General professions

[Kalden]

One of the newbies I was helping get started asked me about general profession documentation, and I think that one would be really helpful. The PCs don't even necessarily represent what virtual people would be doing, as far as professions. I'd really like to see a list of professions, and percentages beside them, just to give people an idea.

Population of Allanak: 500k

Mercenaries - 2k
House Guards - 2k
Slaves - 350k
Nobles - 1k
Hunters - 2k
Farm owners - 2k
Professional thieves - 5k

Something like that. Even if the numbers couldn't be put next to them, how about a compiled list of vocations? It would make it easier to think of what people did in your background, and it sure couldn't hurt.

[Bestatte]

Keep in mind also, that some people come from games that have -coded- professions, which are similar to our guilds, also known as class in still other games. Be sure of what, exactly, the newbie is asking about. If they're looking for information about types of jobs characters can have, then they could be referred to the various house and clan documentation.

If they're looking for information on how to RP their chosen guild, then they'd go to the guild docs - plus the RP docs for things like the thief's guide, etc.
Sub-classes too, down at the bottom of the guild listing page is a link to things like linguist and bard.

[Larrath]

I'd say there are probably about a thousand Templars or so, or maybe eight hundredish.  And, hmm, maybe a good hundred or two thousand people in the Militia and Allanaki army.

I think that there are more mercenaries around, since the T'zai Byn itself is probably one and a half thousand in total...I imagine it's one fucking big mercenary company.  Maybe 4-5k.

Crafters...lots of those (3k?), and plenty of merchants (2k)...and miners (80k), of course.  Lots of miners and farmers (70k).

*shrug* Might be less in the army and more in the farming and mining business, I suppose.

[EvilRoeSlade]

I think that there are more mercenaries around, since the T'zai Byn itself is probably one and a half thousand in total...I imagine it's one fucking big mercenary company.  Maybe 4-5k.

I'm not going to post information that's found in a clan documentation, but you are way off.

[Larrath]

Alright, then I guess it's just two thousands.  Oh well.

[Anonymous]

Alright, then I guess it's just two thousands.  Oh well.

I haven't read the clan documentation ERS is referring to, but I recall Tlaloc saying the Byn's numbers were somewhere around 1k or less.

[Gilvar]

Slaves can also be broken down some. Slaves can be slaves and at the same time miners, and house-guards. (And a number of other things), so that might affect the 'profession' pool some.

And there are probably also alot of 'just getting by'ers. that do whatever, mine, peddle, dig ditches, etc.

[sacac]

And then there are the people that don't do anything.. I'd say 1k and dying everyday..