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NPC/PC differences are a necessary but sometimes annoying aspect to consider.

NPCs are as you know, insubstantial extras for a scene. Like furniture they are very accomodating and the more time and effort you spend on it, the more useful and comforting its presence becomes.

PCs are what you phyically got that no one can deny you unless you decide to either get it destroyed in an unfortunate series of events (Like being targeted by several turbolasers from an actual PC Capital ship).

But you know all that.

Credits wise its the same.

Izzy (me char) is a bloody rich trillionaire. What he did was two thousand three hundred years ago, he set up a bank account and well...

The interest rates are quite expensive if you add the two thousand three hundred and twenty seven years.

But this is all NPC money. I can walk into a store and throw a few credits around to do some shopping like buy that pink fluffy bunny slippers that one of his subordinates always wanted. But that means little in the SLIU and the actual game mechanics. I cannot claim I have pink bunny slippers when I decide I want to duel another character. At least not expect stats from it. Its up to me to decide how I look like when fighting other people.

I can buy an entire army's worth of weapons factories to keep them supplied for years on end with my NPC money.

But the PC money I have is a little over half a million credits.

Still a bit, but I can barely buy me a fighter or freighter of me own. I can probably get me a business interest (I already do...) or an Ore production plant. Meh. What do I need Resources for anyways. But the PC money is real and solid.

Ask around. I believe the best example of wasted money was when a certain individual accumilated so much cash she got herself a nice little Dreadnaught for herself...

Well, I guess you could use it in a character v character battle....

But Izzy cannot do that because according to the SLIU, despite his old age and the ancient nature of his bank account and business interests, he does not have the cash.

NPC credits thus means a lot to your characters but means little to a player. PC money is where it is at and thats what Laz boy is offering you, for NPC targets. He rather you ask him about the target and he expects good rp out of it rather than the usual deal NPCs get when a PC comes along.

Ah the lament of any NPC that is unlucky enough to meet a PC. They might as well shoot themselves in the head. Its faster, less painful and the end result is the same. That of they should just vanish into a puff of thin air. Cause thats heavier than what they are.

My my. When you see Sephiroth on the Bounty list...you know you are in for one quite loooong grinding session....

I really should playe FFVII one day...