Crypto Kingdom - 1991 Retro Virtual World(City)

[rpietila]

The First Real-Anniversary of Crypto Kingdom and the Real-Party in Real-Malla



Many concepts, things and people in Crypto Kingdom have their type in real life (IRL). The type of the Royal Palace in 1-C is situated in Estonia, about 1 hour to the east of Tallinn and the airport. The earliest mentions of the Manor of Real-Malla are from the 1400s, and similarly the Royal Palace was constructed in 1432-1446.

To celebrate the real-anniversary, a real-party is held in the real-palace. Terms: players of the noble characters of Crypto Kingdom are eligible to attend. The commoners are required to apply, because the capacity of attendance is limited.

The main event will be held in the day of anniversary, 2015-10-10. There is no entrance fee, no room fee (for maximum of 2 nights, otherwise hotel rates apply) and also the Grand Dinner will be served with wines at the King's pleasure. Dress code is noble/festive, and Royal robes may be worn by those who have them. We trust in the gift economy to take care of the practicalities.

The Manor has been visited by many of the players in the past (incl. Duke of NL, Prince of Forte Spagnolo, Prince of Soul, The Bishop, Roopatra, Sir Heimo, Lord Thud, Knight serje, Wizard Dev PJ, Master nikke1 and others), so we look forward to a happy reunion with the oldtimers and the new ones. There will be Caviar and Foie Gras, tender meats, cognac, rum, vodka and the choicest of wines from the Wine Cellar (separate building to the right from the Manor House).

The 6-horse royal carriage is at your disposal for airport rides:



The past menus give some hints of what will be served:



The grounds are large and beautiful:



As are the rooms:




A happy and memorable weekend in the dark, festive season is awaiting us!

[dnaleor]

I want to add this bid to for the consols:
50 @ 10.1  (just to be sure I get some)

[Karl Hungus]

Consol Auction - - largest issuance of debt ever in the Kingdom, and the first Perpetual

OZ bids for 100 @ 10

[Roopatra]

Consol bid

2 @ 9.1 Roo

[rpietila]

Consol Auction - - Final Results

20 @ 10.9 Sarajas
40 @ 10.8 King
40 @ 10.6 King
40 @ 10.4 King
30 @ 10.3 Soul
40 @ 10.2 King
50 @ 10.1 dnaleor
40 @ 10.0 King
100 @ 10.0 Bank
50 @ 10.0 Crichton
50 @ 10.0 NF
100 @ 10.0 FS
100 @ 10.0 OZ
10 @ 9.9 Sarajas
40 @ 9.8 King
40 @ 9.6 King
5 @ 9.5 Bank
40 @ 9.4 King
40 @ 9.2 King
50 @ 9.1 Rome
2 @ 9.1 Roopatra
40 @ 9.0 King
6 @ 9.0 Bank
10 @ 8.9 Sarajas
17 @ 8.8 King
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1,000*CON will be issued at 8.8 (1.12% APR), to the following:

417 King
111 Bank
100 OZ
100 Forte Spagnolo
50 Rome
50 North Face
50 Crichton
50 dnaleor
40 Sarajas
30 Soul
2 Roopatra



23 @ 8.8 King
40 @ 8.6 King
7 @ 8.5 Bank
40 @ 8.4 King
10 @ 8.3 Dr. SS
40 @ 8.2 King
40 @ 8.0 King
7 @ 8.0 Bank
100 @ 8.0 dnaleor
10 @ 7.9 Sarajas
40 @ 7.8 King
40 @ 7.6 King
8 @ 7.5 Bank
40 @ 7.4 King
40 @ 7.2 King
40 @ 7.0 King
8 @ 7.0 Bank
40 @ 6.8 King
40 @ 6.8 Forte Spagnolo
60 @ 6.7 Forte Spagnolo
2 @ 6.7 Roopatra
40 @ 6.6 King
2 @ 6.5 Roopatra
40 @ 6.4 King
3 @ 6.3 Roopatra
40 @ 6.3 North Face
40 @ 6.3 Forte Spagnolo
40 @ 6.2 King
3 @ 6.1 Roopatra
40 @ 6.0 King

[rpietila]

Now the consols are behind us, although there is this Jungherr Paul who forgot to place a bid and is now trying to fish for 9.5 mil. Some quick profit is thus offered. Also Town will be debating whether to offer a ladder of asks making the (hoped for) price rise more orderly.

Wine market has returned to normal, with Tavastia having nice asks in most brands:
- W1601B barley wine is better than ever, but also cheaper: Tavastia price is 0.045 only!!
- W1601 is 0.035 and W1604 0.040 once Roopatra's few bottles have been cleared

Collectible gold coin market is resurrected by the King's Coinshop:
Sir noms was having this in the antiquity, but now he needed to release the massive value tied up, and sold the coins to us! In total, 83 coins are now priced very affordably, so you can check what is missing from your collection and fill the blanks! The prices for CR-coins actually start at 3.600 mil (with the ask for the common coin at 3.225 mil, the markup is starting at just 0.375 mil per coin!)
- rarities with mintage=20 available from 7.200 so less than 4 mil above spot per coin

[saddambitcoin]

I can't seem to find the column for trading 100 CKG gold bars in F_OWN, is it near the gold coins?

I would very much like to attend the 1 year real anniversary celebrations in Malla, alas I don't think I will be able to as I am still in school until end of October. 

[rpietila]

I can't seem to find the column for trading 100 CKG gold bars in F_OWN, is it near the gold coins?

I would very much like to attend the 1 year real anniversary celebrations in Malla, alas I don't think I will be able to as I am still in school until end of October.  

The non-markup gold forms of CR1602E and HM02B100 are in "SD"-"SE" in /F_OWN.

Perhaps the virtual attendees can participate in the wines...  

I have a Franco-Españolas from 1964, no idea if good, but might try out! 

[Roopatra]

Announcing Land Auction in 9-C

The new land, it looks beautiful: the land is flat throughout and it is solid to allow construction, the surrounding chapelries will quarry all the stone needed for constructing wonderful palaces and other interesting buildings. With some imagination we could build this chapelry most pleasing to the eye! Phaeton Boulevard has been zoned across the chapelry reaching from north to south and this 20 meter wide boulevard lined with leafy trees connects directly to borough 3. Wide roads connect the central chapelry to the western and eastern chapelries as well. There are beautiful public gardens for any passerby to enjoy.





The properties marked yellow are for sale in this land auction: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ln1LSQwPajGNMhtQ8LieWKyQ4rgo-Vnr6-NHkx-Ee00/edit#gid=26263206
The auction lasts for ~48 hours from this post. The minimum bid is 10mil /q for all lots, (except A1). All properties that get bid will be sold to the highest bidder at the end of the auction. "-Why is the land so cheap?" -somebody cries from the crowd. Well, perhaps at the end of the auction it will not go that cheaply, but we will let the market decide what the land is worth.

(Kindly note that the roads and parks visible in the plan, are not yet built, but will be at the earliest convenience, hopefully from the profits of this land auction. Paving is not cheap, and therefore we accept donations for the road paving from new property owners: these donations will be used strictly for paving and gardening of the public spaces, and if any donations are left over once it is done, they will be given to the Church.)

Properties of the lots for sale in the Auction:

Lot A1 is 16q and has unobstructed view on all 4 sides, maximum sunlight and level 4 park access.
Lots A2 and A3 are both 6q, have unobstructed view on 3 sides, sunlight from 2-3 sides and level 4 park access.
Lots B1 and B2 are both 8q in size, have unobstructed view on 2 sides, sunlight min. 1-2 sides and a level 3 park access.
Lots C3 and C4 are both 6q in size, have unobstructed view on 1 side, some sunlight, and a level 3 park access.
All properties are for sale in auction at the same minimum bid of 10mil/q. All except One..

Lot A1 is the choisest and primest and the centralest lot in the 9-C: it has views in all directions and maximum sunlight, as well as level 4 park access. The lot A1 is on sale in a Secret Auction; bids are only accepted via PM here in bitcointalk and the bids are secret. It is not allowed to withdraw a bid, but it is possible to raise your bid anytime during the auction, which might be wise if you see the surrounding land going for higher prices. The minimum bid for lot A1 is 200mil. And since it is in our best hopes that the finest lot in 9-C will have a magnificent building standing on it, the Architect- and BI fee are included in the lot price! On magnificent buildings this alone could save you 100-200mil! This is how I hope to encourage the new owner to build something wonderful on the lot without delay, and let us all rest our eyes on beautiful architecture in 9-C.

All properties that get bid a minimum of 10mil /q will be sold to the highest bidder once the auction has finished. With the exception of A1, where minimum bid is 200mil, and bids are secret: it will be sold to the highest Secret Bid once auction has finished. If any of the properties do not get bid, they will be withdrawn from market.

Current bids for lots:

A1: ?secret? Minimum bid: 200mil
A2: No bid yet. Minimum bid: 60mil
A3: No bid yet. Minimum bid: 60mil
B1: No bid yet. Minimum bid: 80mil
B2: No bid yet. Minimum bid: 80mil
C3: No bid yet. Minimum bid: 60mil
C4: No bid yet. Minimum bid: 60mil

[rpietila]

Announcing Land Auction in 9-C

The new land, it looks beautiful: the land is flat throughout and it is solid to allow construction, the surrounding chapelries will quarry all the stone needed for constructing wonderful palaces and other interesting buildings. With some imagination we could build this chapelry most pleasing to the eye! Phaeton Boulevard has been zoned across the chapelry reaching from north to south and this 20 meter wide boulevard lined with leafy trees connects directly to borough 3. Wide roads connect the central chapelry to the western and eastern chapelries as well. There are beautiful public gardens for any passerby to enjoy.

We decided to have a challenge - which one gets to sell the land better! Roopatra has not probably used all her tricks, but neither have I - some may still remember that high-priced land was in the 1520s sweetened by a 1,600 CKG gold medal, free architecting, and even a promotion to Prince(!).


Sir Zechariah, The Marquess of Tavastia, Chief of Marketing, NewCorp:

New Corp has acquired land and has made it Investment Land(TM), for everyone to profit!

The following principles apply:

- All lots are sold at the same price for ease, and the price is 100 mil. The lot is minimum 1,200 sqm so maximum price is 8.33 mil/q.
- Customization applies - if you want to get the raw land only, without income provided by the small house and gardening, price is 70 mil (5.83 mil/q).
- If you want to settle down or profit more, order the 120 sqm palace constructed: only 50 mil extra (150 mil)
- Each lot purchased entitles you to the NC1600C gold coin! (Let us transfer it)

As for the land,

1) it is exceedingly prime, seamlessly connected to the boulevard network starting at the Bank corner in the 1-E.
2) no dirty alleys - all streets are 20 m
3) unblocked views to everywhere in the borough
4) plans to redirect the main road to Rossiya to go through these chapelries for added commercial interest
5) gardened throughout, house main facade elaborate, etc etc
6) the crazy low price is real, take yours! We got this land so cheaply that cannot just leave it for ourselves only!!

Green offerings in this map.

/Tavastiaspeak

[generalizethis]

Announcing Land Auction in 9-C

The new land, it looks beautiful: the land is flat throughout and it is solid to allow construction, the surrounding chapelries will quarry all the stone needed for constructing wonderful palaces and other interesting buildings. With some imagination we could build this chapelry most pleasing to the eye! Phaeton Boulevard has been zoned across the chapelry reaching from north to south and this 20 meter wide boulevard lined with leafy trees connects directly to borough 3. Wide roads connect the central chapelry to the western and eastern chapelries as well. There are beautiful public gardens for any passerby to enjoy.

We decided to have a challenge - which one gets to sell the land better! Roopatra has not probably used all her tricks, but neither have I - some may still remember that high-priced land was in the 1520s sweetened by a 1,600 CKG gold medal, free architecting, and even a promotion to Prince(!).


Sir Zechariah, The Marquess of Tavastia, Chief of Marketing, NewCorp:

New Corp has acquired land and has made it Investment Land(TM), for everyone to profit!

The following principles apply:

- All lots are sold at the same price for ease, and the price is 100 mil. The lot is minimum 1,200 sqm so maximum price is 8.33 mil/q.
- Customization applies - if you want to get the raw land only, without income provided by the small house and gardening, price is 70 mil (5.83 mil/q).
- If you want to settle down or profit more, order the 120 sqm palace constructed: only 50 mil extra (150 mil)
- Each lot purchased entitles you to the NC1600C gold coin! (Let us transfer it)

As for the land,

1) it is exceedingly prime, seamlessly connected to the boulevard network starting at the Bank corner in the 1-E.
2) no dirty alleys - all streets are 20 m
3) unblocked views to everywhere in the borough
4) plans to redirect the main road to Rossiya to go through these chapelries for added commercial interest
5) gardened throughout, house main facade elaborate, etc etc
6) the crazy low price is real, take yours! We got this land so cheaply that cannot just leave it for ourselves only!!

Green offerings in this map.

/Tavastiaspeak

Crichton will take 2 with palaces: D11 & D12.

[Roopatra]

The Marchioness of Neverland was feeling adventurous and took her unicorn Star on a trip to the southern empire, Konstantinople. It is wonderful how fast a unicorn can gallop, it almost feels as if it was flying, surely some kind of unicorn magic is the only explanation.

The Marchioness in in awe of the southern empire and its many gilded domes, there are people of many skin colors and different dress styles, several times a day the call for prayer fills the air with loud chanting from every place of worship in the city, the wonderful bathhouses are a place to make friends and alliances while enjoying the pampering, the grand bazaar is a market place to trade everything that arrives to the city from the vast trade network.

The Marchioness is enjoying her time so, that she is not even fazed by Tavastia dominating the land market in Borought 9. But how does she know, when she is so far from the Kingdom? A golden unicorn has magic powers, and the Marchioness is able to use the unicorn´s horn as a looking glass, to see what happens in distant places.

Laying down on a luscious pile of pillows and fanned by the servants to keep the air cool: the Marchioness inhales deeply from the curious looking water pipe that locals use for smoking tobacco.  “Come Star”, she says, “-the land may sell or it may not, but let us worry about finances later. For we are in exotic Konstantinople and should explore all its treasures while we are alive and free!”

[noms]

Introducing The Quad

Sir Noms of White Cross looked over the new borough 9 and saw some exciting developments. The C, NE and E chapelries had been purchased and were starting to become developed. He decided that now was the time to act, and has priced his properties affordably so that all can get in on the land-grab bonanza!

Introducing The Quad, a microcosm designed for the player that likes urban life combined with a fun neighborhood and large parks. You can buy small lots, perfect for storefronts on the outer ring, or enjoy a large center lot surrounding a park. There are also larger corner lots that can be had for cheap as well.  

Larger view of 9-NW:


Each of these lots comes bare, but if you are interested in a house, I offer my architecting services for free and will build you a small or medium house for 20/35m additional.  

Thank you for looking, and if you have any questions, I am very responsive on bitcointalk and will be on IRC all day (nick sphericon)!

[rpietila]

Whoa, what happened to my wine cellar =!  

Due to the laborious procedure in doing it well, manual drinking was conducted 2 years at a time. So the (up to) 400 bottles of the wine you thought you had, were added to battling the health challenge.

Completely unscathed, without health decline, survived 8 characters.

I gave mercy and bought drinks according to the character's means if none were stocked and the health challenge was severe. The "drink plan" was the guide here.

Drinks consumed and the remarks:
BEER - 14103 - Some noticed that if the challenge is almost conquered and progress is slow, beer might not do that much worse than wine.
MEAD - 7906
W1601B - 3078 - This became a favorite perhaps because it was priced very aggressively compared to the French wines
W1600 - 1877
W1604 - 1654 - This needs cellaring but was popularly consumed due to low price.
W1603A - 1629 - Good as usual. At peak. Some strangers expressed concern that despite the equitable initial distribution, the rich have too much of this wine in their hands and it rots, while the poor have needed to drink theirs already, and are thirsty.
W1602 - 596 - This wine made one expert believe that the wines get not only better but also more healthy with age.
W1601 - 424
W1603 - 382
W1600M - 75 - This wine has not matured noticeably in 6 years and the King is feeling itchy whether it will be ready for the quartermillennium (not even thinking of the supposed 20/20 it has been appraised to reach then).. While the wine can be bought, sold and consumed, since it is a gift from the King, Tavastia urges everyone (esp the nobles) to not speak of the matter in public or do hasty actions with it.
W1602F - 61
VOH - 204 - The taste is still not as refined as the imported drinks, but feeling is healthy.
RME - 104 - This jesty drink needs marketing!
VOD - 100
RUM - 27 - In a King's party, a battle broke out with some saying RUM is better than RME. Is was settled with the vote ending in 13-15 for the former and 14-18 for the latter, which indeed do intersect!
CVS - 25
SW2 - 24 - A nice amount of this potion was consumed, and Zenon's notes indicate that typically the effect of 1 bottle had felt equal to 1-2 cases of wine in living subjects. And no one has died yet!
CLXII - 18 - A rumor has been put out that not only healthiness affects price upwards, but the loop is two-sided..
SW1 - 7 - The recipients' curiosity was overwhelming so many had a bottle. Effect is difficult to discern from the other healthy drinks they have access to. Zenon has finally publicly confirmed that the silver molarity is 5x that in the other potion.

Sorry for those who would have played this differently (eg. who drank beer or mead when their resolve is to never do it, or bought too expensive drinks when they'd rather suffered the health - I did my best and next time is in Ultima )

[binaryFate]

Where in the DB can we see our latest consumption?

[rpietila]

Where in the DB can we see our latest consumption?

Nowhere, that is the beauty of a non-changelog DB as our current drinks DB is..  

Technical reason is available upon request.

Tavastia has adjusted the stocks and prices are very competitive, only one Roopatra lowask in W1604 is floating, all the rest are Tavastia's. Please inform if stocks run low, we are eager to restock. (You may have seen that the prices at source (IC conversion rates) have gotten worse lately, so building large stocks is not prudent).

Zenon has been satisfied with the effectiveness of SW1 and SW2 (especially the latter that he had 5 bottles just for test). Therefore, the price of SW2 has been raised to 2.5 mil (formerly 2 mil) and 2 bottles of SW1 from his personal stock (of only 4 bottles total) have been listed for 15 mil each.

Only a 65 bottle run of SW1 was made and 60 bottles gifted to the councillors. Coincidence or not, but the councillors' average health decline was -64 points, compared to the general population of -512 points. Based on this, and the average health of the population, Zenon has estimated the average life expectancy remaining to be 30-35 years, and hints of individual situation can be seen in /CHAR and the same format soon in Ultima as well.

[rpietila]

All except the red items of the year-change to 1606 have been completed, and the rest will soon.


Leading activities

- Horse promotions DONE
- PC promotions DONE
- Admin-executed consumption of liquor and evaluation of health challenges 1606-07 DONE; change of health DONE
- Building repair% and luxury% decrease (was done several years at once) hence DONE
- Carriages, windows, stone (any borough may be quarried!), suits and 1605-coins production
- NPC promotions <- NPC will be promoted right after year_change


Year-change script

- NPC's produce money, CUL and SCI (!!)
- L3...L6 commoner players get salary (!!)
- Buildings produce money, CUL and SCI
- Gold dividends
- Consol & Bank DEP interests
- Quarry, suit, carriage, mint, horsefarm, printingpress labor salaries
- Extra tax and land tax payments
- Company dividends (tell me if your company wants to fulfill its duty to the shareholders, I'll add it to the script)

[Karl Hungus]

Announcing Land Auction in 9-C

OZ bids:

A2:  60mil
A3:  60mil

[djjacket]

North Face Tailors have made 4 red and 4 blue suits from the coveted Ancient 1551 fabric. The last time suits were made in the Kingdom was in 1498 so this is a fine opportunity to enlarge your collection with the firstfruits of the new monopoly company! The suits are WOS-101...108. NF is rumored to post to the thread about the pricing soon! Next year the tailors work at double efficiency so it is expected that more suits will enter the market, in all colors, ornaments (CKG/CKS), from both ancient and modern cloth!

Jacket's North Face Textiles Produces 1st Clothing in the Kingdom

Discounts are given if you provide the cloth for construction.

A-Green    -   11
A-White    -    19
A-Orange  -    28
A-Red      -    36
A-Blue      -    46

Here is the base pricing (in M) for new material Suits (includes the material in the pricing):

Green       -    8    
White        -    11
Orange      -    17
Red           -    21
Blue          -    26
Purple       -   52

The Tailor Shop has a nice inventory of immediately available suits.  Proper clothing is essential for advancement in class as only commoners wear drab clothing.  WE also have some nice Noble Clothing with CKG and CKS worked into the design.

There have been hints that wearing clothing with CKS will provide additional health benefits, but empirical evidence has not been supplied.  We can produce custom suits with CKS - contact us for a quote.

[rpietila]

The Royal Mint announcement




5 CKS = 1 mil   **   Silver BULK issue, -3.1% below the cheapest new conversion price!

Now it is possible to get silver easier than ever, and very affordably as well, even cheaper than buying the IC and importing yourself!!

The Royal Mint CS1606E shiny handy-sized 5 CKS coin will be minted in bulk to accommodate those who seek to get nice investment/collectible coins but don't want to pay for them!

Price is only 1 mil per coin. You can order any quantity of coins you want.

Every 20th coin ordered is dated CS1607E, which might become extremely collectible due to the low mintage. The rarity is guaranteed by giving no archive copies to the King, the CryptoMuseum, or even the Mint themselves! Only 1 is minted per every 20 ordered.


Convert 1605-1606 gold coins directly from the Mint!

CR1605A is already distributed as a gift to all who wanted one.

CR1606A can be bought as follows:
- Give any 5 CKG gold coin to the Mint, get 3*CR1606A (3*1 CKG) in return. You lose only 2 CKG (~1.2 mil), meaning that you get 3 collector coins at 0.4 mil markup per piece. (You may order 1 or more sets).

CR1605E can be bought as follows:
- Give any gold to the Mint, get it minted to CR1605E coins at a fee of only 5 CKG (~3 mil). This fixed fee applies to 100 CKG order max. Markup is as low as 0.15 mil/coin.

CR1606E can be bought as follows:
- Give any gold to the Mint, get it minted to CR1605E coins at a fee of only 5 CKG (~3 mil). This fixed fee applies to 100 CKG order max. Markup is as low as 0.15 mil/coin.

If you are confused about how gold is given as payment etc., remember that the Mint takes care of it, all you have to do is decide what coins and how many you want, and the Mint automatically uses your existing gold from the 0-markup category. As for silver, it is fixed price per coin and will be deducted upon delivery.

NB: This is not an auction and we can close it anytime (not in the first 24 hours though). When the offering ends, no more of any of these coins will be produced. As a forward-looking note, many collectors will specialize in Ancient coins, but others cannot afford that and seek to start their collection from the recent times and work backwards. These dates in the early Reconstruction period are particularly rare and coveted by both the groups.