Vermin

Vermin are a nuisance to the society wherever they may roam as they spread disease and destroy property. All kingdoms and their provinces happily welcome exterminators, as kingdoms of the provinces are paying nicely for the province owners to get rid of vermin. Province owners can benefit from this deal, but so can any self-made exterminators with some business savvy.

This is how you can make money as an exterminator.

Go to any province of your choosing, e.g. Barrens:

Type "enter" to enter the province. Once inside the province, type "fauna".

Biome fauna in Barrens

So we see the biome wildlife of this province contains 13% animals, 31% birds, 9% humanoids and 45% vermin.

With vermin % somewhat high, this province clearly has a vermin problem and will pay a lot for vermin extermination.

It says there are currently 33 active vermin specimen roaming around the Barrens.

If the province is able to get rid of vermin so that there are 16 vermin specimen left (cutdown by 50%), the province will be paid 8250 silver by the kingdom.

If the province is able to get rid of vermin so that there are 8 vermin specimen left, the province will be paid 16500 silver by the kingdom.

If the province is able to get rid of vermin so that there are only 3 vermin specimen left, the province will be paid 33000 silver by the kingdom.

The rewards are cumulative, so there is a possibility to make 33000+16500+8520 = a total of 58020 silver by exterminating the vermin of this province down to 10%.

This is good news for the province owner, but probably not for you yet, because those 58020 silver will be paid directly to the province, not the people who did the hard work.

Getting your cut

The province owners have the possibility to set a so called "exterminator share" to their province. This setting will save over boot.

So if the province owner sets the exterminator share to 20%, it means the province owner will keep 80% of the extermination reward, and the exterminator may keep 20% of the reward.

If an exterminator share has been set by the province, the "fauna" output changes to look like this.

Province declares exterminator share.

NOW this situation is mutually beneficial both to the province owner and the exterminator.

This means the province owner will get 80% a total of 46416 silver, and the exterminator will get 20% = 11604 silver.

The share can of course be negotiated with the province owner.

Exterminator rewards can be achieved once every boot from every province with vermin present.

Cash-in!

The exterminator should do his work and follow channel "province-event" for a message such as:

(xx:xx) Provinces (province-event): Exterminator bronze level reward granted to the province of Barrens: 1000 silver to province fund, 250 silver to province public fund.

This means the money is now available for you to collect it from the public funds of barrens. You can do it from the same room as you did "fauna":

Salary time.

Note: Since province public fund is not a bank with accounts, it is just stored for anyone to take. So once you get the channel inform run quickly back to the province. However, if someone "steals" your cut, there will be a trace, and you can see who took money from the public fund the last time.

If someone steals your salary, the thief will be prosecuted accordingly.