Zapdoszulu Housing Commission

[Professor Oak]

ZapdosZulu Housing Commission

Base Cost: £22,000

Base Property Features:
    - Up to 5 Non-Social Visitor Friendly Areas
    - Unlimited Social Areas (No encounters)
    - 1 Private Room
    - 1 Treasure Hunt Thread

Additional Features:
    - A Plantation/Orchard
    - Prestigious Visitors
    - Up to 3 Additional Visitor Areas
    - More Properties (See below)

Name & Location
Your estate will be created as a sub-board. As such it will require a Name & Setting, and it may include a 150px by 120px image to display left of its description. Note that it should be located somewhere in Johto/Kanto as that's our setting.

You may only have 1 Estate, but can expand it for additional characters*. Facilities labelled as 'Owner Only' mean only the Character who owns the estate or property can use it. Your other characters may make use of the estate facilities otherwise.



Visitor Welcoming Thread
Your Estate should contain an informative thread that describes it, the floor plan, its residents, and any additional facilities. You may include pictures of the interior or exterior of the estate. This does not need to be expansive. It should be an overview of what visitors can expect to see and do while they're there.

Example: See the Pokémon Mansion for examples & explanation about some features.

Explanation of Features

Visitor Friendly Areas
*The below are rough guidelines for keeping balance between a variety of estates. You may tweak things up and down or propose a unique flow or experience in your Estate (ie: Safari style) that breaks out of these conventions.

Sections of your estate accessible, with permission from you, where visitors can battle and catch Pokémon. Admins approve your estate encounter lists including any changes desired later on. These areas cannot be used by your own characters.

• Any capture-able Pokémon cannot be exclusive to your estate (as in not 'unavailable')
  
  
• Sub-areas (grass, surf, forest, trail, etc) cannot contain more than 3 common pokémon, 2 Uncommon, and 1 Rare (or Ultra Rare) as encounters
  
  
• No Visitor Area can exceed a total of 10 pokemon as encounterable. Opportunity for expansion if there are duplicates between sub-areas.
  
  
• Max of 2 sub-areas per visitor friendly area
  
  
• NPC Trainers should fit the area they are found and reward appropriately for their difficulty
  
  
  Review existing town guides or estates for examples.
  

You must mod whoever visits your estate. Whenever changes to a party or inventory results during their visit, use the Pkmn/Item Transfer thread to get it addressed by a moderator (if you are not a mod yourself).
*Estate threads count toward hatching eggs for visitors.


You can add up to 3 more visitor friendly areas to your estate, for a maximum of 8, at any time. It costs £4,500 per area above the base amount of 5.

If you think you have a unique estate experience that doesn't fit the guidelines above we are happy to work with you to make your creative ideas flourish! These only exist to have a common starting point for considering balance between estates.

Private Room (Owner Only - Prestige/Decorations Coming Soon)

Create and personalize your own bedroom/office/dojo/lair/etc. Use this place to display your character's hall of fame or other such trophies. Throughout your character's journey they may pick up Room Decorations that increase the prestige of the estate and provide interesting opportunities and/or effects. All Room Decorations such as cushions, pokédolls, posters, mats, and chairs must be recorded in this thread. Note that while an Owner can have multiple of one kind of decoration, their effects do not necessarily stack. Though, there could be something said for the largest collection of one kind of thing.
*Decorations may be collected if you do not own an estate, but it is up to you to keep track of them.

Treasure Hunts

A detailed explanation can be found here, but the gist is once you have an estate any of your characters can peruse the grounds to try and find items to keep! You are allowed only 1 thread per property and it is limited to 1 search per week.

Berry Plantation/Orchard

Plant your own Berry Trees in special plots and harvest them when the fruit ripens. Similarly, Apricorn Trees can also be nurtured and grown. Honey Trees will attract many rare Pokémon to your orchard! For more information on these visit the Estate Plantation Services.

Prestigious Visitors (Coming Soon - Owner Only)

Once an estate has amassed a certain amount of prestige it will become a point of interest for adventurous trainers of reputable skill. The Estate's renown is governed by the rarity of decorations within it, and the more there are the more likely a prestigious NPC Trainer will want to come visit. Firstly your estate would need to be added to the Traveller's Guide. Once approved a special NPC will visit once a month to battle the owner of the estate. Some of these prestigious visitors may have a wealth of resources to give for victory.

*If a prestigious battle does not conclude before the 7th, a new prestigious visitor will not arrive for that month.

To apply for a building permit, create a new thread here and provide all of the information as it would appear in your Estate. Make sure to include the Estate's name in the Thread Title, as well as its board description & all images. It will then be reviewed by an admin.

[Lamont]

Estate Ownership

Transferring Between Characters

Made an estate when you only had 1 character but now think it'd better suit your 2nd? No problem. A member may transfer their character's ownership of an estate to another of their characters so long as:

1. The intended new owner does not already have a property of their own, and
   
   
2. The intended new owner has not previously owned the estate being transferred
   

While we don't mind an estate shifting, estate hopping between characters to take advantage of owner-only features for a brief time is frowned upon. Thus, be sure you want to transfer the estate because once done it cannot be transferred back.

Additionally, if the old owner of the estate has progressed further than the new owner you will have to choose whether you want to pay to keep any freely given estate features based on progress, or lose them until the new owner has progressed far enough to earn them themselves (Such as Berry Plots and Apricorn trees). If any of them were paid for previously then you get to keep them. It is only if, for example, character 1 had 4 badges and got berry plots solely through progress giving their estate to character 2 with only 1 badge. You would have to pay to keep the berry plots earned by the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th badges; or lose them and gain them back through progress again.

Selling to Another Member

Estates cannot be given away between members; they must be sold like the real estate they are.

The minimum price any estate can be sold for is half of what it is worth including all of its extra features and any additional properties. This means a plain base Estate with no extra features can be sold for a minimum of £11,000. Any extra visitor areas and plantation services would need to be added to that.

Otherwise, the price of the estate is whatever the owner wants to sell it for.

Unlike the character transfer, you can resell the estate back to the original owner as long as it was sold for a reasonable amount considering the features progress. The new owner may keep any badge-earned plots/trees/etc without having to pay more upon gaining ownership of the estate.

Using this method as a middle-man to transfer between your characters is frowned upon.

[Lamont]

Adding a Property to Your Estate

Cost: £10,000

Base Features per Additional Property:
    - +2 Non-Social Visitor Friendly Areas
    - Unlimited Social Areas (No encounters)
    - 1 Private Room
    - 1 Treasure Hunt Thread

Additional Features:
    - A Mini Plantation/Orchard
    - 1 More Visitor Area

Overview
While it is 1 Estate per member, you may expand that Estate to include properties for additional characters. By doing this, you have 1 of 2 choices:

1. Keep your existing Estate board's organization and simply add details of the new Property to existing threads. This option is okay for simple properties that are not expanding visitor areas.
   
   
2. Turn your existing Estate board into a mini-verse with a sub-board to manage each character's Property. This option is preferred if you would be making a very interactive or detailed secondary property.
   
   *Note you can change your decision after creation.
   

Regardless of the option you choose, make it clear what is owned by which character. Properties must be owned by one of your characters. They cannot be sold or rented to other members and they cannot be owner-less. This means that if you retire a character, the associated property must be retired, or transferred if you create a replacement character.

Especially when choosing option 1, it is very important to be clear & make it easily identifiable that you have paid for an expanded property. This means any new Treasure Hunt or Berry Plot allowance must be clearly noted for moderators.

*To expand your estate for an additional character, 1 of your characters must have the Plain Badge; and to expand for a 3rd, the Storm Badge.

Feature Expansions
(per additional Property)

Visitor Friendly Areas

Adding a property allows 2 additional, non-social, visitor friendly areas to be added to your Estate. You may remove areas from older Estate properties to use in the new property. How you distribute these is up to you, however, the maximum of 8 per any property still applies.

The number of areas you may pay £4,500 to expand your Estate is increased by 1.

Mini Plantation/Orchard

New Properties may apply for Plantation Services, however, they can only support the basic features and do not come with Apricorn trees. Plantation Services for additional properties cannot be expanded. Due to this they can be bought for half the cost.