Leasing is the number one way to get a commercial, retail, office, or industrial space. Most people can not afford to build their own structures, so they pay a monthly lease to operate a business in a building.
Traditional leases are done in square feet or square meters, though in crowded places such as Hong Kong lease space is measured in square centimeters. Withmore City also measures lease space in this manner.
Leases in Withmore City are paid and quoted in weekly installments, with minimum periods of no less than 3 months. For example, you may be quoted on a lease space of 92,000 square centimeters at a rate of 12,000 chyen per week, a minimum term of 12 weeks.
Typically a lease in the real world does not include triple-net (utilities). For simplicity in Withmore, all leases are assumed to include triple-net.
There are some spaces that are leased for a specific type of business. The type of business can not be changed in these situations.
In Withmore City, leased business revenue fluctuates on a monthly basis - the most successful tend to be the most visible and engaged with the city residents.
RUNNING A BUSINESS / WEEKLY PROFITS
When you lease a business you will typically receive weekly profits. These weekly profits are variable and depend on the amount of work you put into your lease, and what you are doing to drum up business. The staff rate leases twice a month on a variety of factors, and the system itself detects other things you may be doing to promote your business.
CRITERIA FOR LEASES & WEEKLY PROFITS
* Did you hold events to promote your business * Do you have ads up for your business * Did you 'work the lease'? This is a subjective measure of if the admin think you are working your lease * Your trading skill is rolled for a success or failure * Did you do personal SIC work for your business? * Did you network for your business? IE: trying to find ways to generate income, make connections, find sponsors, etc?
Each of these adds (if you did them) or subtracts (if you did not do them) a small % from your weekly profits. This means you could have a net positive change, a net negative change, or no change if the additions cancel out the subtractions. This is run monthly automatically and the weekly profits are recalculated at that time.
There are maximums and minimums you can hit where your profits won't decrease/increase further.
AMBIENT EVENT INCOME FOR BARS & CLUBS
Bars and clubs are places to gather and role play and the leaseholders may want to run events to generate role play and buzz about their business. These events MIGHT generate extra ambient income, which can go a long way towards covering some (but not always all) of the costs for a well run event. We have no way of knowing, automatically, that you have run an event, thus we have created a system by which you can submit an ambient event income request.
To submit one of these requests, you can do 'manage bar' and select the option for ambient event income request.
You must tell the truth, OOCly, in your request. It is written from YOU, the PLAYER, not your character. If we find that you have lied in your submission, we'll deny it and deny all future requests.
You must also accept that the amount of ambient income generated is determined by the GMs (from a predetermined, set, list of possible payouts), and while we will take the details of your event into consideration, we are the final decision makers. We are not going to accept complaints about not making as much as you think should have been made. By using this system, which is for promoting RP and rewarding leaseholder hard work, you accept that our decisions are final, not subject to debate, and we don't want to hear complaints about it. While the decisions may be made by one GM or another, a note is generated that every admin can see to ensure transparency.
Upon review, the decision will be noted (both as an admin note, and as a player note). You will see an approval note (and money in your cash register) or a denial note (and no money) in your @player-notes after review. The approval or denial will be accompanied by reasoning from the GM. Again, it is not subject to debate.
In order to be eligible:
- You must be the leaseholder - The event must have been advertised for at least an hour beforehand - It must be 'special' in some way -- happy hour every day at 4 does NOT count - More details listed in the event submission command
What you need in order to submit:
- What was the title of your event? (IE: Weekly Open Mic Night, Juicy Vee's Cirque Du Mixer, Cyberfunk Punk Fest - When was your event? MM/DD/YY please. (IRL year) - How many characters attended your event overall? - How many characters (including yourself) helped in the organization of your event? - How did you advertise the event? - How much chyen did you spend on the event? - Provide a detailed breakdown of what you spent money on, as if this were an expense report at a mega corp. I know, so fucking cyberpunk, right? - Please provide a description of the event, who helped organize it, the events purpose/goal, and why it makes sense in the context of your lease. Keep in mind there is a big difference between 'held a drinking contest' and 'threw a coordinated talent show'
Payouts:
At the time of this writing, payouts can range from 2500c (small, localized event) to 20,000c (large, very well planned, well attended event).
If you have any questions about how this works, please feel free to xhelp.
Do not:
- Rely on this feature to make you your money back - Expect a certain amount of money - Forget that this is a beta system that can and will change as we see how it is used. It may even be removed. *Last Updated: 03/20/25 by Fengshui*
