What you’re describing is really the way a small child understands things. “I need food and I have a $20 bill, so if you have a bag of peanuts, then I just have to give you the $20 and I can eat.” They don’t actually understand the deal they’re making. The $20 that the child has is worth far more than the bag of peanuts.
Him giving her 80% is a terrible deal for him. Him giving her 50% is a pretty bad deal for him. He’s worth far more than her. We know this because the premise is that he’s going for the #1 most broken build in the game.
That woman at the shop already agreed to hold onto the skill book for him. He doesn’t need a teammate this urgently, even if she has chosen a broken skill.
An adult, or even an older teenager, unlike a child, should be capable of empathy, and should try to consider things from the other person’s perspective.
He didn’t need to go get her all hot-blooded. She wasn’t going to leave all that money on the ground. Going in with full intensity is only going to scare her. He could just wait for her friends to dump her, or for her to beg her way back in, and then offer her some calm help when she comes back for the money.
And not only is 80% objectively too much, it’s the sort of thing that would frighten a person further. Most other people would think that they’re getting scammed.
An adult might not consider all of those things, but they’d at least know that it would be stupid to try to recruit a person in a way that scares the shit out of her and should make her think you’re trying to scam her or abuse her.
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Once everyone figures out her true value she could probably name her own price with just about any party. He has her locked into his party for the foreseeable future now.
BillyClark@piefed.social 1 week ago
That’s fine, though, if she leaves after understanding her worth.
You were just saying that they were going to make 20m on the first day, so even if he has her for one day, and gives her her fair worth, which let’s say is 20%, then he’d have the 16m after one day, and she’d have 4m, as well as an understanding of her value. He’d have set up himself to achieve his goal much faster.
And if she understands her fair value, as well as his value, she’s not going to leave his team, anyway. 20% of his team is going to be worth more than, let’s say 50% of other teams, and let’s not forget, that’s only if she can actually convince the other teams that she’s worth that much.
She said in this episode that she couldn’t live on 20%, and if she goes with a different team and demands a lion’s share, that team is going to have to make those same calculations on whether they’ll get enough to live.
And one more obvious thing, Elymas is going to get the absolute best build. He would have already had it had he been allowed to stay in his family house. He understands everything about the build and can fully explain it, but nobody is willing to listen.
She’d have the same problem. She’s already had the same problem. That team she was with ignored her contribution and assumed they got the lucky drop only because of themselves.
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Yeah, he could have handled that deal a bit smarter, I suppose. The more he makes the sooner he gets the book and the stronger (and richer) their party becomes.