10.4.7 Ministry of the Chancellery
The Ministry of the Chancellery is responsible for looking after shops within a city. It is responsible for ensuring that shops are being used as shops, for assessing the value of individual shops, and for setting the seasonal tax rate for shops. General Ministry Commands: FUNDS CHANCELLOR - See how much gold the Ministry of the Chancellory has. CITY SHOPS - Lists the player-owned shops in your city. CITY SHOP INFO [shop name] - Shows further info on a shop. If standing in the shop, you can omit the shop name. READLOG SHOP - While standing in a shop, you can read the sale log of the shop in question. Shop Construction and Management Commands: CITY TITLE <SHOP|STOCKROOM> <shop> <title> - Lets you edit the title of a shop. Costs the city 1000 gold. CITY EDIT <SHOP|STOCKROOM> <shop> - Lets you edit the description of a shop. Costs the city 10000 gold to issue this command, even if the renovations are never completed. Note: This will open the Editor, similar to news posts. CITY OWNER SHOP <shop> <person/org> - Transfers ownership of a shop to a new person or organization. - Shop Allies are cleared in this process. Inventory, shelves, and taxes remain. - When transferring to an organization, you can only specify a city, guild, clan, or order. CITY PLACE SHOP <direction> [STOCKROOM <dir>] - This command will place a new shop for the city in the direction indicated. Creating a shop will cost 250,000 gold. The default direction for the stockroom is down. A city can only have 20 shops. CITY DEMOLISH SHOP <direction> - This will demolish a shop and its stockroom in the indicated direction. Only the Chancellor may do this. Shop Door and Security Commands: CITY CLOSE SHOP <shop> - Orders the guards to stop commerce in a shop. CITY OPEN SHOP <shop> - Orders the guards to re-open commerce in a shop. KEYS <direction|item> - Inspect a door in specific direction or an item and determine what keys will unlock it. Must belong to your city. CITY LOCK DOOR <direction> - Magically locks a door. No keys will work on it. CITY UNLOCK DOOR <direction> - Removes a magical lock from a door. HELP KEYS for more information on managing shop locks and keys. Ministry Financial Commands: CITY ASSESS <shopname> <shop value in gold> - Place a value on the shop, for the purposes of property tax. CITY FORGIVE SHOP TAXES <shop> <optional amount> - This command can be used to forgive the taxes on a shop. If you do not specify an amount, then all the outstanding taxes on the shop will be forgiven. CITY TAXRATE SHOPS <% rate> - Sets the property tax rate on shops for your city. Only the Chancellor may do this. CITY TAXRATE TRANSFER <fee> - Sets the tax fee to charge when someone sells their shop to another. Only the Chancellor may do this. READREVLOG/REVLOG - This works exactly like the READLOG command in HELP CITYCOMMANDS, but it is a log of ingoing and outgoing city revenue. WRITELOG REVENUE <text> - Lets you write a message to the city's revenue logs CITY ECONSTATUS - See information on your city's economy.
