Health has started ... going down 

The feeling of mortality has solidified a lot as the glimpse to the health subsystem is provided in /CHAR "the black column".

Health basics is as follows:

- Each year, the system generates you a health challenge, which is randbetween(1, max) so that "max" is dependent on your age and your living conditions, such as if you have a house and a suit.

- Mainly by drinking (you may drink 200 bottles max per year so choose carefully), you can tackle the challenge. (In Ultima), after each drink, you will get some feedback how it helps. It is asymptotically more difficult to completely eliminate the challenge. The uncovered part of the challenge will be deducted from your health permanently at the end of the year. In the long run, there are very few ways to improve your health, and each challenge tends to take it away little by little (and other things may eat it as well, such as war or sicknesses). In the end you die.


Drinks consumed this year, and some hints as to how they might contribute to the health

MEAD - 7930 - Mead does have a positive effect always, but it is so small that the 200 bottles quota becomes a restriction
BEER - 4579 - Drinkers of beer have a markedly healthier feeling than those of mead
W1603A - 1047 - This wine has been raised to 18-20/20, and is very invigorating and became the most popular wine
W1600 - 670 - The wine-drinkers say this compares favorably to most other wines in feeling
W1601B - 562
W1600M - 239 - This has been somewhat of a disappointment; the value of "King's special" is wholly in the future
VOH - 151 - The taste is nothing miraculous, but the effect of the good water is noticeable
W1602 - 100
RUM - 93 - Several accounts say that this is at least double as healthy as wine and having even a taste each year carries a variety bonus
W1601 - 30
RME - 20
CLXII - 14
W1602F - 7
CVS - 3
W1603 - 0
VOD - 0

Ping

Opportunity to acquire CULture and SCIence

Culture and Science are very central concepts. Culture refers to the overall achievement of a character, a sort of "high score" which is permanently attached to the character and enshrined when the character dies. (Nearly all his other achievements are passed on to other characters.) When the character is alive, Culture produces occasional benefits such as IC has been given prorated to Culture, and the most healthy Wine W1603A as well. Culture points (CUL) cannot be used for anything actively, they are permanent.

Science is overall progress in many fields, academic or engineering. Currently Science is needed to start Monopoly Corporations, but its role will be even larger in the future. Science can be stored and it does not depreciate. It is consumed when used towards an advance.

We cannot get back to using NPC in the economic subgames for the time being, because we need to keep the scope of the game such that it can be played in the Ultima platform. But there is a way to generate CUL and SCI, and this is by using Buildings only:

Everyone who has buildings that can be used for CUL and SCI production (loose definition) can divert some of his rental income to CUL or SCI. The conversion rate is 5 CUL or 5 SCI instead of 1 mil of rental income. The column "M" is used in /CHAR. Write maximum 3 C's or S's to indicate your willingness to gain these noble points!

Since the rental pool distributes the same amount of money regardless of the CUL and SCI produced, this is actually an additional bonus, which is given to the building owners, making construction even more profitable.

It cannot be guaranteed how long this system is in force, so better act now (as always )

The Royal Mint is finally added to the building registry. As we know, it was built already last year, and processed most of the Kingdom's gold in the space of that one year already.

In the future, Royal Mint is available for the citizens' needs to mint medals to commemorate their achievements (gold, silver or bronze). Also it is possible to bring any gold and have it minted to CRxxxxE coins against a small fee. The Mint also makes the new gold coins that are the result of Proof-of-Play gold generation (CRxxxxA).

The building is in the prestigious 1-E-E23, only a few steps from the Hypothecary Bank. Its East facade towards Village Street (pictured) is Very Elaborate and has 11 m high Massive columns. The windows are chosen from King's stores to fit the stature: WIAS.

For those interested in financial statistics:

The 280 sqm of land was acquired from Sarajas for 400 mil (143 mil/q).
The 266 sqm building cost 252 mil (0.95 mil/sqm - stone and windows appraised at midprice).
The total cost of the project incl land was 2.65 mil/sqm indicating that building in the Old Town is for the rich only.

I don't know what you are awaiting to happen with Monero... It already fulfills my demands for it: it is a private and uncensorable store of value, and it can be exchanged either privately or in Poloniex with rather small difficulty to other vehicles.

It IS working. With Crypto Kingdom, it will gain more transactions, but that does not mean that the capability wasn't there already.

- - only shows how mistaken he is regarding Christianity.

The highest ideal of Christianity is that God became man to make man God.

JeanW, I am so thankful to you - words are stronger than weapons and it is by the words of the people like you, that the tyranny is crushed.

The road is long, quite a number of people are still siding with the government apparatus, believing it is legitimate and by default its actions are correct and justified. In fact, most of the people who should be in prison are not there, and of the prison population, less than half have committed any crime in God's eyes. You are living in a definition of a lawless tyranny, and so am I!


I believe this word is now being fulfilled in a greater extent than before, and will be consummated in our lifetime. Never before (since the Flood) has the world been so uniformly controlled by an anti-Christian power. Now the influence and deception of "that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan" has indeed reached "the whole world", with the remaining pockets of official resistance being destroyed (Libya) or subdued (Switzerland).

When the situation looks dark, verse 10 gives a surprising word: "Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night." This means that the salvation, etc. is come now, since it is good that Satan is cast down. Of course it will mean some difficulty to "the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea", and this is because Satan "knoweth that he hath but a short time".

The key to overcoming is not fighting Satan. I also did not demand compensation for the unrightful seize of all my assets in 2008-09, accompanied with the usual grievances (eg. lost or damaged items, loss of opportunity and damaged business). The key is "the word of their testimony" which is the word you are uttering here and now - the word that upholds Jesus and condemns the evil actions of Satan and his apparatus in this world! And of course the precious "blood of the Lamb", the redeeming death of Jesus Christ, the God-Man, which death 'ratified the script' according to which the happenings in the world play out, removing the (albeit distant) possibility of God's promise not being fulfilled, since it is fulfilled already!

Yes for "a short time" still we must suffer the brunt of the wrath of Satan, the loser. I write this not only for your and Burt's encouragement but also to be a solemn word of warning to the agents, judges, etc. who read this. In the day of judgement, each one of you is evaluated separately. The system you put your trust on (such as the U.S. Government) does not exist anymore. You must stand before God all by yourself, and you will be found wanting. You must have the precious blood of Jesus as a cover or else you will perish all eternity. No matter if you are a justice or a general or Jacob Rothschild, without the acceptance of Jesus' blood in your lifetime, you will perish in the lake of fire, prepared for Satan and his angels.

If you are covered by the blood of Jesus, however, your deeds will be evaluated: If you gave water to drink to the saints of God, it counts as good, and if you hunted and destroyed them by killing or prison, this is very bad for you. Search your conscience if it honestly even allows you to have anything to do with the government, your employer! My conscience does not allow me even to vote anymore, or defend myself except with the word of Jesus, when they repeatedly come to harass me. You come to harass me. Without you, Satan would not have hands or feet. Think about it deeply in your conscience, because this is about your eternal destiny. Mine and JeanW's is already determined. No matter what you do, you can only add to our eventual glory by persecuting us now. But much more than receiving this glory, we would rejoice if you also dropped the evil ways of Satan and joined us, and saved yourself!

(Without the redeeming blood of Jesus Christ, me and JeanW would be going to the lake of fire prepared for Satan. We were not born any better, we were saved. That is no item of being self-proud. Apostle Paul said that he would choose to perish if he could save even one of you. Today is the opportune time, the day of salvation!)

Only 2 days time to repair the collapsed buildings! You can re-erect them with the help of BI, and use 100% of the old stone in the process.

If you don't, the stone will be cleared and deposited to your stone account and the building removed from register prior to entering the Ultima age.

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The drink plan affects how long you live! Later you can directly decide to consume your choice of bottles, for now you will have to specify it with numbers:
1) anything that keeps me healthy (most expensive option)
2) wine mostly, and liquor
3) beer with some wine (balanced)
4) beer
5) mead.

Everybody already has the specification so that's not likely to be needed to change. But everybody needs to procure the drinks for themselves, we are not at present doing it. We greatly hope that everyone would consider their health, and we are happy that the wine W1603A feels very healthy!

Is it likely that people will ever realize that the "government" is not their servant, but a leech?

I mean, if they don't, the life of us freedom people remains difficult.

If they do, everybody's problems are over.

What bugs me in these discussions is that many think of government as their enemy. But there is no legitimate government that behaves such. The same as if you regard your father, mother, school, employer, God, etc. as your enemy. The system is very much wrong if that is the case. Any support for such a "government" should be withdrawn and peaceful people asked to stay away from it.

Improvements and reconstructions

- OZ North African Palace in 2-C/2-S is fitted with WIRS.

- Royal Palace facade has been repaired throughout and raised to Very Elaborate (as its rivals GH and NP already were since antiquity); repair% of the structure is now 1.1-1.15 ; a side-effect was that the 3 year-old interior lux was needed to be replaced at a total cost of 600 mil but at least we now have enough IC1600 for present and future uses, is is even for sale for as little as 0.28 mil. Get yours!

- HofM facade has been renovated with piety, and is now Very Elaborate throughout.

- The cost of Very Elaborate Facade has been raised to 45,000 from 42,000 due to shortage of skilled workers.

- RWWC saw that windows were not sold out and decided to install 621*WIRS to its own structures. Window price is now 350,000/sqm, which combined with the reduced stone price of 145/stone (by Royal CryptoArmy and NewCorp in B:s 1, 2, 3 and 5) means lower costs for builders.

- Soul, Sarajas and Town gardened certain areas in the Old Town. The Town has assumed the right to make unbuilt lots parks in urban areas. The owner may still build at any time. Parks increase the payouts of nearby buildings.

- El Bulli has been renovated by Paulson's wealth manager (King). The townhouse also had a slight repair.

- The Town Clocktower in 2-C is restored to even greater glory with Very Elaborate Facade throughout. The 225 sqm which was unbuilt between the Clocktower and Cryptoknight Town Palace is now for sale (2-C-A9, 225 mil).

- King installed windows to all 2-W-L lots at his expense, and made the unsold lots 50% lux. They are still for sale for 25 mil for all players who do not have any house. This compares quite favorably with other such offerings and price may be raised soon.

Building Calculator V.3.91

This calculator enables you to build buildings and repair collapsed buildings. It is immediately in force and replaces the older BC V.3.9.

Preface

Buildings reside in /BLDG and they are an optional property of a Lot. A Lot may have 0 or more Buildings. A Building is a functional, not a structural unit. Therefore it is possible for several identical structures in the same lot to be part of one Building, and one structural unit to be split in several different Buildings according to the features and usage.

Buildings consist of:
- a frame, which is saved as a pixel image with notes (explanation should be sufficient for constructing the frame from 1x1x1 m voxels);
- stone, as much as is needed to build the frame, pave the terraces etc.;
- windows, currently: one type to fill all of the windowholes, later: list of different types and specification;
- luxuries, according to the formula lux%*sqm;
- facades, expressed as elaborateness towards a direction.

Soon also doors and staircases will be implemented, as well as gold inscriptions and similar. After the complete Items management, all interior fixed and movable features.


The frame costs money to make, and this is a sunken cost. The frame deteriorates slowly (repair%) and needs renovation or risks collapse.

Stone can be recycled in 100%. (Because this was earlier 90%, the new frame construction price is increased to account for the "stone depreciation", the same thing that requires the "indestructible material reshaping fee" be used in connection of gold and silver thread in the suits.) Existing building owners have suffered enough. Therefore the update is made free of charge to them!

Windows don't age, but may get destroyed for other reasons such as the great white light.

Luxuries depreciate slowly.

Facades depreciation follows the frame and they are repaired (without additional cost, based on the gratitude of the workers that there are great buildings in the town!) with the frame as well.


The formula for building is as follows
You may never make more than one Building/Repair Project to one building during one year!

1. Demolition:
- If you demolish the building, you get the stone and windows in the building back to you 100% and at no cost.
- If a building collapses, the windows and lux are destroyed
- Luxury can be cleared at no cost and yields sqm * lux units of ICxxxx , where xxxx is the year of the last repair project to the building, (or the building project if it had not been repaired before, however no earlier than 1600).

2. Repair or Luxury upgrade to an existing building:
- For 30,000 m/sqm, you can upgrade repair by 0.2 (0.8 max). For 45,000, upgrade to 0.8. For 90,000, to 1.10.
- Luxury costs 2,000 m/1%/1sqm, and can be added to the existing luxury to the maximums mentioned previously. It should be noted that adding luxury resets the "IC year", therefore it should be checked if it's better to strip away the previous luxury and have a completely new one in its stead.

3. New building (materials):
- Calculate the number of qum of stone in your walls, ceilings and other structures, multiply by 300. You need this many stone.
- Calculate the sqm of windowholes. You need this many windows. Building anew without windows is outlawed!
- Doorholes dont' cost or require anything for now. The installation of proper doors later will cost you. Number of doorholes (sqm) will be recorded now.
- Same for wooden staircases.

4. New building (labor):
- One qum of stone requires 18,000 m labor
In addition, the surcharges for particularly skilled work:
- High arch with the longer span of 5-12 m (low arch can only span 4 anyway), or a dome max 14 m: 80,000 m/sqm
- Columns (any elements whose height>2.6*max(length,width)): 50,000 m/cum
- Massive Columns (any elements whose height>5.1*max(length,width)): 150,000 m/cum

5. Features:
- Paving needs 100 stone per sqm, and the work costs 2,400 m/sqm (the building footprint + paved yards)
- Pedestal/terraform needs no materials, and the work costs 3,000 m/qum
- Park/Garden needs no materials, and the work costs 5,000 m/sqm

6. Windows:
- Window installation fee comes in addition to the cost of windows:
* 60,000 m/sqm for WIRS, WIAS, WIAL, WIA1, WIMA2, WIMA3
* 100,000 m/sqm for WIASS (small pane)
* 140,000 m/sqm for WIASSS (tiny pane)
* 300,000 m/sqm for WIASG (stained glass)

7. Additionals:
- There is a surcharge based on the height of the roofline (the ceiling of the highest floor that has at least 50% of the floor area of the floor area of the largest floor, or other BI-approved metric): buildings with max 15 m don't have surcharge; for each additional meter, the surcharge is 10,000 m per sqm. A 25% discount (7,500 m/sqm surcharge) applies in 1603, after which normal rate is levied.

- The Architect and Building Inspector will charge for their services.

(NEW!) 8. Facades:
- Facades are a new feature in /BLDG "AL"-"AP". Having an Elaborate Facade built sets the Facade year, which is a permanent property. Some of the ancient buildings in town have their facades constructed in the year of the building, some later. Most (75%) of the buildings do not have any elaborate facades, which contributes to those corners of the town looking dull and reduces their chances to become more Central.

Now, luckily it is finally possible to build facades to old and new buildings alike! The cost formula is as follows:

Elaborate facade (1) = 8,000 m/sqm

Most Elaborate facade (2) = 18,000 m/sqm

Very Elaborate facade (3) = 45,000 m/sqm

And "sqm" naturally stands for the "flat area" of the face of the building towards that direction. Approximate area is well enough, no need for pixel-counting here!


All building costs (except materials purchased) will go to the same account, #37 Special Services Pool

The new building(s) needs to be recorded in /BLDG tab. There is no need to record them anywhere else, including the /LOT or the antiquated Building Registry.

Version 3.9U release schedule updated

Version 3.9U Reconstruction will be released for existing players on Sunday, 2015-9-6.


Hopefully I am not the only one who is waiting the new software like a child is waiting for Christmas...  

The project started with a very intense 18/7 bootcamp in the lush grounds of the Royal Palace of Malla. Now it has been a little disappointment that stuff is not happening as fast as there, even though it is rather obvious that 60 hours per week is not the same as 120 hours.

I am sorry for not updating the progress estimates to reflect reality sooner. Fact remains that the new software needs to be more functional than google DB before the migration is useful, and the versatility of google DB is hard to beat. The command line is an attempt to enable power use.

The daily sneak peek to the new features:
- Town Map shows all the 9 boroughs, and each chapelry by the number of lots in that chapelry.
- Chapelry Map shows graphically the lots inside the chapelry (as we remember, lots are not confined to quadrats any more, but may be any size and shape). It has 3 layers, of which you can select Land Usage (street, park, unbuilt, built, ...), Building Density (greyscale) or Lot Division (emphasizing the different lots).




Stone has been re-added to Items, so the next post will enable building once again, for the rest of the year. The year will change to 1604 a bit ahead of schedule already on Saturday.

Town ask prices for lots have been updated!

In awaiting of the opening of new boroughs and the flocking in of new players, the Town has reduced the ask prices for the remaining lots in B:s 1, 2 and 5, where the Town has lots on offer.

Many of the Town lots are premium that the private realtors cannot offer, such as 2-E-I2, small lot surrounded by streets and built-up area from every side, and the lots around San Pietro Square and the beginning of Champs-Élysées.

I asked and the answer was "yes".

Buy your stone at a discount!

After some experiments with the stone piles in people's front yards, everybody had found the idea stupid. So the stone was carried back to borough-wide depositories where it can be redeemed by showing a deposit card. This also facilitates trade better than before.

NewCorp has produced a record amount of stone, but the buyers are not there because building is paused. We remain committed to provide the stone to all the building needs, and want to offer a 3.3% per year discount for buyers. Buy your stone for the next year project now and get it at 145 instead of 150, the normal price! Thanks to NewCorp, the price of stone has been brought from 180-200 to 150!


NewCorp seeks financing from its members

NewCorp nominal share capital is 22.8 bil. We are seeking new financing for the quarries and purchasing of new land. Only the Members are eligible to give new money. The valuation is 111 mil/share, same that King used in his last capital injection to get the salaries paid last year. We need ~5 bil now. If there is too much or too little interest, the valuation will be adjusted.

The Members of NewCorp are:
King
HH of NF
Soul
Tavastia
Thud

The town size is regulated by the following rule: 10% of the area of the town should be all the time for sale by the Town as complete chapelry-sized lots. When more land is bought by the characters so that this does not hold any more, the Town will buy more land from the King and offer it for sale.

The price for an unburdened (Normal tax) chapelry is 1,000 mil. When new chapelries are sold, the price starts at 2,000 mil and drops incrementally to 1,000 mil over the same year, so that there is a practical Dutch auction allowing the quarry companies and other interested buyers to snatch the chapelry before the competitors, at a price they still deem profitable for their operations.

The geology for the new boroughs regarding quarrying has been assessed and can be seen in /QUARRY3.

As we remember, the 1-SE "Village" chapelry is burdened by 7,000 m/sqm/year extra land tax. The Borough 9 will similarly be burdened with extra tax, although the rate will be only 10% of this: 700 m/sqm/year. Because of this, the price of the land there is not floored to 1,000 mil but goes all the way down until taken by a buyer.

If these new lands are bought such quickly that 10% does not remain in the Town ownership, more land will be offered in Borough 10 onwards, in a new circle further from the Old Town, with similar terms and procedures, one borough per year (unless this is clearly not enough).

There are also plans to tighten the population density in the centre and open the somewhat hilly "Borough 22" in between Old Town and San Pietro, and the plain "Borough 23" in between Old Town and University. Before these can be done, great advances in Science are necessary, and this valuable land will probably be given to the contributors towards these advances or some other special arrangement. We do not see it happening just yet, or in a short time.