Player owned businesses

[Hiresh]

Purchasing a business:

To purchase a business you can go into all shops (as long as it has a shopkeeper) and type /business or /shop. You will see two options: 1. Buy business, 2. Show business information.

Before you want to purchase the business you would want to know some information for example how much you would earn with it. This can be seen in the business information section.

Business manager:

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Upon buying a business, you will have access to the business manager using /shop or /business, this is where you manage your business.


Business info

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This dialog basically shows the same information you originally saw in the dialog from /shop, except it shows your insurance and bankrupt status aswell, we will get into that later.

Revenue

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As you can see in this dialog you can see how much your vault is able to hold and how much is currently in your vault. You are also able to take the money out of your vault here and see some other information such as the total loss from robberies & covered by insurance.


Manage supplies

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This is a pretty important one, since you only get paid when you have more than 0% supplies. The default supply capacity for every business is 100.0% which can be upgraded (for a big price right now, maybe changed in the future). In case you find your supply bar low (it will show you a red color instead of green shown in the picture) you can start legal or illegal supply missions.

Legal supply missions: You will be given a location where you need to load supplies into your vehicle and drive back to your business, gives a small % supplies, but safe to do.

Illegal supply missions: You will be given a location where you have to find and steal something. Upon stealing it you will get wanted level, however if you manage to successfully deliver it your business, you will get more supplies % than with legal missions.


Sell business

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You are also able to sell your business just like houses for a set amount, during this period you will not be able to access the business manager. And you are not able to use this to avoid going bankrupt.

Equipment

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You can buy equipment for your business for the betterment of your business. Currently, you are only able to buy the portable business manager. As the name says, it allows you to use the business manager outside of your business. For more details on an item, you can click on "information" and it will explain the item and the limitations that come with it aswell as show the price. Note that buying equipment is per business.


Upgrades

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In order to lower the maintenance of your business, or increase the money you earn through it, you can upgrade your business. You can currently upgrade your vault and supply capacity and your revenue. Each upgrade has 4 levels, each level increase amount is the same, but the price for each level is more expensive. When you want to upgrade any of these things, you can click on the plus. The plus will open this dialog:

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The dialog will show you the current amount of what you are upgrading is, the amount you are going to get and the price of it.


Earning money through your business:

So of course, the reason you bought your business, to earn cash. As long as you have more than 0% supplies, your business will earn money passively every 30 minutes (this will eventually add up to the given revenue in the information sections). However you are able to lose that money two ways:

1. Robberies - if someone robs your shop, it will get robbed out of your vault. You can prevent this by buying insurance at the bank, note that this is not cheap so buying a business at a crowded place might not be the best idea if you don't have a lot of money.
2. No supplies - when you run out of supplies, money will be taken from your vault instead and you can go to a minimum of $0 in your vault.


Losing your business:

So, these businesses are mainly owned by active players. There are three ways of losing your business:

1. Inactivity - if you haven't logged in for 7 days, players will be able to buy your business.
2. Bankrupt - you can go bankrupt if you have $0 in your vault & and you have 0 supplies, basically the business not being maintained. Whenever you reach these conditions the bankrupt state will be active meaning you have 5 days to up your supplies & vault, else the business will be set for sale. The bankrupt status can be seen in the "Business Info" section.

Note(s):
- Each business type has a different insurance, base revenue & base vault capacity.
- When someone purchases something from your business, a small percentage will go into your vault.
- Revenue in business are not in-game days, but IRL days.

If the player businesses gets an update, I'll make sure to update this topic aswell. If something is still unclear for you feel free to ask!

[Hiresh]

Topic has been updated with features from the v11.1.0 update:

Equipment & Upgrades section have been added, removed all text related to 'rent' as it no longer exists, updated all pictures and added more clarification where needed.