I don't understand how it works. Do mercenaries roam the sector at random sending recon couriers back and forth actively looking for work?
Because there's a lot of tickets like "our forces can't hold out for long so we hire offworld mercs to help us out" but none take into account that finding and hiring mercs and bringing them on-site is going to take weeks if not months -- because we need to travel to a high traffic world which may be a dozen parsecs away.
Another offender is "we're suddenly short of personnel so we hire mercs to guard this installation for 3 months" ticket. Essentially then the installation is unguarded for 1,5 months while we look for mercs, eh?
Because there's a lot of tickets like "our forces can't hold out for long so we hire offworld mercs to help us out" but none take into account that finding and hiring mercs and bringing them on-site is going to take weeks if not months -- because we need to travel to a high traffic world which may be a dozen parsecs away.
Another offender is "we're suddenly short of personnel so we hire mercs to guard this installation for 3 months" ticket. Essentially then the installation is unguarded for 1,5 months while we look for mercs, eh?