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Yacob · February 8, 2022, 2:43pm

I don’t know any secrets. I just never had any trouble falling asleep and then in boot camp you’re always exhausted so when it’s finally time to sleep you knock right out. I didn’t realise till I got a little bit older that other people regularly can’t go to sleep.

If you can’t sleep the only thing I can recommend trying to making yourself exhausted. Get home from work and then go workout for 90 min. Time it so that you finish the workout about an hour before you want to fall asleep. Then come home and brush teeth etc and don’t look at your screens. That shit will keep you awake. I know alot of people who look at their phone one last time before bed but they do it before they actually lay down in bed. They send a text or whatever and set their alarm and then put the phone down and then get into bed and don’t look at it again no matter what.

Mini · February 8, 2022, 9:48pm

Just a quick question… did 47 killed everyone in Colorado? Did he killed all the mercenaries there? Because in that cutscene afterwards he walks over the property like there’s no one, so does it mean he killed everyone?

Accidental_Kills98 · February 8, 2022, 9:58pm

I think they just didn’t put them in because it would be more dramatic that way that or they began fleeing after four of their senior leaders died.

Tetrafish_21 · February 15, 2022, 9:25am

I’m wanting to record some gameplay in H3. I’m using Bandicam, but for some reason, I’m not seeing the FPS overlay. It appears with other games, just not H3.

The only thing I can think of is that I am using mods.

I’ve disabled all mods, but still nothing. And to think I bought this since I couldn’t use Fraps.

Edit: It looks like I have to stretch the window of what I want it to record. Whatever happened to ‘record this app that’s on top’ without the fiddling?

Edit: I’ve set Bandicam to record “Full Screen”. I still don’t understand why I can’t have it act like it used to, even have the FPS counter in the corner. It’d even be Red when it was recording.

Mini · February 17, 2022, 11:41am

Question!

I was wondering… what exactly is the function of The Constant and The Partners? I mean, The Partners seem to be the leader, but looking at Greys serial killer wall The Constant is above The Partners. So is he more important?

And how does it come that Diana never heard of The Partners? I mean, they are very rich, powerful families with much influence in politics and economy and she never heard of them? How?

Force_Obscure · February 17, 2022, 12:07pm

According to the Digital Book, things look like this :

It’s only because Arthur Edwards overthrew the Partners that he became “Supreme Leader”, a new role in the organization. Diana’s job currently. But she rejects power.

Heisenberg · February 17, 2022, 12:11pm

Grey’s wall shows the Partners at the top, not the Constant.

The way it works is like a company: the Partners are the owners, the investors, the shareholders. They ultimately decide what gets done with the business because it’s their money that’s being used to fund it and their money that’s coming back through it. The Constant is like the Chairman of the Board, and also functions as the CEO; he makes all the direct decisions of what Providence will do, in accordance with the types of things the Partners want, and brings any developments or ideas straight to them. Nobody knows who sits above him, nobody knows who the Partners are, so they take their orders from him; he’s the face of Providence. The Heralds are like the other members of the Board of Directors, or the directors of their regional territories; they answer to the Constant, and any other direct Providence operatives answer to them. And Providence associates, people who are involved with Providence without knowing about them, like DeSantis, Jordan, and the Haven people, answer to the associates, so to speak.

Diana didn’t know about the families that the Partners belonged to because, as H3 bios point out, the three families all started to pull back from the public eye sometime between 1900 and the Great Depression, as more companies began to rise that they started to slowly take over, and global communication became more frequent, and they didn’t want people noticing them. After WW2, that’s when they decided to join forces, after everybody forgot they were relevant, and by the time of the WoA trilogy, everybody had just plain forgotten them, they’d buried themselves so deep in corporate ownership red tape.

Mini · February 17, 2022, 1:03pm

Ah I thought at the top, because it’s just one person, is The Constant

Thank you! I thought it’s a bit unrealistic, that such influential families can just get down so low that no one, even Diana, never heard of them before but since it happened over such a long time period, it kinda makes sense.

Thanks for the explanation @Heisenberg and @Force_Obscure

Screaming_Meat · February 17, 2022, 4:09pm

i think the partners are in charge and the constant advises and enacts their will. he’s like a fixer or right-hand man.

Accidental_Kills98 · February 17, 2022, 4:13pm

The Partners are a board of directors, The Constant is the Chief Operations Officer to use a simple metaphor. The Partners run the whole organisation, The Constant is delegated to managing the operations they run and keeping tabs on all of their operatives.

Heisenberg · February 17, 2022, 4:41pm

Well, I saw it more as the Partners are the owners/shareholders and the Constant is the board Chairman and/or the CEO, but that one works too.

Heisenberg · February 18, 2022, 12:02am

How much do you think 47, and ICA in general for that matter, charged Providence for the contract on the Shadow Client and his militia?

Considering what we know, Edwards went to Diana and basically said, ok, you’ve proved your point, we might be more powerful but your group is more dangerous, we apologize for trying to infiltrate you, if we offer to pay you like regular customers will you help us?

Now, if I were the ICA people, I’d be pretty pissed at both Providence and the Shadow Client for this shit, but considering that Providence left ICA alone until then, backed off and apologized when they got caught, and are able to offer more money than any other client in ICA history, stands to reason that they would obviously see a better deal in taking Providence’s side in the conflict. Still, they’d be really mad at Providence for the audacity, and so if I were the board, I’d have accepted the contract, but for way more than the usual charging rate. Providence could clearly spare it and not notice, so why not.

So that then brings us to how 47 actually gets paid. We know he sets the terms for his fee, but does ICA take his share directly out of the client’s payment and send it to him, or does it all go to ICA accounts and then gets distributed accordingly? Also, do the number of targets affect the price, or is the fee per contract, not per target?

Let’s assume that ICA takes all the money and then distributes it, and the price is per contract, not per target. With Providence’s contract, and them then giving the go ahead to destroy the militia by any means, if I were ICA, I’d be demanding $10 million per target, and if I were 47, I’d be demanding a solid million for myself per target. While it’s never said, I like to think something like that went down in the negotiation of the contract terms (since everything in H2 from Hawke’s Bay to Whittleton Creek was all one big extended contract), and I think Diana would have agreed and made it happen for 47. So 47 was probably pocketing massive payouts after each mission, per head. That’s 11 targets, all at about 10 million a pop, of which 47 collects 10% on the nail. Especially regarding Janus and Cassidy, since they made it look like they were leading the militia, Providence paid heavy sums to knock off two completely loyal members. I loved that part.

Anyone else concur, disagree, have a different idea how the contract terms went down?

Accidental_Kills98 · February 18, 2022, 12:45am

I ain’t reading all of that. I am happy for you though or sorry that it happened.

Heisenberg · February 18, 2022, 12:48am

C’mon, man, I’d at least like your opinion. Don’t be intimidated by lots of words; reading is good for you.

Accidental_Kills98 · February 18, 2022, 1:00am

I mean I have no clue what they pay 47 for a normal hit and historically it has been portrayed differently. Sometimes he is paid in gold but obviously most of the time it is cash and sometimes 47 has control over what his jobs are worth and other times he doesn’t. Sometimes the ICA just make him do jobs without pay like in what I assume is Soders’ case.

If I had to give a price I think 47 would be doing the Providence hits for around a million dollars? If that even because it isn’t like 47 is using all of it even the Fuck Cabin Deluxe would be that lavishly decorated or anything.

Heisenberg · February 18, 2022, 1:04am

Mk, so we think kinda similarly, although I’ve always assumed that when ICA has 47 do a job on their behalf that they pay him out of a reserve account for just such a thing. Travis saying the money had been wired when they sent him after Diana supports that. But it looks like we both think 47 would be charging Providence a mil per hit.

Accidental_Kills98 · February 18, 2022, 1:10am

Yeah I personally don’t think the Providence hits were anything more then at least 5 million though. I just don’t think 47 would even want that much money, I would say that 47 is worried about storing it but Switzerland, you know?

Heisenberg · February 18, 2022, 1:24am

47, probably not, but I’m sure ICA tried gouging them for their share, after what they tried to pull.

Heisenberg · February 18, 2022, 1:54pm

Went with the windy one, because the other two I think were being done around the world before Britain even had a singular monarchy.

I would think the most peak Britain thing would be to invade a sovereign nation of swarthy-skinned, almond-eyed people in order to save the quaint darlings from themselves. Seemed to be their schtick during the age of exploration.

Then again, who am I to talk, I’m an American; a lot of us are starting to think the nazis and the confederates were the real victims, somehow.

MrOchoa · February 18, 2022, 3:43pm