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Bonds and the Bond Vault

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Invest gp in a bond, earn a share of the server's tax, and sell it back from the Bond Vault when you want your gp.

PartStatus
Opening the Vault, buying and selling bondsConfirmed
Bonds kept across a restartConfirmed (QA RS1)
Earnings from taxUntested
Bond-holder voting on council proposalsPlanned

What a bond is

A bond is gp you lend to the server reserve. While it's active it earns a share of the tax RootMC collects. When you sell it, you get back what you put in plus everything it earned.

  • Buying a bond has no tax.
  • The minimum bond is 1 gp.
  • Each bond has its own public code and shows the amount invested, the amount earned and the date it was issued.

Opening the Bond Vault

CommandWhat it does
/bonds or /bondOpens the Bond Vault
/bonds listSame as /bonds
/bonds buyOpens the screen for choosing a bond amount
/bonds sellOpens the Bond Vault so you can pick a bond to sell

Everything is done with clicks in the Vault. You never type a bond code, and you can't buy a bond by typing an amount.

The Vault shows each of your active bonds as a Bonded note with its invested and earned amounts. If you don't have any, it shows No active bonds.

Buying a bond

  1. Open /bonds and click Buy a bond.
  2. Use the green panes to raise the amount and the red panes to lower it, by 1, 5, 10, 50, 100, 500 or 1,000 gp. The middle shows the amount you've selected and your wallet.
  3. Click REVIEW PURCHASE, then confirm.

Your wallet is only charged after you confirm. Leaving any screen before that changes nothing.

Selling a bond

  1. Open /bonds and click the bond you want to sell. Its details screen shows the Expected payout: what you invested plus what it has earned.
  2. Click Sell this bond, then confirm.

Only the bond you selected changes. The payout goes to your wallet.

A sale can be refused with Redemption unavailable if paying you would leave the reserve without enough gp to cover everyone else's active bonds. Nothing changes when that happens, and you can try again later.

How bonds earn

Untested The owner has reconciled the totals, but no test has followed a bond's earnings over time yet.

Half of every tax RootMC collects (from payments, minting and gold withdrawals) is shared among all active bonds, in proportion to how much each one holds. The other half stays in the reserve. A bond earns nothing when no tax is collected. See Taxes.

/economy and /reserve show the total bond liabilities and the free reserve left after them. See Economy.

Planned for bonds

  • Taxes: where bond earnings come from.
  • Economy: wallets and the server reserve.