Originally by: Curzon Dax

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Lets start with this:

MERCENARY
ûadjective
1.working or acting merely for money or other reward; venal.
2.hired to serve in a foreign army, guerrilla organization, etc.
ûnoun
3.a professional soldier hired to serve in a foreign army.
4.any hireling.


With that said, I went through the mercenaries list, forums, etc and added a total of 93 mercenary corporations to my contact list. Then I went hunting for a mercenary corp to hire for event security.

I found TWO! TWO Corporations that are actually mercenaries. They work for ISK. You pay them to be your personal army, and they do their job. Of the two, one of them was a three man operation led by someone I presume to be under the age of 14 working with two alts, and the other are great folks, but mostly not in my time zone and hard to coordinate with.

The rest of the ilk said "Only if we're killing someone." Listen dudes. You're not mercenaries. You're paid pirates. You're looking to get paid to selectively pirate people. You're looking to get paid to be a Privateer's Alliance on a smaller scale.

If you're only willing to take a contract if it involves a corporation that you need to wardec or a pilot that you need to kill, that is a very limited, selective role - like I said: Paid Pirate. Think back to the Letters of Marquee that kings used to give pirates to work for them. They were selective pirates, not mercenaries.

PLEASE for the love of God, CCP, and King Kong, stop calling yourselves mercs if you're not!

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