Crypto Kingdom - 1991 Retro Virtual World(City)

[rpietila]

Two Royal Heralds, accompanied with a contingent from the Royal Palace Guard, position themselves on the Platform.


Since the auction of the memberships of The Ancient Fellowship of the Round Table cannot reasonably be delayed after the bidding has started, let us, by the authority granted by HH The CEO, The Prince of Forte Spagnolo, CORE-KC, AOK-S, MG-3, etc., the Chairman of the Round Table, state the rules and procedures in the Auction:

1. To be auctioned are 8 numbered and "signed by HM" (marked by HM's hand with the goldsmith engraving tools) 1,600 CKG gold bars (premium only) from 1520, the year of the Trust In Economy movement, when people were rallied to purchase items to pledge their trust in that the game would reach the year 1600 A.D., as it was seriously uncertain at that time. Only Forte Spagnolo acquired these gold bars and has 50 of them in his possession.

2. Bar #1 he reserved for himself, and bar #2 he gifted to HM. The bars #3-#10 are auctioned now, and the rest will be auctioned 10 at a time in the similar way, with the auction coinciding with the major game version releases V.5: Economy, V.6: Skills and Businesses, V.7 and V.8.

3. The bar grants membership in The Ancient Fellowship of the Round Table. The lower number bar grants precedence, in ways to be further formed in the Fellowship.

4. Corporations are ineligible for the auction nor be represented in the Round Table.

5. No more than 50 bars exist and no more than 50 memberships may ever be created.

6. The proceeds of the auction go to the Prince towards the relief of obligations contracted in connection with the development of the Game.

7. A donation equaling the bid will be made to the Fellowship, and the donations will be used to acquire a prestigious lot in the Old Town for building and furnishing a Clubhouse, (and for building of the house, if enough is donated).

8. When making a bid, it may be indicated what are the numbers of bars it applies to. Within the range, it wins the lowest numbered bar possible. If not specified, the bid applies to any of the 8 bars.

9. Starting bid is 50 million. Bids must be divisible by 10 million. One character may place multiple bids, however if he intends to gain maximum a certain number of bars, this must be indicated. In this case he wins the lowest numbered bars possible up to the specified number of bars. If not specified, he wins all bars possible.

10. The auction for bars #3-#5 ends after 4 days and for the rest, #6-#10, after 5 days, from the timestamp of this post, or 10 minutes after the last winning bid has been placed, whichever is later.

11. "Support bids" can be made in the way HM already showed, these bids are added to the main bids and will be payable only if the (support bids+main bid) wins.

12. The rules will be amended as necessary.

Sign, Royal Seal

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[sphericon]

Lord Noms bids the following:

#5 Noms 80 (5-6)

[rpietila]

AIC update

If you explicitly mention that you own something in the thread, you can create it for any year AIC prior to the mention at -1PP. For example if a building is built and there is the link to its elaborate facade (white is Elaborate), it is -1PP. If you say you own a lute, it is -1PP. If you say you are a lutist, it does not count. The item needs to be explicit.

If someone else acknoledges your item in the thread (2015-3-15 and before count), it is at -2PP, or free, if the original cost is 50 AIC or less.

Any text in the thread can be created a Document/Manuscript. Quoted text is free. In other words, you get pieces of the Kingdom history on parchment at little to no cost. However, you must be the recipient of the text to have it, or sender that makes a copy.


Windows update; start of the auction
TL;DR: All windows to be installed to existing or new buildings in the near future are of the same kind. To procure them, you need to order from Rouen (one bulk auction now, delivery 15 days to the online), RWWC (daily auction every day, small quantity), or have your building in the list of Cultured buildings (below). Without windows, the utility of the building and its pool payments are seriously hampered.

After the pressing design deadline in 4 days has passed, it is the time to make the complete inventory of windows missing. All Lots will be required to submit their floor plans (one main, which will be displayed in the Online, and additional ones according to need, ie. if the buildings have many floors). In addition, 1-4 Facade views, according to the number of main faces of the Lot. If it is facing a main street (paved area minimum 8 m wide - it is required.

These will enable the planning for the replacement of windows. RWWC does its utmost to relieve the pressure and can start making 300 sqm of windows per real-day, starting from day 1 in the Online (with more capacity coming soon). Half of the capacity will be allocated to replace the windows in the Cultured buildings in the order of precedence. The other half is auctioned daily. There is no Items management, so you will only be able to buy windows for the whole Building (note: Building differs from a Lot, and also from "building" in the everyday parlance). The auction is such that the winner discloses the amount only after winning, and if there are windows remaining in the inventory, the second place also wins etc. When the windows remaining is so small that someone cannot buy them, they are added to the next day's quota.

The list of cultured buildings and their exact precedence is made available here soon. They are allocated windows at the "peacetime price" (= Rouen price) so that as many Buildings are windowed from the top of the list as possible each day, and the remainder remains for the next day. If a building gets windowed through other means, it is erased from the list.

The Auction for the first order from Rouen is in the /RWWC tab in the Game DB.

All of the Ancient windows that are taken off the buildings, and the ones to be made from the loot of the mayhem, will only be able to be used later. By a Royal Decree, the 4m diameter round Most Ancient window taken from the North Face palace will be displayed in the CryptoMuseum. The windows in the churches may stay in place.

Elaborate planning with the Army representatives and RWWC engineers have made it possible to give a definite answer what can be made from the shards. The situation is not as grim as suspected.

Windows Types (mostly relevant not yet now or even in 1600, but important for planning/speculating purposes)

A Royal Decree is issued that ordains that every sqm of window area need to consist of at least 40 panes. This is calculated to be so small that if similar event happens again, the losses of glass would be minimal, yet these windows can be viewed through easily. It is called Standard Pane. It is the only type of window available for import/purchase starting 1600.

The complete list for now is as follows:

Huge Pane - windows with 1 sqm or more glass (were used in Ancient era, but now forbidden except existing, mounting cost 40,000 m/sqm)

Large Pane - windows having about 10 panes per sqm (forbidden, mounting cost 40,000 m/sqm)

Standard Pane - windows having 40 panes per sqm (all import and RWWC production for now at the peacetime price of 140,000 m/sqm - auction may be more - plus some Ancient from shards, mounting+assembly 60,000 m/sqm)

Small Pane - windows having about 160 panes per sqm (stained glass peacetime price 700,000 m/sqm, mounting+assembly 200,000 m/sqm now forbidden as luxury except in sacral buildings; Small Pane Ancient Windows only made from shards, mounting+assembly 100,000 m/sqm)

Tiny Pane - windows with about 320 panes per sqm (Tiny Pane Ancient Windows only made from shards, mounting+assembly 140,000 m/sqm).

The WIA loot (in Fungibles) is now arranged such that 1 unit is 10 crates of windowglass, having the following characteristics:

As soon as RWWC gets the permission to spend time on such unnecessities, it will offer to make 35 sqm of windows from 1 unit, consisting of the following: 1*Huge Pane of 1x1 m, 4*Large Pane, 10*Standard Pane, 10*Small Pane, 10*Tiny Pane, at a processing cost of 2 million / unit. The abovementioned install costs apply to mount the windows on existing or new buildings as labor cost.
 
Because it may be difficult to use or sell the windows at the unspecified time when it becomes available, and there is no guarantee of the markets for these products, most of which are inferior to new produce (though the larger panes are unobtainable otherwise due to the decree forbidding them), RWWC bids 2 million per a WIA unit of 10 crates.

The waiting list for processing the glass (it is a great amount of labor due to the great amount of windows the Town used to have), is first come first served, prepayment of 2 million per unit to RWWC, used for the special workshop for this purpose only. It is in /RWWC in the Game DB.

[saddambitcoin]

The Marquess of Ramsey bids 150 for bar number 4.

[djjacket]

The Round Table Auction Interim Situation

HE The Prince of North Face - 150m (4-10)

[rpietila]

The Round Table Auction Interim Situation

#3 HE The Prince of Soul  300 (3)

#4 The Marquess of Ramsey  150 (4)

#5 HE The Prince of North Face  150 (4-10)

#6 The Marquess of Tavastia  100 (3-10)

#7 (minimum bid 50)

#8 (minimum bid 50)

#9 (minimum bid 50)

#10 (minimum bid 50)


Non-winning and explanations
HE The Prince of Soul bids 250 for #4, 200 for #5 and 160 for #6-10, all on the condition that this is his only winning bid at the time.

HM The King supports 50 for New Liberty (3)
HM The King supports 20 for HG The Bishop (highest bid of the said character)
HM The King supports 20 for Dame Roopatra, AOK-C (highest bid of the said character)
HM The King supports 20 for Earl Paulson (highest bid of the said character)
HM The King supports 10 for the highest bid of the characters who have a winning bid for bars #6-#10 at 8 hours after the timestamp of this post (cumulative with other support bids, and stays with the character's highest bid even if his highest bid drops to a non-winning bid during the course of the auction)

[sphericon]

Lord Noms bids the following:

#4 Noms 160 (4-6)

[McHaggis]

Earl James bids 60 each for the 4 lots #7, #8, #9 and #10

[rpietila]

The Round Table Auction Interim Situation

#3 HE The Prince of Soul  300 (3)

#4 Lord noms  160 (4-6)

#5 HE The Prince of North Face  150 (4-10)

#6 The Marquess of Tavastia  100 (3-10)

#7 Earl James  60+40 (7)

#8 Earl James  60 ( 8 )

#9 Earl James  60 (9)

#10 Earl James  60 (10)


Non-winning and explanations
HE The Prince of Soul bids 250 for #4, 200 for #5 and 160 for #6-10, all on the condition that this is his only winning bid at the time.

HM The King supports 50 for New Liberty (3)
HM The King supports 40 for Earl James (highest bid of the said character)
HM The King supports 20 for HG The Bishop (highest bid of the said character)
HM The King supports 20 for Dame Roopatra, AOK-C (highest bid of the said character)
HM The King supports 20 for Earl Paulson (highest bid of the said character)

[Karl Hungus]

The Prince of OZ bids 150 for bar #10

[CK_Zephyrus]

Zephyrus closed the door and sit wearily on the bed. The last few days were tiring, filled with constant care of the wounded. As soon as he reached the cathedral, Zephyrus was stunned by the concentration of people seeking refuge there. At least this explained why the town appeared deserted.

The small makeshift sleeping room in the cathedral's catacombs was small and dark, and yet a welcome place where to end Zephyrus' day. Joining the church had been a mere formality, as even the Bishop was so busy overseeing the emergency. At last, the work seemed to diminish, with only a small part of the town's population being more than lightly injured by the exploding glass. Tomorrow would be a less busy day.

[rpietila]

The Round Table Auction Interim Situation

#3 HE The Prince of Soul  300 (3)

#4 Lord noms  160 (4-6)

#5 HE The Prince of North Face  150 (4-10)

#6 The Marquess of Tavastia  100 (3-10)

#7 Earl James  60+40 (7)

#8 Earl James  60 ( 8 )

#9 Earl James  60 (9)

#10 HE The Prince of OZ  150 (10)


Non-winning and explanations
HE The Prince of Soul bids 250 for #4, 200 for #5 and 160 for #6-10, all on the condition that this is his only winning bid at the time.

HM The King supports 50 for New Liberty (3)
HM The King supports 40 for Earl James (highest bid of the said character)
HM The King supports 20 for HG The Bishop (highest bid of the said character)
HM The King supports 20 for Dame Roopatra, AOK-C (highest bid of the said character)
HM The King supports 20 for Earl Paulson (highest bid of the said character)

[sphericon]

The Town has awarded Medals of the Game:

4th class to:
Lord Callixtus
Lord noms
Mooo

5th class to:
HE North Face
HE The Chancellor
Dame Asenath

The award happened in 1599, so the Medals are Ancient. In total, there are 15 Medals of the Game awarded "for valuable contributions to game design and development". The highest class awarded so far is 2nd class, and that has been awarded to HM The King, twice. 3rd class is awarded to HH The CEO, HG The Bishop and Lord sXpher, once each.

Your Majesty, I am honored and grateful to have been recognized for such a coveted award. Long live Crypto Kingdom!

[NewLiberty]

The Town has awarded Medals of the Game:

4th class to:
Lord Callixtus
Lord noms
Mooo

5th class to:
HE North Face
HE The Chancellor
Dame Asenath

The award happened in 1599, so the Medals are Ancient. In total, there are 15 Medals of the Game awarded "for valuable contributions to game design and development". The highest class awarded so far is 2nd class, and that has been awarded to HM The King, twice. 3rd class is awarded to HH The CEO, HG The Bishop and Lord sXpher, once each.

Your Majesty, I am honored and grateful to have been recognized for such a coveted award. Long live Crypto Kingdom!

Medals of the Game 4th class is quite a high honor and only a small group have earned it in all this time.
The Countess Roopatra, His Excellence Prince Karl, and my own self.
It is with honor and dignity that you are welcomed to this mark of achievement. 
It is one that is only earned through extraordinary effort.

The higher MoG awards are far more rare, and we look forward to the progress and advancements of the Crypto Kingdom that is required to achieve them by any with the capability to do so. 

When any of these MoG awards are granted, it is a mark that we all have won something from the further development of this endeavor, and thereby have good cause to celebrate.

A chalice is raised to all of thee.  Good form, and well done.

[CK_Zephyrus]

Zephyrus closed the door to the Archdeacon's office and hastened back to the main cathedral floor, clutching the cloth containing the stained glass shard he'd found at the city's edge. He pocketed it swiftly, reflecting on the discussion he had just had. He thanked his good fortune for the timing of his arrival to Cryptotown as he emerged from a doorway opening to the cathedral's imposing floor, still filled with people. Commoners, mostly, but also some nobles. A luthier was playing near a wall, surrounded by people listening to the chords. Two people were crouching nearby, playing some kind of dice game. Further away, two people were engaged in agitated conversation, trying to keep their voices down for the sake of the building's purpose. Further away, a makeshift hospital was still occupied by a few people who had borne the brunt of the Shattering and were still being treated. Zephyrus started walking towards the hospital to continue caring for the wounded.

[rpietila]

Update on the important game/development deadlines
(midnight UTC unless specified)


Tue 2015-3-31 (16:00) Auction deadline - Gold Bars #3-#5 of the Ancient Fellowship of the Knights of the Round Table

Tue 2015-3-31 (16:15) Auction deadline - Sir Rhadamanthus, The Marquess of Arda Estate 1st Auction

Tue 2015-3-31 My deadline to produce a DB fields + Functions/Scripts specifications document; before this I am unavailable for other duties, therefore please mention me in IRC only if you are an established Noble, and the matter is important for me, not only for you other admins help in matters important for you

Wed 2015-4-1 (16:00) Auction deadline - Gold Bars #6-#10 of the Ancient Fellowship of the Knights of the Round Table

Fri 2015-4-3 (12:15) AIC conversion deadline (AIC will be reduced even before; the first reduction is just completed)

Fri 2015-4-3 Release date of V.4 known (does not mean the date will be announced)

Tue 2015-4-7 (18:00) Deadline for the Auction for the Rouen Windows Order (/RWWC - in total 5,000 sqm of windows are emergency imported)

Tue 2015-4-7 Deadline to produce Lot floorplans, facadeviews and windowcounts, and Rulebook hypertext document.


ADD: Rhadamanthus/Arda Estate Auction #1; moved Gold Bar Auctions to close at better time.

[rpietila]

Sir Rhadamanthus, The Marquess of Arda, CB, KFB  1370-1600.3

My loving People,


The Kingdom is in the midst of never-before-experienced turmoil. We have become to accept that what is circulated as a rumor, has proven to be true more often than not.

There is no denying - Sir Rhadamanthus, The Marquess of Arda, has died. We have become mortal.

Nobody had seen the Marquess since the Event of the Great White Light. It was unnoticed for weeks, as Arda was known to be a peaceful man who seldom appeared in taverns and was mostly tending to his School for Nobles and the plants in the gardens. The school had been closed, and nobody else had time to care about the Botanical Gardens - nor Arda - until...

...the King went to walk in the park (it was slowly becoming warmer) and was thinking what to do with Tavastia, whose palace was constantly reminding him of the scar in the relations, as he saw the Arda Palace as well (The King's Park has only 4 proper palaces lining it - The Royal Palace, the palaces of Arda and Tavastia, and the Jacket Palace belonging to HE The Prince of North Face - Baron sXpher has never had the opportunity to build to his lot, due to his many duties). The King decided to check what's going on with the Marquess and - found him dead.

It was possible to go unnoticed due to all the servants taking hostage in San Pietro, and Marquess as a kind man probably let them go easily. The King realized a new burden falling on his shoulders. Not only will the Town be in shock because of the mortality, also the practical matters necessarily fall upon the King himself since it is unlikely that in the realm of immortality anyone would have written a will, and the deceased was one of the highest and richest men in the Kingdom, making perhaps the Duke the only other one capable of being the administrator of the huge estate. And he is known to be busy as well.

Oh well, the time moves slowly in the Kingdom of the Dead, was the King's thought when he started listing the items in the estate:

12,785 CKG
1,730 CKS (receipts only, actual silver is nowhere to be seen)
Rhadamanthus' Palace 1-N, 2 q
Marquess of Arda School for Nobles 1-N, 6 q
The haw and the Botanical Gardens there, 1-NE, 16 q
The skilled workforce
65 gold coins including 3 TH sets that were sold at 10 mil/set until it was suspended but nothing other particularly valuable
1.45 million stone
Perhaps about 400 million worth of stock in 5 companies (trading is halted)
16 unique Items ranging from a 230-year old toybox and 100-year old Grant of Nobility to a carriage, Oil painting, Library and silver chandelier
some fungible silver rings and items including 6 wine cups, 80 CKS each
612 and change million overdraft with HM

What to do with all this wealth? Sir Rhadamanthus' motive for coming to the Kingdom had been to help Monero, and Monero needs helping. Therefore it is clear that the bulk of the proceeds should go towards development. The Marquess also had close relations with the Church, since both had similar missions in promoting and educating new players. The Church has had inspiring changes in management lately, so the Special Institutions might be best nurtured with them. The Palace and some of the items may be best sold right now in an auction, to preserve them from getting (further) spoiled by the Earthquake. The early copper and silver might better wait until itemized properly.

We the King are interested in giving the management of The Monero House to the Order of the Core Team and their appointed representative, upon the condition that the representative can spare enough resources to actually manage it. If their answer is not deemed sufficient, the Gold Selling Plan will occur, where the estate of the Marquess of Arda is incrementally liquidated in order to not affect the market, and sent to the devaddress.

The plans how to preserve the memory of Arda, whether to construct a memorial (other than the fine buildings that already testify of his life and work), will have to mature.

We would be glad to have an obituary from someone who knew him well.

[rpietila]

R.I.P my friend,

On the other hand, acting slowly is not a sign any respect to the dead (unless they loved sloth in others while they lived, which few did).

Auction #1 of the properties and items in the Estate of Sir Rhadamanthus, the Marquess of Arda


Item 1:
785 CKG - to be sold as a whole item. Minimum bid is King's buyprice at the close of the Auction. Item is left unsold if no such bid, and sold to King instead.

Item 2:
200 CKS (trade silver in year 156X; will be added to the buyer for the same year unitemized). No minimum.

Item 3:
Rhadamanthus' Palace 1-N-J15. This Palace is composed of 348 sqm Residential/Special section and 49 sqm shopfront. 9 rooms, high arched main room, access to King's Park. No windows, pre-Earthquake. Does not include NPCs nor items. See /LOT, /BLDG for lot code. - Minimum bid 600 million.

Item 4:
65 gold coins. Includes 3 TH sets that were sold at 10 mil/set. See The Marquess of Arda line in the /CKG_COINS. Minimum bid 100 million.

Item 5:
1,453,835 stone in Old Town - to be sold as a whole item. Minimum bid 100 million.

Item 6:
K5 Elaborate Dinner Table+6 chairs from 1488 (Item CAF-A6). No minimum.

[saddambitcoin]

RIP to the Marquess of Arda. I regret not knowing him well, though I feel his indelible mark in the Ancient era will live on throughout time.

Item 4:
65 gold coins. Includes 3 TH sets that were sold at 10 mil/set. See The Marquess of Arda line in the /CKG_COINS. Minimum bid 100 million.

Saddam bids 100m.

[sphericon]

Item 5:
1,453,835 stone in Old Town - to be sold as a whole item. Minimum bid 100 million.

noms bids 100m