Unallocated CKG is erased tomorrow by smelting

We have come to the nice situation that we are able to make gold 100% allocated in the same way silver already is. Therefore, gold objects will always have a form, and they can be traded based on weight, again the same way.

Existing unallocated gold will be minted to bulk coins and bars, bearing the year 1602, automatically, against a token mint charge. The Royal Mint will be built first of course.

Remodeling your gold will not require IC in the future - it can be done against a very modest goldsmith fee. Gold is indestructible, so any amount of remodeling does not make a gram disappear.

I tried that a conference would have been ongoing about now but nobody had the money for the plane tickets 

Hey but you know about vodka more than anyone else - since you have now tasted 100 bottles of VOD and 10 bottles of VOH, could you tell your opinion if there is any difference in taste or feeling??

There is this theory that the VOH would be much more healthy because it has the life-giving water from pre-earthquake times. But personally I did not notice much difference in taste, but then again my vodka consumption is only 14 bottles per year and that only in mixed drinks....

Playable Ultima Version V3.9U is near!


About 6 days and we will migrate our Characters, Lots, Buildings and Items to the Ultima platform and start trading there. From that on, googleDB will be used only for activities that are not yet in the Ultima platform, but the authoritative bookkeeping will be there.

Player accounts

All characters will be tried to be contacted using the method how they have originally entered the game. Care will be used in authentication, and imposters will be rejected, so do not try to contact us - we will contact you!

Unclaimed player accounts will be given to wealth managers who will charge from their services according to Town rates. If the account is still unclaimed after 12 months, it will be swept by the Town and the money spent in marketing.

Database changes

The GoogleDB is undergoing very many changes as it is prepared for migration, but the main functions will be usable unless there is a text in red paint telling otherwise.

Ultima V3.9U features

Management of characters
Buying and selling of everything (land, items, stock, NPC)
Re-Zoning lots
Building Project, at least some way
Interactive Map View
Lot-specific Chat

SCI added to owners of SPEcialists, MGR-5, MGR-4, BUT-9, BUT-8

Many have noticed that the Army owners got their reward in the form of WIA35, and restaurant owners in the form of VOH. Now the rest of the NPC's get their reward as about 2,500 SCI points have been given, most of them to SPE owners. From now on until Ultima is in better shape, the NPC's will be tradable as items, will not incur salary, and will reassume their roles as workers when the economic subgames start again.

This is now becoming true, as all the NON-Ancient characters who fulfill the condition have been gifted this ancient item (THS1). First 12 rings have been gifted.

Haha page 1337... there are many companies, and this one is on the good side (see the discussion in Monero Speculation when I introduced it).

I don't believe the dark side is that much on accumulating XMR peacefully, they rather steal and destroy. Sometimes I wonder how so many people still want to work for them.. 

LOL your cluelessness is funny. How about coming to have one more conference in the autumntime?

I cannot gift the Arco to you, it is one of the most valuable buildings in the whole game and you cannot manage it (even though you can manage the Royal Palace, isn't that a coincidence?).

BMW:

LOL as if I did not know you, my loyal servant!

(recorded)

mil, which equals XMR.


Added. And your drink plan is updated to "V", which means that vodka is your usual drink, and if there is not enough (168 bottles per week), then beer is consumed instead.

I gave 10 bottles of VOH, the historical vodka, for tasting as well.


Would be extremely pleased that the other admins would do such things as this, so that there would be a possibility for me to concentrate on pushing the game forward - you know - design and development!! Charge it from the town if that's the issue..

Wait - a - moment !!

So far we have been laboring with the drink situation. And it has not even appeared to us that:

The only drink in existence, which still contains the water from the two springs - the Liquid of Immortality - is the historical vodka, VOH!

It is difficult to ascertain whether the effect is still there or not, and how large it is, and the vodka tastes only somewhat better than the current one -

- nevertheless Tavastia has speculated and bought up Roopatra's trading stock. (And listed it for sale at double the price.)

1602 - The Year When We Started Counting Drinks

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In the merry old years, drinks were not implemented, because even the water was very good, and there was no need to drink for health - everyone was immortal just because of the life-giving water.

Now it's not so merry anymore. Yearly (realweekly), 168 bottles of something needs to be drunk. MEAD is cheap but dangerous for health, BEER is neutral, and different WINEs and spirits are good.

The /CHAR/"M"(drink plan) shows the approximate consumption per character. The exact data is in /F_OWN very end.

Please make changes to both if you want to tailor your drinking. If your drink total is less than 168 bottles, water is drunk instead (health warning - even worse than mead!). More than 200 bottles is not really needed.

Exact health, life and death, are known only to God. Take heed on every hint you get how things happen behind the scenes, and do what you can on your part


Current estimate:

SPIRITS
 CLXII - 6 bottles
 CVS - 12 bottles
 VOH - 19 bottles

WINES
 W1600 - 936 bottles
 W1601B - 727 bottles
 W1600M - 780 bottles

BEER
 - 7812 bottles

MEAD
 - 6720 liters

WATER
- 0 liters

Future peek: In Ultima V5-6 and beyond, you can drink 24 bottle lots in restaurants at bulk prices for sustenance, and individual bottles for show and specific purposes. In addition to the various kinds of spirits and wines (perhaps a hundred of both will eventually be available, making the stocking decisions of the restaurants more difficult), other substances can also be enjoyed to boost health. Coffee, Cigars, Green Herbs, and Mushrooms will eventually be added.

My plans haven't changed. The "company" is accumulating 100,000s of XMR and it takes time. I have told all in advance. When this phase is ready, we go to the next phase and open trading. September is still the timeframe.

You can ask the others how they are doing.

But the most important/interesting thing happening with XMR is still Crypto Kingdom.

The coefficients -2.8698 and 0.003012 are dynamic and recalculated daily from past price data.

So it's more like $5,000 now - which still IS somewhat higher than the actual price 

Forte Spagnolo Vineyards Last Produce For A Long Time

The grapes have gone bad both in 1600 and 1601. The workers have dutifully tried a third time in the hostile climactic conditions. 830 bottles of wine, grown and made in Old Town, have been able to be produced. Initial tasting shows that while everything turned out well this year, it just does not make sense to produce wine with a low yield and average quality.

Let's see what the Prince wants to do with the batch!



King is selling useful items

It is still possible to increase the Rental pool payouts a lot for this Sunday dividend (1602): Buy ancient windows from the King! Many sizes available.

King is selling W1600, price lowered to 60,000 m/bottle (100,000)!

King is selling IC, price lowered to 300,000 m/IC (400,000)!

King is selling TS silver coins, for instance the ask for old TS148 is only 3 mil, near the melt value!

No one else except Thud and Mooo have been nominated.

We will give 24 more hours until the decision is final, and the new Council can start meeting.

Some of the pressing issues:

- Everything related to the data migration to the Ultima platform and the release of V3.9U in 2015-8-27 (next Friday)
- Marketing of the game now, as we finally are online - strategies, execution
- Giving more admin responsibilities to the Sheriffs and Deputies (Sheriff is administering a Borough and Deputy a Chapelry). Mayor continues to administer the whole Town. Rules and compensation.
- Money flow in the pools (currently dividends 7,000 mil+ per week, which is a lot)
- Giving out admin responsibilities (promotion of commoners, Town character management)

San Pietro (borough) opens in Full Glory!

Please have a quick look at the Map DB /OV-5 and the full look in the Ultima version.

Borough 5 is becoming a monument of the new Baroque era. We have a 30 m wide King's Esplanade coming from the Old Town and continuing south (one of our main trading directions). The new 40 m wide Champs-Élysées is starting from the San Pietro Cathedral and going to the Versailles borough. When we get the Quarry4 and Building Project subgames working, the slack capacity of NewCorp will be used to build Versailles, thousands after thousands of sqm of Royal Château.

Town has zoned the new Piazza di San Pietro, and 6 new lots lining it, with views to the Piazza and the San Pietro itself over it. The lots are for sale, priced at 300-700, for the most demanding buyers.
- Piazza di San Pietro 1
- Piazza di San Pietro 2
- Piazza di San Pietro 3
- Piazza di San Pietro 4
- Avenue de Champs-Élysées 1
- Avenue de Champs-Élysées 2

Two more lots lining San Pietro to the south are also for sale @200.
(The lots mentioned in this post are 4-5 q in size)


"Where do you live?"
  - In Champs-Élysées 1, why?

TFLP - Town Free Land Plan


The Mayor has finally finished the plans about how to provide homes for the new players who are soon flocking to our town.

TFLP is the scheme where each new player who reaches the rank of Beginner (L3) is given a TFLP point. It can be used to redeem free land (in connection to building a minimum sized house (30-60 sqm) to the said land), or even to gain a free lot with a modest 15 sqm building included! Also the existing players who are at least in the rank of Beginner (and at most Master), and who do not own any land, are given a TFLP point.

The Town has also listed 10 small lots for sale (in chapelries 4-N, 4-C and 4-S) to all players at very modest prices (8-25 mil a lot!). For the first 48 hours though, HM and his wealth management clients and anyone Earl or higher, may not buy these cheap lots. Let them be saved for other players who might want to invest their dividends or otherwise have extra money to spare

Free Land experiment continues in Borough 4

Borough 4 "Free Land" started in the Cultured era in the game (late 1500s). Because of its many drawbacks (unhealthy for characters living in there, pedestal required for all construction, no stone available locally, height limit, impassable areas), it was designated to be a land free for building - you can claim the land in the process.

This was meant to be the way for the commoners to get a better life affordably, but has been used extensively by the nobles to get free land by building massive ugly housing projects there. Once that was outlawed, the masters turned to exploit the rules as well.

Now we need to rethink - how to preserve the opportunity to get cheap land and houses to the people. There is a zoning process going on with some new streets built by the Town. The Central Park will stay a park, and the Town offices will be constructed to the south of it. A new street, Restaurant Row, is opened with land claimable only by restaurants. A lot is given for the Borough Church in the center.

- 2 Chapelries are totally given to the Church to organize housing there. The only limitation is that no profit shall be sought and beauty shall be upheld to the extent possible.
- 1 Chapelry shall be reserved for future use.
- The rest, 5 partially-claimed chapelries, will be zoned for (mainly) residential use, with interestingly sized and shaped lots, with minimum building requirements, and 1/character limit, commoners only. This requires a unique building project per character but 1-2 model houses will be provided for reference or outright use. About 100 lots will be zoned for new players to take advantage, in addition to what the Church decides to make.
- A few small lots in the central areas will also be listed for sale.

(all changes are not yet listed in /LOT, please enroll yourself for help if you have time! )

NewCorp stone market has opened. In the mid-longer term (once we get the Quarry3 running and before the Boroughs 6, 8, 9 are opened to break the monopoly*) we intend to sell stone.

But right now we also need to buy stone. So unless you have a reason for holding stone balances, now is a good time to sell them and net about +70% compared to the price of as little as 2 years** ago!

So please mention directly to the admins if this is in your interest!
- The current price is in /trade_stone tab!
- The admin to record the trade gets a 7% commission payable by the buyer, NewCorp
- The seller gets a NC1600C gold coin p.o.

Also every buyer of stone from NewCorp gets the NC1600C gold coin p.o. as follows:
- minimum buy to get the coin is 200,000 stone, or the whole amount needed in the building project, if it is less
- minimum sale to get the coin is 200,000 stone, or the whole holding in a borough, if it is less
- (when buying stone from us for a building project, the BI does not get a 7% commission, sorry )

We are looking forward to the Luigi stone market to open a competing service!

Please check from the Map DB, the recent developments in San Pietro. NewCorp is thinking to build its headquarters in Champs-Élysées 3, in a lot left unbuilt by the Prince of Soul in 5-W, located a stone's throw from such amenities as the Round Table House and the Golden Goose.


* The monopoly is naturally formed in the markets - no gamemaster coercion is used. When quarriable land was for sale in 1560-1599, it did not interest many people because it did not have good geology, stone markets were at an ATL and selling the land as lots did not really work before the online version. So after weeks of warnings, The King, Prince of Soul, North Face and Tavastia bought up and consolidated all available land. Others who had whole chapelries, either sold them to the abovementioned, or zoned them (noms). The characters pooled their land to NewCorp to enjoy the monopolist advantages. Now the jury is out, whether buying gold would have brought a better return with less planning.

** The period from 1599-1601 is 168 realdays, so in fact longer than the whole of Ancient Era (147 realdays)

The Prince of Ramsey indeed is a fine man for the job. We discussed about this with him, but decided to withdraw our support because he is so busy with other stuff atm. (We got the impression that he is OK with the nomination nevertheless and may be elected without our support if he gets enough gold.)

Our proposal is to candidate Lord Thud, who has been the mastermind behind the Ultima Project and is well connected IRL, having met not only us, but also the Duke of NL, Princes of Soul and Forte Spagnolo, the Bishop, Earl of Sarajas, Knights serje and othe, and some Master-level characters as well. He is a long-term heavy gamer and designer.

The second opening we would like to fill with Expert Mooo, since he has been interested in the game, and could give the insight by a commoner player, not too often had in the TC yet.

Meanwhile, we have got a new player, "TDL" (renamed "Syksy"), who started by constructing 4 rowhouses, 6 apartments each, in Borough 4. The expected return of the investment is 9% per year. (I think we should change to per year figures as they seem to make sense with real life rates).

Building in Borough 4 is forbidden for Nobles and corps (except Church).