Markus Armbruster
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The whole idea of a sector acquiescing to takeover by lawyers waving loan documents "proving" it's rightfully theirs is pretty preposterous. But a capital giving itself up that way (and then paying out half the nation's treasury on top) beggars belief. Disallow it. Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@pond.sub.org>
42 lines
1.6 KiB
Perl
42 lines
1.6 KiB
Perl
.TH Command COLLECT
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.NA collect "Foreclose an overdue loan"
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.LV Expert
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.SY "collect <LOAN>"
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The collect command is the loan-shark's delight!
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Through the collect command overdue loans can be \*Qcleared up\*U.
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.s1
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If you should find that you have a problem debtor who refuses
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to pay up on your kind loan you can always seize one or more
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of his/her sectors.
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.s1
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To settle up accounts on overdue loan #9 you would type:
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.EX collect 9
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The program would then ask which sector you would like to claim
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as just and rightful compensation for the outstanding debt.
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.NF
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What sector do you wish to confiscate?
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.FI
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To which you reply with the coordinates of a sector owned by your
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debtor to which you are adjacent.
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Any adjacent sector includes any sector you have that borders the
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sector you wish to confiscate.
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.s1
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The program then paws over the sector and assesses its value.
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If the amount you are owed exceeds this amount the sector
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becomes yours!
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If the value of the sector is close enough to the
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amount you are owed the debt is considered to be repaid.
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.s1
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Any che in the area are left alone. Thus, if the original
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owner takes the sector back over, the che would continue their
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battle against the original owner, not the new owner.
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.s1
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In addition, ships, land units, planes and nuclear stockpiles are
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not collected. Those remain the property of the owner of the sector.
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.s1
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Standing military in the sector are reduced to 1 and he becomes the
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latest and greatest addition to your standing army.
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.s1
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Mobility of the collected sector remains unchanged.
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.s1
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.SA "consider, ledger, offer, shark, Loans"
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