Crypto Kingdom - 1991 Retro Virtual World(City)

[rpietila]

The Auction has ended.

[rpietila]

Arda Auction #3

Final Results.



Items 1-8:

Code:

WOS-9	1450	0	4	Suit
SIT-A	1488	n/a	n/a	Chandelier for 3 candles 250 CKS
WOT-B	1488	10	4	Wall Hanging
CAF-C	1500	5	3	Drawer
TRH-D	1500	20	5	Rhadamanthus' Horse
WOT-E	1500	10	4	Fine Tapestry
WOC-F	1565	20	5	A large green carpet
ART-G	1572	100	7	An oil painting by a foreign master

Each line is a separate Item.

Item 9:
- 630 CKS in the form of 6x 80 CKS wine cups + 6x 25 CKS d=10cm plates (1488)

Item 10:
- GAGR 5 g gold ring p.o., this is the 1450 Golden Jubilee ring that only 32 were made and nobody owns 2 atm. ADD: This item includes also the silver ring for "100 Culture" (100 exist, about 15 awarded).

Item 11:
Collector's ExaPack - All of Char #9's Silver and Tokens are divided to 2, and only these 2 identical ExaPacks are for sale. (Contain 645 CKS, some from the 1300s, and 10 tokens, from 1370-1380, each)

Items 12-16:
The Estate owns stock in 5 companies, each item is the total Estate ownership in a single company (see: /STOCK).


#1: 80 mil North Face
#2: 18 mil North Face
#3: 6 mil OZ
#4: 2 mil NL
#5: 12 mil Tavastia
#6: 4 mil OZ
#7: 6 mil Noms
#8: 15 mil Tavastia
#9: 50 mil Noms
#10: 15 mil Rome
#11: 50 mil Noms, 50 mil Soul <- somebody said tokens are worthless; not for these guys...  
#12 (3xNP): 13 mil OZ
#13 (30xTH): 84 mil Soul
#14 (168xSIF): 195 mil SIF
#15 (26xTHC): 19 mil Roopatra
#16 (56xRWWC): 230 mil Noms
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Total for Monero development: 849 million

[fluffypony]

Hear ye, hear ye

I move for a meeting of the Fellowship of the Round Table in two days (Saturday, April 11th) at 10pm GMT +2

Date/time converter can be found here, or use the table below.



(PS. I would've preferred to have had this tomorrow night, but unfortunately I have a prior engagement I cannot get out of)

Just an update on this - the meeting will occur in #roundtable on Freenode.

[rpietila]

The Ancient Fellowship of the Knights of the Round Table has met, with the following decisions:

We decided to buy 36 q of land in the 5-N Chapelry (2 "prestige lots" from the Town) for 800 million total, for the building of The Round Table House. The Royal Architects were commissioned to make the plans.





No cost nor sqm totals are yet available, but the main features in the finished building (it will be built in stages):

- 56x56 m base, 50x50 m body completely closed square with inner elevated courtyard.
- height from street to top of the towers 37 m, 7 floors max
- Knights access with carriage via passage to the courtyard, then 11 m high halls and galleries to the Table Room
- Table room round domed, d=22 m, h=9-15 m, spectator seating in higher level, table diameter 14 m to seat 50 Knights
- Main staircase 12 m ascent, 3 m wide, 21 m high
- Grand Ballroom 48x9x9 m, Small Ballroom 24x9x9 m
- Chapel 13x9x11 m
- 50-70 offices for Knights (15-100+ sqm), 20-30 commercial properties all in street level to let
- 3-story public section (Museum or similar)
- Crypt and treasury
- Courtyard garden, terraces, balconies and roof gardens
- Nearly all rooms incl offices high-arched because they are so big that it is necessary
- Extensive supports and buttresses throughout, inside and outside
- Very much light because the width of the building is only 8-11 m excl the domed part.

[rpietila]

The Ancient Fellowship of the Knights of the Round Table has met, with the following decisions:

We decided to buy 36 q of land in the 5-N Chapelry (2 "prestige lots" from the Town) for 800 million total, for the building of The Round Table House. The Royal Architects were commissioned to make the plans.

Because such a massive and prestigious project (the largest thing ever constructed in the Town, undertaken by the 10 most worthy Knights of all) is commenced, the Town puts the lots immediately facing the Round Table House in auction.

5-N-B4
5-N-B5.

They have been for sale for 400 mil each, and this is the starting price. Minimum raise 25 million.

King bids 400 mil for B4
King bids 400 mil for B5

It looks like that the monumental centre of the town is surprisingly moving to the new 5. Borough (San Pietro), where both the namesake Church and the Round Table are now moving. The lots now on auction might quickly gain equal stature as the best ones in 2-C or even surpass them due to very close proximity to the Obelisk, and the easy access there via 30 m wide road (OT and NC are not connected by road, just a beaten track).

The future plans are that King donates at least equal amount of land in C&S to the University functions, and that will cement C&S's position in what the name suggests. The 4. borough will be restricted for poor people, reports say that it is unhealthy and also buildings are deteriorating rapidly. Of all people, the poor are unfortunately most suited to live in such conditions. (That the land is free, has created an insatiable thirst for it in the business circles, but it is now not the point to let it be exploited by them.)

The auction closes in 24 hours.

[sphericon]

The Ancient Fellowship of the Knights of the Round Table has met, with the following decisions:

We decided to buy 36 q of land in the 5-N Chapelry (2 "prestige lots" from the Town) for 800 million total, for the building of The Round Table House. The Royal Architects were commissioned to make the plans.





No cost nor sqm totals are yet available, but the main features in the finished building (it will be built in stages):

- 56x56 m base, 50x50 m body completely closed square with inner elevated courtyard.
- height from street to top of the towers 37 m, 7 floors max
- Knights access with carriage via passage to the courtyard, then 11 m high halls and galleries to the Table Room
- Table room round domed, d=22 m, h=9-15 m, spectator seating in higher level, table diameter 14 m to seat 50 Knights
- Main staircase 12 m ascent, 3 m wide, 21 m high
- Grand Ballroom 48x9x9 m, Small Ballroom 24x9x9 m
- Chapel 13x9x11 m
- 50-70 offices for Knights (15-100+ sqm), 20-30 commercial properties all in street level to let
- 3-story public section (Museum or similar)
- Crypt and treasury
- Courtyard garden, terraces, balconies and roof gardens
- Nearly all rooms incl offices high-arched because they are so big that it is necessary
- Extensive supports and buttresses throughout, inside and outside
- Very much light because the width of the building is only 8-11 m excl the domed part.

This is amazing. As one of the 10 Knights of the Round Table, Lord Noms gives the new design his full support and pledges 200k stone to help with the initial phase 1 build.

[rpietila]

This is amazing. As one of the 10 Knights of the Round Table, Lord Noms gives the new design his full support and pledges 200k stone to help with the initial phase 1 build.

We of course match the contribution of Lord Noms with an equal donation of the best stone, delivered in B.5!

In the memory of Sir Rhadamanthus, we also donate a Most Ancient carpet formerly belonging to him, to the treasuries (or use) in the Round Table House.

[rpietila]

The Ancient Fellowship of the Knights of the Round Table has met, with the following decisions:

The Town puts the lots immediately facing the Round Table House in auction.

5-N-B4
5-N-B5.

They have been for sale for 400 mil each, and this is the starting price. Minimum raise 25 million.

King bids 400 mil for B4
King bids 400 mil for B5

About 8 hours left for this auction. We decided that it's fair to auction these as 4/6 prestige lots had been sold at the ask of 400 mil each, and now the coming of Round Table House will likely increase the value of the surroundings. So instead of me buying them outright, there is an opportunity for others as well. The excess (over 800 mil total) goes to the Fellowship of the Round Table.  

If the King wins both lots, they will be rezoned to (possibly) 3(wide)x2 lots with a 6-10 m wide N-S lane in between, and some put back to the market. In a similar location in 2-E the Triple Towers now stand on land that cost about 50/q.

Enough shooting myself on the foot now  

[djjacket]

The Ancient Fellowship of the Knights of the Round Table has met, with the following decisions:

We decided to buy 36 q of land in the 5-N Chapelry (2 "prestige lots" from the Town) for 800 million total, for the building of The Round Table House. The Royal Architects were commissioned to make the plans.

Because such a massive and prestigious project (the largest thing ever constructed in the Town, undertaken by the 10 most worthy Knights of all) is commenced, the Town puts the lots immediately facing the Round Table House in auction.

5-N-B4
5-N-B5.

They have been for sale for 400 mil each, and this is the starting price. Minimum raise 25 million.

King bids 400 mil for B4
King bids 400 mil for B5

Prince of North Face bids 425 for B5

[Karl Hungus]

Prince of OZ bids 425 for B4

[rpietila]

450 in B5

[rpietila]

There was announced a RWWC-Rouen Windows Auction but the deadline was postponed due to the windowcounts not being ready (also Easter).

This auction new deadline is in ~3 days. To be auctioned are 5,000 standard pane sqm of windows that are mandatory to use in all new and old buildings (except those who are now windowed) during V.4.

The good news is that because of favorable developments in exchange rates, the cost for RWWC is reduced to 120,000 m/sqm, which is the new floor bid.

The presence of windows is not mandatory for the Building to be usable. "Windows&views" multiplier gives typically values of 1.0...1.2 for buildings that have windows (it is also dependent on the use of the building, with Apartments benefiting less from windows). If no windows at all are installed, the values are in the range of 0.6-0.7. Therefore, as a rule of thumb, an apartment building that had little windows to begin with, suffers about 1/3 reduction in income by not having them, and a lofty office/hotel/special/residence building is reduced to about 1/2. Not having windows for an extended time counts for increased deterioration.

The auction is solely conducted in /RWWC tab in the game DB in order to not clutter the thread.

Other good news for builders. Negotiations are in progress for Labor to become cheaper as well, and for the same reason. If XMR/BTC persists in the trading range, a reduction upon V.4 is most possible. Stone price is determined domestically.

Even Town cut for building is going down. We have had intense fellowship with architects, engineers and scientists about the Earthquake, and the learned opinion is that the Earthquake was a one-time unavoidable semi-natural event. The damage delivered to the prestigious buildings was expected. The only way to avoid it would have been to not build anything nice in the town ever. That 6 buildings collapsed, should not shadow the fact that 200+ did not, and among them are such cultural/-ed and engineering masterpieces as the Royal Palace, Grand Hotel, New Liberty Town Palace, Theatre, Arco, Citadel, Embassy Tower, New Grand, HofM, Clocktower, PofC&S and San Pietro, in the order that some come to mind.

There is nothing profoundly wrong in building high. Except in Swamp, the ground is suitable for building, and we know how to make the buildings stand, and know how to measure the integrity, and know how to take repair action. Now we know all this. It is a tradeoff we must consider, since the land in some places is expensive, and some uses of the buildings require certain stature, including height, or the roof gardens. The price we normally pay is increased deterioration, but that's only a cost item.

The Earthquake damage was dealt differently than normal deterioration. It punished structures that can very well handle static forces, with dynamic forces. Since we cannot live our life in fear, there will be no restrictions on future building to make them more Earthquake-proof. If someone wants to take this into account, he has 6 examples of what kind of construction might be better avoided (especially if left unrepaired for 100 years!).

To the contrary, the Town is now lifting the tax for building high. As previously the extra cost for floors was 5+5% per floor for all additionals, now it is only 5% and goes totally to workers. This decision was done because the previous announcement that Town will start to tax buildings according to floor area. These taxes hit largely the same thing, so the other one was abolished. Haws are exempt of the new tax. Owning empty land was not and will not be taxed.

There will be a little more codified rules concerning luxury% though. Not that it was a problem so far, but the situation is good for some clarification: A Building can from now on often be the size of a single room, because the Businesses/Buildings interaction. It may seem tempting to make one room apparently full of luxuries and appear high in the Halls of Fame. There will be caps on how high a luxury% can be, and it is determined by the floor area in the Lot and in the Building, the appearance of the building and the room height. Nothing new, previously these were enforced by the BI's discretion, now they will be more formal.

I visited the Church and there was preaching against the luxuries in general, they even drew a connect between the luxuries and the Earthquake. Concerning that San Pietro own rating is 240%-300% and mine is currently 0-123%, it felt amusing. I did not utter a word though, it being possible that the Blessings played a role in my own buildings not collapsing. We will never know (though it is strange that no correlation analysis has been attempted despite the data being public).

[rpietila]

Lots in San Pietro sold.

[Callixtus]

The Foreign Investor #1 (the original investor) has notified The Bishop and myself that he would like to put his land in borough 1 up for auction. The land code is 1-E-E3. It's a 4q parcel that is directly across from the King's land, and very close to the Hypothecary Bank and the Grand Hotel Annex, as well as next door to the Hokusai House, Art Studio.

This is a chance to get a premium piece of land only 100 meters from the Obelisk, and 25m from the Grand Hotel!  He is interested in selling the land in the auction format, with bids starting at 600m. The auction will end 24 hours from this posting. It has been said that if the land sale price reaches 700M, The Bishop himself shall come and bless the land so that all future goings-on shall be fruitful.

[sphericon]

Interesting project, congratulations!

Bit introduction myself,

Actually I'm enrolled on

MITx: 11.127x Design and Development of Games for Learning
(edx plataform) and I was researching about cryptocurrency gamification and I landed here. My first idea was to developing a game like


Civilization
for those interested to teach basic economics concepts, and as far as I can see you guys are doing wonderful job here. I hope that I'm going to learn a lot.

PS-> I haven’t read all threads here, so I'm asking for apologize in advance in case of being redundant.
 
Thanks
Kind regards,
AA

Hi _AA_,

Welcome to Crypto Kingdom!  What is happening in this thread and in the game is exactly what it sounds like you are talking about. If you are interested in getting started, we can add you into the game. In the meantime, I have put together a quickstart guide that might help you out a bit:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bSAIQjnhEIZfuIX7IaYiuw1Y-3PvnNPfQqAfl_AFOcY/edit

For any questions, there are always people around on IRC, channel ##crypto-kingdom on freenode.

Glad to have you here 

[rpietila]

Remember that the Rouen-RWWC windows auction DL is tomorrow noon.


Concerning University

We have decided that dwelling in bad memories is not the healthy way to go on. The University has a glorious future, and it is outlined as follows:

- The University will consist on private colleges, which may be incorporated or not. The accumulated SCI and CUL points will come to the owners directly. The benefit of being part of the University is additional points, resulting from the atmosphere of free sharing.

- The Borough 3 "Culture&Science" will be the site of the new University, with colleges scattered around wherever they find nice places. The University colleges are exempted from tax "haw". The King will arrange with the landowners that the land can be acquired at beneficial terms provided that the college is founded and starts operating without delay.

- The increased accountability and ownership is hoped to greatly increase Cul&Sci production, and boost the Borough 3 to become a green haven of free thinking and application, while increasing the commerce there as well.

- The existing college of Military Science reverts to the Army management and stays part of the University. School of Economics joins the University. Both are ineligible for bonuses based on the location in the Old Town.

- The Character University continues as the coordinating body, but its property is liquidated and reverts to the donators. The donators must file a claim in 3 days.

- The liquidation works in kind, eg. if stone was donated, stone will be given back. The year of donation does not count and interest is not paid. If the claims exceed the holdings, the loss is prorated.

- The position of Chancellor is open due to resignation. In the new model, Chancellor is still required, and his qualifications include storytelling ability and ability to coordinate the scientific efforts (soon, there will continuously be a host of new advances that people strive to unlock, and alliances can be made to share the profits - even competitive and/or proprietary advances may be open for research). I very much know the small number of current players and their insufficient time available to delve deeper into the game, but I also seek to compensate the ones who nevertheless do it. The Marquess Smooth is very eligible to apply the position if he feels the new coordinator/negotiator role fits better than the old fundraiser/micromanager.

[rpietila]

Concerning University
- The Character University continues as the coordinating body, but its property is liquidated and reverts to the donators. The donators must file a claim in 3 days.

Royal letter:
"We claim back the land donated to University in 1466 (U1-U3). We are good with U6 from the original donation having been sold to the Prince of OZ, and do not claim it nor the proceeds. Neither we claim U7, which will revert to the Royal CryptoArmy instead.

We do not claim any gold, Items, stone, or money which we have gifted.

We pledge 500,000,000 moneretos to help the science production in the New University context, by zoning and selling land in Culture&Science below market value. In addition, upon certain conditions, this land will be created a haw, which is a quite valuable attribute (the savings in taxes even at the projected very low tax rate and considering a semi-urban e=0.75, at 0.15% daily rate, amount to 10 mil/q in land price). The haws are granted by the King, but the tax reduction suffered by the Town."

The Prince of Soul is considering his answer and the other donators are encouraged to think theirs as well. Just think what colleges you are interested in operating, how many, how big, and make a roadmap to get there! This should determine what to claim from the common pot. The University will go on! Except 10 times stronger!


Remember that the Rouen-RWWC windows auction DL is noon today.

[smooth]

- The position of Chancellor is open due to resignation. In the new model, Chancellor is still required, and his qualifications include storytelling ability and ability to coordinate the scientific efforts (soon, there will continuously be a host of new advances that people strive to unlock, and alliances can be made to share the profits - even competitive and/or proprietary advances may be open for research). I very much know the small number of current players and their insufficient time available to delve deeper into the game, but I also seek to compensate the ones who nevertheless do it. The Marquess Smooth is very eligible to apply the position if he feels the new coordinator/negotiator role fits better than the old fundraiser/micromanager.

The Marquess Smooth must unfortunately decline the invitation, as it is unlikely he would have the time to do the role justice.

Marquess Smooth reclaims the following donations/loans made to the old University:

50 shares Noble Palace (from original IPO; shares paid for by smooth)

191.1 shares Smooth IF (shares were issued to University in exchange for other shares, primarily Noble Palace, which were originally donated by smooth)

900 CKG donated in 1466 (accumulated dividends and stone stake left with University character)

SPE-3 (donated by smooth via Smooth QC liquidation auction -- return to smooth)

200m (loan made in 1598, recorded on DEBTS tab)

3x ASS-3 (loan from smooth QC made in 1598, recorded on DEBTS tab -- to be returned to smooth QC)

[sphericon]

I would like to claim the following from the university:

10M moneritos, donated March 01
200,000 moneritos per year for about 10 years (2M total, or maybe 1.8?)

so total 12M.

[binaryFate]

Sadly, I'd like to claim as well a 10M donation to the university.
(https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=819073.msg9669389#msg9669389)