You’ve hit on the exact difference in all these examples. The complications/objectives in Freelancer are all “how” instructions - use the right gun, wearing the right outfit, within the right clock time, etc. None of them are “who/what” objectives. That is the designation of the target itself and deserves a base payment (make it 1 Merces for all I care, but make it something).
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That’s very informative, thanks.
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Looking at some of the comments above, can’t beat a good old healthy debate on HitmanForum! 
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Except, we’ve never had a healthy debate on the forum. 
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Sure we have. Remember the great “What color is the sky?” debate of aught six?
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Afraid I wasn’t here for that one.
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It was a tumblr thing. It still kind is, since tumblr posts never really die. They just drift away from you until someone you follow finds it again and reblogs it.
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it’s always good for us to get everything out in the open haha
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Agreed, also, by that logic of not paying the hit unless you follow contrived and contradictory parameters, everyone would get hits for free, just by making absurd requests.
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Did I miss this? Where exactly does it say this? We can choose difficulty from the start?
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Then don’t take the contract. Sigh. lol
It’s not rocket science here, ppl.
Restaurant analogy again.
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Again, my restaurant steak analogy. Did you miss it? Scroll up and read it. 
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Did read it. Already broke it apart. But let’s try again: using your analogy, making the steak medium rare is what the client requests, but in going by the rules of Freelancer, it is optional. The person ordering the steak did not say it has to be that way, they’d just prefer it. You give a bigger tip if it is; you still pay the restaurant if it isn’t. Now go back and read my original response, I broke it down better there.
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Your steak analogy doesn’t work though. The example you gave was a restaurant making you a steak incorrectly and not paying for it.
The problem with that analogy is that it isn’t the same thing as the Freelancer objectives. The correct analogy to what is happening with Freelancer would be expecting that the waiter used a specific type of grill, wore a specific outfit while carrying the steak to you, or brought it to you on a specific type of plate. In all of these cases, the steak is still cooked and edible.
Freelancer’s objectives don’t have anything to do with whether the target is killed or not. Simply pointing out the fact that you made an analogy doesn’t mean it’s a correct one.
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8 days left ladies and gentlemen
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more 188 hours and 10 minutes 
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Still too fucking long, however much time is left.
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every hour its a nightmare:sweat:
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But they did. Do it this way or I’m not paying you.
Will you take the contract?
47/Diana: yes.
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You’re talking past each other. @47saso47 makes the analogy so he can say whatever he wants about it, including that the person ordering the steak demanded that it be cooked just so or no payment will be made. @Heisenberg though understands that the analogy is just a straw man that is not based on the actual workings of Freelancer. You’re both wrong, yet both correct.
The analogy with the steak isn’t an apt one for this mode. Arguing the specifics of how the analogy was phrased is irrelevant.
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