                              Command : COLLECT

NAME
   collect - Foreclose an overdue loan

Level: Expert

SYNTAX
   [##:##] Command : collect <LOAN>

The  collect command is the loan-shark's delight!  Through the collect command
overdue loans can be "cleared up".

If you should find that you have a problem debtor who refuses  to  pay  up  on
your  kind  loan you can always seize one or more of his/her sectors.  Perhaps
the mere threat of a collection on someone's capital may do the trick!

To settle up accounts on overdue loan #9 you would type:
   [##:##] Command : collect 9
The program would then ask which sector you would like to claim  as  just  and
rightful compensation for the outstanding debt.

   What sector do you wish to confiscate?

To  which  you  reply with the coordinates of a sector owned by your debtor to
which you are adjacent.  Any adjacent sector includes any sector you have that
borders the sector you wish to confiscate.

The program then paws over the sector and assesses its value:

   That sector (and its contents) is valued at $2345.00

If  the  amount you are owed exceeds this amount the sector becomes yours!  If
the value of the sector is close enough to the amount you are owed the debt is
considered to be repaid.

Any  che  in  the  area are left alone.  Thus, if the original owner takes the
sector back over, the che would continue their  battle  against  the  original
owner, not the new owner.

In  addition,  ships,  land  units, planes and nuclear stockpiles are not col-
lected.  Those remain the property of the owner of the sector.

Standing military in the sector are reduced to 1 and he becomes the latest and
greatest addition to your standing army.

Mobility of the collected sector remains unchanged.

SEE ALSO
   consider, ledger, offer, shark, Loans

