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Money & Economy

One closed loop. Your wage is someone else's spending.

Cash, bank, and the ATM

Cash in hand is what thieves can pickpocket and what you spend in shops. The bank is safe — use ATMs to deposit and withdraw (small daily account fee). Lotto winnings and stock dividends pay into your bank.

What jobs pay

WorkPays
Delivery run$15–40 per run (distance-based, ×1.5 at Driver Lv10)
Arrest$250 to the officer
Revive$200 to the medic
Bike repair (house call)$100 to the mechanic
Doctor heal$15 per heal
FishingBy the pound — commons grind steady money; rare catches are paydays
Shop robberyUp to $400 base + risk bonus per officer online (if you escape)

All of it scales with hot-job multipliers (up to 2× when your role is scarce) — see Classes & Jobs.

Shops and dynamic prices

Every shop branch has real stock. Prices move with supply: full shelves discount, empty shelves gouge. On top of that, city-wide effects apply — a robbed shop type spikes prices across the map for days, neglected supply lines make a whole category expensive, and well-capitalized company stocks make their sector cheaper. Check live prices anywhere with /prices.

The city loop

The treasury funds supply deliveries → drivers restock shops → players buy at dynamic prices → cash sits in shop registers → police collection runs return it to the treasury (and can be robbed in transit — the loop's one leak). Yesterday's total city activity sets today's budget: a lazy city gets empty shelves, a working city gets abundance. Read the whole city's pulse with /citystats.

Stocks & lotto

Four companies track the city's four shop sectors — sector sales move their prices, and investing in a sector makes its goods cheaper city-wide. Trade with /stocks, /buystock, /sellstock. The daily lotto (/lotto) pools ticket money plus a city match — one number, winner takes the pot.

The recurring bills

Creek Coins

The premium currency. Shops accept them at a 10% discount, and community members who burn $CREEK earn them — but nothing in Creek211 is pay-to-win: everything Creek Coins buy, cash buys too. A wallet is never required to play.