Bazaar

A bazaar is a building with many stalls of the same type. The entrance to the bazaar is a room which allows any pirate to comparison shop across the island for the goods produced by the stalls in the bazaar (both stalls and shoppes). There is also a desk which allows you to open your own stall. From the entry room, you can choose to enter any of the stalls in the bazaar.

Small stalls have an owner but no managers. A medium stall may have a manager. A deluxe stall may have up to two managers.

Types

The following bazaar types are available:

• Apothecary
• Distillery
• Furnisher
• Iron monger
• Shipyard
• Tailor
• Weavery

Construction cost, stall storage capacity, and paint requirements information can be found on the page for each bazaar type.

Bazaar Ownership

The deed to a bazaar building changes with the governance of an island. Each time the island is taken in a blockade or the governorship is changed by a royalty vote, all infrastructure deeds, including the bazaar deeds, are automatically transferred over to the new governor. Governors often hand these deeds out to flag mates or friends, either with specific purposes in mind or as vanity gifts. The bazaar building itself requires no rent or tax payment.

Possessing the deed to the bazaar building confers no special privileges or powers. The only abilities granted the deed-holder are the power to change the news in and to paint the front room. Note that bazaars themselves have no hold, so paint must be purchased automatically via the paint brush.

Stall Management

Anyone can open their own stall in a bazaar with some amount of PoE, which is determined by the type of stall, the stall size (small, medium, deluxe), the population of the island, and the island's tax rate. Doubloon oceans also require 10 doubloons to open a stall.

You can open only one stall in each bazaar, but there are no other limits to how many stalls you can open. Stalls do not have deeds and cannot be transferred from one player to another. The fee to open a stall is an intentional barrier to entry, and raising that fee with a plan to recuperate the investment is regarded as the first test of a successful stallkeeper.

Rent

Stalls require a weekly tax to be paid as rent. This amount can be paid in advance by clicking on a button in the "Shoppe" tab, where the due date and amount of the next payment are displayed. If the tax is not paid by the due date, it will be automatically withdrawn from the coffers. If the coffers do not have enough to cover the fee, the stall is closed and cannot do business until the tax is paid. This is indicated by the stall being "dark" inside. If the tax is not paid by two weeks after the due date, a stall may be closed permanently and all commodities and PoE in its coffers confiscated as payment.

You can downgrade your stall at any time from the main bazaar. You can also upgrade your stall by paying one week's rent at the new level. In both cases, you gain the standard number of props for a stall of that kind, but retain any paint jobs you had previously applied.

Historical Notes

Bazaars were added to the game for release 2004-04-28 which also introduced comparison shopping.

Originally, starting a stall required various commodities as well as PoE, but that was changed in release 2005-02-11, shortly after Merchant Brigands were introduced.

External/Other Links

• Commonly discussed ideas about Bazaars and Stalls from Game Design

• http://www.puzzlepirates.com/docs/bazaar_stall.html (out of date)