Rpietila could you explicitly validate that you covered the debt of the character Rakshasa and reimbursed for the events (5.3.2017). And the character itself has been at my disposable ever since the first time it was swept almost a year ago (at which time it was at 0.). Ty!

Rakshasa, a mysterious man. He looks like a man with a long past. When he traveled from the far-east to Europe, he rose from poverty into a higher standing. There is not much to his family, probably an orphan, but he knew how to read and write and not a stranger to combat.

With sweat and hard efforts he was able to rise from the dirt of the society and eventually became into good standings with the royal court. He never allowed himself to become blinded by the success and kept distance from the lives of nobles.

During the time when the old king had died, he had befriended Zechariah whom found him an able man. He became the minister for the crown ,which he has served with loyalty. During the time at the great position, he especially addressed the issue with the declining state of the buildings and the unmotivated laboring force of the old Duchy.

He took his own life lessons and poured his wisdom into a handful of selected people, which he taught what he had learned during his life. Thus the Freemason's were founded. And to this day on, Rakshasa keeps on serving the crown as it's minister and teaches his wisdom to the builders of the Crypto Town.

Breweries, attention!

Starting from 1643, breweries require 3 licenses and a factory with 50 workpoints (WP) in order to produce beer. The production taxation is still 1000 m per bottle.

Producing a bottle of beer would cost with a rough estimate about 3000 m per bottle, so it is possible that the prices would be going higher.

For Deptstore (412) and SmoothQC (65) please inform me about your factory arrangements as soon as possible. Backdating for the production for workpoints (WP) is valid till Sep. 1643 -- and for factories it is valid till Dec 1643*. If the deadlines are missed, you will LOSE the production permanently for that year.


Valid methods for contacting me are: Forums, In-game messaging, IRC @Freenode (Rakshasa).
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If maintaining a pool of NPC's (Assistants, Managers, Workers) for workpoints feels like a hassle. E.g time restrictions. It is possible to buy a permanent leasing contract from Freemasonry. The item S-FMBC produces annually 25 workpoints. Owning 2 instances of the item is enough to permanently maintain a factory running.

If you're missing workpoints only temporarily, it is always possible to buy S-WP which are rented workpoints for only one year. However S-FMBC is always the cheaper option from the two in the long run.

Freemasonry is happy to announce a new service to the builders and factory owners of CryptoTown.
Being the first corporation in-game to reach 500 workpoints threshold, it now has enough volume so that it has become able to offer services on leasing labor.


The goal for leasing workpoints to players is to give an easy time for people that merely want to run factories and/or create BLD for a small profit.

By default Freemasonry's workpoints have been bound to S-FMBC which each entitles for 25 WP production. The S-FMBC is a permanent leasing agreement between Freemasonry and the owner. Trading / consuming the item is permitted. Freemasonry may only own exactly or less S-FMBC than what the equivalent production is; there may not exists in total any more than this. S-FMBC is binding for as long as workpoints are used.

The regular terms for owning S-FMBC is that it generates annually 25 S-WP which are each equivalent for 1 workpoint. Every instance of S-WP is minus one workpoint from Freemasonry (c_id 385). S-FMBC is taxed for the average upkeep +5% and during a reductive moth event, the damages are shared between S-FMBC holders.

S-WP is a representation of using managers, assistants and workers from Freemasonry for one workpoint. The default production of the item is used for BLD (You don't need to send any message about this). If you wish to use S-WP for factories, then sending a message or consuming the item with a message to Rakshasa ingame will re-direct the use to the correct source.


S-WP is ALWAYS spoil 100 after it has been used in production.

You are free to combine S-WP with the existing workpoints from your workers/assistants/managers in factories, quarries or BLD production.

Disclaimer for counties: S-WP may not be used for PRE points and it can be only used to Quarry STO-1. STO-2-X cannot be quarried with S-WP as it is local workforce in Cryptotown.


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The current cheapest bids for S-WP for the weekend's production is only 1,140,000 for one workpoint. For the default BLD conversion this would give BLD at a price of 9,500 per unit. (120 per WP).

There are also two S-FMBC listed for 125,000,000 m each and 50 S-WP have been reserved, if they become purchased. Please note that the S-WP price for 50 units have been added up to the price.

S-FMBC upkeep cost is substantially lower than regular ASS-1, WOR-1, MGR-1 NPCs. And the general idea is that the amount of money being paid for the upkeep remains as low as possible, without any drastic changes. When managing a smaller amount of NPCs the spoil can disrupt the upkeep cost and keeping a constant upkeep cost is impossible.

Initially, Freemasonry must own at least 50% of the S-FMBC. This is for acting as a buffer, if a statistical super-moth would strike out and wipe over half of the NPC population.

The spoiling of veg, will be delayed to the last hour in Wednesday.

Monday 9th of May at about 19 UTC: County event solver real-time IRC session.

To announce your county plans and preparations, edit the announcements in Main Menu -> Counties -> Name_of_your_County

This'll be fixed as soon as possible. The bug case is very clear and the reason has been identified.

Corporation production deadline is due to Friday.

This means any corporations or factions that use workpoints and such. Note Counties are calculated as normal and they may ignore this announcement. Please note that like HM just stated above that, if you allocate the workers to do 'X', they can't do 'Y' at the same time.

Year Change!! --It is now year 1636.


In addition to this new NPC's have been added to the market. As a reminder, it won't take long until the winter's cold will spoil some of the vegetables, so be wary.

The following things have occurred on the November of the year 1633.

- The last harvest of VEG have been harvested and distributed.
- NPC production for year 1633 have been distributed.
- NPC salaries for the next year have been collected.

(For clarification, year 1633 taxation was canceled and fully refunded; because of the massive operation of canceling it all, the correct taxation for the year 1633 wasn't run till yesterday--after it was fully confirmed that all of the faulty taxation transactions were successfully canceled. The reverse operation for canceling the taxes appear as a tax. However the FROM field should show that Labor has been taxed instead of you* [*In the event that you so happened to taxed during the first round].)