Crypto Kingdom - 1991 Retro Virtual World(City)

[djjacket]

New Spirit: BRA - auctioned in the thread 48 hours

The year 1622 is dawning and a new Spirit is coming to town. Since the 3 Cognacs we have (CLXII, CXO and CVS) have been very successful, we now aim to the entry level brandy market with the new BRA (brandy).

The item BRA is not especially aged of otherwise wonderful, its production cost in France is 20,000 and the various middlemen (considering the war and all) take 20,000. The Town adds tax of 100,000 as it does to all spirits. 10,000 bottles have been imported and no more will come.

Now we are seeking for distributors. To ensure competition, the entire cache is divided to 5 lots of 2,000 bottles each. One character may bid only for 1 lot. It would be a shame if the lots go unsold so we are willing to offer a 10% discount and make the minimum bid 126,000 m/bottle only (252 mil/lot).

All lots are sold at the same price, the lowest winning bid. However, bonus items at the Town discretion will be given to those winning bidders who placed the bid early.

While no information on the taste or healthiness of this brandy is available until the auction ends, as a guideline we can think of the Cognacs we have that are graded at 15.5-19.0/20, higher than most other spirits. Their ask is also between 0.6-3.3 mil which makes this a prime opportunity.

Current Situation (closes at midnight UTC in 26 hours)
King wm characters listed, have made their final bids

Zechariah 260,000
King 175,000
Soul 155,000
NewLiberty 145,000
TownHall 130,000
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5*2000*BRA will be sold for 130,000/bottle incl tax

Jacket Bids 220,000
FS Bids - 225,000

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[rpietila]

Current Situation (BRA auction)
(closes at midnight UTC in 7.5 hours)

Crichton 265,000
Zechariah 260,000
Forte Spagnolo 225,000
SirJacket 220,000
King 175,000
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5*2000*BRA will be sold for 175,000/bottle incl tax

General information on Spirits

Spirits are expensive and good, but in practice useful mainly in tough health challenges. The spirits last for decades, an example is the VOH Spring Water of which half is still in existence, 20 years after creation.

After BRA is auctioned, we have 4 "staple" spirits in the town,
- VOD domestic vodka the only spirit that Town can re-produce (others are one-go batches)
- VOH the pre-earthquake Spring water, a very healthy spirit and mixer
- BRA entry-level brandy
- RON entry-level rum.

All these have a "currently exists" of more than 7,000 bottles. The rest of the spirits (10 different) have each had their run of at most 3,000, and even less exist now.

Spirits give their best bang for the buck when consumed a few bottles only. The varietyBonus for the first unit is 4.0x, making that first bottle of some spirit be easily 20 times more healthy than a liter of beer! While 20*4,000 m = 80,000 m is still less than the price of the spirit, sometimes to be able to pack the effect in 1:20 the quota is incalculably valuable.

As for the future, we have quite a nice range of spirits now and the intention is not to have too many at the same time. Also the prices of the current ones have been pressured in a broad range so investment spirits might be available at good price if the sale continues.

What is in the pipeline are:
- SW4 elixir, the latest edition of Zenon's unending search for the Medicine of Life (~100-500)
- TEQ tequila, based on the adventure similar to RME (~1,000-3,000)
- some whisky not as good as LAG but much cheaper, in the mid price range (~3,000)

A new spirit may only come once every 2 years. It may well be that new spirits will be even rarer. The total quantity or value of the spirits will not be increased too quickly to retain the value of the existing ones. At the same time I exhort to consume them as that is after all their purpose.

[rpietila]

The Great Suit Rehaul 1622

To celebrate the 178th anniversary of introducing Suits into the game (1450 for the Golden Jubilee), we completely rehaul the Suit generation and items system.

A. Suits continue to be in the traditional colors and the colors have their traditional meanings.

Purple - Royal
Blue - Noble
Red - Merchant Commoner
Orange - Festive Commoner
White - Academic (Commoner, occasionally Noble)
Green - Artesan/Other Commoner
Grey - Servant/Military/Poor Commoner
Brown - Peasant/Starting Commoner

B. In addition, a Black Suit for assassins, thieves, pirates, rogues, etc. is introduced. Black Suits may be Cursed upon creation if the reason is explained and may become Cursed later as well. Do not even buy a black suit if your intentions are 100% on the right side.

C. Existing Suits (WOS-xxx) continue without changes, but the Great Moth will start to eat them very randomly (SPOIL script run with a low spoil%). There is nothing to do if the Great Moth has consumed your suit. CKG and excessive amounts of CKS will be credited if this happens, automatically.

D. The most needed suit types, historical colors without precious metals, plus grey and brown, will be introduced as fungible items. Occasionally (next time in 1635) the fashion will change, the new style of these items comes out, and the old ones continue as a bit more historical items. Grey and Brown do not change in style. As these are worn much more than the collectible unique suits, their spoilage is set to 5%-10% annually with higher colors lasting more (not that they last more but are just better kept). As usual, the item is either completely whole or completely destroyed.

WOS-A1 - blue 1621-1634
WOS-B1 - red 1621-1634
WOS-C1 - orange 1621-1634
WOS-D1 - white 1621-1634
WOS-E1 - green 1621-1634
WOS-F - grey (all years)
WOS-G - brown (all years)

E. A new strain of NPC will be introduced, Tailors (TAI1...TAI9). Tailors are found in the Countryside and enrolled by the Counties (given by admin, also Labor might sell them). Each tailor costs the usual salary and automatically produces as follows:

TAI-9: 20*CUL, 20*IC, 3*S-WOS
TAI-8: 10*CUL, 10*IC, 2*S-WOS
TAI-7: 5*CUL, 5*IC, 1*WOS-A1 (blue) every other year
TAI-6: 2*CUL, 2*IC, 1*WOS-B1 (red) every other year
TAI-5: 1*CUL, 1*IC, 1*WOS-C1 (orange) every other year
TAI-4: 1*WOS-D1 (white) every other year
TAI-3: 1*WOS-E1 (green)
TAI-2: 1*WOS-F (grey)
TAI-1: 1*WOS-G (brown)

The North Face Company retains their monopoly to make Royal Purple suits, Black suits, and all Custom-made suits, including all suits containing CKG and CKS. They can make these suits by using S-WOS. Nobody else can use S-WOS for anything, and also they spoil, so it is best to sell them to SirJacket or not even gain them.

Tailors promote somewhat quickly (same as BUT). If your Tailor has promoted but you would have wished it to stay in the previous level, you can ask an admin to depromote it. This might be useful to keep the tailors in TAI-3 and TAI-7 for instance since historically these are the most in demand and TAI-3 even produces twice as fast as most others.

F. GM convenes with North Face about the conversion rate of S-WOS and Bolts of cloth to unique suits (as you can see, no bolts of cloth are needed with TAI-x items usually.)

G. A penalty for not having proper clothing introduced. With these changes to make it easier for everyone to have proper clothes, it can no longer be tolerated that people walk around dressed in rags. Therefore, let the following misdemeanors be fined as follows:

Class 1 criminal: Peers [L14-L20]

If a Peer is found without a Noble Blue suit in his possession, let him be fined 10 mil and be scorned by his peers.

Class 2 criminal: Minor Nobles [L10-L13]

If a Minor Noble is found without a Noble Blue suit (unless he is a known academic who has always worn white, or a soldier who indicates this by not possessing other colors but grey), let him be fined 5 mil.
For a Noble to be completely without clothes, or only having Brown, it is an abomination: let him be fined 10 mil.

Class 3 criminal: Senior Commoners [L6-L9]

If a Senior Commoner does not have a Green, White, Orange or Red suit according to his trade, yet has something, let him be fined 1 mil.
If found without any clothes, fine is 5 mil.

Class 4 criminal: Junior Commoners [L1-L5]

If found without any clothes, fine is 1 mil.

It is not allowed to fine for the same offence more than once per year.

H. Clothes Market and gifts.

- New players bring their peasant clothes 1*WOS-G with them to the game and it is given to those char_id > 144.
- Otherwise we will have to wait until the first suits are made in 1622. Some tailors are for sale by Labor and let's see if the Countryside tailors get quickly enough. The next dividend round (1622) is the great one producing the "once in 2 years" items.
- SirJacket will readjust the pricing of the unique suits (WOS-xxx). These suits have the advantage compared to fungible suits that they last longer with smaller spoil%, and are often older historical style that many find prestigious.

I. Economic effects. It is planned that about 20% of the commoner income (~1 mil/year in the very start, ~5 mil when a mature Master) should go towards clothing. It is interesting to see whether this will be reached with WOS-G being available at <1 mil, and WOS-F & WOS-E1 also being very affordable.

In addition to the fines for gross suit offences, having enough number and quality of suits is a nice thing and will be noticed.

[generalizethis]

B. In addition, a Black Suit for assassins, thieves, pirates, rogues, etc. is introduced. Black Suits may be Cursed upon creation if the reason is explained and may become Cursed later as well. Do not even buy a black suit if your intentions are 100% on the right side.

YM, I humbly ask for permission to buy the first black suit and to have it cursed--cursed twice if possible, once by God and second by the widows I plan on leaving in the wake of my vengeance.

There is a land that is dark and riddled with the ashen promises of charlatans. In this land, mad men and thieves are bent by the will of a false profit who gets them to speak ill towards those willing to stand up to the lies and corruption that pervade their borders. It is my duty to take my sword Vengeance into this land and sow the seed of misery to all who prop up their king and deify him as having wisdom equal to the prophet Satoshi and sorcery on par with the House of Monero. This boy-king has brought war to our friends to the south and has stolen their flag and called it his own, and while most of them still survive, the ghosts of their fallen comrades cry out for retribution. Please grant me my wish, so I can walk in the shadows of this forsaken place and do what my sword's demands in namesake and deed.

Your honored servant,

Crichton, Earl of Plath, wielder of Vengeance

Any similarities to coins, persons, or trolls in this post are intentional, but should be read in the spirit of gameplay and should only be measured within the frame work of the game itself

[djjacket]

Dissolution of ABC Corp

The ABC Corporation Assets were liquidated prior to Ultima Platform migration.  The remaining funds from the liquidation were divided among the current shareholders.

9,421,997 per share was divided
The remaining items (doors) will be given to the winners of the property auction
The remaining Bronze medal will be given to Paulson

This concludes the business of the ABC corporation in the CryptoKingdom.

[rpietila]

Current Situation (BRA auction)
(closes at midnight UTC in 7.5 hours)

Crichton 265,000
Zechariah 260,000
Forte Spagnolo 225,000
SirJacket 220,000
King 175,000
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5*2000*BRA will be sold for 175,000/bottle incl tax

One hour left. It may be challenging to realize the value of these items quickly but everybody is still invited to dethrone my lower bid and set the closing price for the whole auction. On behalf of the Town I hope you would do just that!

[binaryFate]

Current Situation (BRA auction)
(closes at midnight UTC in 7.5 hours)

Crichton 265,000
Zechariah 260,000
Forte Spagnolo 225,000
SirJacket 220,000
King 175,000
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5*2000*BRA will be sold for 175,000/bottle incl tax

One hour left. It may be challenging to realize the value of these items quickly but everybody is still invited to dethrone my lower bid and set the closing price for the whole auction. On behalf of the Town I hope you would do just that!

bF bids 200,000

[saddambitcoin]

introducing...ckBot!

Now you can enter Agora Market commands via IRC at ##crypto-kingdom!

PM user 'ckBot' with !login username password or type !help for more info.

Your password is never stored, only a temporary API token. If you want to logout, just enter !logout and your token will be revoked.

Current available commands: give, buy, sell, consume, item.

The !item command returns the highest bid and lowest ask of a given item in Agora.

More commands coming soon...

[rpietila]

BRA auction is closed and price is 200,000 per bottle. The following winners therefore, each get 2,000*BRA and their m account is debited 400 mil.

Sir Crichton, the Earl of Plath
HRH The Prince Royal
HE The Prince of Forte Spagnolo
HH the Mayor
The Marquess of Naoned

[papa_lazzarou]

introducing...ckBot!

Now you can enter Agora Market commands via IRC at ##crypto-kingdom!

PM user 'ckBot' with !login username password or type !help for more info.

Your password is never stored, only a temporary API token. If you want to logout, just enter !logout and your token will be revoked.

Current available commands: give, buy, sell, consume, item.

The !item command returns the highest bid and lowest ask of a given item in Agora.

More commands coming soon...

This is great!  Great job. Tried it already.


And nice example BTW

[kronicblazer]

Note that anything you put into the County, becomes the property of the County unless otherwise stated in writing.

I will also be loaning both the troops and the S-BLD to the county until I can wrap my head around the management of the entity.

I will be loaning the npcs, horse/carriage, S-BLD and anything else I put into the county until I understand the subgame more

[Karl Hungus]

HSH The Duke of OZ is pleased to unveil his latest Art commission.

Many thanks again to Lord Syksy!

Short name:
"The Hung Drawn & Quartered"

Description:
"An artistic painting piece of blazing colours easily catches the eye of a person that appreciates liveliness and a wide-ranging palette in such a work. In the painting, a young violinist is desperate trying to strike a dancing tune in the back stage of a tavern. The fuss of the present crowd is deafening with laughter and shouts, but the tunes do seem to find a place in this cacophony. A more royal musician would accuse the violinist of mutilating the fine instrument, given his lively posture, but in such a situation one has to sweat their brows to pierce the hullabaloo that a life-filled tavern emits as it requires more firm strikes of the violin strings than one normally would prefer. Some couples have caught the notes flowing in the air near the metallic plating covering the otherwise wooden floor near a fireplace, and are seen dancing to the tunes with their arms locked in the elbows in some local traditional pair-dance.

A blossoming young waitress is serving ale to a blushing young lad in the front. Two of his friends are laughing at his sudden awkwardness in the situation, but the young lady still welcomes him with a warm smile nevertheless. The lad expresses a shy smile in response to the rosy-cheeked lady in her prime, and one could expect them to share a few long looks towards each other even if she is to serve to other tables during the darkening night. Perhaps the young man will even find the courage to write a small introductory note to the lady and pass it to her when she kindly walks by, with an invitation for a walk in the park for a future occasion.

Behind the bar counter of the tavern is a rather young man with a glinting spark in his eyes. Perhaps because this young bartender stands exactly at the golden ratio of the painting and the renovation of the room resembles a shape of Nautilus snail shell with its focus on the right-side, it feels as if the crowd in the painting would be drawn toward him like a performer about to step on a stage. He is serving the patrons of the bar stools with such dedication, that one could almost imagine them being guests at his very own home. Yet he spreads attention evenly across the room even, as he appears to acknowledge and nod at new acquintances entering the tavern from the breeze outside. Given that the tavern appears to have reached the third digit in people count, such recognizable attention span gives a feeling that the young man is in control, like a leader standing on a speaker's pulpit. He appears to have skilfully served the established patrons, but more people are flocking towards him partly for the bewerage, partly to pay homage to this dedicated master of the house. Omens are clearly in the air, that this young man would grow to be none other than the most honorable Duke of OZ, with the presence of his dreams and ambitions captured in the hectic moment. The hard-working to-be Duke of OZ is the focal point of the painting, and upon closer inspection an educated viewer realizes that the place is his tavern, the Hung Drawn & Quartered, in the most ancient days - possibly dating all the way back to 1460s.

The frost-bitten icy windows of the tavern tell a tale of a gruesome blizzard blowing outside. A traveling hooded man whose shoulders are still frosted has escaped the striking cold to the tavern, and is sitting in solitude in a far corner. He caresses an opened plain silvery locket - perhaps a miniscule painting of an absent loved one - and seems to completely ignore the rest of the ruckus. He has sought to sit rather near to the blazing fireplace, that sparks embers, light and warmth to the whole hall that serves as the main dining and drinking area. Some tired travelers are seen ascending the stairs upstairs to privacy of their own rooms.

It's almost as if the tavern is disconnected from the rest of the world that lies outside. A small warm bubble of laughter, good food and tasty drinks amidst a ferocious snow-storm, where one can rest and forget some concerns that may burden the shoulders of a traveler. The blazing fireplace, company of commoners and sound of a violinist keep the biting cold and creeping dark of the night at bay. One can experience time stopping for a brief moment in such occasions. Such is the friendly spirit that lingers within the tavern of The Hung Drawn & Quartered."


Note:
"This is a painting by the Duke of OZ in his tavern, the Hung Drawn & Quartered. A viewer feels a strange nourishing feeling by the color-filled liveliness of the painting."

Year: 1618
Level: 8
Material: Oil on Canvas

[Eliphaz Fimk]

Please include a visible help for purchasing and selling for market place, on every screen. I'm unable to buy and consume the weekly health requirements because I don't know the proper command format and it's hard to find.

Basic UI like Buttons for purchase and sale would be very nice. Is it intentional to have to type in commands, to revive the wonderful nostalgia of the early computer games?

[rpietila]

Update on certain Conversion periods and other important things

Please make all deployments to the County by Saturday 23:59 UTC. This is also the deadline for annual conversions such as S-B22.

Ming conversion has been a success and will last until Thursday 2016-1-14. The 1622 year IC will be distributed soon and will be the last IC available for these conversions.

RWWC gave a dividend of 3*WIRS per share lately. That was probably a mistake since RWWC now finds itself in financial need, the reason however is most compelling:

CANNON (CANN) production is starting

Against a modest spend of 10,000*SCI (yet to be gained and consumed), the mastery of Cannon production is introduced to the Kingdom. King has thought where to allocate this Royal Monopoly and RWWC seemed capable of handling it due to their 50+ years of service and good organisation and production facilities. One of the RWWC factory units in 2-W is rededicated to cannon production. It can produce 8 cannons per year. The costs are as follows:

50 mil annual workforce cost
40 mil amortisation of the 10,000*SCI spent at 2%
46 mil facility cost (lost revenue compared to the factory being a SCI facility)
50 mil monopoly profit
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186 mil, making the unit cost of CANN 23.25 mil

Therefore, RWWC sets the base price of CANN to be 20 mil. In the beginning, they will be sold to the highest bidder, however with half of the production allocated to the King at the same terms (every time an ask is placed, an equivalent number of units is sold to the King at the ask price).

A section can be dedicated to be a Cannon section with 9 troops capable of handling 3 cannons. Cannons are useful in large field battles and in sieges against enemy strongholds. They increase the BV of a company by approximately 10 per cannon. A proper allocation of cannons in field troops is 1 cannon section per 2-3 infantry sections. In siege troops even more cannons may be present (because the enemy has less infantry and is at a disadvantage when storming for the cannons). The peasants fear cannons very much despite their limited usefulness in guerrilla warfare. Deployment of cannons to the counties might increase tensions.

RWWC has liquidated some assets and will continue to do so:
100*WW1600C gold coin is offered at 2.79 mil apiece (0.93 mil/CKG)
33*TS156 trade silver coin at 2.50 mil apiece (0.21 mil/CKS)

In addition, 200*S-RW is offered at 3.00 mil each with King guaranteeing to buy the unsold units tomorrow.

King has arranged the Royal House in preparation for his eventual death

Massive commercial properties (Arco di Sergiu 1-S-N1, Old Department Store 1-W-K9, New Department Store 5-N-B6) have been gifted to Zechariah the Prince Royal. The Royal Palace, The Palace of Culture and Science, Villa Rotonda School of Economics and Summer Pavilion remain in King's possession.

The King's Will now says that when he dies, the assets will be divided between Crown (the character "1" will be renamed) and the successor (currently: Zechariah). Crown will become an institutional Corporation of the Kingdom, similar to the Counties. Coinshop will also become an institution with King being entitled to profits only and the assets forever remain allocated to provide the market making for CKG and CON. The dividend is set to 200 mil/year and its changes need to be based on the actual profitability of the Coinshop. The profitability is mainly dependent on the CKG dividends and the base level has yielded approximately 200 mil/year. The Coinshop also owns the Royal Mint. The m capital of Coinshop is reset to 10,000,000,000 moneretos, irrevocably gifted by the King to the institution and may never be withdrawn.

Some new information on County financials and troop orders

The very beginning of County race has been adhoc with troops rushing to the countryside without clear orders. Once a minimum preparatory level of 10*PRE is reached, the county will have been organized enough to allow Policies to be set concerning the administration. The Policies are tradeoffs between different approaches to the locals, trying to gain as large a land as possible or concentrate on developing a base, recruit new NPC with money or by force, loot the valuables of the locals or gift them more, etc.

The Counties have many expenses and likely not enough income for a long time to support the PRE generation. The School of Economics has been thinking of a suitable way to gain financing for these Institutions. Our answer is Perpetual Bond. This has the required characteristics that it does not bring voting rights, yet brings immediate spending money which only needs to be paid back slowly (or is not paid back at all, it is a frightening, perpetual commitment!) When 20*PRE is reached, the Earls may apply to the King for the right to issue C-countyname items, similar to Town consols but backed by nothing except the fortunes of the County, which may indeed go bankrupt. If such are issued, the Earl will have to buy a sizable chunk of them for himself to instil confidence. The aftermarket is easily able to price them in relation to the risk-free Town consol.

To clear the moral hazard, if a County embarks on a consol scheme, it will never be able to be indebted in any other way (CON="consolidated").

Peasant Uprising subgame, King's Death Roll

The all-powerful d20 has been positioned in front of the gamemaster. The King feels his health is sometimes good but othertimes not so. There have been rumors of official designation of Ailing but this is not the case yet (King's health is Weak). Annually, d20 is rolled and with a result of 1/2, the health drops. After 2 such results, the King is dead and the Will takes effect. The rolls will begin in 1625. The ancient nobles need not worry, this does not mean the same is meted for you. Yet. And the SWx might still help, remains to be seen.

Peasant Uprising is a gamemaster event that takes place if peasants in a certain region feel oppressed. If this happens, they will first send a Grievance to the Earl who is oppressing them. What happens afterwards, is based on the answer (or lack of it). Peasant Uprisings are heavily steered by d20, which includes both good and very bad results. The die roll(s) will be provided as part of the GM rulings concerning how things happen. CKG and urban land titles (the latter do not exist yet in Counties) are guaranteed, anything else is potentially at risk.

[Syksy]

Please include a visible help for purchasing and selling for market place, on every screen. I'm unable to buy and consume the weekly health requirements because I don't know the proper command format and it's hard to find.

Basic UI like Buttons for purchase and sale would be very nice. Is it intentional to have to type in commands, to revive the wonderful nostalgia of the early computer games?

Aye, this can be challenging at first - for the time being the client's run on command line basis.

I recently wrote an extensive Wiki entry describing every single command available in the game, that you might find useful:
https://www.cryptokingdom.me/wiki/CryptoKingdomLive568a8138a88977.37736201

Other than that, in short:

"BUY itemID amount price";
e.g. "BUY BEER 200 5000" tries to buy item "BEER", paying 5000 moneretos per unit and tries to buy up to 200 units.
then
"CONSUME BEER 50" would consume 50 units of (owned) BEER, which are bread and butter in tackling the health challenge. Also, items such as VEG, MEAT, FOIE, CAN and such are useful in this respect. For this, Roopatra's health guides are useful:

Basics: https://www.cryptokingdom.me/wiki/CryptoKingdomLive5673ba7fea1af2.47825717
Advanced: https://www.cryptokingdom.me/wiki/CryptoKingdomLive5673bac972feb7.72067948

(These link to the internal Wiki and most likely require you to be logged in.)

There are plans to introduce easier to use interfaces in the hopefully near future.

[rpietila]

Rental Pool dividends given and land taxed

Totals:
Tax receipts 337 mil
Rental pool m payouts 1245 mil
CUL dividends 4508 CUL (value ?)
IC dividends 4508 IC (value 1127 mil at midprice)
SCI dividends 2443 SCI (value 513 mil at midprice)

Urban Land and Buildings Production value net of taxes: 2548 mil in the year 1622.

"We must soon make possible the Building subgame as especially the SCI production has fallen below the Cultured era (late-1500s) - the single advance of Cannon production uses up a 4-year production of SCI kingdomwide!!"

The outlook is positive. Rental dividend per share increased to 4244 m from 3333 m in the last years. This is expected to increase further with increased affluence (more income to Rental) and probably also because SCI and CUL weighting still pays better.

Accidentally 3x the amount of SCI was given as dividends and the mighty d20 decided (5/20) that it will be treated as a forward payment of 1623-1624 (instead of a bonus). This has a consequence as well that no SCI buildings may be reallocated to other uses until that  Sorry about that.

The gold stock in the Kingdom is worth 900,000 mil and the market value of CON existing is 65,000 mil. The total payouts from land during this troubled age of low yields, indicate that the urban land of the game might be worth 420,000 mil (if CON yield is applied as the discount factor - much less if a higher yield is required, much more if current CKG yield is used).

[rpietila]

University Reorganisation

The history of University is one of the sadder chapters in our glorious town records. (Proof omitted.)

Currently the Chancellor, Duke of New Liberty, and the High Rector, Prince of Soul, are both temporarily in my wealth management so with actuarial punctuality, let us make the accounts of the University straight.

In 1600, there was a claims procedure for those who wanted the Main Building donations back after the building had collapsed in the earthquake. Due to NL being busy, this procedure was never completed. Notably the Prince of Soul who had donated 1,500 mil to the building, refused to claim any of it back. The King, on the other hand, wanted back his land that used to house the building in 1-NW.

For the others, we open a claims period lasting until next Thursday, and then I will decide what to do. Claims are "in kind" and only secondarily "in specie". They must be backed with evidence (thread post etc.) and sent by PM to not clutter the thread. Unless you have ceased to support the sciences, there is of course no need to claim anything back.

The new role of the University is to foster SCI production and since it is now located in rental premises in 3-C (PofC&S) it is giving 25% increase to all SCI facilities in the whole Borough!

University is a game Institution owned by the Town.

Once this matter is settled do we know the future financial situation better and may proceed from a clean table!

The Dept of Military Science is owned by the University so the new Lieutenants will come from there!

[rpietila]

Note on SPOIL

Yesterday, the SPOIL was applied on the suits and as a result, 28 WOS-xx items were destroyed. The precious metal content was refunded.

The SPOIL script will be run once every 2 years, so no spoils of any kind will happen before that.

Suits spoil at a rate of 1-10% per year (new working suits spoil more quickly than ancient collectible suits).

NPC death rate is 5% per year, and next time it will be applied is 1624 as well.

[MoneroMooo]

Commoner promotions 1621

Sir Mooo, the Earl of Stonehaven, is tasked by the Town to make the commoner promotions for the year 1621. (Town is entitled to promote all commoners, up to Master L6 and technically up to Grand Wizard L9).

On behalf of the Town, I have gone through its records, and issued a proclamation:

Anachyx is promoted to Master (L6)

GuardianHound is promoted to Novice (L4)

holdmybtc is promoted to Expert (L5)

Igor Nabokovich is promoted to Master (L6)

MilkyLep is promoted to Novice (L4)

Quaid is promoted to Novice (L4)

Tefer is promoted to Master (L6)

VH is promoted to Master (L6)

Cristian Pop is promoted to Beginner (L3)

Ernak is promoted to Novice (L4), a leap promotion


The Town congratulates our fellow townspeople!

HM the King will soon ratify the promotions.

[rpietila]

225th Anniversary Raffle - Great Prizes!

The Almighty has given me the assurance that he does not want to see me until in 1625 the earliest. To make the most of this Great Celebration, occurring only in 25 years, We the King have decided to start a raffle, the kind of which has never been seen. It works as follows:

Each CUL will be given a dividend of 1*RAF-1 item. (The reason why CUL is used as a basis is to negate the requirement to pay IC for the prize Jade.)

After this, about 200,000 raffle tickets exist. I will further give of my own to all the characters to make this more fun for the people who don't have so much CUL.

Every day, SPOIL will eat up half of the tickets. When the number remaining meets certain thresholds, increasingly valuable items will be given as dividend (up to the maximum amount of the threshold). When 4 or less tickets are left, the SPOIL will be only 25% per day (to negate the possibility that all tickets are eaten at the same time - if that still happens, the die will be used to determine the last ticket). The last ticket will win the Grand Prize!

What's best, the tickets can be bought and sold in all the stages, and the SPOIL automatically clears the asks so that you don't accidentally sell too cheaply!

Prize Schedule
50,000 * CAN
20,000 * BEER
- - -
2,000 * FOIE
1,000 * JAD (1 kilo of unworked Jade, special gift from Ming merchants)
500 * W1608 (pre-Plague wine neatly at peak about 15/20)
200 * MIN-5 (immaculate Very Elaborate Ming China Plate 16cm)
100 * CS1625E (special edition 5 CKS only 100 minted)
50 * CLXII (since there are no restaurants qualified to participate in the auction, it will be raffled instead)
25 * WOS-E1 (Green Suit, gift of HH The Mayor)
- - -
10 * Baronet of CK (lowest numbers available starting from highest ranking winner incl promotion to L12)
1 * Second Prize: TRC4-19 Most Elab 4-Horse Carriage (to the 2nd last ticket; gift of M of White Cross)
1 * Grand Prize: Any Real Estate up to the value of 500,000,000 m (in the whole game, you pick, King pays   )

Total Value of Prizes: 3,000,000,000 m !!
(Nominal value of ticket at start: 15,000 m)

First halving Thursday 2014-1-14. Before that, the tickets will be arranged. Winner is known approx 1625!