Editing Corporate Team (section)

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Cape [[ranking sites]] will sometimes have a form of sponsorship similar to joining a corporate team, contingent on maintaining a good position, among other promotional ventures.<ref name="R Living">''Title: [Worm] Can rogues make a Living as a hero?''<br>''[Quoting from Mid comment:] - Are there other routes for heroes to earn money for fighting bad guys?''<br>Rogues are, by definition, not heroes or villains. A rogue is someone who doesn't identify with the cops and robbers game, encompassing those who utilize their abilities for business, personal, societal or neutral reasons, and those who strive not to use their abilities at all. To a reasonably strict extent, there is no 'in the field' for rogues.<br>I say reasonably strict because there's mercenaries like Faultline's crew, but there's pretty much a 'you fuck one goat' attitude toward mercenaries who deign to work with villains... they just get the 'villain' label slapped on them and that's that, mostly.<br>Rogues who sign up with the PRT and stay out of trouble can receive a stipend. They may also receive protections, but this varies by department. Rogues mostly work day jobs and some try to earn wages with unique avenues afforded by their powers, but it often puts them in an awkward spot, where there's pressure to join one side or the other, and/or they're seen as a prime target for powered thugs who want to earn street cred. For a B-list thug like Longfingers, a rogue who's working a day job providing tinker prosthetics to celebrities and movie studios is a wealthy, newsworthy target who has little combat experience and who, following ass-kicking, counts in most circles as being a 'I beat a notable cape' tickmark on one's resume.<br>Even Parian screams 'inexperience' prior to her Leviathan participation. Street cred up for grabs if you mess with her.<br>''Are there other routes for heroes to earn money for fighting bad guys?''<br>This is talking heroes and not villains, but those striking an independent course could...
*Rip and Run - Beat up villains, take their stuff/money.
*Ranking Sites - (Bambina talks briefly about these) - sites that track hero/villain wins and losses sometimes offer payment to qualifying heroes, host streams or interviews, or do a kind-of-corporate-but-less-strings-attached sponsorship that's often contingent on holding a good position.
*Betting Sites - Some sites allow people to bet on outcomes. Will a fight happen between [[Fume Hood|Poison Apple]] and Dojo? Put $30 on the site, leave it sitting there (site makes money off of the interest of said money), and if a fight happens and your choice wins, you get good money. Heroes can bet on themselves. Some specifically cultivate and go after low odds. Authorities allow this to go on as long as it's aboveboard (no killing) because it promotes fairly inoffensive conflict. - [https://redd.it/5xwr8m Can rogues make a living as a hero?] ([[Wildbow]], Reddit.com, 2017-03-06)</ref> [[Bambina]] recieved money from sponsors as a result of her ranking, even though she was a [[villain]].<ref>"Rankings!  Don't you even pay attention?  It was embarrassing.  My mom's still giving me a hard time over it, and it's like, that's less money from our sponsors.  So I'm going to make you deepthroat my fist, okay?  Break your arms and legs and make you suckle it." - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/28/drone-23-2/ Excerpt] from [[Drone 23.2]]</ref>