QUOTE (Irion @ Oct 15 2011, 04:30 PM)

But still, some of those numbers should have one additional zero at the end. Vampires and Nosferatus in any case.
Why do you say that? For all the publicity they get, the Infected (all of them, from vampires to ghouls) only make up about 0.1% of the population. The vast majority of those are ghouls (better than 90% are ghouls, though I haven't actually sat down and hashed out numbers on that just yet). Of the remaining non-ghoul Infected, the bulk are Type II. There are more loup-garou than there are vampires, for instance.
Okay, assuming that 90 out of 100 Infected are ghouls, and 8 or 9 out of the remaining 10 are Jarka-Criscione, that leaves 1% of the Infected to be Type I.
Assuming a population, worldwide, of about 7.14 billion (which I calculated out using some UN and US Census Bureau projections on rapidly declining population growth rates and the known mass die-offs during the VITAS pandemics), that gives us 7,140,000 Infected worldwide. Of that, 6,426,000 are ghouls, and the remaining 714,000 are vampires, loup-garou, etc.
One out of 10,000 Infected being nosferatu, as mentioned in
Running Wild, by the way, means there are fewer than 1,000 of those monstrosities worldwide. About a dozen of those HMHVV-Ia victims (maybe) are mutaqua. (The real numbers, by the way, might be worse than Dr. McAllister thought in
Running Wild). That 714 comes out of the 71,400 Type I victims in the world.
I don't know that I lowballed the bounties, but I don't think making them much higher, given the rarity, was really warranted.
OOC: I was also asked not to make them too high by my developer.