Syksy would also like to buy 20 shares.

Thank you, I for one found this (along with your "Liquid investments in the game") highly useful, as I am still a newcomer to the game. In my opinion this, and similar posts, could already be sticky'd or incorporated to in-/out-game wikis as-is copy-pasted. Right now the initial monero investment is perhaps not the biggest challenge for a newcomer - understanding CK, its fundamentals and how to properly enter and operate in it were more challenging at least for me.

Wohoo, congratulations everyone!

Aye, I understand and agree,
that due to the tightly-knit nature of CryptoKingdom and Monero itself, there is (and should be) inevitably an advantage for those who will be able to and willing to pay real hard Monero for the game. I'm just thinking that I would like to think, that there's still a theoretical possibility that even a free2play-player could advance to at least "midgame", and have lots of interesting things to do. But this would of course require considerable time and skill effort, which would be comparable I guess to spending Monero in the first place.

But like it was already pointed out, these two different player archetypes may have different aims altogether in the game, so it sounds good enough to me


As a side note - is this thread going to be more of a blog where you're laying out plans for the future, or are you also encouraging us to pitch in design ideas and such?

From preliminary reading (since there's a lot had to skim over in haste and I have no experience of the game in addition to the preliminary Ultima testing), a lot of these seem like well designed points!

Out of curiosity - every great game will create something new, combine and refine good mechanics from the old in a novel way, and also borrow established but good practices from existing games - I'd be interested in hearing what inspires these development ideas. You've mentioned multiple times that now it's time to move to "Civilization"-phase; what other games or sources (board games, aspects in real life) inspire you?

If I may, I also have few games that might provoke your curiosity (you probably have played many of them already, just mentioning); for example,
- EVE Online as an example of a player-driven, sustaining universe where the players create the world and economics; skill build in real world time
- Multiple games by Paradox Studios, such as Europa Universalis IV or Crusader Kings II, where the politics and intrinsic systems of history (both real and fictional) are combined
- Civilization, obviously, although I've always found economics rather redundant in Sid's games. The problem in Sid's games I guess is that they (Firaxis) try to cater to a very large audience, so they have to be average on every respect and can't really specialize very well in just one specific field.
- Story-telling-wise I just recently bought a good oldie called the King of Dragon Pass, where a world with its own history is created in an immersive way



My only concern here is that if moneros are transformable to skill points (character attributes i.e. looks, strength, etc), I would like to see that the there's no overwhelming pay2win-aspect. For example, an able player with very little to no investment should at least in theory be able to reach, in the long run, if not the highest levels at least respectable levels within the social hierarchy. By the sweat of their brow they shall earn their title I'd say

Kind regards,
Syksy

CONSOL emission 1610

I would also like to bid 10 pieces @ 10 mil.

Kind regards,
Syksy

Happy anniversary!

Concordantly, thanks for stepping up! It helps to allocate the vast required effort to multiple people and have several eager people step up

Out of curiousity, what language is CryptoKingdom coded in and would you like to have external people (such as myself) try commit also new things to the game?
I work in bioinformatics (main languages R and Matlab), but am adept also in C, C#, Java and Python, in case git commits would be appreciated from others as well.

Cheers! Thanks once again for making all this possible, I can imagine these latest days and weeks being super hectic. Even from a players' perspective (that comes outside of the community) it feels like a magnificent million building blocks moving into place bit by bit.

It's already looking really great, and as you can notice from the enthusiasm of the people around here, there's great promise of a thriving community!

I think this sounds very reasonable, although it does make testing a bit less motivating as it's not permanent. But I just got myself a brand new, fancy red suit now then

The game is currently at https://cryptokingdom.me/
but I think it's currently in semi-closed beta (rpietila knows); you can explore around in anonymous mode but I don't think the registration is open yet.

I'm getting the same error. I'm guessing that trading in the market is under a lockdown until they fix the reported few bugs and revert a few funky transactions.

Cheers, good night!

EDIT:
I removed my bug report, devs are aware of it and working on it.

Dear co-habitants of the CryptoKingdom,


I am happy to announce that I am now also active in Ultima and figured out the basic syntax of the Agora Marketplace!

I have placed bids on a large variety of interesting items; namely due to my scholarly background, I have placed bids on numerous manuscripts and books, as well as some metal compounds. Anything related to science, alchemy or the history and structure of CryptoKingdom are of great interest to me as a practicer of datamancery.

I apologize if the bids on the literature are awkward (or even insulting to His Majesty, in this case my sincere apologies) in the light of their historical and social importance to the CryptoKingdom - I simply did not have a comparison point and wished to place a starting bid. My prices are negotiable, should any of these interesting pieces of literature become available.


Kind regards,
Datamancer Syksy

Roger that, thanks a lot!
Simultaneously eagerly looking forward to it, but also horrified of the what has happened during the plague

Heya!
I'm eagerly looking for a chance to get to play myself as well, am I by any chance missing something since I haven't obtained an account claim request yet (e-mail or a PM in the forums here)? Sorry, don't mean to poke you, but I wasn't sure if I was supposed to be included in these.
Reading here daily on all the excitement I'm missing on

Best regards,
Datamancer Syksy

Nope - not the only one, I am checking here at least twice daily in hopes of good news in regards to the release the package is there, and the wrapping is oh-so compelling...

Concordantly to how others have also reacted here, I also wish to applaud your excellent and essential contribution Risto. It's a huge accomplishment, all thanks to you and the ones helping you. So looking forward to this! I wish the best of luck that everything goes well in launch.

[You discover an exotic-looking papyrus stapled to a suitable sign post near the city center]

Dear honorable leaders and co-habitants of the Crypto Kingdom,

I am Syksy the Datamancer (previously referred to as 'TDL' a few posts ago by 'rpietila'). I just recently arrived with my meager caravan from a land far to the East, after hearing rumors and seeing signs of a great future event called the Ultima for the Crypto Kingdom, which provoked my interest in coming to learn of your ways. By trading some exotic goods that I brought along, I managed to obtain a chunk of land and a few humble abodes, where I hope to start practicing my strange arts of datamancery. I officially settled in Borough 4 and am looking forward to getting to know my fellow neighbors better and to learn more of your kingdom!

While I could not afford to bring many valuable gifts to the leaders and wisemen of your great kingdom, I hope to bring some future words and tricks of wisdom. At my mystical country far East, I studied the arcane language R ( https://www.r-project.org/ ), and am adept in this complex art of data trickery, foresight and mystical visualizations of strange phenomena. I offer my services openly to those that may require such, if I am not too pre-occupied in mumbling and arguing with myself inside my head.

I can assure you, datamancery is a completely harmless arcane art, and at best may provide wisdom, and at worst will provide only random ramblings, which should not harm anybody. Any strange lights and flickers occurring near my abode at Borough 4 should not be of any concern, as I am most likely only performing some (non-explosive, non-flammative) alchemical experiments and simulations to better grasp insight to the ways of your lands.

Yours truly,
Syksy the Datamancer