Crypto Kingdom - 1991 Retro Virtual World(City)

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Forte Spagnolo Vineyards Last Produce For A Long Time

The grapes have gone bad both in 1600 and 1601. The workers have dutifully tried a third time in the hostile climactic conditions. 830 bottles of wine, grown and made in Old Town, have been able to be produced. Initial tasting shows that while everything turned out well this year, it just does not make sense to produce wine with a low yield and average quality.

Let's see what the Prince wants to do with the batch!

Hello SirJacket, I hear that you are the wealth manager for Prince Forte Spagnolo. I would like to acquire some of this wine (W1602F)-would you consider a trade? I will offer a bottle of CLXII (legendary cognac) for a couple cases. What do you think?

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[Callixtus]

New Player Housing

The time has come for the Church to help provide affordable housing to the masses. As part of our mission to help those in need and care for the homeless, we have built a large number of very tidy houses in 4-NW, in the Church borough. These are all within walking distance to a 400+ sqm public park, and have a decent size garden on the property. Each 10m by 10m lot contains a house with terrace, and is being sold at cost!

These houses are reserved for those that are new to the game, and there is a limit of 2 properties per player. If you are a character that is level 3 or below, you are allowed to purchase these homes. Anyone at higher levels has the means available to buy a more suited property.

6m moneritos is all you need to start your life in borough 4.  At the time of this writing, all of the houses in yellow are for sale. See the below image:

https://i.imgur.com/DphYiFc.jpg

To purchase, contact any admin via IRC (##cryptokingdom on freenode) or PM on BCT, and say that you'd like to buy a new player church house.

For the next in-game year (any time in the year 1602), any purchase of buildings in the church area will come with a year's supply (168 bottles) of Barley Wine (W1601B) to help get you settled in your new house.

W1601B:

Recent Grading: 12-14 out of 20
Peak Expected Grading in 1605-1615: 13-17 out of 20
Description: The Order of Benedict masterpiece, a Barley Wine with very good grades (considering it's barley wine), and possibility to age.   

[rpietila]

For the next in-game year (any time in the year 1602), any purchase of buildings in the church area will come with a year's supply (168 bottles) of Barley Wine (W1601B) to help get you settled in your new house.

I wish I was poor... The cost of this liquor alone is 135% the cost of the house+its land... Church has truly extended themselves!

[rpietila]

I will offer a bottle of CLXII (legendary cognac) for a couple cases.

The attribute legendary has not been bestown to this cognac, nor anything else yet, for that matter.

Use unrestricted "historical" instead.

[Roopatra]

TFLP - Town Free Land Plan

The Town has also listed 10 small lots for sale (in chapelries 4-N, 4-C and 4-S) to all players at very modest prices (8-25 mil a lot!). For the first 48 hours though, HM and his wealth management clients and anyone Earl or higher, may not buy these cheap lots.

Since the Church is now offering very affordable starter homes in borough 4 and the Town giving small homes away for free (offering much cheaper options for new players to acquire land), and after dutifully waiting for 48 hours of the announcement: The Marchioness of Neverland bought the remaining unsold lots in 4-N. (lots in 4-C and 4-S had sold out already).

[rpietila]

The Tsurugajo Castle (Art Gallery) has been reconstructed! Hail the Prince of OZ!

Also Portal, the landmark and centre of the whole University Borough (existed before the PofC&S, is bigger, more restaurants, closer to the OT, ...) has been reconstructed. The Prince of Soul spent 801 mil + 548 sqm of windows for the project.

Of the great buildings collapsed by the earthquake, only the following remain in the collapsed state anymore:
- Noble Palace
- Lucky Lion
- Old University Main Building in 1-NW



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 early 1602
The Military Sciences Department <-- cheap repairs, modest lux, windows AB
The University Main Building <-- collapsed in earthquake; will this be rebuilt??

In 1602.3 if windows
RWWC HQ & Research <-- win install AB
RWWC Windows Factory <-- win install AB
New RWWC Factory <- win install AB

In late 1602
Townhouse in Barons' Row (Town) <-- windows only
Old Town Police Station AB
3-NW Soul villas
3-W-C2

In 1603 or Later
New Dept Store <-- win
King's Guesthouse 1-N-J17 <-- King checks and fixes
Tavastia Village School <-- lux, win
Choo Parkside Restaurant <-- depends on usage
Clocktower
Army Barracks in 3-C
2-C-C8 <-- win
Triple Towers <-- windows are a must!

[rpietila]

New Allocated CKG Items!

Gold Allocation is completed. 100% of all gold now exists in an allocated form.

- The fungible forms of gold can be found in /F_OWN. Unique forms are in /ITEMS_U. (/CKG_COINS is migrated to /F_OWN!!)

- The bulk of all the gold exists in the following 5 forms, all minted in the new mint, and dated 1602:

CR1602A - 1 CKG small gold coin "flake" (will be minted yearly from 1601 on)
CR1602E - 5 CKG coin of the realm (continuation of the series since 1400)
HM02B100 - 100 CKG gold bar
HM02B1000 - 1,000 CKG gold bar
HM02B10000 - 10,000 CKG gold bar.

- When trading gold, please transfer also the items in the /F_OWN tab. If you don't, never mind. Someone will notice it since there is a checksum showing that one counterparty has excess allocated and the other deficient, and the admins can fulfill the trade by transfering any of these "trade forms".

- You can sell any gold to the King's Coinshop, but you may only take the items above, and the minimum number of pieces. "Taking change" of course ok, if you sell a large item, yet want to depart of a smaller amount of CKG.

- The new CR16xxA series now has two members, CR1601A and CR1602A. Most characters have both, and 500+ of both exist. CR1603A will be very rare, because only 1 per about 17 hours of playtime will be created next week. So it is likely that only few will come to existence. The same will be true of every future mintage until the game becomes successful. These coins are only minted from the virgin gold, which exceeds the 1,000,000 ancient gold quota.

- CR1601E (732) and CR1602E (3,280) are the most numerous CRxxxxE coins so far. Previous record is as recent as CR1599E (220) and the previous before that as historical as CR1418E (200, of which 198 remain).

[rpietila]

Statistics about the level promotion of the "early adopters" (players who got in the game before 1450, which is in the first 25 days since inception and 16 days since the game first time accepted new players)

L14 Grand Duke - none promoted
L13 Duke - 2 promoted
L12 Prince - 4 promoted
L11 Marquess - 5 promoted (there are currently no Marquesses or higher who have not been in the game 1450 the latest)
L10 Earl - 4 promoted
L9 Baron - 5 promoted
L8 Knight - 1 promoted
L7 Wizard - 1 promoted
L6 Master - 7 promoted
L5 Expert - 2 promoted (everybody has been promoted to this level at least after 152+ years)

21/31 have reached nobility, of which 15 are in the landed nobility, and will receive their countryside fief sooner than many expect

[rpietila]

You have 24 hours to build buildings!

(and during this time it will be cheaper than when Ultima starts, because the stone loss will be baked in to the building price)

[rpietila]

Entry to the game is now closed for new characters. We are preparing for data migration.

Admins notice that many fields have disappeared from the /CHAR tab. The reason is that most data that is not an intrinsic property of the character, is in the new database classified as Item instead.

For instance whether the Character is the recipient of MG-4 is an intrinsic property (and in CHAR). The medal itself is an item.

SCI, IC, even CUL points are now items, even though culture is untransferable.

All data will be put in the following tables only:
I_TYPES - showing the item categories and their parameters
ITEMS - showing all items, basically every thing that is not in the other tables, according to its type
F_OWN - the ownership registry for items
CHAR - intrinsic properties of characters
LOT - lot registry
BLDG - building registry.

It will be interesting to see how the game concepts of gold and stone fit in the new classification system

[rpietila]

ADMIN FLYING SAUSAGE #24
(Finnish expression for unexpected work that must be performed immediately - Town pays the usual rate)


Building Facades have resided in /ITEMS_U with Item Code "BFF" in column "F".

They will be moved to /BLDG in columns "AL"-"AP".

The data conversion is such tricky that we do it manually, as follows:
- Take one line in /ITEMS_U at a time; they are not listed by chapelry so you will need to zigzag in the destination table a lot, sorry for that.
- Check the elaborateness of the facade from the column "S" and the faces covered (S,W,N,E) from the notes fields
- Create the information in the /BLDG with the number denoting the elaborateness towards each direction (S,W,N,E) for the buildings that are covered.
- No need to do anything to the buildings that are not covered. If something is unintelligible, please paint the destination cells yellow.
- Copy the (oldest) year of the original feature to column "AP".
- Do not change the data in /ITEMS_U.

Confirm with me before you start

[rpietila]

Confirm with me before you start

Roopatra has confirmed that she'll do it. Thanks!

[rpietila]

CKG has hit a 24-day low against Euro and 22-day low against USD.

Against EUR we have slid from 0.517 in 2015-8-7 to 0.284 now. (The slide is because of both BTC and XMR weakening against fiat.)

It is a good time to enter if you are a fiat-denominated hand. (No new players can unfortunately be accepted right now due to migration to new system.)

[rpietila]

Stone has been transmuted to "buildings".

Notes:
- If the owner of stone did not have a lot in the Old Town where the stone was located, the Royal CryptoArmy bought it for 140 m/stone.
- If the number of stone owned was less than 1,000 tons (100k stone), the Royal CryptoArmy redeemed it likewise.
- In New City, Rome had 3,340,700 stone, which was transferred to Lucky Lion without compensation due to Rome not having a suitable lot.
- In New City, Rome also bought the stone that could not be stored by the owner, for 133 m/stone
- In University & San Pietro, NewCorp bought the unstorable stone, for 130 and 140 m.

[rpietila]

THC - Town Housing Corporation seeks to wind down and distribute the proceeds to the shareholders.

THC was founded in 1565 to promote land speculation and temporary buildings construction in the town. It has now achieved the objectives of showing to the players how new land should quickly be put to use and bulldozed when necessary. It has not, however, achieved the objective of being a liquid investment vehicle. Also gold has become even more liquid in the meantime.

The following things will be auctioned, and only <24 hours is given, so cheap stuff can be had!
(closes tomorrow at 21:00 BCTT)

A) The Ancient Corporation #81 (shell) in the Registry (new corps cost 10 mil and this is historical), includes Founding Document on parchment and Reconstruction Medal (bronze)
- Minimum bid 10 mil, increments of 5 mil

B) 160 CKG in the form of 40*HC1600D, 4 CKG collectible gold coins (unissued)
- Minimum bid 100 mil, increments 5 mil

C) The Lot 3-C-B10 with a 368 sqm model1 house (all lots are 400 sqm)
- Minimum bid 170 mil, increments 10 mil (BUY ME NOW(TM) - lot is directly for sale @220 mil)

D) The Lot 3-C-B11 with a 368 sqm model1 house
- Minimum bid 170 mil, increments 10 mil (BUY ME NOW(TM) - lot is directly for sale @220 mil)

E) The Lot 3-C-B12 with a 368 sqm model1 house
- Minimum bid 170 mil, increments 10 mil (BUY ME NOW(TM) - lot is directly for sale @220 mil)

F) The Lot 3-W-D5 with a 368 sqm model1 house
- Minimum bid 190 mil, increments 10 mil (BUY ME NOW(TM) - lot is directly for sale @250 mil)

G) The Lot 3-W-D6 with a 368 sqm model1 house
- Minimum bid 190 mil, increments 10 mil (BUY ME NOW(TM) - lot is directly for sale @250 mil)


If the auction is successful and all items catch a bid, the company is closed. If not all items catch a bid, the item A) will not be sold either.

[noms]

Can't get in using my regular account, so I'll be using this account from now on unless I can get my other account unlocked.

[rpietila]

Random pickings from the new, uniform, items registry:

King is selling the Old Department Store stock, 8 jewelry boxes from 1499 (CAO-1), most ancient, most elaborate token gilded wood. Price: 10 mil/box. Not for resellers!

Soul is buying stock in several companies, check the prices and act (or outbid!)

The Bank is accepting deposits! New short bond BSB1610 is making you money when you sleep and paying 1.4% APR, almost double that of gold.

Gold is now traded material+premium. The coinshop can still make trades, just trade directly in /F_OWN using the prices and maximums there!

King and Roopatra have entered a lot of bids and asks for gold coins (also silver and copper)!

IC now costs 0.3 mil only (with King, IC1602)!

RWWC is again out of windows, but Tavastia is selling 700*WIRS at a surprisingly good price of 0.4 mil!

[rpietila]

Please check the tab /DEBTS. This is in such a format that it cannot be carried to Ultima except as items that must be manually enforced (as it is now). It is better to get rid of many of these, as they should have matured by now.

[generalizethis]

The Bank is accepting deposits! New short bond BSB1610 is making you money when you sleep and paying 1.4% APR, almost double that of gold.

What are the terms of the bond? Minimum? Maximum? Can it be m or ckg? Can any admin process the transaction?

[saddambitcoin]

Stone has been transmuted to "buildings".

Notes:
- If the owner of stone did not have a lot in the Old Town where the stone was located, the Royal CryptoArmy bought it for 140 m/stone.
- If the number of stone owned was less than 1,000 tons (100k stone), the Royal CryptoArmy redeemed it likewise.
- In New City, Rome had 3,340,700 stone, which was transferred to Lucky Lion without compensation due to Rome not having a suitable lot.
- In New City, Rome also bought the stone that could not be stored by the owner, for 133 m/stone
- In University & San Pietro, NewCorp bought the unstorable stone, for 130 and 140 m.

Wow. If stone price continues to go higher I may soon be able to break even on my quarried stone that was generated around 150 m.