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EARTHDATE: June 17, 2007

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TRANSFER COMMAND ALLOWS MOGULS TO MOVE THEIR MONEY

by Hazed

A few weeks ago we discussed how Moguls could finance their second planet, which enters the game with zero groats in the treasury. Now there is a way to give it a float to start things off, by using a new command which allows Moguls to move groats between your two treasuries.

Actually, it's not so much a new command as a variant on an old one: the 'TRANSFER' command. The original command is 'TRANSFER megagroats' which lets any PO move money from your personal bank balance to the treasury of the planet you are standing on (so long as you own it). The taxman takes a generous cut of the transfer, on the grounds that planets are supposed to be self-sufficient and shouldn't need to be subsidized out of your own pocket, so this kind of behavior is not to be encouraged. That's his excuse, anyway.

The new command is 'TRANSFER megagroats planetname' which takes groats out of the treasury of the planet you are standing on, and puts them into the treasury of the planet you specify. You need to own both planets, obviously - this isn't a sneaky way to give money to somebody else!

The difference between the two ways of using the command is where you stand when you use it. In the first instance, you stand on the planet the groats are going to; in the second, you stand on the planet where the groats come from.

In both case, 'TRANSFER' can be abbreviated to 'XFER'.

Don't forget that when you specify the amount to be transferred, it's in whole megagroats. If you type 'XFER 1' you are transferring 1 meg, not 1 groat! Get that wrong and you could end up moving far more than you meant to.

What's amazing about this variant of the command is that the taxman doesn't get his sweaty hands on any of the loot. The money gets transferred in its entirety. Why? What possible reason could there be for him to leave this money alone? He's never been known to pass up an opportunity to get his grasping claws on as much cash as he can - so why isn't this transfer operation subject to tax? Maybe he has some ulterior motive. It could be part of some huge, terrible plan to take over the universe. One day soon, it could be that we will wake up to discover a horrid new tax regime bleeding us dry.

Or perhaps he's just forgotten. In which case, I am not going to tell him. Are you?


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