There are two avenues for being a business-owner on the game: Either build one yourself, or take over an existing business. The current list of available businesses is below; if it's blank, there are none, and you can make your own.

• Fried Fish
• Gray Harbor Animal Shelter
• Gray Harbor Boat Tours
• Liven A-Frames
• Shoalwater camp and RV Park
• Table Thai

Create Your Own

To create your own business, please consider whether or not an existing or very similar business already exists. While we will allow for some replication of ideas (i.e., there can be a couple of bars or coffee shops), we reserve the right to put a limit on new business types. We will update the suggested concepts to include what types of businesses are not currently being accepted.

If you are creating a new character that will own the business, you should be sure to include the business type in their background (which will allow staff to contact you in case the business type isn't available).

Once your character is approved (whether new or existing), please [/jobs submit a request to staff] to ask for the business to be built. Remember that you are limited to three rooms per character, and these rooms need to include both your business and your home. So really stop and think about what rooms you need built, and whether or not some of them can be done via [/help/details details] within the room's description (e.g., you probably don't need an actual bathroom, just pretend). Please include the business name and the neighborhood.

• Addington Park
• Bayside Road
• Downtown
• Elm Street
• Lonely Highway
• Maple Road
• Oak Avenue
• Outskirts of Gray Harbor
• Spruce Street
• Sycamore Street

Building and Describing

Building in AresMUSH is essentially restricted to staff. Once your business has been created, you will be assigned as its owner. From there, you should do the following:

• Go IC by using the IC command
• Jump to your business: jump Your Business Name
• Describe it: desc here=Your description goes here
  • You can use %r%r to create line breaks.
  • Definitely check out [/help/details help details] to see how to add additional "rooms" or details within a room.

Please be sure you have read our policies, where you will find information about our building guidelines.

Adding a Wiki Page

Creating a page for your business on the wiki gives it a little more visibility. You can look at an example business for a finished product.

• Create a page - Either click this link or go to the "Community" menu and select "Create new page" from the drop-down.
  • Your business page should be named: business:Your Business Name
• Choose the "Blank Business Template" from the dropdown, which will populate the page with the template.
  • NEIGHBORHOOD NAME - This should match one of the neighborhoods listed above.
  • BUSINESS TYPE - A brief summary of your business (e.g., Bar, Coffee Shop, Restaurant, etc.)
  • YOUR NAME - Your PC's name (so people can contact you in-game)
  • NEIGHBORHOOD/EXACT BUSINESS NAME - This allows people to use the jump command to reach your business, so it has to be exactly the name of the room you want people to use. In this case, NEIGHBORHOOD is a short version - Park, Bayside, Downtown, Elm, Maple, Oak, Spruce, or Gray Harbor.
  • If you want to include a picture, first upload it to your character's gallery, and then you can edit this part: image /game/uploads/YOURCHARACTERNAME_BUSINESS/YOURIMAGENAME.jpg
  • If you don't want a picture, just take the part that starts with [[img out entirely.

Filling out the rest of the page should be pretty straight-forward, but please don't hesitate to ask if you get stuck.

Once you hit save, you need to do just a little bit more.

• Click the "Edit" button.
• Change the Title (not the page name, but the Title, in the second box) to remove the business: at the front. This will make it so your business shows up with just its name throughout the wiki.
• Add the tags: NEIGHBORHOOD, business
  • Neighborhood should be the name of the neighborhood/street, all lowercase, with underlines for spaces. The full list of tags you should add by neighborhood is below.
  • addington_park, business
  • bayside_road, business
  • downtown, business
  • elm_street, business
  • maple_road, business
  • oak_avenue, business
  • spruce_street, business

Your page will now show up on the list of businesses and in its respective neighborhood page.

Taking Over a Business

If you are taking over an existing business, please [/jobs submit a request to staff] to ask to be made the owner of the room(s). You can then make any changes to the description(s) as needed. You can also then go to the wiki page for your business, making any updates.

Make sure you remove the available tag if it's still there, so it doesn't show up as a business people can take over.

Now Hiring

If your business will be employing other PCs, make sure you add a little bit of info to the page about what roles you're looking for (e.g., bartender, waitress, janitor). You can then get your page to show up on the list of now-hiring businesses by adding the hiring tag to your page.

If you are not looking for any PC employees, remove the hiring tag.