RE: [OT] [HIST] Paymasters of 2183

> Do you get paid for downtime? Time dilation 
> would surely wreck your life back on any planet, 
> so you'd think there would be some sort of 
> premium, but paying the troopie for every 
> minute of their sleep makes for a high cost per 
> active minute....

In a travelleresque RPG, at one point we got stuck in marine coldsleep
for 7
years (ship got blown-away around us), the backpay really screwed up
their
budget for a while.
Even at 10% pay for coldsleep, sleeping long enough makes you moderately
wealthy.  When they do thaw you out though, you have to live long enough
to
enjoy it.
The time dilation would need to scale with the pay.  If you spend 100
years
in coldsleep during an average tour of duty, inflation would need to be
factored into your base pay for planetfall.

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