Companies

!!! Work-In-Progress !!!

The Business Registry is a cross-server directory of player-run companies. Citizens can found their own company, recruit members under a flexible role system, fund a shared treasury and pay out wages, while everyone else can browse, rate and contact those companies straight from their Smartphone.

Companies are purely about organisation and roleplay: there are no forced transactions, deals are still made between players. Think of it as an official "business card" for your operation, be it a taxi firm, a security company or a farm.

Like the Auction house, the registry stays synchronised across the servers, so a company you found is visible and manageable on every server.

Founding a company

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Founding and managing a company at the office

Companies are created and managed at the Business Office NPC.

Office location: to be confirmed.

To found one, open the office menu and fill in:

• A company name (must be globally unique, no other company may use it).
• A description (your public profile text).
• A company icon to represent your business in the app.

Each citizen can belong to a maximum of 3 companies at the same time, whether as a founder or a regular member.

Note: company names and descriptions may be reviewed by the team before they appear publicly, so keep them appropriate.

Managing your company

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Member list and rights

The founder (owner) automatically holds every right and can never be kicked or demoted. The owner and any member with the matching right can then manage the rest of the company from the office menu.

Member rights

Rights are assigned per member and can be freely combined, a member can hold any mix of them:

Right	What it allows
Edit Info	Change the company name and description
Manage Members	Accept or reject applications and kick members
Manage Rights	Change other members' rights
Manage Treasury	Withdraw from the treasury and set member wages
Contact	Be listed as a contact person, reachable via the Contact button
Disband	Disband the entire company

A member can never edit their own rights, so there is no way to promote yourself.

Joining & recruiting

Players join by applying to a company from the Business Registry app. A member with the Manage Members right then reviews the applications at the office and accepts or rejects them. The same right is used to kick members (the owner is protected).

Treasury

Every company has a shared treasury:

• Any member can deposit their own cash into the treasury.
• Only members with Manage Treasury can withdraw from it.
• The treasury can never go negative, a withdrawal larger than the balance is refused.

A red warning is shown in the management menu while the treasury drops below 100,000, and members who can manage the treasury get a reminder after spawning so the company fund does not run dry.

Member wages (paychecks)

Owners (and Manage Treasury holders) can set up automatic wages for the whole company:

• A wage amount paid to each member per cycle.
• A treasury floor, wages pause automatically while the treasury is below this amount, so the fund is never drained completely.

Online members are paid roughly every few minutes as long as the treasury stays above the floor, with a notification when the wage lands. Setting the wage to 0 turns it off.

The Business Registry app

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Browsing companies on the smartphone

The Business Registry app on the Smartphone is where everyone else interacts with companies:

• Browse the full list of companies (icon, name and star rating).
• Open a company to see its description, its contact persons and its rating.
• Apply to join a company.
• Contact a company (see below).
• Rate a company from 1 to 5 stars.

Ratings

Companies carry a public 1 to 5 star rating, shown as an average plus the number of votes. Anyone can leave a rating except members of that company (no self-boosting). Each player has one vote per company, and voting again simply overwrites your previous score.

Contacting a company

The Contact button rings one of the company's contact persons (members with the Contact right) directly as a phone call. Because phone calls are handled per server, only contacts who are currently online on the same server as you can be reached, if none are available, the call is cancelled with a hint.

Upkeep

Running a company is not free. A daily fee is charged to the treasury to keep the business active:

• If the treasury cannot cover the fee, the company is suspended and hidden from the registry (it is not deleted).
• A company that stays suspended for too long is automatically disbanded.

Keeping a healthy treasury balance (and a sensible wage floor) is therefore important to keep your company alive.

Daily fee and grace period: to be confirmed.

Disbanding a company (manually or automatically) removes it completely, including any money left in the treasury, so withdraw your funds first.

Important Points & Restrictions

• A citizen can belong to at most 3 companies at once.
• Company names are globally unique across all servers.
• The treasury can never go negative.
• You cannot rate a company you are a member of, and you get one vote per company.
• The Contact button only reaches contacts online on your current server.
• The owner cannot be kicked or have their rights changed, and members cannot edit their own rights.
• Names and descriptions may be subject to review.

Videos

• Coming soon.