Manse shop owners may now spend gold on marketing their manses to make
their manse shop show up earlier in the PORTAL SEARCH SHOPS <item>
listings. Here's how it works.

SHOP MARKETING
Do this from in your manse shop stockroom to see what your current
marketing budget is.

SHOP MARKETING <amount>
This lets you spend gold to set a marketing budget. Gold is spent
immediately, and once you set a marketing budget, you cannot reduce
it. (You can increase it later, and will only be charged for the
difference.)

At the end of the year, the marketing budget you spent the previous year
determines your shop's ranking. The shop that spent the most will be
ranked first, and so on. Ties (including amongst all shops that didn't
spend at all) will be broken by the manse's number. If you spent any
gold on marketing, you'll get a message telling you your shop's ranking
for the next year, but you won't be told what anyone else's marketing
budget was.

For the entire next year, the manse's ranking will determine where it
appears on any PORTAL SEARCH SHOPS <item> listing. Note that nothing
else is changed by rankings other than this.

Marketing budgets are entirely optional. If you choose not to spend any
gold, your manse will still be listed; it'll just be listed below those
who did.

Penned by My hand on the 18th of Juliary, in the year 303 CE.