Crypto Kingdom - 1991 Retro Virtual World(City)

[rpietila]

Town Council will promptly confirm the Sheriff/Inspector duties, the proposal is here:

Old Town
Sheriff: ? (King volunteers)
Inspectors:
C: King (historical brainchild)
N: King (King's Park)
E: Roopatra (designed most stuff in there)
S: Duke of NL (owns almost all, grand plan designer)
W: King (I know it's boring but the Army owns most of it)
NE: ? Riddick has some status in the area
SE: Roopatra (Village; Roop has designed most of it)
SW: ? perhaps HH of NF
NW: King (is once again the owner of the 2 springs that must be protected)

New City
Sheriff: open
Inspectors:
C: King (designer of the grand plan)
N: Tavastia (owner)
E: Soul (most stake)
S: ? Duke of NL (old NLQ)
W: ? Roopatra could be an option
NE: ?
SE: ? whoever has the land, Earl noms??
SW: ? OZ is the biggest owner
NW: King (this is the King's Summer Palace Haw, wait and see the palace that commemorates Reconstruction! )

University
Sheriff: preferably Duke of NL if he becomes active in playing
Inspectors:
C: ? (Duke of NL?)
N: HH of NF (his quarry)
E: ? (King has designed most of it)
S: Earl noms
W: King (owner)
NE: Tavastia (owner)
SE: owner
SW: owner
NW: Soul (owner)

Free Land
Sheriff: somebody who gets the idea
Inspectors: the same
C:
N:
E:
S:
W:
NE:
SE:
SW:
NW:

San Pietro
Sheriff: ? (could be Earl noms, HH of NF, King, Soul)
Inspectors:
C: proposal Earl noms
N: proposal King (this is a very dense chapelry fully designed by the King)
E: Earl noms (owns most)
S: Soul
W: Soul
NE: all the owners->
SE:
SW:
NW:

Versailles
Sheriff: King
This is 100% Royal property

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[rpietila]

Building Calculator V.3.91

This calculator enables you to build buildings and repair collapsed buildings. It is immediately in force and replaces the older BC V.3.9.

Preface

Buildings reside in /BLDG and they are an optional property of a Lot. A Lot may have 0 or more Buildings. A Building is a functional, not a structural unit. Therefore it is possible for several identical structures in the same lot to be part of one Building, and one structural unit to be split in several different Buildings according to the features and usage.

Buildings consist of:
- a frame, which is saved as a pixel image with notes (explanation should be sufficient for constructing the frame from 1x1x1 m voxels);
- stone, as much as is needed to build the frame, pave the terraces etc.;
- windows, currently: one type to fill all of the windowholes, later: list of different types and specification;
- luxuries, according to the formula lux%*sqm;
- facades, expressed as elaborateness towards a direction.

Soon also doors and staircases will be implemented, as well as gold inscriptions and similar. After the complete Items management, all interior fixed and movable features.


The frame costs money to make, and this is a sunken cost. The frame deteriorates slowly (repair%) and needs renovation or risks collapse.

Stone can be recycled in 100%. (Because this was earlier 90%, the new frame construction price is increased to account for the "stone depreciation", the same thing that requires the "indestructible material reshaping fee" be used in connection of gold and silver thread in the suits.) Existing building owners have suffered enough. Therefore the update is made free of charge to them!

Windows don't age, but may get destroyed for other reasons such as the great white light.

Luxuries depreciate slowly.

Facades depreciation follows the frame and they are repaired (without additional cost, based on the gratitude of the workers that there are great buildings in the town!) with the frame as well.


The formula for building is as follows
You may never make more than one Building/Repair Project to one building during one year!

1. Demolition:
- If you demolish the building, you get the stone and windows in the building back to you 100% and at no cost.
- If a building collapses, the windows and lux are destroyed
- Luxury can be cleared at no cost and yields sqm * lux units of ICxxxx , where xxxx is the year of the last repair project to the building, (or the building project if it had not been repaired before, however no earlier than 1600).

2. Repair or Luxury upgrade to an existing building:
- For 30,000 m/sqm, you can upgrade repair by 0.2 (0.8 max). For 45,000, upgrade to 0.8. For 90,000, to 1.10.
- Luxury costs 2,000 m/1%/1sqm, and can be added to the existing luxury to the maximums mentioned previously. It should be noted that adding luxury resets the "IC year", therefore it should be checked if it's better to strip away the previous luxury and have a completely new one in its stead.

3. New building (materials):
- Calculate the number of qum of stone in your walls, ceilings and other structures, multiply by 300. You need this many stone.
- Calculate the sqm of windowholes. You need this many windows. Building anew without windows is outlawed!
- Doorholes dont' cost or require anything for now. The installation of proper doors later will cost you. Number of doorholes (sqm) will be recorded now.
- Same for wooden staircases.

4. New building (labor):
- One qum of stone requires 18,000 m labor
In addition, the surcharges for particularly skilled work:
- High arch with the longer span of 5-12 m (low arch can only span 4 anyway), or a dome max 14 m: 80,000 m/sqm
- Columns (any elements whose height>2.6*max(length,width)): 50,000 m/cum
- Massive Columns (any elements whose height>5.1*max(length,width)): 150,000 m/cum

5. Features:
- Paving needs 100 stone per sqm, and the work costs 2,400 m/sqm (the building footprint + paved yards)
- Pedestal/terraform needs no materials, and the work costs 3,000 m/qum
- Park/Garden needs no materials, and the work costs 5,000 m/sqm

6. Windows:
- Window installation fee comes in addition to the cost of windows:
* 60,000 m/sqm for WIRS, WIAS, WIAL, WIA1, WIMA2, WIMA3
* 100,000 m/sqm for WIASS (small pane)
* 140,000 m/sqm for WIASSS (tiny pane)
* 300,000 m/sqm for WIASG (stained glass)

7. Additionals:
- There is a surcharge based on the height of the roofline (the ceiling of the highest floor that has at least 50% of the floor area of the floor area of the largest floor, or other BI-approved metric): buildings with max 15 m don't have surcharge; for each additional meter, the surcharge is 10,000 m per sqm. A 25% discount (7,500 m/sqm surcharge) applies in 1603, after which normal rate is levied.

- The Architect and Building Inspector will charge for their services.

(NEW!) 8. Facades:
- Facades are a new feature in /BLDG "AL"-"AP". Having an Elaborate Facade built sets the Facade year, which is a permanent property. Some of the ancient buildings in town have their facades constructed in the year of the building, some later. Most (75%) of the buildings do not have any elaborate facades, which contributes to those corners of the town looking dull and reduces their chances to become more Central.

Now, luckily it is finally possible to build facades to old and new buildings alike! The cost formula is as follows:

Elaborate facade (1) = 8,000 m/sqm

Most Elaborate facade (2) = 18,000 m/sqm

Very Elaborate facade (3) = 45,000 m/sqm

And "sqm" naturally stands for the "flat area" of the face of the building towards that direction. Approximate area is well enough, no need for pixel-counting here!


All building costs (except materials purchased) will go to the same account, #37 Special Services Pool

The new building(s) needs to be recorded in /BLDG tab. There is no need to record them anywhere else, including the /LOT or the antiquated Building Registry.

[rpietila]

Improvements and reconstructions

- OZ North African Palace in 2-C/2-S is fitted with WIRS.

- Royal Palace facade has been repaired throughout and raised to Very Elaborate (as its rivals GH and NP already were since antiquity); repair% of the structure is now 1.1-1.15 ; a side-effect was that the 3 year-old interior lux was needed to be replaced at a total cost of 600 mil but at least we now have enough IC1600 for present and future uses, is is even for sale for as little as 0.28 mil. Get yours!

- HofM facade has been renovated with piety, and is now Very Elaborate throughout.

- The cost of Very Elaborate Facade has been raised to 45,000 from 42,000 due to shortage of skilled workers.

- RWWC saw that windows were not sold out and decided to install 621*WIRS to its own structures. Window price is now 350,000/sqm, which combined with the reduced stone price of 145/stone (by Royal CryptoArmy and NewCorp in B:s 1, 2, 3 and 5) means lower costs for builders.

- Soul, Sarajas and Town gardened certain areas in the Old Town. The Town has assumed the right to make unbuilt lots parks in urban areas. The owner may still build at any time. Parks increase the payouts of nearby buildings.

- El Bulli has been renovated by Paulson's wealth manager (King). The townhouse also had a slight repair.

- The Town Clocktower in 2-C is restored to even greater glory with Very Elaborate Facade throughout. The 225 sqm which was unbuilt between the Clocktower and Cryptoknight Town Palace is now for sale (2-C-A9, 225 mil).

- King installed windows to all 2-W-L lots at his expense, and made the unsold lots 50% lux. They are still for sale for 25 mil for all players who do not have any house. This compares quite favorably with other such offerings and price may be raised soon.

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Only 2 days time to repair the collapsed buildings! You can re-erect them with the help of BI, and use 100% of the old stone in the process.

If you don't, the stone will be cleared and deposited to your stone account and the building removed from register prior to entering the Ultima age.

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The drink plan affects how long you live! Later you can directly decide to consume your choice of bottles, for now you will have to specify it with numbers:
1) anything that keeps me healthy (most expensive option)
2) wine mostly, and liquor
3) beer with some wine (balanced)
4) beer
5) mead.

Everybody already has the specification so that's not likely to be needed to change. But everybody needs to procure the drinks for themselves, we are not at present doing it. We greatly hope that everyone would consider their health, and we are happy that the wine W1603A feels very healthy!

[rpietila]

Building Project / Repair Project interactive cost calculator added to googleDB /BUILD_CALC.

[noms]

Building Project / Repair Project interactive cost calculator added to googleDB /BUILD_CALC.

Great! I will start looking at that straight away!

[rpietila]

The Royal Mint is finally added to the building registry. As we know, it was built already last year, and processed most of the Kingdom's gold in the space of that one year already.

In the future, Royal Mint is available for the citizens' needs to mint medals to commemorate their achievements (gold, silver or bronze). Also it is possible to bring any gold and have it minted to CRxxxxE coins against a small fee. The Mint also makes the new gold coins that are the result of Proof-of-Play gold generation (CRxxxxA).

The building is in the prestigious 1-E-E23, only a few steps from the Hypothecary Bank. Its East facade towards Village Street (pictured) is Very Elaborate and has 11 m high Massive columns. The windows are chosen from King's stores to fit the stature: WIAS.

For those interested in financial statistics:

The 280 sqm of land was acquired from Sarajas for 400 mil (143 mil/q).
The 266 sqm building cost 252 mil (0.95 mil/sqm - stone and windows appraised at midprice).
The total cost of the project incl land was 2.65 mil/sqm indicating that building in the Old Town is for the rich only.

[rpietila]

Opportunity to acquire CULture and SCIence

Culture and Science are very central concepts. Culture refers to the overall achievement of a character, a sort of "high score" which is permanently attached to the character and enshrined when the character dies. (Nearly all his other achievements are passed on to other characters.) When the character is alive, Culture produces occasional benefits such as IC has been given prorated to Culture, and the most healthy Wine W1603A as well. Culture points (CUL) cannot be used for anything actively, they are permanent.

Science is overall progress in many fields, academic or engineering. Currently Science is needed to start Monopoly Corporations, but its role will be even larger in the future. Science can be stored and it does not depreciate. It is consumed when used towards an advance.

We cannot get back to using NPC in the economic subgames for the time being, because we need to keep the scope of the game such that it can be played in the Ultima platform. But there is a way to generate CUL and SCI, and this is by using Buildings only:

Everyone who has buildings that can be used for CUL and SCI production (loose definition) can divert some of his rental income to CUL or SCI. The conversion rate is 5 CUL or 5 SCI instead of 1 mil of rental income. The column "M" is used in /CHAR. Write maximum 3 C's or S's to indicate your willingness to gain these noble points!

Since the rental pool distributes the same amount of money regardless of the CUL and SCI produced, this is actually an additional bonus, which is given to the building owners, making construction even more profitable.

It cannot be guaranteed how long this system is in force, so better act now (as always )

[rpietila]

Ultima development thread.

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Health has started ... going down 

The feeling of mortality has solidified a lot as the glimpse to the health subsystem is provided in /CHAR "the black column".

Health basics is as follows:

- Each year, the system generates you a health challenge, which is randbetween(1, max) so that "max" is dependent on your age and your living conditions, such as if you have a house and a suit.

- Mainly by drinking (you may drink 200 bottles max per year so choose carefully), you can tackle the challenge. (In Ultima), after each drink, you will get some feedback how it helps. It is asymptotically more difficult to completely eliminate the challenge. The uncovered part of the challenge will be deducted from your health permanently at the end of the year. In the long run, there are very few ways to improve your health, and each challenge tends to take it away little by little (and other things may eat it as well, such as war or sicknesses). In the end you die.


Drinks consumed this year, and some hints as to how they might contribute to the health

MEAD - 7930 - Mead does have a positive effect always, but it is so small that the 200 bottles quota becomes a restriction
BEER - 4579 - Drinkers of beer have a markedly healthier feeling than those of mead
W1603A - 1047 - This wine has been raised to 18-20/20, and is very invigorating and became the most popular wine
W1600 - 670 - The wine-drinkers say this compares favorably to most other wines in feeling
W1601B - 562
W1600M - 239 - This has been somewhat of a disappointment; the value of "King's special" is wholly in the future
VOH - 151 - The taste is nothing miraculous, but the effect of the good water is noticeable
W1602 - 100
RUM - 93 - Several accounts say that this is at least double as healthy as wine and having even a taste each year carries a variety bonus
W1601 - 30
RME - 20
CLXII - 14
W1602F - 7
CVS - 3
W1603 - 0
VOD - 0

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The Royal Mint announces the sales of CR1603E gold coins

The year is about to change soon again. Because of the hassles with the building registration, the Mint officials have not had time to set up the operations yet! As we know, CR16xxA (1 CKG) coins will be minted from virgin gold to satisfy PoP, and CR16xxE (5 CKG) will be minted from any existing gold to anyone who wants to pay the minting fee.

But for 1603 this did not apply because Ultima was not released, and there was no time to offer unlimited minting against a fee.

Luckily, the eager minters were experimenting and did in fact smelt 100 g of gold and turned it to CR1603A and CR1603E coins! The CR1603A coins we decided to be a gift to active players, in the same approximate way that they would have got PoP coins (except that the gold in these coins is a gift from the King, not virgin gold).

CR1603E coins, of which 15 were made, will be disposed of as follows:
- 1 will be retained by the Mint, 1 by the King and 1 gifted to the CryptoMuseum operated by SirJacket, HH of NF.
- 12 will be auctioned in an express auction that lasts for 12 hours only from the timestamp, and King wm clients' bids are final and may not be raised:


qty@price(mil), bidder
1@28 Soul
1@14 Soul
1@13 Tavastia
1@10 Soul
1@10 King
1@9 Tavastia
1@8 Tavastia
1@7 Syksy
1@7 Soul
1@7 Tavastia
2@6 Tavastia
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12 units will be sold at 6 mil each

The coins are sold gold included, so the value of the gold per coin is about 4 mil.


To get some guidance as to their collector value - they will likely be the rarest non-ancient CRxxxxE coins, since the existing years, 1601 and 1602 are plentiful, and 1604-> are unrestricted. With a mintage of 15, there are only 3 more rare ancient CR coins, namely:

CRB1569E (20 were made, 10 were apparently stolen so the remaining 10 were mintmarked - and are also still kept to the Bank - to differentiate the stolen ones if they come to market)
CR1508E (60 were made but 12 exist, the exact history has been forgotten)
CR1430E (20 were made, only 14 exist due to accidental smelting).

[rpietila]

RWWC Corp is searching for more space for expansion

RWWC has a design for Windows factory which is 4x3 q. We already have 2 units in operation in 2-W but want to prepare for expansion of production. Space is needed for raw materials and logistics as well as production facilities.

We offer to buy the following lots at the prices listed:

2-W-V7: 230 mil 
2-W-V8: 160 mil
2-W-V9: 260 mil
2-W-V10: 370 mil
2-S-S1: 780 mil

It is possible to get the payment as RWWC shares at 5 mil/share. RWWC dividend return at this valuation is ~11% the best in town!

[noms]

The Phaeton Carriage Works

It is with great pleasure that Soul and myself unveil the Phaeton Carriage Works!  This will be the premiere manufacturer of carriages in the kingdom. Not unlike the monopolies that RWWC and North Face Tailors enjoy, we will be the sole provider of carriages in the kindom moving forward. We currently produce 2 and 4-horse carriages, but there are plans to unveil the new 6-horse carriage in the next year or two!




As this is a kingdom-approved monopoly, the dividends for this corporation should be handsome. However, we are short some important startup capital, so let it be known that shares will be issued for this new corporation. They will start at 1,000,000 moneritos each, and we will be selling up to 800 of them.

In the meantime, a bridge loan from the bank has been issued for 400m, and a secondary bridge loan from noms has been issued at 380m to facilitate the building of the factory during the share sale. Both of these are at 2.4% and will need to be paid off as soon as possible.

If you would like to join in supporting a fledgling business in the very beginning, please talk to any admin in IRC and they can set you up with some shares.

[Karl Hungus]

CR1603E coins:
4@8 OZ

[djjacket]

RWWC Corp is searching for more space for expansion

RWWC has a design for Windows factory which is 4x3 q. We already have 2 units in operation in 2-W but want to prepare for expansion of production. Space is needed for raw materials and logistics as well as production facilities.

We offer to buy the following lots at the prices listed:

2-W-V7: 230 mil 
2-W-V8: 160 mil
2-W-V9: 260 mil
2-W-V10: 370 mil
2-S-S1: 780 mil

It is possible to get the payment as RWWC shares at 5 mil/share. RWWC dividend return at this valuation is ~11% the best in town!

I will sell 2-W-V7 to RWWC for shares in the corporation.

[rpietila]

(left: Drama Palace main facade to the south, in Piazza di San Pietro 1-3; right: Drama Palace east facade towards the boulevard, the Gilded Goose, and a part of the Round Table House in its current stage of construction.)


Drama Palace has been completed

HSH, The Prince of OZ decided it is the time to build a new culture establishment in the prestigious San Pietro square.

The main hall is 9-15 m high, 14*30 m (420 sqm) and does not feature any center columns. This size of hall has never been made without them! Also the 5 m wide windows are unprecedented as far as we know. The front stairs in the South facade are 30 m wide and an excellent place to eat ice cream and have a view over the square. The main staircase leading to the main hall, is 3 m wide and of finest wood. The stairroom is lluminated by a 16 m high window to the west.

The building cost 1,830 mil + about 1,000 mil for the land. Especial cost factors were WIAL+WIAS windows, and 300% lux in the main areas. Architect fee was a modest 230 mil, emphasizing the supreme efficiency of the Royal Architects.

[Syksy]

Version 3.9U release schedule updated
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Hopefully I am not the only one who is waiting the new software like a child is waiting for Christmas...  

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

[rpietila]

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

Meanwhile, the life in the Kingdom is moving on at its normal pace:

Tavastia has decided to become a wine merchant!

Tavastia cannot help but recognize that he has received inside gamemaster info about the relative healthinesses of the wines. Since the taste is already public knowledge, he has now everything needed to bank on the wine! The others will also benefit of the knowledge by following his pricing on the wines

(Since Ultima, everybody will quickly get the hunch about the healthiness because of the feedback it gives. This privileged situation won't last long...)

Buildings' repair% and luxury% have been reduced

The average repair is now 88% and luxury 55%.

RWWC has processed all WIA35's

RWWC had extra capacity in the Ancient windows processing facility, making it possible to process the remaining WIA35. The owners have been charged 2 mil/unit, and in turn they have received ancient windows worth 15 mil at the King's buying price(!)

If you want to sell your windows, King is buying unlimited quantity at a sweet price. Or you can install your windows to your houses. They rarely get destroyed (meaning you can take them away later if needed), and a house without windows is producing only half the income!

Rental pool shares formula updated

Update now takes into account the window ratio. The King and the Princes of OZ and Soul are all within 2% of rental pool shares after the change (King suffered a little because his own places had less windows than the ones designed for the Princes).

Remember

Please repair the collapsed buildings asap, because they might be removed from the registry prior to migration otherwise!

[rpietila]

The Royal Mint announces the sales of CR1603E gold coins

12 will be auctioned in an express auction that lasts for 12 hours only from the timestamp

FINAL RESULTS

qty@price(mil), bidder
1@28 Soul
1@14 Soul
1@13 Tavastia
1@10 Soul
1@10 King
1@9 Tavastia
1@8 Tavastia
4@8 OZ
1@7 Syksy
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12 units will be sold at 7 mil each

[rpietila]

Year: 1604

National economics

- Gold received a 4,800 m dividend (0.64%).

- Rental pool payout rose to 9,400 m as about 1/3 of the rental pool was diverted to CUL/SCI production. Installing windows, adding lux, or making a new low-density habitation where nothing existed, all give nearly 10% annual yield now. This brisk demand is keeping the window price at 0.400.

- RWWC gave a 0.5 mil dividend. Soul is bidding 4.5 mil for the company shares now.

- 5,580 CUL was created, indicating about 5.5% annual cultural growth (CUL is indestructible). All personal residences now produce CUL to the owner. About 3,000 more CUL will be produced when NPC are back online.

- 3,280 SCI was created. There is both demand and room for even higher SCI production, but most of the facilities existing are suitable for living only, not for research. About 3,000 more SCI will be produced when NPC are back online.

- NF Tailors are producing 23 suits, which are also added to /ITEMS & /F_OWN. (Note: all items' ownership data, even the former "unique" items, is now in /F_OWN!)

- Next year, the Phaeton Carriage Works and the Fluffy Pony horses start function, depending on them of course!

- Health and buildings deteriorated already for this year.

- Please check the /WINE for different options when you buy wine. We have in total 16 drinks to hack our health now!