Companies

The Business Registry lets you found your own company, recruit employees and run a shared company treasury. Companies are the civilian way to organize as a legal business, not to be confused with Groups, which are the PvP/gang system and interact with the Rules. Every player can only be a member of one company at a time.

Founding a company

Companies are founded at the Business Office. When founding, you define:

• A unique company name (up to 32 characters)
• A description (up to 1,000 characters, shown publicly in the registry)
• A logo icon (choose one of 16 designs)

Founding a company is free of charge. Daily operating costs only start once your company has been approved.

Approval by the team

A newly founded company is not active right away. Every application is reviewed by the team first:

Status	What it means
Pending approval	Your application is waiting for review. The company is not listed in the public registry, cannot receive job applications and the treasury is locked. You can withdraw the application at any time.
Approved	Your company appears in the public registry, the treasury opens up and the daily operating costs start.
Rejected	The team declined the application (usually because of the name or description). You can withdraw the rejected application and found a new company with adjusted details.

While a company is pending or rejected, the management screen only shows its status and the option to withdraw the application – everything else stays locked until approval.

Editing name, description and icon

An approved company can still be renamed and its description rewritten, but these changes go through the same team review as a new founding. While an edit is under review, the registry keeps showing the old, approved texts.

The icon is the exception: it can be changed freely at any time without any review.

Roles and rights

The founder owns the company and has full control. New members join without any rights; the following rights can then be granted individually:

Right	What it allows
Edit Info	Change the company name, description or icon
Manage Members	Accept or decline job applications and remove members
Manage Rights	Change the rights of other members
Manage Treasury	Withdraw money and configure the paycheck system
Contact	Be listed as the contact person in the public registry
Disband	Dissolve the company

Nobody can kick the owner or touch the owner's rights. Ownership can be handed over to another member if the owner wants to step down.

Members

Players apply to a company through the Business Registry app on their Smartphone. Members with the Manage Members right review the applications and accept or decline them.

A company can have up to 20 members (the owner counts towards this limit).

Treasury and paychecks

Every company has a shared treasury with a limit of $100,000,000.

• Deposits: Every member can deposit money once the company is approved.
• Withdrawals: Only members with the Manage Treasury right can withdraw money.

Companies can also pay automatic paychecks: a configurable amount (up to $100,000 per member) is paid out of the treasury every 5 minutes to every member who is currently online. A configurable treasury reserve can be set as a floor – as soon as the treasury would drop below it, paychecks pause automatically until the balance recovers.

Daily operating costs

An approved company pays $25,000 per member per day out of its treasury. If the treasury cannot cover the fee:

1. The company is suspended: it disappears from the public registry, but all data, members and settings are kept.
2. You have 3 days to top up the treasury – depositing enough money revives the company automatically.
3. If the treasury is not refilled in time, the company is permanently dissolved.

Keep an eye on your balance: more members means more income potential, but also higher daily costs.

The public registry

The Business Registry app on the Smartphone is the public directory of all approved companies. There you can:

• Browse all companies with their name, icon, description and member count
• Rate companies with 1 to 5 stars
• Apply for a job at a company
• Call the contact person directly, if one is set and currently online

A good description and a solid star rating are your company's business card – they decide whether applications come in.

Disbanding

Members with the Disband right can dissolve the company at any time.

Warning: Any money left in the treasury is lost when the company is disbanded. Empty the treasury first if you want to keep the funds.