Spoilers for 7.0 Alexandrian life style

[Lady_Silvermoon]

That and having a job seems to be tied to having a soul inside of your regulator. As one npc you talk to during a quest where one of the people in charge of soul distribution asks you to talk to how some folks feel about their situation after the attacks says they basically in a catch 22 situation. Where the place they worked at before the attack was completely destroyed in the attack. That they need to buy a soul so that they can find a job, but they don't have enough credits to buy a soul.

Are you sure the NPC you talked to didn't mean they couldn't go out and work because they had anxiety about doing any labor without a spare soul rather than they won't be hired without a spare soul? I haven't done the side quests, so I don't know which NPC you're talking about.

ETA: I thought about it more and given people are allowed to go without the regulators entirely, not being able to find work unless you have a stock of souls doesn't make sense. That seems like the kind of thing that would have to be mentioned in the MSQ given they stress how Sphene allows people to choose how they wish to live and provides supplies for those who do not wish to make their home in Everkeep. If going without a regulator meant living in poverty, then that should have came up. I think perhaps the NPC you spoke with either works in a dangerous field or just has general anxiety about being out of spare souls.

[SannaR]

Are you sure the NPC you talked to didn't mean they couldn't go out and work because they had anxiety about doing any labor without a spare soul rather than they won't be hired without a spare soul? I haven't done the side quests, so I don't know which NPC you're talking about.

ETA: I thought about it more and given people are allowed to go without the regulators entirely, not being able to find work unless you have a stock of souls doesn't make sense. That seems like the kind of thing that would have to be mentioned in the MSQ given they stress how Sphene allows people to choose how they wish to live and provides supplies for those who do not wish to make their home in Everkeep. If going without a regulator meant living in poverty, then that should have came up. I think perhaps the NPC you spoke with either works in a dangerous field or just has general anxiety about being out of spare souls.

It most likely is anxiety. The quest doesn't say what she did just that she wasn't a hunter. Though Solution 9 isn't as safe as most would like you to think if people can threaten to beat up a garbage collector who had to take a break because they have a milder case than the boy we get introduced to does of their aether tilting too far towards lightning.