Real Estate Regulations

Property

• Users can purchase property for their character in the Real Estate Shop.
  
  
• Users can only hold one piece type of Real Estate across all of their characters.
  
  
• Users may submit claims to purchase property within various countries throughout the continent of Ishgar.
  
  
• There are three categories of Real Estate; Housing, Holdings, and Islands.
  
  • Housing: The most basic of Real Estate, typically a single apartment in an apartment block or house in a street, these have the least amount of upgradability and are best for social interactions. Each location within a country may have up to 6 Housing properties. Unlike Holdings or Islands, they are not subject to being raided, however, do not receive their own subforum. Housings can only be obtained by members with at least 5,000 Reputation and cost 2,500,000 Jewels.
    
  • Holdings: The key feature of a country, holdings have substantially more influence in the area, the most common of which are Castles reserved for those with high reputations and temples created by the leaders of religions. Each country may have up to 3 holdings. These Real Estate buildings are vulnerable to being raided. Holdings can only be obtained by members with at least 10,000 Reputation after completing a moderate storyline related to obtaining the holding and cost 5,000,000 Jewels.
    
  • Islands The largest of the three categories, Islands have the most amount of flexibility with their creation and are also subject to being raided. They come with their own forum and 5 subforums and, unique to Islands, the owner may host events for members to participate in and create quests solely for them to complete. Islands can only be obtained by members with at least 20,000 Reputation after completing a Long storyline related to obtaining the Islands and cost 10,000,000 Jewels. There may be at most 5 player-owned islands at a time. When creating a player-owned island users must also create 12 quests, one per each rank for both alignments and two neutral quests, they may make more, up to 24, if they wish to do so however this will slow down approvals. Created Quests created in the Research & Development section and must be linked to the property purchase claim. Owners of islands are dubbed the Island's Guardian, and recieve specific perks to protect them from raiders: Raiders are always in orange mode and can lose up to two limbs, while the Guardian has the ability to evict certain raiders and prevent them from entering the island.
    
  
  
  
• Users can also purchase upgrades for the property. The number of upgrades is based on the size of the property.
  
  
• Users can sell their property when they are no longer interested in them. They will receive 75% of the purchase price returned along with 50% for the upgrades invested in the property.
  
  
• Users purchasing property in countries that are not their nationality must spend an extra 20% more Jewels.
  
  
• Real estate which can be raided are treated like Guild Buildings providing both attackers and defenders with rewards for doing so. Characters must have a valid in-character reason for raiding a property and may only do so once per month while a property can only be raided once every three months.
  
  
• Should a location reach capacity, housing Real Estate may be purchased by others when the owner misses 3 Activity Checks while holdings and islands may be purchased by others when the owner misses 2 Activity Checks.
  
  
• Others may not enter the property unless permission has been granted by the owner of the property. Islands may be visited by anybody who hasn't been evicted by the Island's Guardian.
  

Upgrades

• The number of upgrades that can be installed in people's property is based on the size and the restrictions of the upgrades.
  
  • Housing: 1 Property Perk
    
  • Holdings: 2 Property Perks
    
  • Islands: 3 Property Perks
    
  
  
  
• Once a property no longer has available property perk slots, the user must use the property perk remover via the Real Estate Shop to make room again for new renovations.
  
  
• The user must spend 50% of the upgrade purchase amount to remove it.
  
  
• Certain upgrades allow the user to roleplay at their property and receive Statistic Points in return, while others give a more passive effect. More information can be found in the Real Estate Shop.
  
  
• Only the owner of a property can receive benefits from their upgrades. Others may roleplay using them when invited to the property, however, they can't claim rewards for the posts.