indirectly by raising their morale a weeny bit.

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Re: Insurance[message #197913]

Thu, 02 October 2008 12:13

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boggiboggwursdt

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never felt that...

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Re: Insurance[message #197933]

Thu, 02 October 2008 17:09

Asterix909 is currently offline

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Will Gates

But it does indirectly by raising their morale a weeny bit.

which is funny, because insuring them does not benefit them at all...
in fact- it only makes me less afraid for them to die- which in turn may indirectly lead to me putting them in higher risk situations... :whoknows:

oh well:-) :headbanger:

EDIT: wow... I guess that was my first post eh?

[Updated on: Thu, 02 October 2008 17:10] by Moderator

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Civilian

Re: Insurance[message #198036]

Fri, 03 October 2008 20:20

lockie is currently offline

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My wife has me well insured ,..... hmmmmmm Surprised

Surprised

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Captain

Re: Insurance[message #198038]

Fri, 03 October 2008 20:41

SpaceViking is currently offline

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lockie, if you're anything like me you've managed to bleed a bit all around in your house, car, and etc. The police are so good at finding blood now that if you ever "disappear" your wife is done for.

At least that's what I keep telling my wife and I'm still here!

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First Sergeant

Re: Insurance[message #198041]

Fri, 03 October 2008 21:57

Asterix909 is currently offline

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SpaceViking

lockie, if you're anything like me you've managed to bleed a bit all around in your house, car, and etc. The police are so good at finding blood now that if you ever "disappear" your wife is done for.

At least that's what I keep telling my wife and I'm still here!

careful! Now you have a documented history of bleeding a lot under normal inconspicuous circumstances! Now when the police find your blood, they will be able to brush it off as a normal thing. :oops:

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Civilian

Re: Insurance[message #198045]

Fri, 03 October 2008 23:12

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Asterix909

... Now you have a documented history of bleeding a lot under normal inconspicuous circumstances!...

Every time I pick up some (real!) tool for anything other than a minor job I fully expect to cut or smash some part of me. And, no, I'm not a klutz. Recently I did a week of hurricane relief work in Mississippi and escaped unscathed. Woo hoo! Except after I got home one of my toenails turned black and fell off. I must have squished it somehow. I was even wearing steel toed boots the whole time! Well, except when we carried those cabinets into the building...

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First Sergeant

Re: Insurance[message #198046]

Fri, 03 October 2008 23:20

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Quote:

I must have squished it somehow. I was even wearing steel toed boots the whole time! Well, except when we carried those cabinets into the building...

your wife was innocently 'hanging about' too , wasn't she ?
Watch yourself........ :diabolical:

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