Announce post #2988: City loans/debt

<pre>7/22/2019 at 0:38
Razmael, the Synthesist
Everyone
City loans/debt

Cities can now gain debt! Hurrah!

Seriously though, we've introduced a couple of new functions for the Treasurer Minister and Development that relate to obtaining gold loans to build facilities in the new Production system, detailed below. This is needed because the release of Mining and ??? down the road will introduce new production facilities, and we're aware some cities wouldn't have enough gold to cover that (or barely have enough to cover Farming's).

Please note that this ONLY covers the gold portion of the facility construction/upgrade costs. You will still need to obtain the commodities yourselves.


The Treasurer Minister (not aides!) can approve a loan as follows:
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CITY LOAN APPROVE <amount> GOLD FROM ESTERPORT
Requests a loan up to the specified value from Esterport. This command approves a loan for Development to use within the next 24 hours, but by itself does nothing. Your city doesn't go into debt just from using the command.

>>> A loan is repaid back with 20% interest. <<<
e.g. You borrow 1 million from Esterport, the amount you have to repay is 1.2 million.

With a loan in place, the Ministry of Development can then opt to build, or upgrade, a production facility using the approved loan. See below for how to use this approved loan.

If you made a mistake or change your mind, CITY LOAN RETRACT will retract the approval.


The Ministry of Development can build a facility using a loan as follows:
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CITY PRODUCTION CONSTRUCT/UPGRADE <facility> ON LOAN
This starts the construction process on the specified facility, using a loan that the treasurer has approved. If the approved loan amount is less than the facility cost, the remainder will be taken from Development's budget as per usual. If the approved loan amount is higher than the facility cost, only the facility cost (+20% interest) will be added to its debt.
e.g. treasurer approves a loan of 3 million gold, facility construction would cost 5 million gold. 2 million gold will need to be covered from Development's budget, and the rest will be loaned from Esterport.


How does the loan work?
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The production facility will have a debt value attached to it (equal to the loan value + the 20% interest), which Development and Treasurer ministries can see if they check the CITY PRODUCTION INFO on that facility.

Loan debts are repaid at a rate of 10,000 gold per Howling directly from the city's coffers - i.e. no need to micromanage ministry budgets to ensure you have enough. This 10,000 gold repayment stacks for each facility you currently have on loan. If you have one facility that was built from loan, you pay 10,000 gold. Two buildings, you pay 20,000 gold and so on.

The Treasurer can adjust how much will be repaid each month, choosing to pay more than the baseline 10,000 gold per facility as follows:
CITY LOAN REPAYMENT RATE <amount> GOLD
Each Howling, the city will lose that specified amount PER FACILITY ON LOAN from its coffers towards loan repayment.

The Treasury can use CITY LOANS to review what the repayment rate is set to, and what loans exist.


What happens if your city runs out of gold for repayments?
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The facility will immediately close down. Facilities that are closed will not accrue further debt that needs to be repaid, you just stop losing gold each Howling from that facility until it opens again.


Neat, but we already used our gold to pay for our facilities. This sucks.
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But wait, there's more (debt)! Let me tell you all about equity loans.

CITY LOAN REQUEST EQUITY OF <amount> GOLD ON <facility>
The Treasurer Minister (not aides!) can take out an equity loan on an already-built facility, putting that facility into debt and adding the specified gold immediately to the city's coffers. This works almost identical to the normal loan - the request value + 20% interest gets added to the facility's loan debt.

Please note that this isn't possible if the specified amount + the existing loan debt on that facility would exceed the facility's total gold value.

Useful if you want to immediately raise funds in the city for something, too!


IN SUMMARY
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New Treasurer commands:
CITY LOANS
CITY LOAN APPROVE <amount> GOLD FROM ESTERPORT
CITY LOAN RETRACT
CITY LOAN REPAYMENT RATE <amount> GOLD
CITY LOAN REQUEST EQUITY OF <amount> GOLD ON <facility>

New Development command:
CITY PRODUCTION CONSTRUCT/UPGRADE <facility> ON LOAN

Penned by my hand on Quensday, the 12th of Variach, in the year 482 MA.</pre>

Comments

  • BenedictoBenedicto Tentacles Errywhere!
    @Razmael - With gold now having a greater value within an organisation due to the new buildings required etc, is it possible to establish an org-to-org transfer option for gold/credits at the bank? Enorian's guilds are offering to lend financial aid but we're restricted to a withdrawal of 100,000 gold per transaction (98,000 in real terms after the bank takes its fee). This means the entire process is both arduous and detrimental to both orgs as we'll consistently lose gold on the transaction.

    I appreciate the withdrawal limit is what it is, is to prevent individuals within positions of power committing org-theft. This way, nobody would directly handle the gold, it would just change accounts within the bank.
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    TekiasAloli
  • AloliAloli Between Books
    Perhaps to keep the safety of the transaction between both organizations it could be initiated or approved by the city leader or treasurer and the guild leaders? Or both?
    Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost. - Khalil Gibran
  • RazmaelRazmael Administrator, Immortal
    edited July 2019
    Benedicto said:

    @Razmael - With gold now having a greater value within an organisation due to the new buildings required etc, is it possible to establish an org-to-org transfer option for gold/credits at the bank? Enorian's guilds are offering to lend financial aid but we're restricted to a withdrawal of 100,000 gold per transaction (98,000 in real terms after the bank takes its fee). This means the entire process is both arduous and detrimental to both orgs as we'll consistently lose gold on the transaction.

    I appreciate the withdrawal limit is what it is, is to prevent individuals within positions of power committing org-theft. This way, nobody would directly handle the gold, it would just change accounts within the bank.


    CHANGELOG NEWS #1638
    Date: 7/23/2019 at 3:58
    From: Razmael, the Synthesist
    To : Everyone
    Subj: Guild Tithe

    I've added a new guild priv, 'tithe'. Allows a guild to transfer gold from one of its bank accounts directly into the
    coffers of its home city.

    Syntax: GUILD TITHE <amount>
    When standing in a bank at which your guild has an account, this command will transfer the specified gold amount from
    the account directly into the coffers of your guild's home city.

    Penned by my hand on Kinsday, the 19th of Variach, in the year 482 MA.
    AloliTekiasTeaniBenedictoNavaRijettaMoxieRhine
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