Two more commands are useful for overall city management. Typing CITY EXPENSES will review the expenses incurred by your city or village every Avalon month - this tends to be upkeep of temples, novice Academies, and sometimes a charge according to the number of active citizens. All four cities, and indeed most of the villages, have computer controlled characters who charge players with quests for the city or deeds to return artifacts they desire. Gold rewards given out by these CCCs come directly from the city treasuries.
For example, King Thandrades of Mercinae pays out gold for the dead body of the Great Orc of Goblin Town. The gold he gives out is a regular drain on the Mercinae treasury. City financial leaders can dictate, to an extent, the amount of gold given out as reward deeds and quests performed on behalf of the city by typing CITY REWARDS followed by a percentage. This is the percentage of the 'typical' gold reward that will be given out. So, taking the earlier example, normally Thandrades gives a hundred pieces of gold for the corpse of the Great Orc. If rewards are set to 10%, then his reward will be ten pieces of gold instead.
All citizens of a city will gain, as they progress in level and experience, experience quests from the royal leader of the city - known as city experience quests. Gold is given out from the treasury of the city automatically to individuals performing these quests successful to entice them to rise in proficiency and reward their endeavours. Typically, a city might give out fifty pieces of gold to a citizen for each city experience quest successfully achieved.
A city will also pay out for the dead bodies of men, that is, the type that could be enlisted into the army. Simply taking the dead body to a CCC related to your city will give you the money. Setting this level is the domain of the Chancellor and Minister of State, who should use the CITY DEAD command. Typing this command with no parameter will tell you the current amount being paid out.
