Guilds & Trade

Guilds are the trading houses inside a faction. They earn its trade income, own its resource nodes and use its installations.

Updated 24 Oct 2026

Guilds

Every faction member belongs to exactly one guild.

• Every faction has a main guild, run by the faction leader. You are in it until you found or join another.
• Any member except the faction leader can found a guild with /guild create <name>. It is free, and you become its leader.
• A guild has its own leader, banner, capital and bank. Set the capital with /guild setcapital <name>, then the bank inside it with /guild setbank. Any member can pay in; only the guild leader can take money out.
• From /guild menu, a guild builds up branches. Guild Halls make its trade power and only other guilds have them; the main guild has a Bureaucracy instead. Workshops raise production, Storehouses carry trade further, and Counting Houses lower trade upkeep.
• A guild can run one resource node, paid for from the guild bank.

Guild money and upgrades

Open /guild menu to set dividends and daily donations. The leader chooses the percentage of income paid as dividends. Only members who belonged to the guild at the previous daily tick receive a share. The main guild cannot pay dividends. Daily donations to the realm cost an extra 10% fee.

To issue a loan to another guild, hold a Book and Quill and use the loans menu. Fill in the amount, interest and repayment terms, then arrange the other leader's signature. Borrowers can make partial or full payments and toggle daily payments. Unpaid interest adds to the debt, and overdue fees may apply. Defaulting affects the guild's credit score. The lender can pause interest or forgive the loan.

Branch upgrades are paid from the guild bank, starting at 100 d, and each level costs more than the last. Downgrading gives back part of the price. Check the menu's price before buying or removing a level. Every guild has one Blackjack table, and each level of Auto Dealer Tables adds another. The main guild can also upgrade its maximum administrative power, maximum diplomatic capacity and administrative power gain.

Leader actions

In /guild menu, Relocate moves the guild capital for at least 100 d from its bank. Moving into another faction's land needs that faction leader's acceptance and moves the guild into that faction. The faction leader can Elevate a guild into a subject faction with its capital province, or Evict it into a landless faction. These actions cost administrative power. Favour and Repress are available when the faction's laws allow them.

Installations

Forts, ports, airports and train stations, built by the faction leader in an owned land province.

• /faction construct starts building at once, with no confirmation, and costs nothing to start. Only one build can run at a time, and each province takes one of each type. A port must be within 20 blocks of the sea or a river.
• Upkeep comes from the faction bank. If it can't be paid, the installation loses a level, and one at level 1 is removed.
• Train stations can be upgraded: level 2 costs 35 d a day (3-day build, 3 emplacements) and level 3 costs 100 d a day (5-day build, 4 emplacements). Trains can't be berthed anywhere.

Trade between realms

Installations, and the sea lanes and railways between them, carry trade further.

Trade can join a sea lane or railway at any province along it, and is strongest getting on and off at an installation. Guilds can use every installation in their own realm. Abroad, they get the better of two things: what a trade agreement gives, or what the two realms' economy laws allow. A trade agreement gives full use both ways. An unequal treaty gives the stronger side full use and the weaker side half. Embargo or war closes them completely.

The host's law sets how open it is, and the guest's law adds to or takes from that, up to 100%. A closed host stays closed to the guest's law, but not to a trade agreement.

Through a tax proposal in Government, a faction can set tariffs under Mercantilism up to 25%, Protectionism up to 50%, or Isolationism up to 75%.

Vehicles and upkeep

Vehicles cost a little upkeep every day.

Personal vehicles have limits per type and per account. Unpaid vehicles lose health every hour until nearly wrecked. Anyone can pay a day of an unpaid vehicle's upkeep from their own bank; faction leaders can use their pouch too. For ownership, faction pools and berthing, see faction vehicles.

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