Businesses

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Business Stock UI

Businesses can be as simple as a trading stall or a part of a franchise which manufactures and sells goods. A business may have a property associated with it. Businesses can be broken down into several types:

Business Types

• Generic - You will find different things for sale depending on the establishment, this may be a general store, saloon or even a stall.
• Gunsmith - The go-to spot for any budding gunslinger looking to purchase or modify their arsenal.
• Blacksmith - In need of a trusty shovel? These (and other tools) can be found at your local blacksmith who can provide additional services such as removing rust from your weapon!
• Doctor Office - Top up your prescription or get something to help treat a wound for when you're on the road. Doctors get things at a discounted rate and are alerted when someone is brutally wounded.
• Ranch - Employees of this business can purchase and herd animals from auction yards.
• More to come in the future.

Administrators have the ability to modify the stock a business can sell - the owner of the business will not receive any of the revenue from these items as they are infinite in stock. Employees of a business can still purchase these items at a discounted rate so it is always worth bartering with employees directly instead of using the menu.

Certain items may only be purchasable by Employees and not the general public, so look around for an active employee if you are looking for more exotic goods like a better revolver!

Owner Commands

• /employ <playerId> - Add a new employee to your business
• /dismiss <playerId> - Remove an employee from your business
• /employees (list of employed people)
• /givekeys <playerId> - Give keys to allow access to your storage
• /stats - Displays business and property ID
• /wipekeys - Removes all given keys (applies after restart)

Guide to Real Estate Office

REOs (Real Estate Officers) function as a staff sanctioned entity that make decisions on businesses and properties based on staff outlined rules. This includes approving and denying businesses, granting or seizing businesses or personal properties on a multitude of factors such as:

• Time played on the server: If you are brand new or have limited play time, expect to have your proposal denied so that you can get a feel for the server before owning a business, which is a heavy lift. In addition, if you have an alternative character that owns a business, you will be denied. 1 business and 1 personal property per account, an apartment attached to a business counts as your allotted personal property.
• Ability to implement a business idea. Due to development priorities, we are not accepting any business that requires additional or unique scripting. While we love to hear the ideas, it often results in folks waiting months to get their business set up. However, we urge you to post your idea in #quick_suggestions or #features
• Economic decisions: If we have too many, it will likely not be denied. If we don’t have any and it makes sense, you are likely good to go!

In character rp and development. Roleplay can change the business or property. If your business gets blown up… you will lose access to it until you RP the rebuild. Get your house keys stolen? You lose access to the home before you RP change the locks.

• Inactivity of owner: If you are inactive or have extremely low activity for 3 weeks without any notice to REO (can make a ticket and your loa will be logged), then expect to have your business/property repossessed by REO.
• Failure to repay the loan: This should be self-explanatory but if you fail to pay your loan, your business/property will be seized.
• Married couples cannot purchase multiple properties. This is to help keep more properties on the market for others as well, to give everyone a chance on a property purchase.
• Natives will not be allowed to own property as they receive free lands and custom mapping for their tribe, any tribeless natives are on a discussion basis of REO and Native Management.

Guide to Real Estate Office

REOs are STAFF-sanctioned Entities. The harassment of REOs OOCly will not be tolerated. REO's are there to facilitate your roleplay, they are not able to be held in any litigation, or suing, and any IC harassment will not lead to the decision being in your favour, they are present as a roleplay entity to prevent Google Forms issue that servers can all in to.

REOs will need to address several aspects of business and property ownership, such as:

• Authorization of business and home property transfers that have loans on them are subject to REO approval.
• Manage business and property deeds to a transfer of a business or property that is paid off still needs to be communicated to REO so we may update our records.
• If applying for a business, your faction must be disclosed due to faction management and controls. If you do not disclose this, and your business is found to be a faction business it may be seized depending on REO and IFM’s judgement.

Business Recipes

Business Limits

Goods-based businesses	Entertainment-based businesses	Distilleries
Initial (1-3) recipes	Moderate recipes	Initial 1 alcohol that is recipe-wise specific to them
2 additional recipes after 8 weeks of activity	Initial (1-3) recipes
Ability to change their existing recipes every 8 weeks	Ability to change their existing recipes every 8 weeks

Recipes are at the discretion and approval of REO, and are not guaranteed or mandated for a business.

Faction-related Business Restrictions

Businesses are to be listed as faction businesses if you are a part of a faction and this is to be made clear to REO in a ticket after your proposal has been submitted.

Faction-Business Limits All previous faction businesses will be grandfathered.

Factions may have the following business numbers:

   * 2 major businesses
   * 4 minor businesses
   * unlimited RP businesses

Business types: Major (requires scripts, mapping; gives good income) Ranch, Saloon, Gunstore, Blacksmith, General Store, Brewery, Hotel, Fight Club, Distillery, Food Businesses, Orchard, Storage Companies, Farm, Taxidermist, Theatre, etc.

Minor (requires minor scripts, mapping; gives okay income) Bookshop, Library, Floral Shop, Gallery, Gift Shop, Jewellery Shop, Tobacco Company, Mining Office, Veterinarian Office, Fishing, Trapping, Club House, Barber Shop, Tailor Shop, Private Investigation Office, Newspaper Office, Auction House, Pawn Shop, etc.

Roleplay (requires nothing from REO other than maybe a loan) Shoe Shining, Private Investigation, Barber, Tailor, Mining, Veterinarian, etc.

It is up to REOs discretion to assign a business to one of the types above

Should your character die and the business is in your name, your faction will have to:

Option 1

Give up a different faction business to get the one lost

Option 2

Give up the faction business that was in the deceased name

Should the business loan be paid off in full at the time that the owner is deceased and the second option was chosen, the Faction will get a percentage of what the business is worth.

Businesses are a privilege on the ranch, if you break rules, get faction strikes or are toxic towards the community or the staff, it can be taken away.