Property

Upkeep

What you own costs its keep. Every house, shop, tavern, horse and town pays a fifth of its price each week.

1. The first week

   comes with the purchase. From then on the upkeep is a fifth of the price, every seven days.

2. Where to pay

   At the town clerk of the town the house, shop or tavern stands in (the nearest town hall, for a town without one); a horse at any stable master or town clerk. Talk to them > Upkeep. /upkeep lists what you owe and where.

3. Paying ahead

   Up to two weeks may be paid ahead: pay a week at a time. The coin comes from your purse, else your account at the moneylender; a faction's property and towns are paid by its leaders from the coffers.

4. Late

   A late week is still owed: a payment starts where the last one ended, so you pay the missed week, then the current one. You are told at the purchase, at login, every hour when a payment falls due within two days, and every quarter of an hour once it is late - F2 and the account site show it too.

5. Unpaid

   A week past due, the town takes it back: the house and the shop are for sale again (what was inside stays with the town), the town is free. A letter tells you. A horse or a cart is never taken: while its upkeep is owed it stays at the stable and cannot be brought out, whistled for or driven off - pay what is owed and it is yours to use again.