Companies
Companies are the Business Registry of Team ELAN: citizens can found their own company, recruit members under a flexible permission system, manage a shared treasury and advertise themselves in a public registry that every player can browse on their Smartphone. Unlike Groups, companies are not about fighting - they are the RP backbone for taxi services, security firms, car dealers, medics and every other business idea you can come up with.
Every player can be part of up to 3 companies at the same time.
Founding a company
Companies are founded and managed at the Business Office. When founding you choose:
- a company name (up to 32 characters, unique across the whole server)
- a description (up to 1,000 characters) - your pitch in the public registry
- one of 16 icons as your company logo
Founding itself is free, but keep the daily fee in mind (see below): a company only survives as long as its treasury can pay the bills.
Roles & permissions
The founder automatically owns the company and holds every permission. All other members start without any permissions - the management can then delegate exactly what each member is allowed to do:
| Permission | Allows |
|---|---|
| Edit Info | Change the company name, description and icon |
| Manage Members | Accept or decline applications, kick members |
| Manage Rights | Change the permissions of other members |
| Manage Treasury | Withdraw money and configure the paychecks |
| Contact | Be listed as a contact person in the public registry |
| Disband | Dissolve the whole company |
A few protections always apply:
- Nobody can kick the owner or edit the owner's permissions.
- Members can never edit their own permissions.
- The owner cannot simply leave - they must either transfer the ownership to another member or disband the company.
Members & applications
Players apply to a company through the Business Registry app on their Smartphone. Anyone with the Manage Members permission can accept or decline the application at the Business Office.
- A company can have up to 20 members (the owner counts too).
- Every member can leave at any time (except the owner, see above).
Treasury & paychecks
Each company has a shared treasury with a limit of $100,000,000.
- Every member can deposit money.
- Only members with the Manage Treasury permission can withdraw.
The management can also set up automatic paychecks: a payout per member (up to $100,000) plus a treasury reserve. While members are playing on the server, their paycheck is paid out of the treasury every few minutes - but only as long as the treasury stays above the configured reserve. If the money runs low, the payments simply pause until someone refills the treasury.
Daily company fee
Running a business is not free: every day the company pays a fee of $25,000 per member straight from its treasury. Bigger staff, bigger bill.
- If the treasury cannot cover the fee, the company gets suspended: it disappears from the public registry, but nothing is deleted.
- A suspended company has a grace period of 3 days. Refill the treasury in time and the company automatically pays its outstanding fee and returns to the registry.
- If the fee stays unpaid after the grace period, the company is dissolved for good.
The Business Registry app
The Business Registry app on the Smartphone is the public side of the system. There you can:
- browse all active companies with their logo, description, members and rating
- rate companies with 1-5 stars (one vote per player, changeable at any time - you cannot rate a company you are a member of)
- apply for a job
- call a company: the Contact button rings one of the company's contact persons. This only works if a contact person is currently online on the same server.
Disbanding
A member with the Disband permission can dissolve the company at the Business Office. Warning: the remaining treasury is lost when disbanding - withdraw the money first!