As noted by others, there are weird everything-but-infohazardous rows that don’t seem to make sense with the rest of the data (and sometimes just don’t make sense in general, such as by being acquired without a team being sent). I filtered these out.
Attempts by Paramilitary units to capture Virtual assets NEVER work.
(once you account for the above, success rates for Paramil/Infil/Legal teams start looking eerily similar)
My predecessors never sent a Legal team to capture a Humanoid, or an Infiltration team to capture a Location. This makes intuitive sense, so I’ll follow their lead.
Infiltration teams work best in Sites 2 and 6; Paramilitary work best in sites 3 and 8; Legal work best in Sites 4 and 7 (Sites 1 and 5 are conspicuous by their absence).
Infiltration teams make most of the profit, Paramilitary make a little, Legal has actively been losing money.
The Safer (or, failing that, more Euclidean) objects are, the more profit they net. Aside from that, it’s pretty difficult to predict how much a given anomaly will be worth, though it being Organic and/or Humanoid seems to help a little.
There’s a weird tension between the last two points. Being extracted Legally seems to actively devalue an anomaly compared to being extracted by other means, in ways I can’t explain by correlations with success rates or other factors. Maybe Lawyers are skimming a lot of the good stuff off the top, while Infiltrators are much more loyal/terrified? Or maybe SCP is secretly really good at resisting legal challenges, and just lets MCD’s lawyers win when-and-only-when it’s over something they don’t mind losing? I can’t help but feel I’m missing something here.
Paramilitary and Infiltration efforts seem to have become less profitable over time (while in contrast, Legal has always sucked)
MCD’s lifetime profits (ignoring extra costs like employee salaries etc, which we know are huge) is a little over 120 billion in today’s money. That’s a lot, but it’s still kind of cute that a century of effort and the use of literal dark magic got them about halfway to Musk’s current net worth, even with insanely generous assumptions.
Final allocations:
Paramilitary units target SCP-3339, SCP-4625, and SCP-5136
Infiltration units target SCP-4390, SCP-2719, and SCP-537
I was debating having the legal teams stay home, but if I point them away from Keter stuff they may actually help the company’s bottom line for a change, so . . . they can target SCP-3850, SCP-3212, and SCP-4957.
Thoughts on the Long Game:
MCD’s legal department are a bunch of incompetent, possibly-corrupt clowns who keep losing their company money. I should probably retain some lawyers of my own and see what they have to say about this NDA I signed ASAP.
Findings:
As noted by others, there are weird everything-but-infohazardous rows that don’t seem to make sense with the rest of the data (and sometimes just don’t make sense in general, such as by being acquired without a team being sent). I filtered these out.
Attempts by Paramilitary units to capture Virtual assets NEVER work.
(once you account for the above, success rates for Paramil/Infil/Legal teams start looking eerily similar)
My predecessors never sent a Legal team to capture a Humanoid, or an Infiltration team to capture a Location. This makes intuitive sense, so I’ll follow their lead.
Infiltration teams work best in Sites 2 and 6; Paramilitary work best in sites 3 and 8; Legal work best in Sites 4 and 7 (Sites 1 and 5 are conspicuous by their absence).
Infiltration teams make most of the profit, Paramilitary make a little, Legal has actively been losing money.
The Safer (or, failing that, more Euclidean) objects are, the more profit they net. Aside from that, it’s pretty difficult to predict how much a given anomaly will be worth, though it being Organic and/or Humanoid seems to help a little.
There’s a weird tension between the last two points. Being extracted Legally seems to actively devalue an anomaly compared to being extracted by other means, in ways I can’t explain by correlations with success rates or other factors. Maybe Lawyers are skimming a lot of the good stuff off the top, while Infiltrators are much more loyal/terrified? Or maybe SCP is secretly really good at resisting legal challenges, and just lets MCD’s lawyers win when-and-only-when it’s over something they don’t mind losing? I can’t help but feel I’m missing something here.
Paramilitary and Infiltration efforts seem to have become less profitable over time (while in contrast, Legal has always sucked)
MCD’s lifetime profits (ignoring extra costs like employee salaries etc, which we know are huge) is a little over 120 billion in today’s money. That’s a lot, but it’s still kind of cute that a century of effort and the use of literal dark magic got them about halfway to Musk’s current net worth, even with insanely generous assumptions.
Final allocations:
Paramilitary units target SCP-3339, SCP-4625, and SCP-5136
Infiltration units target SCP-4390, SCP-2719, and SCP-537
I was debating having the legal teams stay home, but if I point them away from Keter stuff they may actually help the company’s bottom line for a change, so . . . they can target SCP-3850, SCP-3212, and SCP-4957.
Thoughts on the Long Game:
MCD’s legal department are a bunch of incompetent, possibly-corrupt clowns who keep losing their company money. I should probably retain some lawyers of my own and see what they have to say about this NDA I signed ASAP.