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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Firebird" data-source="post: 9795946" data-attributes="member: 7015803">As part of my research into the system I've been looking into Lewis & Clark. They're a recent enough expedition to have good notes and the size (~30-40 people) I'm looking for. There are also reasonable records for the time period which means there is a lot to learn about the economics. I'm interested to help guide the mechanics, like how much should players be spending on salaries vs supply (depending on how much they hunt, of course). Here's for the Lewis and Clark (if you check an encyclopedia you will get a different number based on the requisition submitted by Lewis. But there are other factors in the accounting).[ATTACH=full]421602[/ATTACH]It turns out it is mostly pay, either as the base pay for expedition members, bonuses paid to them after ('double pay', which doubled salaries of all but Lewis & Clark, but did not double the subsistence allowance or signing bonuses which I folded into base pay), and land which was awarded to expedition members as a bonus for successful completion.Regarding the numbers, something like $10-30 a month was a typical working person's salary for the period. This gives an idea of how much is reasonable as standard pay vs what you might expect to distribute as bonuses if you find the treasure (or whatever success is.)For those interested, the right reference is Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition with Related Documents, 1783-1854, Ed. Donald Jackson. See especially “Final Summation of Lewis’s Account”, Document 277, p 424-430.</blockquote>

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