The Mausoleum of the Marquess of Arda constructed; the Estate wants to be dissolved


The first man to die in the Kingdom, the Marquess of Arda, has been buried to his beloved haw, near the Botanical Gardens. The mausoleum is aboveground, quite small and simple in appearance.

The Marquess' Estate has held many auctions in the past and the proceeds have been given to the Monero developers according to his spoken will. Yet there still remains a very large hoard of 10 kilos of gold and other valuables, almost 10,000 mil in total. We would give the Estate to the complete control of Monero developers to do what they wish with the remaining funds. (It has to be noted that this donation is larger than anything recorded in the cAPSLOCK XMR HoF.)

Please appoint the manager for the Estate.

Drinks and Drinking

Now as the time has started moving, it is possible to consider our new temporal needs. Eating is not yet implemented but drinking soon will. At present, it is possible to amass the drinks for future consumption and taste the drinks to gain health points. The basics of the system are explained below:

1. Drink types

Mead is produced by the Town (later: by commoners in distilleries). The production carries a tax of 500 m per measure. The Town is currently selling mead for consumption at 1,000 m per measure. Thus, to change from water to mead, sets you back 24,000 m per realday = 168,000 m/gameyear. All mead is uniform, fungible and (currently) unperishable. It is "MEAD" in /F_OWN and 1 MEAD = 24 liters, enough for a realday.

Beer is a monopoly of the Church. The Church automatically produces the needed amount, and the cost of production, 1,000 m per bottle, is automatically paid to the Town. The Church can sell it at any price to make profit for themselves to be used for Church functions. All beer is uniform, fungible and (currently) unperishable. It is "BEER" in /F_OWN and 1 BEER = 24 bottles, enough for a realday.

Wine denotes any drink that is mid-strength and ages in bottle. They typically must be consumed in 10-50 years from production. Import tax is 10,000 m/bottle, in addition the cost of purchase may be significant. Wine can be consumed both for sustenance and by bottle. Gamemaster decides with what terms wine is able to be procured directly, or whether it must be bought from aftermarket. It is estimated that 1-3 types of wine would emerge per year, making the total number of wines in game to be about 100 at a later time (too old wines may be removed from drinkables and changed to collectibles).

- Currently W1600 price has been raised to 2 IC / a crate of 12 bottles (includes tax). This is because the 1601 vintage is considered poor so the price of this is pressured upwards. W1600 has gained more character rapidly (despite initial appearance to the contrary) and is a very enjoyable wine already, fetching 16-17 /20 regularly.
- W1601 is possible to be had for 1 IC / 12 bottles (incl tax). Tasting notes reveal a hardly drinkable character with no aging likely - instead will turn bad in a few years max. It is not even plentiful so price is high-ish.

Spirits are drinks that are distilled, strong, and do not age in bottle. They remain potable forever. Import tax is 100,000 m/bottle, and the purchase price may be significant. Spirits can only be consumed by bottle. Every other year, a new spirit comes to market (through some ingenious and always different method), dated for that year and not possible to buy more later. In addition, some generic spirits (such as CVS) will be available. These can be restocked and their age is not counted.


2. Drinking for sustenance

Each realday is 24 gamedays. Each realweek is 24*7 gamedays = 7 gamemonths = 1 gameyear. From now (1601) on, realweekly, you need to drink 168 bottles. This is deducted from your stock automatically in case of wine, and purchased automatically in case of beer/mead.


To keep the health of the townspeople from deteriorating too quickly, we set the following default drink plans (you can inform us to change your drink plan, it is in /CHAR):

- All wizards and nobles will drink the best wine that they have in stock (in the order: W1600, W1601B, W1600M, W1601) if they have any; if not, beer instead (Drink Plan A).

- Drink Plan AB is available upon request to those who cannot afford to drink only wine, but want to have some of its benefits. It consists of 24 bottles of the best wine they have, and 144 bottles of beer (Drink Plan AB).

- Experts and higher will drink beer (Drink Plan B) and purchase it from the Church automatically.

- Novices and lower will drink mead (Drink Plan C) and purchase it from the Town automatically.

- Drinking water (Drink Plan D) is available upon request (very unhealthy).

Drink Plan actually affects your health, which will be seen right away in 1602!


3. Drinking for fun/health

Please inform what you have drunk and how much, and have it deducted from your stock in /F_OWN. If you drink CLXII or CVS, inform it because there is a health benefit for doing so. (Later will be for individual bottles of good wines as well.)


4. Taxation rationale

The Town is trying to make drink taxes such a big source of income that business and labor taxes could, if possible, be removed altogether in the future.

Year Change,

We have left the agonies of the fateful year 1600 behind, and are now venturing towards greater prosperity!

- Gold dividend was 2,000 m/CKG (0.28%/week).

- The industrious have turned to building, which is paying several % per week.

- RWWC has produced WIRS windows, and 1,000 units are in the market. The windows shortage will continue for some time still. Also King is selling Ancient windows at competitive rates. In total, 1,846 sqm of windows are in the market in /F_OWN! Pick yours!

- Another team to challenge the one lead by the Duke of NF in the Rum Expedition is sought. The first one is busy making preparations and once they get the final amount of m and IC ready, they can leave.

Tavastia is smoking his pipe and thinking: "Fetching that rum would be fun. Shame that I decided to care about the windows more.. I'd just pick serje, the known world traveller and spirits wizard, and the Ale of Nassau and zoom in to Amsterdam, which is the shipping capital in the world. On horseback, to get there faster. Unlikely we even need to venture any further, it is known they accept cash... A few weeks there should do the trick.. Have some fun and get back on a brand new carriage converted from IC, loaded with the goods."

- Town needs new admin power to update the /BLDG.

- It is rumored that Lord sXpher is ill, and Sir Riccardo is caring about him. Perhaps this was the reason they did not come to the Bicentenary. We have to admit being too busy ourselves with the general, to have time to think of the particular in this matter.

The /BLDG tab is undergoing renewal - information in this post is getting updated

Important information to have your buildings uptodate.

1. When new buildings are built (Building Project) or old ones repaired (Repair Project), changes need to be made in the /BLDG tab only.

2. The /BLDG tab has a plethora of fields that need to be filled to get the "DESIRE" and the "D-SHA" as good as possible. These are listed below (hoping that everyone gets the basic thigs right when filling according to model):

- Build_yr is the year of first time this building was built. A new Building Project that materially changes the constitution of the building, should change this. A Repair Project or anything that leaves the main frame intact, or the rebuilding of a collapsed building according to original plans, keeps the original building year.
- Last_renovated is the year of latest Building or Repair Project on the site.
- Total_stone is the number of stone attached to that building. We are soon moving to indestructible stone, and modular Building representation, which means that a Building is a list of items and resources semi-permanently linked to form a building frame, at a cost. So the stone does not get destroyed.
- Floor_area no changes
- Terrace area is a paved outside area which needs to be elevated at least 1 m from the surrounding area and accessible from the inside. Also balconies and roof terraces count.
- Garden area is the gardened area, regardless of elevation.
- If the lot contains many buildings, the total terrace and garden areas need to be allocated between them.
- Has_Windows is "1" only if the Building has windows, in which case the window type needs to be specified. It has a major effect in DESIRE pool shares since otherwise the shares are halved.
- Beautiful/Cultured (column AB)
- #Apt and #Rooms are important for future more delicate usage of the building. It is good to add them already though.
  * #Apt means the number of "Apartments" inside the building. Apartment here is a game construct, meaning approximately "smallest rentable or functional unit".
  * #Rooms means the actual number of physical rooms, excluding toilets and such.
- Windows & views is calculated using a few parameters, requiring some thought:

a) The unit which we are evaluating is an Apartment. So for instance a rental block with 1-room apartments, will get "views" etc based on the average views from the one window belonging to each apartment. In contrast a Palace that is completely 1 "apartment", will be able to have more views since it has many windows in different directions.

b) Sunlight has a value range of [0...3]. Sun is shining from 3 directions - East, South and West. If the sun is actually visible from inside the Apartment to one or more of these directions, give points accordingly. One decimal may be used, if for instance half the apartments have windows to the south only and the other half to the north (giving no sunlight points).

c) Views has a value range of [0...3]. All 4 sides of the building are evaluated separately. A View is valid if there is 8-20 m clear space from the window to the wall of the next building, and the whole distance between is paved/gardened. If the distance is less, there is no View. If the distance is more, there is a View to that direction, provided the 20 m continuous walled/gardened area. Maximum 2 Views may be got, yielding 2 points. To get 3 points, the Apartment needs to have "views to the roofs of the city".

d) Sights can be [0...4].
  * 1 point is given for having a beautiful building in sight
  * 2 points for 3 beautiful or 1 esteemed
  * 3 points for 1 very esteemed or 3 esteemed buildings
  * 4 points is given for 2 very esteemed buildings
(this will be changed to be automatically calculated very soon; it is anyway difficult to get sights anywhere except 1-C as the other places tend not to have that many esteemed buildings)

- NearPark is an important variable, since the people like to have parks nearby:
  May take values from [0...5], always the "best" park only is counted.
  * 5 points for having direct access to King's Park, Prince of Soul Park or Stoneton Sculpture Gardens.
  * 4 points for having to walk 10 m (bird's eye) to get to those, or having direct access to any public park at least 400 sqm, or having such a garden in your own lot
  * 3 points for 20 m walk to the big parks, or 10 m to the 400 sqm park, or having a 100 sqm park adjacent to your lot or in your lot
  * 2 points add distances by 10 m
  * 1 points 10 m more

A list of 400+ sqm public parks in 1-C:
D'Armagnac Haw is public park, Town Hall is public garden but add +10 m to the distance because it's roof. The nature reserve of two springs is public. Village greenspaces are public.

- "AM"-"AQ" are listed in the /BLDG tab.

The 200-enary main celebration is over!

Two royal buildings were repaired, at a cost of almost 2,000 million for the event. One new 1,000 sqm building was constructed. All with windows.

Thousands of bottles of wine and 1,000 bottles of CLXII were procured, costing 3,000 IC.

5,238 bottles of wine has been gifted to the guests, as well as hundreds of the cognac.

Quite a number of bottles of wine has been consumed, as well as cognac, all types.

Rum expedition (previous post) has been launched.

We have given royal proclamation to not sell this special CLXII cognac anymore ever, except 50 bottles in 1625 and 50 bottles in 1650, to restaurants only. This will be denominated the Royal Cognac, which it already is, after all we remember the late King Louis XII - it was not that long ago he was reigning, the Theatre was constructed then, iirc.

As for the wine, it is currently the best we have in the kingdom for cellaring. We'll drink the W1600 instead until a better one to drink becomes available. We exhort the recipients to also store most of the W1600M. Special congratulations for HE The Prince of OZ whom we decided to give 1,200 bottles to repay his good deeds.

Some prizes were raffled, the most prominent being the lot 3-E-F1 (16 q, haw, incl 1.0M stone, architect, etc.) The die chose Neverland to be the winner, and the place was named Neverland Park for the new owner.

All badges, wine cups etc will be given to the owners soon today.

Please everyone take the opportunity to try out the Ultima version V.1.9U. This party was held in the ingame chat window, the first party ever to happen wholly in our proprietary software platform

The Town Council is in the process of sorting out our software developments. Ultima developer has estimated that it is possible to release a playable version with player accounts, complete database, everything buyable and sellable, time on, without economic pool subgames, by 2015-8-25.

You can quite easily destroy your credibility by promoting iXcoin. That's why.


Link please.

My belief is that the prolonged decline has increased the largest holdings and made the wealth pyramid more steep. The real biggies (banksters, etc) can effortlessly buy more BTC as it becomes available, and some of the early guys need to/want to sell to preserve some of their gains.

The lower end of the distribution should behave similarly as before, my thinking is only that the big, manipulative end has grown bigger.

Bitcoin is firmly in bankster control (which it possibly was in 2013, but not sure). I still believe it will increase in value 100x or more, but the ideological fervor to own a coin that will make the difference has in my case migrated to Monero and perhaps other good coins if such become available in the future (so far only 2 coins, BTC, XMR have met my criteria for investment).

Please come to Ultima version V1.9U Royal Palace of Malla chat window! Great prizes as the 200th Jubilee is ongoing!

I haven't been too much into BTC lately, the development is so frantic. Monero (XMR) and CryptoKingdom (CK) are my spearhead now, as you can see from my latest posts. And what is better, both are so small that even a small diversification from BTC achieves total hedging (XMR marketcap about 0.1% that of BTC).

Hello,

No party goes exactly as scripted. The previous announcement login should be the "Full Name in Game"@cryptokingdom.me instead!

If you are desirous of some wine, please meet me in the Royal Palace chat window! First ones get the most

Adventure Subgame - In Search For The Perfect Rum


Under influence of Cognac, many things come to mind. And the quiet grounds of the Summer Pavilion Park are a conducive atmosphere. And the most loyal friends surrounding. "Perhaps there are other noble drinks available out there!", somebody cries, seemingly out of a sudden realization.

"Let's find them!", says another. The Marquess of Tavastia opens his mouth to speak: "When I was a lad, Dad used to have a bottle of rum on his desk. Life was simple back then - the Royal Palace was large but not many items survive to-day. This rum intrigued me a lot, it was called Methuselah or something. It was produced in islands "found" by the seafaring Portuguese, although everyone at that time knew that they could only do it with the Chinese technology and maps. Even the founding of CryptoTown in 1430 was only possible by the inspiration from the East, although this knowledge has long been lost. Every generation is haughty enough to think that they have invented something, which is the less true, the more adamant the person is in his assertion. Perhaps this rum could still be found."

The spirit RME is waiting for its founder! This expedition is a one-shot opportunity to find a cache of this definitive Rum, the first of its kind in the game, dated 1602 but rumored to be older.

To set up an expedition, you need to collect a party of adventurers. At least 2 competing parties need to be set up for the subgame to continue.

- Each expedition must be lead by a Marquess or higher. The King is busy with the domestic affairs and the Prince of Soul has some business going on in Rossiya, so cannot lead/join this rare opportunity. Tavastia himself is busy sourcing the windows, which in his calculation is the road to riches. (The Marquess+ need not be an adventurer, but is needed by the King to seal the importance of this event and the drink thus found.)
- Any number of PC/NPC chars can be in the actual expedition team, and a further any number in the backing team. It is known, though, that the expeditions ask for experience, cunning and prowess, so a limited in number but multiskilled team is good (sockpuppet team is bad). NPC's who take part in expedition must be owned by the backers and 3 realweeks' salary must be paid to them (21M for N9, 15.75M for N8, etc..) The role of every team member must be explained.
- The horses/carriages used to get to the seashore must be specified, so it is good that someone owns them. If you take items with you, specify them.
- Apart from the NPC cost, the expedition should be budgeted to cost 50 mil or more. The more, the better probability of success. The larger team, the more it costs anyway. The max budget might be used partly or wholly by the subgame, but not exceeded.
- Specify the amount of IC to be used for the actual negotiation if the desired rum is found.
- Gamemaster decides the results as the story unfolds. Most important factors are the adventurer multiskilled team, financial resources, and storytelling by the adventurers, in this order.
- The teams not deemed the winner, may gain the staple rum as a runner-up prize.
- The team may self decide how to gather the money and divide the loot.

Welcome to start the Adventure, as soon as the main celebration tonight is over!

- - - Celebration of the Bicentennial Jubilee is underway - - -

WE have a small cognac tasting as part of the opening of the Summer Pavilion. (What a little bit bugs us is that this Earl of White Cross has shamelessly built an even larger palace nearby in the same year   , normally this would not be an issue but as it is simultaneous with the King and bigger, it becomes sorta kinda... but that one is without windows still and so u/c so let this not trouble our mind.) Yes, back to the tasting. All of the guests get to sip a bottle of CLXII and then another of CVS. Careful tasting notes are collected, if it's even possible to make sense of something this luxurious after somewhat of a break from luxury in the aftermath of the earthquake and the general low-lux atmosphere.

When pressed for actual impressions, it was generally accepted that cognac tastes good, but only a few of the guests seemed to genuinely appreciate the taste of CLXII above the other one. "Yes, that resembles the real-life. You have to drink a lot of the good stuff before enjoying the difference. Which leads us to the recognition that 3 lone bottles are left in the crate..."

About 700 bottles of W1600 were also consumed, almost all took the sustenance amount of 30 bottles at once.

Some medals and honors are now dealt, since we are convening:

Wizard Developer P.J. is given Medal of the Game, 2nd Class, for his excellent contributions to the Game development. This medal has previously been given to the King and Queen only. In a short few hours the first major milestone release in the Ultima game engine is released (V. 1.9U). That this has been able to be accomplished in 2 weeks is an accomplishment that does not fall short to the ones that the King has done in the past, warranting the high class of the medal. (1st class may earliest be given when the game has 100,000 characters).

Lord Thud is given Medal of the Game, 3rd Class, for his groundbreaking work in specifying the Ultima version.

HE The Prince of Ramsey has been promoted Sergeant in the Ancient Order of the King, for his services as the treasurer. He is also given a MG-4 for development of the game.

Earl noms has been Knighted in the Ancient Order of the King, for his services as Councillor and admin. He is also given a MG-4 for development of the game.

Baroness Asenath is given a MG-5 for inspiration.


A bottle of CLXII has been sent to accompany each nomination.

Fake orders have the similar risk profile as shorting or leverage - most often even if your "fake" wall gets bought, you can buy back cheaper as the price will fall down afterwards and you have got 10% or whatever premium for your coins, allowing you to buy back lower. But there is the chance that it happens as part of a level-up, in which case you lose out of these coins.

So, "fake" walls can become real walls if the strategy is formulated as:
"I will buy it back if I get at least 10% cheaper, if not, it will be a permanent partial cash out of my long term position."

This strategy gives you peace of mind when operating large fake walls.

I wonder why I know it 

Cognac CLXII Auction Final Results


Final price 4.2 mil/bottle.

50   Golden Harp Corp
40   OZ
30   Soul
30   Tavastia
20   Duke of New Liberty
20   Town Hall
10   Bank
10   Dr. HS-S
10   Noble Palace
10   Town
10   Hokusai
5   Baroness Asenath
5   Sarajas


Now we go on to meditative state - - having binged a crate (10) of the noble stuff, we feel that others should have a chance to it as well. We feel that the best way to preserve this is to rule the following concerning Cognac Louis XII (CLXII):

- We the King will from now on, only drink it or invite others for drink in our receptions. We will never sell any of it, ever more,
- EXCEPT, to keep the best restaurants stocked, we will sell 5 crates (50 bottles) in an auction limited to the best restaurants in town in 1625 (leading to the 225th anniversary of the Monarchy), and another 5 crates similarly in 1650.
- All the rest we will merrily enjoy or give as a gift. This is the best balance of not commercialising a gift from the King of France, yet getting it available for the desirous.

And now we proceed to give the gifts. Every 50 years, being a King is actually quite fun, it's like being Santa...

ADD: All the current 27 guests of the celebration had the chance to taste W1600M. Two bottles per snout. The ones with any idea about grading gave in between 10-14 /20. Possibilities for development were again estimated to be very good, so we look forward to unloading thousands of bottles to the guests as a gift from our good fortune, and cellaring the rest for a decade, two, or as long as the development is good, and finishing it in the Sestercentennial Jubilee if it is still good and there is some available.

We recently repaired the House of Magnificence. A magnificent project indeed, a spend of 703 mil in money alone, plus 386 sqm of ancient windows, up to the very coveted WIA1.

The pool shares increased such a lot that even if we attribute a lofty 1,000 mil to the project cost, the ROI is about 1.1% per day. Payouts happen weekly, so it is a nice sum every time it comes (HofM is paying 97 million, weekly - not bad...)

An interesting comparison to the Bank lending rate of ~0.30%.

We sense a boom coming. This has happened before...

(Other projects had a very similar ROI of about 1.0-1.1%)

The list of building/repair projects for internal use only
(Admins may apply to be the BI for some of these projects when the time is right, marked AB)

In 1600
New RWWC Factory <- plans, build, no win
HH House <- total overhaul w/win
Arco di Sergiu <-- evaluate need for IC, because this has it
2-C-C8 <-- cheap overhaul
Triple Towers <-- windows are a must!

When?
NF-OZ development in 2-N
Round Table House in 2-N
1-E/SE Soul Apartments <-- this is 1,560 sqm in 9q lot in bad condition; for sale if interested, asking 2,000 mil (189/q)

In 1601, asap to get the windows
The Town Hall Annex/Town <- new columns, max lux, win, etc
The Hall of Justice bldg/Town <- lux/struct, windows
The Town Hall <- windows only AB
The Monero House <- structural repair, repair to 100% lux throughout, windows, AB

In 1601 if there are any windows left on Wed
RWWC HQ & Research
RWWC Windows Factory

Before 1602 to get the maximum payouts
Old Town Police Station
3-NW Soul villas
Portal Reconstruction (?)
3-W-C2
New Dept Store <-- win & lux

In 1602 again to get the windows
The CryptoMuseum-The Hypothecary Bank-Foreign Ministry Bldg <-- win at least AB
Villa Rotonda School of Economics <-- King checks
The Military Sciences Department <-- cheap repairs, modest lux, windows AB
The Palace of Culture and Science <-- King checks
The University Main Building <-- collapsed in earthquake; will this be rebuilt??
Violin Making School <-- windows only AB
Town Offices in C&S <-- win only AB
Town Reg in San Pietro <-- win only AB

Later
The Original Hive & BetterHive <-- if you want to buy these (7 q in 1-N) for demolish incl ~1.6M stone, the asking price is 2,400 mil (309 mil/q).
King's Guesthouse 1-N-J17 <-- this 1 q/152 sqm property from the 1400s is an annex to Arda Palace and not in use by the King anymore, haw, ask price 700 mil incl some items from 1400s
Tavastia Village School <-- lux, win
Choo Parkside Restaurant <-- depends on usage
Clocktower
Army Barracks in 3-C

W1600M is not buyable. King will give some to the most generous people in town soon.

W1600 you can just deduct IC from /CHAR and add the wines (12 bottles per IC) in /F_OWN. 1,200 bottles purchased to alleviate the most pressing need.

CLXII (cognac). There is an auction going on, with the current price being 4.2 mil/bottle.

CVS (cognac). Town is selling for 0.2 mil/bottle (do entries in /T_MON and /F_OWN). Bought 50 bottles for you just in case.

The Bicentenary - 200 years of His Majesty's Reign - is approaching

Celebrations are ongoing in the main venues of Royal Palace and Summer Pavilion, which are both fully ready with lux and windows.

At present we have 26 guests, who will enjoy the following gifts:

- TB Throneroom Badge to all who don't yet have it

- 100 years old wine cup of 200 CKG p.o. to 30 first ones, a signet ring afterwards

- Cases of W1600B: this wine is given to the guests only, it is currently 10/20 so barely drinkable (one taster opinion only), but after the common tasting of a few bottles, I will give to the guests according to my good pleasure, a few, or quite a few cases to be aged in the wine cellars. Of course it is a mystery how well it ages but one expert said that it has a nonzero chance of achieving even the top mark, 20/20, after several decades. The same guy laughed at the original story of it being "mixed to be enjoyed immediately" and said that it surely is single vintage, demanding, but potentially rewarding, albeit only after many of us are not here any more. The truth about the origins may be difficult to find out.

- CLXII cognac has been given according to courtesy already. It will further be given to the King's friends, also to those not being able to attend the feast.

- Please add if I have pledged to give something not listed here!

A raffle will be organized, and the following items have been donated to be prizes (it is not forbidden to add more by others as well):

- 500 CKS bowl (King)
- 100 CKS pitcher (King)
- A "double case" of 20 CLXII (King)
- The lot 3-E-F1 (16q, surrounded by streets throughout), 1.0 million stone and free architect service for a town villa of ~1,000 sqm (pay only work,windows,lux); the only reservation we have is that the park should become open for public the same way as King's Park is.

And all this is possible for the ones who enroll publicly in the thread, and present a gift to the Wizard Dev. By noon tomorrow, BCTT.