FAQ

FAQ:

Q: I’m new, how do I start?

A: Your company exists without a start command. Common commands are $$help, $$tutorial, $$faclist, $$f, $$a, $$val, and $$c. Newly added $$wiki command is awesome!

Q: I still have questions, what should I do?

A: Go to #help in discord HQ and ping @helper with your question.

Q: I’m new, can I get advice on what facility I should focus on now?

A: Your goal is to generate assets to sell for cash.

Opt 1: As shown in the tutorial you can use wood farm(s), and move into furniture factory(ies) to produce wood and furniture to sell the assets for cash.

Opt 2: Or some players build oil wells, and then plastic factories. To produce oil and plastic assets to sell for cash.

Q. Is there a storage capacity in Idle-Corp?

A. No, you can store as many assets as you can build or buy.

Q. Can I give money to my friends?

A. The bot does not have a command to gift money, but the player market can be used if both players have a logistics center.

Q. What does a logistics center do?

A. Allows access to the player market, and expands your hourly buy limit in the NPC market.

Q. Is Jet fuel the same as rocket fuel?

A. No, two different assets.

Q. What is a gratitude point, and what are they used for?

A. Gratitude points are earned by voting for the Idle-Corp bot, using $$vote. The gratitude points can be spent to change your company name and motto, or to instantly finish a research project.

Q. How do I sell land or move to another server?

A. You have to $$liquidate the server, selling all land, facilities, and assets. You get back 40% of your land and facilities cost, assets sell at current NPC market value.

Q: How do I buy assets?

A: You need to get a logistics center (25M) then type $$buy <asset> <max or number> or $$soffers <asset> then $$mbuy <asset> <how many> <price>. Buy command is mainly for buying raw materials (glass, cpu, iron, silicon, etc). Soffers (sell offers) is mainly used for buying end products (laptops, cell phones, cars, etc).

Q. How do I cancel a player market offer?

A. Use the command $$offers. It will show your current offers and which slot number they are in 1, 2 or 3.
Then use $$canceloffer <1, 2 or 3>

Q. What is regional legislator, and how do I become one in my server?

A. A regional legislator is an elected official, who has the ability to change policies in the region for a week. This has a few steps.

First check $$r, if a region office is required to be built, it costs 100m. Use $$ds region office 100m to fully fund it.

Now you can join the ballot. To join ballot use $$joinballot. Costs 10m to join. Vote for yourself using $$voteballot @YourName.

If you get an error while voting, you probably need voters boon, use $$vote and vote for the bot to get the boon. Then try and vote again.

Then the ballot needs to close, use $$ballot to see when the timer ends. Once ballot closes and you are elected, you can change the policies.

Tip: A tie in votes will cause no one to win.