Monday's rent
This is the mechanic that costs the players of this mode the most, and nobody finds out about it in time. Read this page before you make your 25th claim.
How it works
Every Monday at 8am, the server looks at how many claims your town owns, and takes a rent out of your town bank.
As long as you have 24 claims or fewer, that rent is zero. You pay nothing, ever.
The price table
From the 25th claim on, each claim costs, every week:
- From 25 to 49 claims: 500$ per claim
- From 50 to 74: 1,000$ per claim
- From 75 to 99: 2,500$ per claim
- From 100 to 124: 5,000$ per claim
- From 125 to 149: 7,500$ per claim
- From 150 to 174: 10,000$ per claim
- 175 and up: 15,000$ per claim
What everybody misses
The price does not only apply to the claims above the threshold. It applies to all of your claims at once.
With 24 claims, you pay zero. You make one single extra claim, and the following Monday you pay 25 times 500$, which is 12,500$. For one extra claim.
And there are seven steps, not one
Every move to the next bracket makes the same jump. These are the seven thresholds not to cross without thinking it over:
- 24 → 25 claims: from 0$ to 12,500$ a week.
- 49 → 50: from 24,500$ to 50,000$.
- 74 → 75: from 74,000$ to 187,500$.
- 99 → 100: from 247,500$ to 500,000$.
- 124 → 125: from 620,000$ to 937,500$.
- 149 → 150: from 1,117,500$ to 1,500,000$.
- 174 → 175: from 1,740,000$ to 2,625,000$.
At 500 claims, the maximum, the bill reaches 7,500,000$ a week.
Who pays
The rent is taken from the town bank, never from your own pocket. If the bank is empty, the server does not come after you for it: it records a debt.
You are warned 72 hours before it is taken, so on the Friday. That leaves you the weekend to fill the bank.
If you do not pay
- First you get 72 hours of grace.
- After that, the server takes back one claim a day, until the debt is settled.
- Once the debt is paid, the claims taken back do not come back on their own. You have to make them again by hand.
And if the bank is empty one Monday:
The right reflex
Only claim what you use. Twenty well filled claims are worth more than sixty half empty ones: they cost nothing, and they risk nothing.
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