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D.04 — Economy

Companies

Found a company, sell shares to other players, and pay them dividends. Prices are always whole gold ingots.

  1. 1
    Found a company

    /company create <name> <town> <investment> <shares> [ticker]. Your investment becomes the company's treasury, and you get all the shares. For example, /company create Ironworks Paris 500 1000 IRN.

  2. 2
    Sell shares

    /company sell <company> <amount> [price] puts shares on the market at your price.

  3. 3
    Others buy in

    /company buy <company> <amount> [max price] buys the cheapest shares for sale. If none are cheap enough, it waits as a bid until someone sells.

  4. 4
    Share the profits

    The president can pay a dividend from the treasury: /company dividend <company> <gold per share>.

Useful commands

  • Company info/company info <company>
  • All companies/company list
  • Who owns it/company shareholders <company>
  • Open orders/company orderbook <company>
  • Add to the treasury/company deposit <company> <amount>
  • Cancel an order/company cancelorder <order id>
  • Dividend history/company dividendhistory <company>
  • Hand over the company/company transferpresident <company> <player>
  • Move the headquarters/company sethq <town>

Shareholder votes

  • Issuing new sharesA president who wants to create more shares must win a shareholder vote: /company vote start issueshares <amount>.
  • Vote/company vote yes or /company vote no. Votes count by how many shares you own. /company vote status shows the count.
Track every company's share price and value on the stats website.