Real Estate

[aaronstatic]

Real Estate in Overthrow 1.0 was over-simplified and often exploitable. In 2.0 we will try to change that while also offering some more diversity to the early gameplay.

Buying and Selling

• As previously players will still be able to buy just about any building in the game, including shops, warehouses, and houses.
• As previously, any owned building can be rented out for passive income
• As previously, the player will begin the game owning a small house
• As previously, the player can mark any owned house (but not shops or warehouses) as their "home" respawn point
• As previously, the player can sell buildings they own at current market value, but not any building that is marked as their "home"
• The prices will be greatly increased for more realism. Expect to need 100s of thousands of dollars for larger houses, shops, warehouses etc.
• However...

Renting

• All building types, including warehouses and shops, can also be "rented" from their existing owners for a daily fee
• The player can NOT set the building as "home" respawn point
• The player does gain complete access to all the features of the building as if they had bought it, including...
• The player can fast travel to the building if it's a house
• The player can operate a business there (if it's a shop) and sell items
• The player can set a rented warehouse as private or public to the resistance, and officers can link them to the warehouse network
• The rent cost of a building will change according to environmental economic factors (to be determined)
• Rent is always paid up-front, and if rent is unpaid you lose access to that building. If it's a warehouse the items contained within it will still be there but inaccessible until rent is paid
• The resistance can rent (or buy) warehouses only using resistance funds and they will be "owned" by the resistance and not a single player. Resistance-owned warehouses may not be set as "private"