When you have a family, you care about the world you leave to your offspring.

If it is not worth dying for, it is not worth living for either.


(The scumbaggish attitude in the quote, is an epitome to why evil has already grown so prevalent - if you do nothing, that's what you get)

How to increase your status among new players, make friends, and make the game succeed?

The year change -script is a good way to give things every week and increase the playability in the only way we can for now


The following things can be used as triggers:

Reaching a certain level  (levels can be had on multiple ways, many times explained in the thread as well - also old chars will be recipients if they had not reached the level before)

Reaching a certain amount of EXP  (EXP is equal to active playing time in minutes, calculated in the same way as BCT, so is a good way to reward people who spend time in playing the game - EXP is also the only thing that is evaluated continuously - note that old characters also start accumulating EXP so will be recipients as well)

Reaching a certain amount of CUL  (CUL requires magnanimity and/or playing higher stakes, so is a good way to reward power players - old ones will only get gifted if they reach the limit anew, not if they have already reached it)

Reaching a certain Char Age  (in case you want to give a round years birthday gift - commoners may start at 15-50 years of age)

Housewarming gift  (if the character acquired his first house last year, new and old alike)


How to make a functioning gift

- Everyone is entitled to make 1 gift line, Earls and higher maximum 2 lines.

- Give something that is somehow related to you, or money, or something to drink (as you would IRL...)

- The least expensive item is a liter of MEAD at 1,000 m - while it will not be rejected by the system, I would consider it proper to give gifts at minimum in the 50,000 m range even for the starting players, and higher if you set the qualification higher.

- Note that gold and silver are not premium-only; they are valuable gifts.

- Make a giveaway that affects many enough people - if you target the lowest levels, it is good to allocate to give to 100 or more characters, for higher levels, perhaps 10 recipients minimum - depends..

Crypto Kingdom Vigil

Where I live, it is getting late...

... but the release is tomorrow, 24 calendar days since the start of the Ultima project. This has really felt the same as the original design of the game, from idea to acceptance of first characters and selling of gold to them, in 9 days. Incredible progress by the smallest possible team in the shortest possible time frame is the best thing in life. We already have the MG-2's and gifts and possessions so the joy of work well-done is the greatest reward.

It will be 3 more hours until it's again my turn to pick the baton and check the next iteration of the game. The database is currently ready for migration, but the platform needs a few more stuff put together. It is my intention that I could start sending the passwords by (in most cases) the Bitcointalk PM, in about 14 hours from now. Sending the temp passwords and making sure that the account gets activated by the right person, will take some manual work. The accounts will be activated in the order of precedence, which means that it may take quite a bit longer for the commoners. For security reasons I will ask for help if I need; do not offer it yourself as it will raise suspicion rather

The tomorrow's release is interactive, online version, named V.3.9U Reconstruction. It is a stopgap measure to get the data migrated to the Ultima platform as soon as possible. It will handle the data types Characters, Items, Lots and Buildings. It is not very much playable yet, meaning that there is not much to play - the life of commoners and new non-depositing entrants is quite boring. This is all intended, for now. The new releases V.4 (by end of Sept), V.5 (Oct) and V.6 (Dec) will make this a game. Currently it is a graphic interface for a growing database of objects, tradable between characters. The number of different tradable things is 2,000+, and the total number of instances is 300,000+, making some specialization needed for merchants, who cannot be knowledgeable about all things all the time.

While it is a fact that this is the most important milestone in the game so far, yet it is not yet a game that we are releasing (  ), perhaps there is something we could do to make the entry of the new players nice at this stage. We are not so many yet and we need everyone who are interested, to get hooked to the game, with nothing else to show except our glorious history and the items that testify to it. There will be the automated character promotion working from the get go, all the way from L1 to L14. The level promotion formula is top secret, nobody else except me and the Wizard Dev know it. It has 17 things that (might) affect the promotions. Promotions will be happening on the year change, which also bumps up the age of the character.

We will be having a Promotion Gift functionality, where existing players can semi-automatically list items to be gifted to each of the characters who reach a certain level. A few of these have already been conceived, including the 3 CKS silver ring by the Town Hall (THS1, to be gifted to chars reaching L3) and the 3 CKG gold coin by the Town (CT1600C, gifting condition undecided). Hopefully we will get an increasing list of quality items to be given to the new players now, to raise them to status nearer to the Ancients and the 1600s and give them a clear edge compared to the masses that will join us when the game not only exists, but is playable as well later this year and the years following.

The integrated items trading platform will be first viewable to me in a few hours, for which reason cannot say too much about it. I won't be expecting anything less than a full-blown exchange though, with all the 2,000 items categorized and ready to be traded. For the first time, micropayments will be feasible in the game, making it possible for the items to be traded at any price, even 1,000 m ($0.0005). To avoid clutter, in the future there will be an unique item creation fee of about 10,000 m (about 1/100 of the L3 PC game-annual salary).

I will leave for the thought process, what could be the best gift from the King and to which level!

Great Gifts of Celebration!

Many might remember that more than 2 years ago, all doors were removed from buildings and have been stored in the basement of Arco di Sergiu ever since. The guard who normally patrols outside the building, decided by happenstance to go inside as well, and in a quiet corner, behind the piles of doors, lay a GIANT BARREL! Similar to what they are using in Villa Nova da Gaia. The contents were examined and with the most certainty, the liquid inside is a pre-earthquake wine. We are naming it W1603A, after the year of bottling, because no drink may be claimed to be ancient.

The barrel was so huge that 14,226 bottles were filled. Nobody had laid claim to the barrel, so it was decided that it is a gift to everyone in the Town. The function of distribution took heavily into account the existing stocks of wine the people had (it's fair to give to those who already have the same kind, right?) and a little also the culture accumulated (CULture is always the end-all beneficiary of every goodness). Everybody was given at least 12 bottles to taste.

It is not known yet at all whether the wine is good or not, at least it is already oak-matured...

The CHURCH is giving 600 bottles of free beer to everyone who has declared themselves to be a beer-drinker.

The TOWN is giving 600 liters of free mead to everyone who is a mead-drinker.

The KING is declaring amnesty on all overdrafts and giving 500,000 m playmoney to all accounts that would otherwise have less.

Migration Announcement


The Google DB goes on pause effective immediately. Do not make any changes to the tabs there!

The schedule is that today, in about 4 hours, the Google DB will be prepared for data transfer (by me).

We hope to be able to open the Ultima platform for the players tomorrow, using the procedure described in the earlier message.

After this, Google DB may only be used for external actions, the results of which must be imported to the Ultima DB.

Extremely Important


Migration of Character Accounts to CK Ultima Platform


General

In the year 1603, the Kingdom will finally be playable in the proprietary gaming software, called Crypto Kingdom Ultima platform. Our centuries-long exile will have been ended.

Meanwhile, the Kingdom has greatly prospered, with 40 Nobles, 100 other PC/Corps, 6 boroughs, 140,000 floor-sqm, etc.

To ensure that the keys to all this (already vast, but hopefully just the seed) wealth are given to the right hands, the following procedure has been decided, and this will overrule everything that has been said previously about this. It may be changed by Town Council vote.

There are currently no Tribe Accounts - every character must be logged in separately when it is played. It is advisable, as always, to use separate password.


Character Account Types

1. Character Account M1

This is the anonymous character account, where no information has been provided to enable access to the account if the password is lost. There is no way to prove identity in this case, which results in the eventual death of the character and sweep of assets if no heir is designated.

2. Character Account M2

This is the anonymous character account, where there are password recovery details provided (eg. email address for resetting password). In this case, the account is not as easy to be lost, but easier to be hacked than in the M1 case (since a breach in any of the reset-password services compromises the account).

3. Character Account M3

A higher security level, against both loss of passwords and unauthorized access. There are manual IRL/online procedures for authenticating the rightful owner of the account regardless of the login, which makes it always possible for you to regain the account. The details are kept secret for security reasons. This is the account for the one who wants to play The Person Known As basis, transcending both the physical and online bureaucracy. (Extra charge.) NOTE: Do not ever buy an account that is in security level M3, because the original owner might have any tricks in place to gain it back regardless of what the new owner does (including change of all passwords).


Character Account transfer procedure

Each character has been determined "rightful owner" credentials (/CHAR "E"). The username for the character account is in /CHAR "D". The password will be given by me to the credentials address. Depending about the size of the account etc., there might be additional security checks involved. (If I or anyone asks security questions about game events etc., just answer them ) The progress and accreditation of the authentication is shown in /CHAR "F"-"G".

Once the account is accredited (/CHAR "G"), the "Credentials" (/CHAR "E") become invalid.


Unclaimed accounts

Character Accounts not claimed in 14 days since the original contact attempt to the credentials, will be put on Wealth Management assigned by the Town. The Wealth Managers do conservative gold and bond investments and correct obvious imbalances (such as no clothes). There is a charge. A character can be claimed using the original credentials until 1617 (mid-December 2015), after which the ownership of the characters passes to the Town. The characters might have died in the meantime, but this does not change the claims deadline. The Town can do to the characters as they wish afterwards.

A) goes to Tavastia for 15 mil

B)-E) to OZ for 670 mil

Congratulations for the winners!

The company is now emptied so that 1,432,137 m is divided per old share. The investments did not go entirely bad since in the space of 37 years only, which included the dreaded Earthquake, the NAV was able to be increased by 43%, and when the company was still actively operating, it paid yearly dividends as well.

For which reason: Tavastia 125

About 9 minutes left

1.5 hours left in the auction! Especially this item (40*4 CKG coin, of a series that has not been distributed yet) is going for really cheap - current price is only 9.6 million over melt value for the whole lot!

The Bank is happy to lend it out now!

As we take your money at 1.4% per week, the loans can be negotiated in the 2.0-3.0% range. Just recently Golden Harp Corp. contracted 600 million!

More BSB1610 have been added for sale at a price of 91/100.

All I wanted to say is that the compensation was not debited because my job was just to get the stone away. You are free to do whatever with it now, including sell it if needed. (The easiest would be if LL pays the owner some agreed compensation, eg. the midprice 133 m/stone).

By chance, if you intend to remodel them, I am offering my arch services! All the rest of the buildings in the Boulevard (North) in 3-W are designed by me and have uniform appearance (Town Registry, Portal, Zech Offices, Smooth Offices).

Tavastia: 230+230

Tavastia is always scavenging for good deals and bids the following:
A) 15 mil
B) 110 mil
C)-E) 170 mil each
F)-G) 210 mil each

I have been both a silver maximalist and Bitcoin maximalist before, even fiat maximalist in my very early years prior to the Nasdaq bubble, and I have to +1.

You have found Bitcoin, and now your life has ended. Sounds about as compelling as replacing "Bitcoin" with "Jesus"? 

"Bonds" are always in m, so monetary. Private loans can be anything, see previous message. Currently only The Town and The Hypothecary Bank can call their obligations "bonds".

Bond is a coupon that pays a certain amount (here so far always: 100 million) upon expiry, and expiration is in the end of year quoted. When the Bank sells its bonds, it will also quote a BUY rate, so that you can sell the bond back prematurely if you need money sooner. The existing bonds by all issuers are also given a buy quote.

The exact terms of financial instruments can be seen in /F_OWN. Important is whether the issue is backed by the town, or is dependent on the issuer.

Since the bonds are just items that you buy and sell, any admin can process the trade. I think the maximum emission is 20 units (~1,800 mil).

Please check the tab /DEBTS. This is in such a format that it cannot be carried to Ultima except as items that must be manually enforced (as it is now). It is better to get rid of many of these, as they should have matured by now.

Random pickings from the new, uniform, items registry:

King is selling the Old Department Store stock, 8 jewelry boxes from 1499 (CAO-1), most ancient, most elaborate token gilded wood. Price: 10 mil/box. Not for resellers!

Soul is buying stock in several companies, check the prices and act (or outbid!)

The Bank is accepting deposits! New short bond BSB1610 is making you money when you sleep and paying 1.4% APR, almost double that of gold.

Gold is now traded material+premium. The coinshop can still make trades, just trade directly in /F_OWN using the prices and maximums there!

King and Roopatra have entered a lot of bids and asks for gold coins (also silver and copper)!

IC now costs 0.3 mil only (with King, IC1602)!

RWWC is again out of windows, but Tavastia is selling 700*WIRS at a surprisingly good price of 0.4 mil!

THC - Town Housing Corporation seeks to wind down and distribute the proceeds to the shareholders.

THC was founded in 1565 to promote land speculation and temporary buildings construction in the town. It has now achieved the objectives of showing to the players how new land should quickly be put to use and bulldozed when necessary. It has not, however, achieved the objective of being a liquid investment vehicle. Also gold has become even more liquid in the meantime.

The following things will be auctioned, and only <24 hours is given, so cheap stuff can be had!
(closes tomorrow at 21:00 BCTT)

A) The Ancient Corporation #81 (shell) in the Registry (new corps cost 10 mil and this is historical), includes Founding Document on parchment and Reconstruction Medal (bronze)
- Minimum bid 10 mil, increments of 5 mil

B) 160 CKG in the form of 40*HC1600D, 4 CKG collectible gold coins (unissued)
- Minimum bid 100 mil, increments 5 mil

C) The Lot 3-C-B10 with a 368 sqm model1 house (all lots are 400 sqm)
- Minimum bid 170 mil, increments 10 mil (BUY ME NOW(TM) - lot is directly for sale @220 mil)

D) The Lot 3-C-B11 with a 368 sqm model1 house
- Minimum bid 170 mil, increments 10 mil (BUY ME NOW(TM) - lot is directly for sale @220 mil)

E) The Lot 3-C-B12 with a 368 sqm model1 house
- Minimum bid 170 mil, increments 10 mil (BUY ME NOW(TM) - lot is directly for sale @220 mil)

F) The Lot 3-W-D5 with a 368 sqm model1 house
- Minimum bid 190 mil, increments 10 mil (BUY ME NOW(TM) - lot is directly for sale @250 mil)

G) The Lot 3-W-D6 with a 368 sqm model1 house
- Minimum bid 190 mil, increments 10 mil (BUY ME NOW(TM) - lot is directly for sale @250 mil)


If the auction is successful and all items catch a bid, the company is closed. If not all items catch a bid, the item A) will not be sold either.