Difference between revisions of "Player shops"

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Player shops are a type of real estate that can be rented by players.

A common warning on the chalkboard is that taking things, even fumbled items in a playershop will get you, for instance, heavied in Ankh-Morpork. Hopefully someone who doesn't mind getting fed to crocodiles, nailed upside down to the Brass Bridge, et cetera, will replace this with exactly where the boundaries are. (Recently, there was something about a barrel furniture?)

Shops

A list of player shops on the Disc. There is also a list of player-run banks.

The table automatically updates from individual shop pages, when such exist, so editing should be done in the Playershop template in those.

Facilities

The owner and managers may hang a single item outside the shop as a sign.

Money changers care about the amount of each individual type of coin in them, and will only function if they contain sufficient of each type needed to carry out a transaction.

The shop float is simply a bucket that the shop owner and managers can deposit any amount of local currency coins into and withdraw any sum up to the total local currency it contains from. Withdrawls from the shop float are automatically made up of the largest denominations available, eg a withdrawl of $8565 will be issued as 1 AM Crown, 5 royals, 6 ten-dollars and 5 dollars.

Bank Counters

A bank comprises one master counter and any number (including zero) of franchise counters. Franchise counters are maintained and operated by the owner of the shop in which they are located, and not the owner of the shop in which the master counter is located. If the franchise counter is either too full for you to make deposits, or too empty for you to withdraw funds, this has to be sorted out by the owner of the premises in which that franchise counter is located.

In all cases the deposit rate on the bank counter as a % of the amount deposited is controlled by the owner of the shop premises that the franchise counter is located in.

In addition, you are unable to withdraw funds from a franchise counter if the shop float does not have enough money to cover the withdrawl.

The master counter has unlimited capacity.

There's this thing about list credit notes ...

Look at a bank counter to see which franchise it belongs to, the current deposit rate, and the owner:

A heavily armoured and hardwood counter with a safe embedded into the surface.  A logo marks this as a franchise of [bank].
A small sign indicates that the current deposit rate is [rate] and the owner is [owner].

Rumour: If the master counter is trashed, your balance is not lost. Deposits and withdrawals aren't possible unless someone replaces the master counter, but rent can still be paid by the account.

Blackboards

Shops can have blackboards in them. These are placed against a wall and can be written on or cleaned.

Changers

Money changers may offer the facility to change coins of one denomination for coins of another denomination in the same currency (e.g. changing dollars into royals) or that of exchanging coins in one currency for those in another currency. The shop owner sets a % fee for each transaction type, and stocks the changer with coins. The fees set can be viewed with "list rates on changer".

Newspaper Box

This will either allow you to buy a current edition of a newspaper, or both the current edition and any back issues you wish to purchase. If a shop has more than one of these, you may need to specify which one you wish to purchase from.

Picklers

Picklers allow players to pickle things such as body parts and vegetables that would otherwise rot and decay. Players have to pull the handle on a pickler to pickle stuff.

Postal Counter

This allows the sending and reading of letters through the in-game mud-mail system.

Shop Counter

A shop counter allows things to be sold in the shop. They come in different sizes, which have different capacities.

(Is the capacity in weight? Volume? Items (a container counting at one item)? Also, the capacity taken by items in the queue was changed at some point. Possibly.)

Smithy

Convenient! May charge a little extra than other smithies.

Caged greeter imp

Says something whenever someone enters the playershop. Imps can be trained to speak messages in different languages and can also be trained to forget messages.

Facility prices

This log fragment (names changed) dates back from 27 Jul 2003.

The spulluf says to the player shop owner in Morporkian: A) the smithy costs A$6000 (20 square yards)
The spulluf says to the player shop owner in Morporkian: B) the small poker table costs A$2000 (10 square yards)
The spulluf says to the player shop owner in Morporkian: C) the medium poker table costs A$3000 (20 square yards)
The spulluf says to the player shop owner in Morporkian: D) the large poker table costs A$4000 (30 square yards)
>> exa spulluf
A nice happy person with a nice smile.
She is in good shape.
She is standing.
> 
The spulluf says to the playershop owner in Morporkian: E) the money changer coonter costs A$600 (5 square yards)
The spulluf says to the playershop owner in Morporkian: F) the blackjack table costs A$600 (15 square yards)
The spulluf says to the playershop owner in Morporkian: G) the small shop coonter costs A$1200 (40 square yards)
The spulluf says to the playershop owner in Morporkian: H) the medium shop coonter costs A$3000 (60 square yards)
The spulluf says to the playershop owner in Morporkian: I) the large shop coonter costs A$11000 (80 square yards)
The spulluf says to the playershop owner in Morporkian: J) the deluxe shop coonter costs A$35000 (100 square yards)
The spulluf says to the playershop owner in Morporkian: K) the pickler costs A$600 (2 square yards)
The spulluf says to the playershop owner in Morporkian: L) the blackboard costs A$600 (1 square yards)
The spulluf says to the playershop owner in Morporkian: M) the newspaper box costs A$2.25 (1 square yards)
The spulluf says to the playershop owner in Morporkian: N) the newspaper archive box costs A$6.75 (5 square yards)
The spulluf says to the playershop owner in Morporkian: O) the master bank coonter costs A$40000 (91 square yards)
The spulluf says to the playershop owner in Morporkian: P) the small bank coonter costs A$1000 (10 square yards)
The spulluf says to the playershop owner in Morporkian: Q) the bank coonter costs A$2000 (20 square yards)
The spulluf says to the playershop owner in Morporkian: are) the large bank coonter costs A$4000 (30 square yards)
The spulluf says to the playershop owner in Morporkian: S) the huge bank coonter costs A$10000 (40 square yards)
The spulluf says to the playershop owner in Morporkian: T) the postal coonter costs A$16000 (25 square yards)
The spulluf says to the playershop owner in Morporkian: yoo) the opinion poll costs A$600 (2 square yards)
The spulluf says to the playershop owner in Morporkian: The size of yoor shop be 100 square yards and yoo have 17 square yards of empty space.
The playershop owner browses e on the spulluf.
The spulluf says to the playershop owner in Morporkian: The money changer coonter costs A$600 and takes up 5 square yards.
The spulluf says to the playershop owner in Morporkian: A box with a bunch of holes in it, it looks loike it will change coins into other types of coins.
     It has the hazy octarine sparkle of a magical talisman.
>> browse smithy on spulluf
The spulluf says to you in Morporkian: I be dealing with the playershop owner roight nayw.
You browse smithy on the spulluf.

There's two things that only a playershop owner lease holder (or their appointees) can know about:

• Summon the spulluf, which sells playershop counters - syntax: purchase stuff
  • Q: What happens to furniture in a playerhouse or a playershop when the lease changes hands? Aberlon 00:20, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
  • A: It stays in the shop and transfers to the new owner. This happened with inventory in shop counters too. Quotid (talk) 03:27, 9 December 2017 (EST)
• > functions help list; functions internal There's supposed to be a system of expressions that would, in theory, automate approving playershop items(!). Last I heard, no-one uses it 'cause it's broken.

The bookshop on Diamond Place, Bes Pelargic sells copies of the Shop Owner's Guide, which mentions almost every command to do with player shops (but, not unreasonably, does not duplicate the functions list).

• Text of Shop Owner's Guide
• Talk:Minigames#P-shop games = board games?
• Discworld Recent Developments blog: Greeter Imps

See also

• List of player shops

External links

• Sined annotated version of the Shop Owner's Guide with internal-functions attachment!
• Discworld furniture help
• Discworld furniture help: Furniture expressions
• Discworld object help: Spulluf
• Discworld room help: Player craft shop
• Discworld room help: Player shop counter
• Discworld room help: Player shop manager office
• Discworld room help: Player shop office
• Discworld room help: Player shop shopfront
• Discworld room help: Player shop storeroom