1. Yes 75% would go to King, according to the calculation with nominal values.

2. The intention is to use 1,000 for VEG and 5,000 for MEAT in the calculation only. You know that these are far from the actual values - the midprice of VEG has surely been in the 1,500 range instead and MEAT correspondingly. Future prices we cannot know and King has no lever to them (except "extra winter meat" which is scripted to come to market only if the ask > 6,000 (to Farmers). The VEG cannot be transported in the winter because it is freezing, and in the spring the VEG is already about to spoil.

3. The "superveg" is also a bonus to the leaseholder.

4. Famine years are a jackpot to the producers. Even a 25% reduction in production of VEG will certainly mean at least double price, so...

5. I am ok if someone does not want to continue; the greatest benefit of manors now is to gain a foothold for permanent contract, even ownership. At 3% IRR (what buildings usually give), Essu Manor's discounted future production is worth more than 1 billion. But players have different playstyle and each has their own priorities. I saw Roopatra yesterday, and it was funny to realize that we both had been sure that Erin is played by the other one (which was not the case and the real controller is not known). Not only that, there are rumors that me and Roopatra are the same person (that would be quite a double life though..), and probably some still believe that Soul, Heimo, SS and HS-S are fictitious. Well they are real guys, HS-S is already in the 3rd incarnation due to probably challenges with health, need to ask Soul I meet weekly and he knows Roopatra and HS-S. I have met Syksy IRL as well, he is also not me.

King is aggressively looking to buy the furs in all prices between 30k-100k. The original estimate of 1 IC/SFS seems a bit high but at these lower prices the pelts compare really nicely with blue suits (same price, warmer, last longer). If we seek to befriend the Rossiyans where all Boyars dress in fur coats, we need to allow it to our own as well.


Sickness hits in 1626 - "The taxman, they just don't wait for your schedule"

The d20 has selected Princess Roopatra, Zenon the Magus and Wizard Superresistant to be the first victims.

It is announced beforehand for 1626, because it is connected to the normal consumes.

2,000 health point challenge, and you have 40 instance quota to alleviate it (total).

To generate 50 health points per item consumed, you need to think carefully. Variety bonus is in use, frequency bonus is not. You can double-count these items to the normal health challenge as well. Just consume what you would, and list separately in GoogleDB/Sickness, which and how many of the items consumed, you would like to have counted towards the Sickness challenge.

It is intended that sickness leaves you with a health hit, but it is possible to reduce it to None. Normal item:healthiness values are used in this challenge. They are secret of course, but with experience you know already the rough direction.

Let it be notified that 6 characters, HH The Mayor, HSH The Duke of OZ and Sir Pablo among them, escaped the Sickness roll completely because their VOH consumption during the last auspicious full moon had reduced their physical age below the threshold of 200 years.

We have an admin command that can transfer all your items to the new user. Please allow a short while to fix the command, it is currently not 100% working correctly.

The mini game should play only once, but do you think the multiple times is a good idea? Either until the lot changes (up to 5 min) or a certain number of tries (such as 10). The payouts are raffled from the items of a certain pool account, so it is easy to adjust the quantity of "m" in the account.

The design of the Wisdom module

Wisdom module builds on top of the existing Consume subsystem, so very little new things are needed.

Wisdom is a general character trait (same as Health, and soon also Culture(PC)/History(Corps))

Wisdom is amended every time there is an event that increases it. Currently such an event is consuming things that increase Wisdom. Frequency and Variety bonuses apply normally.

Items may have a Wisdom value (UND substances do, but there may be others). The values of item:Wisdomness are secret and the value of Wisdom of a character is also lightly masked. Consuming Wisdom items does not give immediate feedback.

New field in Char table: Wisdom (encrypted field)
New field in Item table: Wisdomness (encrypted field, denoting the # of Wisdom points per item consumed - base value)
New lookup table: Wisdom->Wisdom_print (masking the exact value of character's Wisdom point total)

The Wisdom_print is displayed in MyCharacter.

New code to be added to consuming consumables   

   wisdomBonus = Bonus   //wisdomBonus gets the same frequencyBonus that is already calculated for "Bonus" in health challenge
if item_consumed_already=FALSE   
effect = floor(wisdomBonus + variety_multiplier * item_id:healthiness) ; 0)    //variety_multiplier is the same as already in the script; note that effect_multiplier is not used


New treatment of CUL/HIS

Culture and History are the same thing except History is awarded in place of Culture for those in level 0 (Corporations) and 42 (Estates of the dead).

Find a way to either implement them as character-specific variables (while retaining the possibility to use the value as a command parameter), or make the item:Untradable=1 mean that no bids and asks may be placed and the item may not be Given (but may be Transfered).

Also make it possible that consuming items can award CUL to the PC. This consuming does not award IC, however (that would be preposterous). There would be a separate list of item:consumeCULbonus, with a flat (no frequency/variety bonuses) addition to char:CUL, (in addition to the health and wisdom effects of such things).

Noble Promotions in the Quasquibicentenary Jubilee of Crypto Kingdom and His Majesty's Reign

Note on Dukes and Grand Dukes

The number of accounts in the game is 268, which is still very small (although nicely on target to gain 1,000 accounts by mid-2016). In this situation there is not yet need to create any Dukes or Grand Dukes. These are the highest levels a character can acquire and while there is no lack of good, skilled and magnificent candidates, the promotions are strictly based on need, which is not yet present but may be soon. Notable is that to become a Duke (L17), the previous level need not be Prince (L16), also Margraves and Marquesses (both L15) are evaluated for their administration ability and especially the interest to play the Countryside (County) subgame, because that is what the Dukes will do in even greater extent.

List of Dukes in their order of precedence:

HH TMA, Wise and Cultured Duke of New Liberty, 5th/I Bt of CK, Chancellor of TMA University, Premier of TMA Noble Palace, Colonel in TMA Royal CryptoArmy, AOK-K, MG-4, etc(x2) [char_id=3, age=254, peerage=1434, Duchy=1570]

HH TMA Blessed Heroic Duke of North Face, TA Viscount of Forte Spagnolo, 2nd/I Bt of CK, Mayor, CEO of TMA Grand Hotel & FluffyPony Horse Corp, AOK-S, RT-K, AOD-LTC, OD-K, KH, GJB, FBB, TB, KFB, HB [char_id=31, age=211, peerage=1514, Duchy=1600]

HSH TMA Blessed Heroic Cultured Duke of OZ, Patron of The Arts, 3rd/I Bt of CK, AOD-Col, OD-K, KH, RT-K, MG-4, RT-K, FBB, TB, CB, KFB, HB [char_id=26, age=219, peerage=1500, Duchy=1607]

HH TMA Duke Saddam of Ramsey, 7th/I Bt of CK, CEO of Pawnshop, AOK-S, King’s Hero, RT-K, AOD-C, MG-4, KFB, CB, HB, TB [char_id=7, age=230, peerage=1525, Duchy=1614]

Promotions to Prince (L16)

The Blessed Marquess Noms of White Cross, TA Viscount of Marquessate of Armagnac, Councillor, CEO of NRC & GoldenHarp & Phaeton, AOK-S, OD-K, HB, KFB, CB, TB, MG-4 is promoted Prince. In addition, the Marquessate of White Cross is promoted March, and The Prince Noms is therefore the Margrave of White Cross. Marches are on the same level as Marquessates, but rank higher. The borderlands which have important strategic and military significance, may be designated Marches (instead of Counties and Marquessates) and Margraves are expected to have a military buildup almost similar to that of Dukes. (The King's army in Kingdom level seeks to have 3-4x the BV of Dukes'.)

Promotions to Margrave (L15)

Sir Crichton, Earl of Plath, Lord of Essu, 16th/I Bt, 21st/I Bt, AOK-S, AOD-MAJ, weilder of Vengeance, is promoted Margrave of the March of Plath. He is also given KFB.

Promotions to Marquess (L15)

None.

Promotions to Earl (L14) and creations of Counties

Baroness Asenath is promoted Countess.

Lord Lloyd, The Fourth Of His Name, is promoted Earl.

Lord Paul Jr is created the 2nd Earl of Gangnam, a county previously held by his father, HSH The Prince of Soul.

According to the new ruling, being promoted Earl may happen before the creation of peerage (county). It is technically possible to be even further promoted (up to Prince) without being created a peer, but this is planned to be rare. In the future, some inactive but important and wealthy players may be such promoted. The new Earls, Countess Asenath and Sir Lloyd IV, may apply for a peerage and county if they so wish, from HM The King.

HH The Duke of North Face, TA Viscount of Forte Spagnolo, 2nd/I Bt of CK, Mayor, etc(x2) is created Earl of Ironlock. The County of Ironlock is situated between New Liberty, Ramsey, Polonian domains, and Free City of Danzig. (There is still no information how the Duke's troops are faring there   )

Promotions to Baron (L13)

Knight AdamWhite
Dame BlackWidow
Knight Haruki
Dr. SS, King's Physician
Knight Gabriel

Promotions to Doctor (L8)

Dr.C (ArticMine) has had his credentials examined and is promoted Doctor. (Doctor L8 is a commoner bonus level.)

Granting of Serenity

HE Dr. Paul Choo, Ph.D, TMA, Most August, Blessed and Cultured Prince of Soul, High Rector of TMA University, 4th/I & 17th/I Bt of CK, AOD-Col, OD-K, RT-K, etc(x2), may use the honorific His Serene Highness (HSH) in front of his name. Although officially ranking below HM, HRH, HG and HH (and many imperial addresses), this is so rare distinction that the only other holder in the game, HSH The Duke of OZ, prefers to be so addressed despite, as Duke, being entitled to both HG and HH as well. (For the Prince of Soul, this is the highest address he has, and therefore naturally preferential.)

HRH Archduke Zechariah, The Prince Royal of Crypto Kingdom, TMA Marquess of Tavastia, Brigadier in the Royal CryptoArmy and Commander of the River, CEO of TA NewCorp, OD-GM, RT-K, etc. has not used his inferior The Most Serene even as part of his full title for 17 years and we deem that the designation expires.

HM The King and HRH The Archduke do not possess HSH and may not gain it, because it is only possible before being created Duke (L17) or higher.

First Baronetcy

Both Sir Heimo and Lord James Daniel of Aaspere attended the private Throne Room event (total attendance 35). It was previously announced that Lord James Daniel did not consider himself worthy of such an honor and had convened with the King that he might assign it to a more astute holder. The King has chosen HH The Duke of North Face, Earl of Ironlock, Viscount of Forte Spagnolo, to be the First Baronet of Crypto Kingdom (in addition to the Second Baronet that he also holds). First Baronetcy is awarded and taken away by the King, is the new ruling to prevent awkward situations from repeating.

Storytelling note: That James Daniel and Heimo had been allowed to take part (and appeared in!) the celebrations, means that possibly the terms of the exile are loosening. Being allied with HKM Gustaf Adolf is of course a different situation than being at war with him, for a person with questionable connections to that Power.

Manors in the Old Duchy

James Daniel rather abruptly disclaimed himself from the Lordship of Aaspere as well, citing his previous determination to be an officer. While the King was awkward at first, he moments later awarded Aaspere to the highest person willing to take it, at equal tenancy terms as the others. He explained the terms to be 75% of the value of the produce, and a garrison (no mobile force) needed for local protection. Five year contract. Half of the fee must be paid by the end of year 1625, the other half in the end of term. All current holders were qualified to continue, and if they take the contract, Cooper and Erin (L4) - who were present in the Throne Room party - would be promoted Baron(esse)s, being the youngest characters in that level ever.

Storytelling note: Well played from JD to proclaim this in public, because without Manor, he cannot be exiled except "back to Sweden", which indeed might be in the cards, as the King possesses information that the dear reader does not, and it might cause the officer career to be undesirable.

HM The King, HRH The Prince Royal and HH The Duke of New Liberty disclaim Lordship of Aaspere, so the next in line for the premier Manor in the Duchy (and the Kingdom) are:
HH of North Face
HSH The Duke of OZ
HH Duke Saddam of Ramsey, in this order.

We are on track to make the promotions and decorations show up in the MyCharacter views by the end of year, and to execute the (mostly double) year change routines tomorrow, Saturday.

We wish that everyone who so wishes, would send his nomination list for KFB by the end of year by BCT PM.

About gaming and casinos in CK

Satoshi Dice was sold in $12.4 million in 8/2013. In 1/2013 it had reported $0.5 million in previous year profits and was trading at $8.9 million (Wikipedia), making the P/E ratio = 18.

Last trade of PGC is at 8.75 mil, making the ingame corporation valued at $43,000. It is a huge amount in CK terms but practically nothing in the startup scene where IPO's are valued from $50 million upwards, VC rounds from $5 million, seeds around $1 million and pre-seeds may have a valuation in the sub-$1 million range, where the whole CK has been trading all its existence of 15 realmonths (now about $600k).

New players and investors are entering CK, and the liquidity (marketcap) and interesting prospects of Palazzo make it a premier choice of investment alongside CKG and CON (and whole chapelries for longer-term portfolio). None of the other big companies (NewCorp, New Reconstruction Corp and Grand Hotel Corp) is liquid, because the first 2 are private and Grand Hotel is game-mechanically "switched off" as the Resta and Hotel subgames are not implemented in the current state of affairs (but will be), so it is a real estate / NPC holding company basically.

The King has been thinking of the situation and decided that to maintain not only actual fairness, but also the appearance of it (new investors do not appreciate the 225 years flawless track record in GM decisions), he seeks to gain an active-passive 10-15% share in all the casinos that might be established in the future as well. Casinos are a big money business and the incentive to partiality must be ruled out. Also King likes to design games, and in all probability is needed as a financial/structuring advisor anyway. He has 15 years of MD/CEO experience in sub- and over $1 million companies (35 years in total since often several at the same time), and has organised more than a dozen private placements and participated many in others' companies as well.

To conform to this long-term target, the King "investor shares" (S-PGC) with full investor protection are for sale both in the Agora and also for a private deal for anyone who sees strategic value in this company (I certainly do but the equitability goes before profit any day and twice on Friday). So 220 shares representing 2.2% of the company can be acquired if an interested buyer is found.

Not to mention that while this does not grant you King's Hero or even KFB (equitability!), it does speed up the reconstruction of the Royal Palace, which has been in ruins 2 years soon.   

The game actually operates independently of any cryptocoins, including XMR. Some transactions such as gambling in the new Palazzo Casino, are made in ingame gold (CKG) or ingame tokens redeemable in gold (CT1625).

Why XMR is important is that it is the "legal tender" in public transactions: things like taxes, salaries, dividends to CKG, and all trade in the Agora Marketplace, are conducted in m, which is 1:1,000,000 of XMR. This requires that everyone has some balance in the currency, and therefore creates demand for the currency, and also makes it easy to integrate deposits/withdrawals (because there is so much m existing, even large deposits and withdrawals do not abruptly cause turmoil in the market and valuation of items).

There has been UB1 (BTC depository with manual withdrawal) in the game for a long time, but so far nobody has been even interested to use it. Introducing other coins is completely possible and allowed. The procedure is just to start an ingame depository company (cost: 10 XMR) and somehow prove you have let's say 10,000 BBR in a (BBR blockchain) account. That is not hard, the hard part is to get anyone in the game to give you fair price for your BBR, if a realyear after introduction, even BTC does not interest. The game was designed to be a XMR game, and this is still the vision, but even more than that, the mindset of the players.

I will be opening a Voxel passthrough investment option, or perhaps even a depository, soon, if anyone is interested.

HRH Archduke Zechariah, The Prince Royal of Crypto Kingdom, Marquess of Tavastia, etc(x2)

Public Address in the Main Jubilee Celebration, July 10, 1625, House of Magnificence

Your Majesty, the peers, ladies and gentlemen,

The military situation in the North has allowed me a short visit in the capital and attending in the celebrations. I would not speak this without His Majesty's permission, but he has been open about his health, so let us not waste time but get straight to the beef:

Zenon has divined that Sickness will soon start to deteriorate the health of the bicentenarians. The frequency is yet unknown, but when Sickness hits, it hits several characters (who all are 200 or older) at the same time. It is a special health challenge in addition to the normal one. Its quota is very tight, requiring the consumption of the most prized items. (In practice we are talking about, eg. a 2,000 health points challenge with a 50 total quota of all items combined.) But some of the items may be more powerful in the special challenge, even Cures may exist, but they must be found. Also other things like praying, fasting (deciding to forgo consumption of the special quota and explaining why), etc. may help. It is being rumored that the Church can start selling indulgences in a serious way to rich people who are plagued by Sickness, and they would grant Blessing and prayers to the Queen Mother by the vicars. (I am just explaining here.) His Majesty The King is good at maths and while he has goals in this life, such as building the Versailles to be the monument of his self-rule, and reach the 250th anniversary of reign, most probably remaining the longest of any monarch known to us, the evaluation is that Sickness will most likely cause these to fall short of completion. Let us all pray to the Most High, and cheer 10 times: "Long live the King!"

Again, with total unison and His Majesty's permission, I will outline my coming leadership style, God willing to grant me the years required (189 already). I will concentrate on the following things:
- Commerce and speculation drives wealth generation.
- Science needs to be strongly advanced to keep us in the international competition.
- Army quality needs to be kept high; our advantage are the 27 Ancient Battle Aquilas that terrify the enemies (yet are also coveted prizes as decisive defeats include loss of them), allow us to have higher Command for either a direct BV gain or a unit 1 section larger. Mobility of units has proven to be very important in the campaign of the north: the fact that Stonehaven is in our hands is imo due to the fact that the RRF's harassing prevented the Swedes from advancing from the East all the way to Threestone, where they might have defeated The Duke of NL Regiment. If this had happened, the peace delegation would have found Stonehaven in Swedish hands and occupying it in these conditions would have proven unfeasible. It is hinted that the Swedish interpretation of the counties goes such that all the south side of the River is divided between Threestone and Ingria; we claim Stonehaven to be between them. Also it needs to be noted that Tavastia and North Face are claimed by them as well although there are no forces nor preparation sites. My forces in Tavastia explored the region, and going to the west, a sea is met (Östersjön coast continues to the north from the mouth of the River). The coast is somewhat rugged at first, but norther, we met Swedish who said the area is the County of Bothnia. HKM had planned to build a town there to enable the produce from North Face and the area (which is reasonably good farmland despite being so north, the sea helps it thaw sooner) to be shipped to Sweden proper by barges. It is only ice-free max half of the year but that would have been sufficient for the farm produce and of course meat etc. which do not spoil so readily. The reason for abandoning the town plan must have been priorisation as they reportedly had a loose coalition of 3 powers fighting them in the early 1600s, and of those, Rossiya was decisively defeated and Riga (then under Polonian protection) was sacked. Also, as we know, North Face does not produce so much as to necessarily warrant a town this early in the game.
- I strive to give more responsibilities to other people: when the game gets larger, more shoulders need to be ready and trained to bear the burden.

I strongly encourage everyone present (99*QJB was awarded) to consider giving prizes to the coming RAF-2, and also to the Lot Raffle (find a random lot quick enough and play the game to win a prize - works already!) and some admin to volunteer to host the RAF-2.

I take the liberty to comment on the situation in the markets - I have been away for some time so it offers a fresh perspective. The wine market has cratered after my announcement to sell the stocks, which has actually happened only to a limited extent (and will now cease to be so aggressive). We have not had any wines since 1621, and the markets in the continent are tight, no new vintages there either because the insecurity is not conducive to quality vine-growing. Germanians have not sent anything to us because the S-WW company was confiscated by Tilly forces and awarded to some loyal noble there. Diplomatic (at least) action to get this back is important for our prestige. Unlike some time ago, many of the cheap wines have now become very interesting consumables as the item:healthiness is much better than that of BEER but consuming only a quantity of 5-20 each awards quite nice variety bonuses on top of that. It has been rumored that the pre-Plague wines would start producing CUL upon consumption, and that the pre-War wines (all that we have now) would also be distinguished from the later wines. Also the Wisdom generation is coming sooner than you expect, even before the Skills major module.

The price of AMBNP has fallen somewhat low despite no new AMBNP gained in many years. Even though the totals are growing from the current 2,000 to a few more thousand during the PRE accumulation process, Amber is still a prized thing, and may be a good long-term purchase as the counties are dumping. Many other luxuries are also in much reduced prices right now, making slow accumulation very interesting. It is good to buy when others think something is not in fashion. Fashions change. Rulebound restricted quantity (no more may ever come), workable (can be used as raw material for new items), rare and precious items such as JAD are very interesting despite it not showing in the market price right now.

The Flying Squirrel Pelts (SFS) have not received adequate attention. It was a major gift from the ruler of Rossiya to send them. In all the areas to the north of the River, the European Squirrel Pelt is readily accepted as money, just like silver (IC) is in France and KMT in Sweden and CAN in Grass and M in Crypto Kingdom. The SFS is of superior quality. In my opinion, auctioning them "raw" was not the best option for the Town, but it of course allows for profits for the middlemen who make the products. At least the following products could be made and should be organized as soon as the auction is over:

200*SFS => Full-length posh and warm Mantel fur coat
100*SFS => Biker-jacket type fur coat
20*SFS => Stately fur hat
20*SFS => Fur bag, midsize
5*SFS => Fur "cap" (lightweight and fashionable)
5*SFS => Purse for ladies
1*SFS => Gold coin pouch for gamers and the like
(and more, with the intention that some items could be Fungible, with Unique possible as well ofc)

The winters are cold, and especially the thin Noble Blue is not warm enough. Let's rid ourselves of unfashionable adhoc overcoats and make the proper and classy Siberian Flying Squirrel outfits for all who consider themselves as society.

12*W1608, the official Jubilee Wine, has been brought to the tables (per person). This time, a Toast to the health of the King!!

Haha nice to read this. Others are notified that the extension of report deadline is now Saturday noon UTC (12th November 1625, 23:59), after which the double year of the NPC will be billed and it is checked that the forces are there.

At that time, whoever continues, is promoted Baron. Even if s/he is less than 21 years old (normally the minimum age), it is not possible to promote to Jungherr if the character was not of noble birth. So it's straight Baron. Make your reports carefully and amend them if needed!
 
As was expected, the County module and datatype is still so much in development that Manor cannot strictly be implemented yet either. What will be calculated for each Manor in OldDuchy, is a 5-year lease in 2 installments, 1 now and the other by the end of 1629 when the lease period ends. From there, hopefully there are manors in other counties as well, since at least one Quest is also related to this


Hmm... if GM is asked, the answer is that develop a sniffer that notifies when new VEG comes to the account and automatic order placement.

If King is asked - Haljala is an important place but not directly on the way anywhere. The terrain prevents paving it with paekivi stone (which is uneconomical anyway) and other, cheaper and better, road construction methods need to be developed. Engineering -> Road Construction.

New Permanent IC Conversion Table


WINES

The French Wines are international renown (and the Germanians are the runner-up). When wines comes to initial market, they are cheap, but Town will add 10,000 m tax at some point afterwards to the then-existing stock. This can only be done once, so every further conversion after the taxation will be tax-free. Conversion prices in the aftermarket go up. Currently available are the following post-plague wines (pre-plague cannot be had any more). All these are taxed so no further costs will be added:

W1611  1/IC  (note: W1611)
W1614  3/IC  (note: W1614)
W1616  3/IC  (note: W1616)
W1620  4/IC  (note: W1620)


SILVER

The basic premise of silver conversion is "you get fixed grams per IC". This has been as large as 32 grams in the very ancient times and now is 2 grams. When we are talking about imported items (wholly paid with IC), the price of silver has risen to be so large as to overshadow the manufacturing cost. So it is possible to simplify the things and use the following formulae for determining the IC price of silver items, whatever kind (assuming silver is the main raw material):

TS16x Silver Coins = no premium   (note: TS162)  <- note that since the coin is 12 CKS, the IC must be divisible by 6!!
Elaborate items = 1 IC/instance + 5%
Most Elaborate items = 2 IC/instance + 10%
Very Elaborate items = 4 IC/instance + 20%

Silver Tableware
SIT-7, Silver Fork (50 CKS), Most Elaborate, K4, 30 IC
SIT-8, Silver Knife (60 CKS), Most Elaborate, K4, 35 IC
SIT-9, Silver Soup Spoon (60 CKS), Most Elaborate, K4, 35 IC
SIT-10, Silver Dessert Spoon (25 CKS), Most Elaborate, K3, 16 IC
SIT-11, Silver Small Spoon (10 CKS), Most Elaborate, K2, 8 IC

The most usual silver pieces can now be ordered as fungible items, boosting their resale liquidity. Complement your service by ordering a whole set of Silver only 124 IC per person! Use item_id as code when ordering!


SWORDS

See previous post.


ART

ART-items are in levels K7-K10 only and thus cost a minimum 100 IC + possible backdating.


COPPER

One 10 kg plate is even stamped to be worth 5 grams of silver, yet they are offering them at a discount, with price of 2*IC only:

KMT  2*IC  (note: KMT)


NEW (direct market, no IC): Siberian Flying Squirrel Pelts

A caravan came from Moscow where HSH The Prince of Soul had visited on his way to Korea. The cargo consisted of a gift from the Czar of Rossiya whom the Prince had managed to meet personally. The political implications of the visit will be left for a later time, but Town will now be selling these gifted SFS items on the Agora. 10,000 exist. Siberian Flying Squirrel is a really small animal with a really fine fur, it takes about 20 pelts to make a dandy fur hat, and up to 200 to make a massive, warm, full length fur coat. One is enough to become a squirrel-pouch when sewn back to the shape of the animal. (Work is not included, material only)

The item SFS was decided to be sold to benefit the Town Public Works (Fortifications, once we research them). Princess Roopatra will perhaps post the details about the sale.


Note on Wines

All wines have again matured 3 years, so their tastes and healthinesses have been updated. This time no wines were removed from the listing, but quite many (7) are already declining, (3) right at the peak, (4) approaching peak and (5) in the cellaring stage still. No new wines have been coming either from France or Germania because of the troubled situation. Glad that we have the IC conversion open, even for the limited and expensive selection available.

King (1), Soul (19) and Zechariah (36) are the three musketeers who join the elite club of 10/10 badges (all badges ever created). Please decorate  

Only 6 of the badges can be gained currently, because some have had limitations that have expired, or are otherwise paused.

1625 - Quasquibicentenary Jubilee of Crypto Kingdom and HM The King

About 35 characters are invited to the Throne Room private celebration. The ones who visit it the first time, will be awarded TB. Plenty of good wines and spirits will be consumed (gifted to participants for consumption) so save up some quota! 10*TB1625 given, receivers Decorated, and all guests received a Tasting package containing the choice liquors (RME, ABS, CXO, W1600M, W1603A, W1604, W1615P) except some missed the ABS, too bad.

100 QJB badges will be awarded to all the regular and good citizens in all levels L3-L20. This cannot be gained ever again. Tokens: Done, the Decoration is coming soon.

CB can be claimed if you meet the following qualifications:
- Do not yet have CB
- Have 400 sqm floor area.
- (If you fulfill the qualification but the automanual decorator has missed you, claim the badge from any admin by PM in 1626, it will still be dated 1625)

GCB can be claimed if you have 100 different GOC items. Claim from an admin, this will not be checked automatically.

SCB can be claimed if you have 30 different SIC items (containing CKS). Claim from an admin, this will not be checked automatically.

CCB can be claimed if you have 10 different COT+COM items. Claim from an admin, this will not be checked automatically.

Admins: the CB1625, GCB1625, SCB1625 and CCB1625 reside in "SSP", from where you can transfer them. I'll get the decorations to the DB asap, so that you don't forget to give them also (DECORATE char_id decoration_id year, eg. DECORATE 1 CCB 1625 - the decoration_id does not have the year concatenated in it, and the year is always "1625")

The collectors' badges have a deadline, now extended to end-of-May 1626. They are dated 1625, and all unawarded badges will be destroyed and new ones minted only for the next opportunity. So if you don't collect now, you will get your badge in 10 years (if you live!)

KFB will be given to those players who help the poor and show kind heart. When these were last awarded, the King knew all personally, but nowadays your good deeds are not anymore known. Therefore, and in the next 48 hours only, please disclose the good-hearted fellow players by BCT PM to me, with an example of the behavior if possible. Most of the oldies have this badge already (the list is visible in GameDB/CHAR), it's the newer players char_id 100 and higher that I have no pleasure of knowing well enough

Everyone, even those in L2, will get a number of CT1625 gaming tokens, as a Jubilee gift, to be used in Palazzo Games, located in the Casino Cryptonight (1-C, est. 1502). 2-20 tokens gifted to everyone, happy gaming!

Characters in L4 and higher will be gifted W1608, the official wine of the Jubilee. 12 bottles gifted to everyone!

All characters older than the Kingdom (225+, ie. born in the 1300s) will get a special gift. Btw we only have 13 such characters. Ominous. Anyway, this gift is a piece of ART, which the recipient can specify, as follows (Syksy makes it and bills the King directly):

K8 (200 IC):
HH The Duke of New Liberty
HH Saddam of Ramsey
HE The Prince of Forte Spagnolo
HSH The Prince of Soul
HG The Prince-Bishop
HE Princess Roopatra of Neverland

K7 (100 IC):
HE The Marquess of Cryptoluna
The Marquess of Naoned
Ale of Nassau
Knight Adam White
Zenon, TVA Magus
Wizard Developer PJ

If the above gift is not claimed before end-1626, we regret to inform that it will expire.

A gift towards good health will be given to everyone 100 years older or more, since this is a costly age for the health challenge. 32 bottles of SW3 - Elixir of Life and Happiness - were gifted, one to each.

Nobles will be promoted prior to the end of this year, and the promotions will include the County promotions as well.

The Town Council is soon ready to award MG-3, MG-4 and MG-5 Medals of the Game for contributions to the design and development.

Several Orders will check if it is time to take new Knights.

PRE prizes of up to 500 CKG will be awarded for those with the most PRE, after the double-PRE round in approx Saturday.

Anyone who is in L6 or higher, and does not yet have a Quest, can ask for one from the GM. It does not cost anything and there is no official penalty for not completing it (sometimes the politics etc prevent completion, such is life), but a completed quest benefits:
- The completer is Knighted in the Doplhin and gets the electrum medal;
- CK may move forward if eg. dangerous enemies are slain, treasures discovered or science advanced by the Quest.

The King is very sorrowful for the sorry state of the Royal Palace. The main celebration is therefore held in the House of Magnificence, in the 576 sqm main hall (12-25 m high). You can contribute to the rebuilding effort by:

- Buying CT1624, only 50 minted and cost 1 mil each
- Buying CAO-1, a most ancient Jewellery box, only 10 mil each (8 for sale, at this price it is a steal as nothing similar even exists in the game)
- Buying CAO-13, the 1:100 most elaborate model of Royal Palace (K6), roof overlaid with the gold salvaged from the Royal Palace roof from 1446 (13 CKG each), this costs almost 50 mil to make but for this price we sell it. 13 identical units made (max). (The Royal Palace fire was 13th of VII, 1623, this explains the use of 13.
- These purchases heavily benefit towards KFB, because who is poorer than the one whose 2 bil house just burned down without insurance?!  

Because of the success of RAF-1 Jubilee Raffle, a similar one will be organized as soon as the admin volunteers Please save all your Anniversary gifts to the raffle prize pot, since it will be completely with donated gifts, and all proceeds of ticket sales will go to the reconstruction fund of the Royal Palace.

Coinshop Gold Coin prices updated!

King's Coinshop has 83 types of gold coins for sale! Add to your collection now while prices are still down. The original coin series CRxxxxE is ubiquitous to us, but the newcomers will regard them as prized possessions. Only 2.2% of the gold in the game is tied up in these ancient coins!!

Also, despite Smelter being available as well, check out our buy prices, which for many coins exceed the spot by a nice margin and are always fair. Gold base price was also revised up.

Silver at rock-bottom price

CS1624E silver coin only 580,000 m! And sweeping reductions in other items

Chinese Zodiac (生肖) coins are selling well, very limited mintage, grab yours

Only 88 of each: Dog, Rat, Tiger and Dragon were minted, more than half are gone already! The price will never go below issuing price because when the sale period ends, the unsold coins will be smelted. (CR1622B-CR1628B)

Remember to buy a S-CRB if you want all new 2 CKG mintages at the introduction price automatically! The number of this item is also capped at 75 to allow the rarity of mintages.

Tidings from Counties, 1624
The status of this post is COMPLETED.

Interesting news: Due to the interconnection between salaries of Army and OTH personnel (which were delayed due to too much work), it is not possible to give PRE either! So the 1624-1625 PRE round will be a double one, based on the double salaries that will be paid approx this Saturday!

d20 has been on much use, however, and the results are listed below.


(Name of County - PRE total - PRE from 1623; shown for bg info)

NorthFace - 44 - 14

A messenger has reached our people in Tavastia. He says: "The Queen is interested in your quick departure. However, she believes there might be mutual benefit to discuss in person with the Duke. She summons you in the palace, or if this is deemed too scary and/or inconvenient, some temporary summit venue can be organized 'reasonably north of the river'". The messenger is awaiting for the response from HH The Duke of North Face.

Plath - 37 - 13

The commandant has been worried that Polonians, or even the country as a whole, would turn sour towards CK because we are now allied with their archenemy, in addition to that we are occupying their lands, or anyway lands that have much more historical connection to them than us (trolls do not walk free in CryptoTown for instance). The worry has so far been unfounded, things are very peaceful there and preparations advancing. The story of Ezekiel being almost killed and his possessions stolen has to have been an isolated incident.

Ironlock - 0 - 0

The Duke of NF forces have been exploring this piece of land, but strangely they have not sent back any messengers. This is worrying. Hopefully information comes soon.

Ramsey - 33 - 12

The situation worsened during 1624. The peasants are in open but currently non-violent rebellion and the use of the north-south road is dangerous. The Duke of Ramsey needs to decide whether to pacify the situation by negotiation or by instituting martial law and hanging the highway robbers on the spot. Mounted forces with good training are needed.

FSpagnolo - 28 - 11

No new messengers.

NewLiberty-C - 27 - 12

The troops exploring the southern part of the Duchy (for the first time now) found some wonderful things, which unfortunately are not public for now.

Gustaf Adolf is interesting in hearing our scientific progress for 1624 and wishes we would conclude it even if it were delayed (as it surely is).

OldDuchy - 26 - 10

The Royal CryptoArmy campaign in 1624 was aimed at the Rossiyan locals who have been unruly in the border area between Stonehaven and OldDuchy, even including places like the "road" (trail) between them, and the manor of Kunda! The information on how the Army is doing is not very positive, though. The Rossiyans do not care about soft methods, and the Army is not (yet) employing the hard ones very efficiently. Several troops have even been lost in ambushes but searching the locals from house to house is not done because it would cause resentment and probably yield little usable info anyway. This is a clear problem zone now as the convoys to the north need to be heavily protected with a section and even still they can only wish to get through.

The expedition to establish the border to the southeast was much more of a success. Even though the population there is predominantly Rossiyan, the central government did not seem to exercise much influence: the land was quite swampy and not among best lands, and population density not very high. A new county could be established here to strike when the iron is hot!

WhiteCross - 26 - 12

A very interesting info about the whereabouts of the dragon has been obtained, and will be delivered in private!

Stonehaven - 21 - 8

Massive forces guard the River crossing site, but there is absolutely nothing to report. The Swedish preparations advance at exactly the rate we estimated them to do, and so do our own. All traffic to CryptoTown suffers from insecurity at the moment. Even though it is much longer in distance, it might make sense to get to the capital through Riga as long as the situation persists, but we don't have ships!

Grass - 19 - 7

No events.

Tavastia - 17 - 8
Petrichor - 15 - 7

Thing are going well in here. Lord Syksy's modest appearance and humble conduct has made him very trusted and popular in Petrichor and no issues with the locals have been reported. The majesty of Zechariah, in turn, appealed to the Tavastians (Zech could pay a visit to his domains in 1624 by crossing the river from the Army camp - now he is in the capital to participate in the festivities). Both counties seem to wish that they would be under Crypto Kingdom overlordship (and not Sweden or Rossiya). Many of the characters in CK trace their roots to these northern regions, so the peasants feel the connection and submit to our rule willingly.

Admin update

We are in the progress to organize the admin scripts (such as timing of new foods, laborers etc) to be more realistic and interesting, and happen in an expected time each year. Also the sweeping success of Palazzo IPO ate up my time but it was fun

So naturally this gives an excuse to:
- Last year's delayed PRE post is coming asap
- Last year's everything related to NPC and buildings, will be merged with 1625, given Saturday
- CKG dividends likewise
- Noble promotions are decided, and will be announced soon
- Badges, etc will be doled out during the year

The following is recently done:
- Commoner Jubilee promotions have been done
- New MEAD, BEER and CAN was just divided, prime your asks


The example-character Martti made it to his 22nd day. In as many times of logging in to the game, he has managed to:

- Gain 250 sqm of free land, which is currently empty
- Gain/purchase production items: 4*PIG, 2*DIS, 1*S-VE1, 1*S-CAN (except for DIS, these are maximums)
- Total wealth is 25 mil already, in 3 years and no deposits at all
- He was recently promoted L4, and the goal is to be an Earl, the second non-deposit landed noble after Princess Roopatra

Chinese Zodiac 2 CKG coins offered by Royal Mint

The CRyearB coin series started in 1618. It is a collector coin series with a standing order token (S-CRB) whose holders get the new issues automatically and are billed the introduction price of the coin.

The introduction price may never be more than 1.5*gold ask, which means for such a small coin that the absolute markup is < 1 mil currently.

The coins may not be minted more than every other year, and this is what has been done so far.

Each new issue stays in the market for a few years at most, and the price is never lowered below the introduction price (it may be raised if the demand is large, but new coins will not be minted). The contrary: what is left of the issue will be smelted to ensure collectibility - Eg. only 49 of the CR1620B Hydrogen Helix coins remain!

The years 1622 - Dog, 1624 - Rat, 1626 - Tiger and 1628 - Dragon are now in the market, and the unsold coins will be smelted when the next issue (1630 - the Bicentenary of CryptoTown) is minted in 1630.

It is our wish that the coins do sell, though. Except for Dragon (50%), their markup is only 25%, and only 88 instances of each has been minted.

The series will eventually contain all the 12 Zodiac signs and is currently expected to consummate with Horse in 1654. The requirement to mint only each other year, and other things worth honoring with a coin, and the fact that each Zodiac coin is dated to the actual year of that animal (per July), prolong the schedule.

1 CKG coins ruling

Instead of 7 very-most rare coins for the years 1619-1625, the EXP of all the characters for these years is evaluated as a lump sum, and ~70*CR1625A raffled to them in proportion. It might sound unfun but having too many so rare coins is actually hurting collectibility by making it too expensive to collect the full series, resulting in giving up altogether. This way, the gap also makes it possible to specialize in the Reconstruction-era (1601-1618) or the new era (1625-), boosting the resale value of these certificates of early adoptership.

CR1625E

Due to the needs of Palazzo Gaming Corp to have a standard gold token for the games, 5,200 of this has been minted already. It will also be Favorited, and possibly Coinshop will offer market making for it, in addition to the liquidity that the gamers will provide, and also the smalltime investors. (Due to markups and collectibility, it is unlikely that 1-2 CKG coins will ever reach enough of liquidity to be of interest to even small investors, if the aim is to speculate on the price of gold, and not of the other components of the price).

Please remember that the Smelter offers a very easy conversion of unwanted gold items to liquid items. To boost the mintage of CR1625E, Smelter reduces the mint fee to 1.29% (normally 1.79%) for selection "5", meaning CR1625E. This offer is in force until the end of Jubilee.

PGC founding bureaucracy DONE!

The IPO raised 20,822 CKG, which was all sent to Smelter/Mint.

- 20,000 CKG is returned as 4,000*CR1625E, the new standard 5 CKG gold coin as it has the largest mintage of all 5 CKG coins.
- The rest was converted to 100,000*CT1625 tokens and 600 mil
- King bought 5,000*CT1625 at the conversion price (100 tokens to CR1625E), which gained additional 50*CR1625E
- 20,000*CT1625 was distributed as dividends.
- 113.85 mil of previous working capital was returned to Noms

So the company now has bankroll:
- 4,050*CR1625E (20,250 CKG)
- liability to redeem 25,000*CT1625 (-1,250 CKG)
- 600 mil in cash

75,000*CT1625 exist in the company vault, which will be used as gaming tokens in midrange games. The high end games will be played directly with gold coins, and also m based games will be offered.

Palazzo Gaming Corporation IPO is closed

The company has 2 series of shares, S-PGC1 with less privileges until 1639, and S-PGC with special investor protections. Both are tradable but Sir Noms and King have announced they are not interested in trading their S-PGC1 for now. In 1640, all shares will be merged to S-PGC 1:1, and have equal rights from then.

Ownership of S-PGC1 (total=5,000):

2,800 shares Sir Noms of White Cross
1,500 shares HM The King
250 shares Sir kronicblazer
250 shares Town
200 shares HH SirJacket

Ownership of S-PGC (total=5000):

1435      Saddam of Ramsey
680      Lord Cryptonic
482      HH SirJacket
246      Sir Crichton
245      HM The King
245      HG The Bishop
245      Monero House
244      Sir Hokusai
242      Sir kronicblazer
235      Sir Riddick
152      Wizard Dev
123      Lord Cryptonight
96      Princess Roopatra
86      Paul Jr
74      SIF
73      Duke of NL
49      Sir Pablo
35      Sir Mooo
11      Lord Syksy
2      wrayvon

Aggregate Ownership (total=10,000):

2800      Noms of WC
1745      HM The King
1435      Saddam of Ramsey
682      HH SirJacket
680      Lord Cryptonic
492      Sir kronicblazer
250      Town
246      Sir Crichton
245      HG The Bishop
245      Monero House
244      Sir Hokusai
235      Sir Riddick
152      Wizard Dev
123      Lord Cryptoknight
96      Princess Roopatra
86      Lord Paul Jr
74      SIF
73      Duke of NL
49      Sir Pablo
35      Sir Mooo
11      Lord Syksy
2      wrayvon


CT1625 Token amount is increased to 100,000 tokens representing and redeemable in 5,000 CKG (100 tokens per 5 CKG). For this, the normal fee up to 7,000 tokens (40 mil) is paid, and for the 93,000 tokens only material (copper=KMT) is charged by the Mint.

To get the tokens distributed, a following scheme happens:
- 20,000 tokens are given as dividends to the shareholders, 2*CT1625 per share
- King buys 5,000 casino tokens at 50*CR1625E to be used in Jubilee giveaways and other schemes
- 75,000 are left to be sold at the market and retained as part of the bankroll.

The rest of the gold is given to the Mint and equal amount in CR1625E gold coins is returned. This is free of charge as per earlier promise.

Nothing announced in this post is yet in the DB. This line will disappear when it is no longer the case

No need. I will forward him based on this report!

New character is created by "Register" link in the Game login site.

The old character password works for 30 days still and you can GIVE item_id amount recipient_id to the new character.

Soon there will be a powerful command GIVE ALLXXX recipient_id accomplishing the obvious. This is already in admin testing so you can ask them to transfer your stuff if the estate is so large that giving each one separately is tedious.

Thank you for being 249 years with us and looking forward to the new incarnation!