Up yours, Sturges. I'm welcome anytime because Sanctuary is mine.

WHAT IT DOES
This is a simple mod that does a few things. Firstly, you receive daily income every 23-25 hours (see chaos theory), added straight to your inventory a la Fable 2 & 3. This is based on settlement rent and tax, explained in the list of features below. All workshop objects can be found under Resources -> Commonwealth Landlord.

The mod will initialise when first loaded for existing characters, or shortly after a new character first gains experience.


FEATURES

1. Rental Notice (Requires Local Leader 1)
Rental notices become permanent once placed (for functionality reasons) and can be activated to:
A) Set the daily rent value of a property. Take pride in your construction work.
B) Remove the notice. Mistakes happen.

Note: v1.0 rental notices need to be replaced to contribute to settlement income display numbers. Sorry about that.

2. Tax Board (Requires Local Leader 2)
Like rental notices, tax boards become permanent once placed, but are limited to one per settlement. They can be activated to:
A) Set the daily tax of a settlement (per settler), at the cost of happiness. Take pride in your subjugation work.
B) Remove the tax board. Oops, my finger slipped.

3. Tribute Box (Requires Local Leader 1)
With a tribute box (one per settlement), items may be added every six hours the player is (or recently was) present at a settlement, depending on settlement population and happiness. Some items are also tied to player level, i.e. no mini nukes for you, fresh-face.

Tribute currently works as follows. For every settler, you have a 15% chance of receiving the following:
At 20+ Happiness - Building Materials, Cigarettes
At 40+ Happiness - Ammo, Chems
At 60+ Happiness - Weapons, Drinks
At 80+ Happiness - Armor
At 100 Happiness - Power Armor, Stealth Boys, Copper/Silver/Gold Bars

4. Sales Storage (Requires Local Leader 2)
Limited to one per settlement (I know, I know), any items placed in the sales storage container will be sold while the player is away. The profits will automatically be added to the player's inventory when they return.

Items are sold at a base 20% of their value, but a more successful settlement yields higher profits, like so:
+1% for each settler.
+1% for each tier 1 store.
+2% for each tier 2 store.
+3% for each tier 3 store.

Items will be sold once every 2 days, or once per day if the settlement has a trade caravan post.

5. [Commonwealth Landlord]
This is an aid item that will be added to the player's inventory when the mod is loaded, or when a new character first gains experience. It can also be crafted under the Utility tree at a Chem Station, for the forgetful and those who were already using the mod.

Using the item opens a menu displaying the player's current rent, tax, and total daily income, and provides the following options:
A) Information. Provides some in-game explanations of the mod's various functions. Because why not, I guess.
B) Uninstall the mod. :(


COMPATIBILITY
No vanilla entries or assets are directly touched, winked at or otherwise antagonised by this mod. However, like any mod that adds workshop recipes, it's recommended to use the uninstall function of the [Commonwealth Landlord] item before removing the mod.


(UN)INSTALLATION
Use the mod manager of your choice, or drag/drop the archived files into your data folder then enable in-game. Delete the files to uninstall. Same old.

Note:

READ COMPATIBILITY BEFORE UNINSTALLING

MISCELLANEOUS
Thanks for the comments/compliments. All feedback is appreciated.

This mod is/was a diversion from a larger project. It's simply an attempt to take some of the monotony out of subsequent playthroughs by eliminating some of the back-and-forth and necessity of pack-ratting. That, and passive income is nice.

On the off-chance that I've missed something while testing, let me know and I'll do what I can, when I can, where I can, etc.

XB1 version is go. PS4 version is not. Shocker.


KNOWN ISSUES

• Not compatible with settlements that don't use a standard workshop, i.e. custom settlements and mods with unique workshops.
  

VERSIONS
Because keeping track is fun!

v1.0 (Release - July 14/2017)

• Rent income via rental notices.
• Tribute via tribute boxes.
  

v1.1 (July 22/2017)

• Added tax income via tax boards.
• Added automated item selling via sales storage.
• Added [Commonwealth Landlord] management item.
• Added perk requirements.
• Added tentative custom textures for tribute boxes and sales storage.
  

v1.11 (July 22/2017)

• Fixed a couple of text issues.
• Applied the sales storage texture to its art object (workshop mode).
  

v1.12 (July 25/2017)

• Optimised the rental notice and tax board scripts.
  

v1.2 (January 17/2019)

• Looping function added to menus.
• Attempting to reduce Rent/Tax below zero now sets it to zero.
• Fixed an issue with DLC Workbenches.
• Timer added to Sales Storage (items now sold every 1-2 days).
• Reduced Tribute Box chances.