Crichton Country Club



Master Crichton has gained confidence in our town, and decided to move more of his assets here. He has gained the ownership of about 2% of the urban land, making him on par with the largest owners.

The Country Club is his new official residence, and the most prominent building in the upcoming Borough 9 (which still seeks a name!). The first building in the town in English brick, it is a sprawling yet accessible mansion for private and public occasions. Features:

- Main hallway of 54 m connects all the venues
- Column Hall of 207 sqm is the largest event space
- High Hall of 130 sqm is the most exquisite - dinner is planned here
- Kitchen with auxiliary is large as was the wish. There is no official basement except under the kitchen - in other parts, the building is elevated.
- Many officerooms, owner's office suite, guestrooms, suites and Owner's suite of ~250 sqm
- 3 towers, many protruding elements
- The building is shaped "E", with the main facades to South and West, and the events spaces mostly on the peaceful side

Total area reaches 1,300 sqm, which poses the building in direct comparison with the Royal Palace. This one is less floors and a bit less wide, but more sprawling. As mentioned, the grounds are larger (unless Central Square is counted as "Royal Palace Carriage Parking Space"). Here lux is less but average room height is more. Royal Palace has more but smaller rooms. It has only 1 tower, but that is higher and more floors. Country Club has much more windows. The deciding factor is the Royal Palace roof, which is gilded with 6,640 CKG. Even though Master Crichton easily could pay the gilding cost (of ~600 mil currently), he does not have the CKG. (The buildings with gilded roofs are not that many: Royal Palace 1446, Theatre 1500, HofM 1530 and San Pietro 1599). Tudor style also does not typically have gilded roofs. (Wonder who is the first to have a silver-plated roof in his house; that is rumored to be healthy..)

Congratulations, the bill will be sent with the final calculations

Serving our clients' most exquisite needs is none of an issue to the Royal Architects! (It is just that our mindset this time was to sell ready-to-go investment land as the name suggests...)

If your wish is to have a palace/villa for personal use, we are absolutely the right provider. My suggestion in this case is as follows:

- The lots in 9-E are clear, they will have the 120 sqm nice houses with 100% lux as mentioned.

- The 9-NE is all yours, the streets are not yet zoned. So I suggest we retain the wide street to get the most out of the Rossiyan traffic, but an additional 10 q can be joined to your lots if the lots itself are merged to a larger entity.

- The Architect fee is 1 mil/minute, and for instance the Drama Palace in 5-C cost 230 mil. The total costs of that building were almost 2,000 mil, so the fee was comparably not large. A palace of about 400 sqm takes ~1.5 hours to design. The good thing is that we have done and can do absolutely every style possible, just give a list of all wishes and they will be fulfilled (and if something is not wished, a functioning and economical solution will be used). Our designs can stand the test of time. (All except one buildings collapsed in the Earthquake were designed by us.)

=> Since I already promised the design of the double-palace, but you seem to actually want the quad-palace more, how about we return to the single-palaces for most of the lots, and you tell exactly how much and which land you want to use for your own house, and how big and what kind of house, and I will have it designed, post the pics, and deduct 30 mil from the architect fee (for not needing to design the double-palace) . Then I will bill you for the extra costs compared to the single-palaces you paid for, or return the excess if applicable.

PS. in the map file, there is a proposal for the layout. My plan is to merge a 70 quadrat lot and have a parking area in front of the main entrance for the carriages. The house itself would have large terraces in the east and west, and the more voluminous center, perhaps of a partially submerged basement, and 2-3 floors (depending how high rooms are wanted, and how large floor area). The style can be your choice for instance:
- small windows ancient (Royal Palace)
- plantation-style, arcades (Town Hall)
- high castle (Wizard Castle)
- classical (Round Table House)
- art nouveau (Jacket Hotel in 5-C)
- moorish (Monero House)
- English (Barons' Row townhouse).

Considering the setting in a low density-gardenrich chapelry, the sprawling arcades could fit very well.

This plan has the additional advantage of becoming the largest residential lot and beating the Royal Palace, which only has 58 q (although more central). Perhaps the King's plans of developing Versailles nudge forward...

If I have gone astray with the ideas, feel free to correct. Always happy to exceed the client's wildest expectations, 
Tavastia

Your budget for the Public Works has not yet arrived. To alleviate nepotism, I could act on behalf of Town in this matter and bid for this one. It would be a nice site for a public building such as the 9.B Town Registry, which seems to be needed since Crichton bought such many lots that will be developed and require the services without going all the way to B.3...

Town: 80 mil for B1

The palace only looks "1 quadrat" in the map that has such a low resolution. In reality its footprint is 14x16 m and it is 2-floor with a raised terrace in 1st floor (included in the footprint) and a balcony in the 2nd. It is aligned with main entrance raised at 1 m high, towards the street.

We don't have a ready design for a "4 q palace" (~480 sqm), it is a separate commission if you want to have one. We can design a ~240 sqm house and use it to fill D1-D2, D3-D4, D5-D6, D7-D8 so in total of 4 such ones (with the lots resized to be double as big as well!), and 7 existing model 120 sqm palaces in the other lots you purchased, I hope this is acceptable.


The previous purchases contain in total 2 coins (I have just recorded the transfer), for the grand total of 41*NC1600C. Sorry we cannot alter past deals to our disadvantage any more than we can alter them to our advantage, this is more of a principle than about money of course


The unpaid total would be 13*150*90% = 1,755 XMR.

Always a pleasure to deal with you,
Tavastia (Marquess, acting CEO of NewCorp)

Do you think it is good to have a high velocity for money or not?

NewCorp investment land RUSH

Greetings from the Marquess d'Tavastia,


As the competitors are making their deals better, so do we. The Investment Land Rush is fully ON, so consider the following deals:

- Every lot which is MINIMUM 12q (exact surveying undone yet) can be had for as low as:
* 70 mil (no landscaping)
* 100 mil (small house)
* 150 mil (120sqm NICE house).

But not only that, we offer now 3 gold coins bonus per EACH lot (so 9 CKG bonus per lot in NC1600C collectible coins).

And not only that either, if you buy 2 lots, you get 5% off the price in addition.

For the purchaser of 4 lots, a full 10% off, in addition to the 12 gold coins!

And did I forget to mention that I'll throw in a bonus lot of 4 q for the buyer of the North Row, the choicest of land facing south over the main access artery of the Rossiyan merchants entering the town!!

If, just IF, somebody thinks that behind these insanely cheap offerings there is a marketing competition of sorts, I'd just remind you that when it ends, the prices will return to levels that allow profitable business

The Royal Mint announcement




5 CKS = 1 mil   **   Silver BULK issue, -3.1% below the cheapest new conversion price!

Now it is possible to get silver easier than ever, and very affordably as well, even cheaper than buying the IC and importing yourself!!

The Royal Mint CS1606E shiny handy-sized 5 CKS coin will be minted in bulk to accommodate those who seek to get nice investment/collectible coins but don't want to pay for them!

Price is only 1 mil per coin. You can order any quantity of coins you want.

Every 20th coin ordered is dated CS1607E, which might become extremely collectible due to the low mintage. The rarity is guaranteed by giving no archive copies to the King, the CryptoMuseum, or even the Mint themselves! Only 1 is minted per every 20 ordered.


Convert 1605-1606 gold coins directly from the Mint!

CR1605A is already distributed as a gift to all who wanted one.

CR1606A can be bought as follows:
- Give any 5 CKG gold coin to the Mint, get 3*CR1606A (3*1 CKG) in return. You lose only 2 CKG (~1.2 mil), meaning that you get 3 collector coins at 0.4 mil markup per piece. (You may order 1 or more sets).

CR1605E can be bought as follows:
- Give any gold to the Mint, get it minted to CR1605E coins at a fee of only 5 CKG (~3 mil). This fixed fee applies to 100 CKG order max. Markup is as low as 0.15 mil/coin.

CR1606E can be bought as follows:
- Give any gold to the Mint, get it minted to CR1605E coins at a fee of only 5 CKG (~3 mil). This fixed fee applies to 100 CKG order max. Markup is as low as 0.15 mil/coin.

If you are confused about how gold is given as payment etc., remember that the Mint takes care of it, all you have to do is decide what coins and how many you want, and the Mint automatically uses your existing gold from the 0-markup category. As for silver, it is fixed price per coin and will be deducted upon delivery.

NB: This is not an auction and we can close it anytime (not in the first 24 hours though). When the offering ends, no more of any of these coins will be produced. As a forward-looking note, many collectors will specialize in Ancient coins, but others cannot afford that and seek to start their collection from the recent times and work backwards. These dates in the early Reconstruction period are particularly rare and coveted by both the groups.

If you give the government the power to dictate your food, you are the fool that deserves to die of malnutrition.

(Sigh.. some things just need to be decided based on common sense.)

Thanks. That was quite old piece, but really informative and funny.

BTS actually resemble CK in some respects, except that CK did not dare to create itself to existence completely from nothing - as BTSX did. We have the now 105k XMR and 100 BTC, which are representing "outside value" in the system, and also the system itself is not prone to succumb to "cascading market calls" or even "cascading withdrawals". If the holders of that 105k XMR would collectively decide to withdraw, they could completely do it, since it is 100% deposited in the XMR blockchain (just like any honest exchange like Bitstamp or Poloniex would treat their client balances). The market value of many of the items in the game would be trashed in the process for sure (a COL at 425 XMR would not catch a buyer), but the more speculative things are financed by equity anyway, and if foreclosures happened, the assets would be repossessed with the lender footing the losses from his equity.

The way BTS/X was presented, was that it works perfectly as long as we assume that an imaginary asset is capable to be the ultimate extinguisher of debt (similarity to SuperNet as well). The high and powerful banksters in the world have tried to make an imaginary asset - called fiat money - to be the ultimate extinguisher of debt, with such a dismal record that it is a product of ignorance of monetary history to attempt the same as completely a desktop exercise with no value being produced in the process (as CK for instance is producing - great fun that catches players).

But since it is evident that you are not a proponent, I'd like to see a marketing speech linked by someone else as well! 

Nevertheless, have a 12*W1603A as a sign of gratitude for the link! (recorded)

Meanwhile, CK still at ~105k. I give my heartfelt congrats to Riccardo for beating our nearly-one-year effort in a week! 

Well got almost final green light for a new significant injection to CK by an external investor, so expect things happening there as well...

It's so best to be in Monero which actually has things happening!!

BTW. sorry slight off-topic - BTS was also mentioned in our shareholders' meeting to be a promising coin. I have not checked. Can some of the proponents give me an investment-oriented summary, the potential investment is about $50k.

All except the red items of the year-change to 1606 have been completed, and the rest will soon.


Leading activities

- Horse promotions DONE
- PC promotions DONE
- Admin-executed consumption of liquor and evaluation of health challenges 1606-07 DONE; change of health DONE
- Building repair% and luxury% decrease (was done several years at once) hence DONE
- Carriages, windows, stone (any borough may be quarried!), suits and 1605-coins production
- NPC promotions <- NPC will be promoted right after year_change


Year-change script

- NPC's produce money, CUL and SCI (!!)
- L3...L6 commoner players get salary (!!)
- Buildings produce money, CUL and SCI
- Gold dividends
- Consol & Bank DEP interests
- Quarry, suit, carriage, mint, horsefarm, printingpress labor salaries
- Extra tax and land tax payments
- Company dividends (tell me if your company wants to fulfill its duty to the shareholders, I'll add it to the script)

Nowhere, that is the beauty of a non-changelog DB as our current drinks DB is..  

Technical reason is available upon request.

Tavastia has adjusted the stocks and prices are very competitive, only one Roopatra lowask in W1604 is floating, all the rest are Tavastia's. Please inform if stocks run low, we are eager to restock. (You may have seen that the prices at source (IC conversion rates) have gotten worse lately, so building large stocks is not prudent).

Zenon has been satisfied with the effectiveness of SW1 and SW2 (especially the latter that he had 5 bottles just for test). Therefore, the price of SW2 has been raised to 2.5 mil (formerly 2 mil) and 2 bottles of SW1 from his personal stock (of only 4 bottles total) have been listed for 15 mil each.

Only a 65 bottle run of SW1 was made and 60 bottles gifted to the councillors. Coincidence or not, but the councillors' average health decline was -64 points, compared to the general population of -512 points. Based on this, and the average health of the population, Zenon has estimated the average life expectancy remaining to be 30-35 years, and hints of individual situation can be seen in /CHAR and the same format soon in Ultima as well.

Whoa, what happened to my wine cellar =!  

Due to the laborious procedure in doing it well, manual drinking was conducted 2 years at a time. So the (up to) 400 bottles of the wine you thought you had, were added to battling the health challenge.

Completely unscathed, without health decline, survived 8 characters.

I gave mercy and bought drinks according to the character's means if none were stocked and the health challenge was severe. The "drink plan" was the guide here.

Drinks consumed and the remarks:
BEER - 14103 - Some noticed that if the challenge is almost conquered and progress is slow, beer might not do that much worse than wine.
MEAD - 7906
W1601B - 3078 - This became a favorite perhaps because it was priced very aggressively compared to the French wines
W1600 - 1877
W1604 - 1654 - This needs cellaring but was popularly consumed due to low price.
W1603A - 1629 - Good as usual. At peak. Some strangers expressed concern that despite the equitable initial distribution, the rich have too much of this wine in their hands and it rots, while the poor have needed to drink theirs already, and are thirsty.
W1602 - 596 - This wine made one expert believe that the wines get not only better but also more healthy with age.
W1601 - 424
W1603 - 382
W1600M - 75 - This wine has not matured noticeably in 6 years and the King is feeling itchy whether it will be ready for the quartermillennium (not even thinking of the supposed 20/20 it has been appraised to reach then).. While the wine can be bought, sold and consumed, since it is a gift from the King, Tavastia urges everyone (esp the nobles) to not speak of the matter in public or do hasty actions with it.
W1602F - 61
VOH - 204 - The taste is still not as refined as the imported drinks, but feeling is healthy.
RME - 104 - This jesty drink needs marketing!
VOD - 100
RUM - 27 - In a King's party, a battle broke out with some saying RUM is better than RME. Is was settled with the vote ending in 13-15 for the former and 14-18 for the latter, which indeed do intersect!
CVS - 25
SW2 - 24 - A nice amount of this potion was consumed, and Zenon's notes indicate that typically the effect of 1 bottle had felt equal to 1-2 cases of wine in living subjects. And no one has died yet!
CLXII - 18 - A rumor has been put out that not only healthiness affects price upwards, but the loop is two-sided..
SW1 - 7 - The recipients' curiosity was overwhelming so many had a bottle. Effect is difficult to discern from the other healthy drinks they have access to. Zenon has finally publicly confirmed that the silver molarity is 5x that in the other potion.

Sorry for those who would have played this differently (eg. who drank beer or mead when their resolve is to never do it, or bought too expensive drinks when they'd rather suffered the health - I did my best and next time is in Ultima )

We decided to have a challenge - which one gets to sell the land better! Roopatra has not probably used all her tricks, but neither have I - some may still remember that high-priced land was in the 1520s sweetened by a 1,600 CKG gold medal, free architecting, and even a promotion to Prince(!).


Sir Zechariah, The Marquess of Tavastia, Chief of Marketing, NewCorp:

New Corp has acquired land and has made it Investment Land(TM), for everyone to profit!

The following principles apply:

- All lots are sold at the same price for ease, and the price is 100 mil. The lot is minimum 1,200 sqm so maximum price is 8.33 mil/q.
- Customization applies - if you want to get the raw land only, without income provided by the small house and gardening, price is 70 mil (5.83 mil/q).
- If you want to settle down or profit more, order the 120 sqm palace constructed: only 50 mil extra (150 mil)
- Each lot purchased entitles you to the NC1600C gold coin! (Let us transfer it)

As for the land,

1) it is exceedingly prime, seamlessly connected to the boulevard network starting at the Bank corner in the 1-E.
2) no dirty alleys - all streets are 20 m
3) unblocked views to everywhere in the borough
4) plans to redirect the main road to Rossiya to go through these chapelries for added commercial interest
5) gardened throughout, house main facade elaborate, etc etc
6) the crazy low price is real, take yours! We got this land so cheaply that cannot just leave it for ourselves only!!

Green offerings in this map.

/Tavastiaspeak

The non-markup gold forms of CR1602E and HM02B100 are in "SD"-"SE" in /F_OWN.

Perhaps the virtual attendees can participate in the wines...  

I have a Franco-Españolas from 1964, no idea if good, but might try out! 

Now the consols are behind us, although there is this Jungherr Paul who forgot to place a bid and is now trying to fish for 9.5 mil. Some quick profit is thus offered. Also Town will be debating whether to offer a ladder of asks making the (hoped for) price rise more orderly.

Wine market has returned to normal, with Tavastia having nice asks in most brands:
- W1601B barley wine is better than ever, but also cheaper: Tavastia price is 0.045 only!!
- W1601 is 0.035 and W1604 0.040 once Roopatra's few bottles have been cleared

Collectible gold coin market is resurrected by the King's Coinshop:
Sir noms was having this in the antiquity, but now he needed to release the massive value tied up, and sold the coins to us! In total, 83 coins are now priced very affordably, so you can check what is missing from your collection and fill the blanks! The prices for CR-coins actually start at 3.600 mil (with the ask for the common coin at 3.225 mil, the markup is starting at just 0.375 mil per coin!)
- rarities with mintage=20 available from 7.200 so less than 4 mil above spot per coin

N pirates are dividing the loot of M gold coins. They don't trust each other etc. and have the following rules (only):
- most senior one starts by proposing a distribution of the coins between robbers
- a vote is held whether this is accepted, ties are broken by the senior guy
- if it is rejected, the senior guy is hanged and new proposal by the second-in-command.

Consol Auction - - Final Results

20 @ 10.9 Sarajas
40 @ 10.8 King
40 @ 10.6 King
40 @ 10.4 King
30 @ 10.3 Soul
40 @ 10.2 King
50 @ 10.1 dnaleor
40 @ 10.0 King
100 @ 10.0 Bank
50 @ 10.0 Crichton
50 @ 10.0 NF
100 @ 10.0 FS
100 @ 10.0 OZ
10 @ 9.9 Sarajas
40 @ 9.8 King
40 @ 9.6 King
5 @ 9.5 Bank
40 @ 9.4 King
40 @ 9.2 King
50 @ 9.1 Rome
2 @ 9.1 Roopatra
40 @ 9.0 King
6 @ 9.0 Bank
10 @ 8.9 Sarajas
17 @ 8.8 King
-----------------------------------------
1,000*CON will be issued at 8.8 (1.12% APR), to the following:

417 King
111 Bank
100 OZ
100 Forte Spagnolo
50 Rome
50 North Face
50 Crichton
50 dnaleor
40 Sarajas
30 Soul
2 Roopatra



23 @ 8.8 King
40 @ 8.6 King
7 @ 8.5 Bank
40 @ 8.4 King
10 @ 8.3 Dr. SS
40 @ 8.2 King
40 @ 8.0 King
7 @ 8.0 Bank
100 @ 8.0 dnaleor
10 @ 7.9 Sarajas
40 @ 7.8 King
40 @ 7.6 King
8 @ 7.5 Bank
40 @ 7.4 King
40 @ 7.2 King
40 @ 7.0 King
8 @ 7.0 Bank
40 @ 6.8 King
40 @ 6.8 Forte Spagnolo
60 @ 6.7 Forte Spagnolo
2 @ 6.7 Roopatra
40 @ 6.6 King
2 @ 6.5 Roopatra
40 @ 6.4 King
3 @ 6.3 Roopatra
40 @ 6.3 North Face
40 @ 6.3 Forte Spagnolo
40 @ 6.2 King
3 @ 6.1 Roopatra
40 @ 6.0 King

Yeah, go for it. The instructios are in the thread! THank you

Consol Auction - - largest issuance of debt ever in the Kingdom, and the first Perpetual

Closes at 5 p.m. - in 3.5 hours!

Current Situation

20 @ 10.9 Sarajas
40 @ 10.8 King
40 @ 10.6 King
40 @ 10.4 King
30 @ 10.3 Soul
40 @ 10.2 King
50 @ 10.1 dnaleor
40 @ 10.0 King
100 @ 10.0 Bank
50 @ 10.0 Crichton
50 @ 10.0 NF
100 @ 10.0 FS
100 @ 10.0 OZ
10 @ 9.9 Sarajas
40 @ 9.8 King
40 @ 9.6 King
5 @ 9.5 Bank
40 @ 9.4 King
40 @ 9.2 King
50 @ 9.1 Rome
40 @ 9.0 King
6 @ 9.0 Bank
10 @ 8.9 Sarajas
19 @ 8.8 King
-----------------------------------------
1,000*CON will be issued at 8.8 (1.12% APR)


21 @ 8.8 King
40 @ 8.6 King
7 @ 8.5 Bank
40 @ 8.4 King
10 @ 8.3 Dr. SS
40 @ 8.2 King
40 @ 8.0 King
7 @ 8.0 Bank
100 @ 8.0 dnaleor
10 @ 7.9 Sarajas
40 @ 7.8 King
40 @ 7.6 King
8 @ 7.5 Bank
40 @ 7.4 King
40 @ 7.2 King
40 @ 7.0 King
8 @ 7.0 Bank
40 @ 6.8 King
40 @ 6.8 Forte Spagnolo
60 @ 6.7 Forte Spagnolo
2 @ 6.7 Roopatra
40 @ 6.6 King
2 @ 6.5 Roopatra
40 @ 6.4 King
3 @ 6.3 Roopatra
40 @ 6.3 North Face
40 @ 6.3 Forte Spagnolo
40 @ 6.2 King
3 @ 6.1 Roopatra
40 @ 6.0 King