Six charters, one auction, one shot at building something bigger than a shift.
After months of quiet development behind extraction sites, warehouses, and the odd late-night compile, Companies is live. Starting tomorrow, LightVille's economy runs through player-owned businesses for the first time — real ones, with hierarchy, licensing, payroll, and profit, not another storefront.
What Companies Actually Are
Companies are not retail shops. They're structured businesses with internal ranks, from entry-level staff up through a Director who controls hiring, wages, and licensing. Ownership carries real weight — compliance, registration, payroll — but working for one is weightless: no application, no shift, hired on the spot.
The mechanic that makes this matter: commodity extraction is now gated behind company licences. Oil, minerals, steel, and the other raw materials that feed the province's economy can only be pulled, refined, and manufactured by members of a licensed company. Side jobs — driving, maintenance work, and the like — stay open to everyone and still pay cash directly, so this doesn't lock anyone out of earning.
Three industries go live at launch: Extractives, Smelting & Metallurgy; Agriculture, Livestock & Food Processing; and Refining, Distillation & Manufacturing. Between them, they cover everything from raw ore to the finished goods and consumables the rest of the server depends on.
Tomorrow's Auction
Six charters — the first of the full roster — go up for public auction at City Hall. Each one has already been founded and given a home base; whoever wins a charter inherits it as-is and steps in as its founding Director.
Entry to bid costs R100,000, paid up front and non-refundable. It's a floor, not a suggestion — companies are a long-term structure, and the fee is there to make sure whoever walks away with one is ready to run it, not flip it.
What Winning Actually Gets You
- Founding control of a real business — hiring, firing, and wage-setting for everyone under you
- A physical headquarters, already built and ready to operate out of
- A foothold to start pursuing the licences that unlock extraction and production in your industry
- A cut of everything the company earns, on top of your base pay
This is the first cohort, not the last. More charters will follow, but the first six set the tone — and first movers get the pick of the province's economy before anyone else is licensed to touch it.
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