Crypto Kingdom - 1991 Retro Virtual World(City)

[rpietila]

Good to see that!

Many have asked about "how to do this and that in the game". The answer to most questions is that "sorry, the game is still paused, you can't - and don't need to - do it".

So what is open is the market. And that is good, these kind of times are the opportunities. Items will have their earlier roles.

Now opens the casino.

And soon we are about to start options market on CK, so that you can bet with leverage 

[Syksy]

I heard about this game and though "oh cool" then I went into it and was like "umm wow ok" I don't even understand how to play. What must I even do. I just see a map and when a tap buildings it shows me the cost. Is there not a really easy noob guide ? Even with the held I read I still struggle.

It's true that now is a challenging time to enter; this is due to:
- The whole power structure is being re-written at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1207367.msg16199489#msg16199489 and forth
- Due to the fundamental changes in game, the game time is currently paused. The only place that really functions at the moment is the Agora market (can be found from the drop-down menu).

I've also noticed several quick visits to the IRC recently, unfortunately they've been during time zones that I am asleep and usually you need to give more than 5 minutes for somebody to answer. But two questions I happened to catch:
- Yes, game deposit and withdrawal should work. Type in IRC "/query saddam -Freenode" to inquire him about it, as saddam is responsible for this aspect.
- Unfortunately the game time is paused, and there are two factors that affect when it will be resumed but no precise time has been announced:
a) The above linked constitution, which is well in making, but is rather boring for a new player to read and is really about the 2 year players figuring out how to divide power in a feasible manner
b) A game mechanic module, basicly an "expansion" in game terms, called Clans is on the way, but it has not yet been deployed albeit parts of it are available on the test server. Since Clans will revamp multiple important aspects of the game such as NPC consumption (vegetables/meat/wines/beer/mead/mushrooms/etc) it will be deployed only when the roughest edges have been smoothed.

I hope that helps with some questions. If Agora is enough and you got an initial deposit, it's right now interesting to speculate on following products for example: HM02B100 (gold worth definition de facto), CK (a voting right token that gives in-game political and/or economical power), STO1 and BLD once construction of buildings continues when game time resumes (as they are key ingredients), shares of companies that are ready to start taking advantage of new emerging markets (I am biased as I run couple companies, so I will not mention any). Hope this helps.




EDIT:

Something I just realized, as somebody pointed it out in the past, is that the menu system CK uses is not intuitive to all. If you only click on the "Crypto Kingdom" -logo on top left, you indeed are just taken on the main square map. You might actually miss the whole game because of it. See below where the menu is opened (it is not open by default):

[Syksy]

Syksy Motion Picture Show Inc presents
the highly (non?) anticipated, critically acclaimed*

_{* not yet fully determined but speculated by a board of at least 1 person(s)!}

Crypto Kingdom (YouTube Full-length motion picture)
a Not-so-short Brief Introduction to CK gameplay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_viKilm6beY

Run-time: 2h 15min
Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Action, Drama, Cringe, Comedy, Documentary
Actors: Syksy
Director: Syksy
Affiliations: Coffee in my cup
Country of Origin: Crypto Kingdom
IMDB rating: Off the scale/10

For any and all, live action gameplay slash tutorial!
I was hoping to make a short introduction but it spiralled out of control. Hope somebody will benefit of this wreck feel free to share.

[generalizethis]

[

Moon, you must slowly open your golden eye
round and down as Dragons swim by
ancient Orders the wind conjures as Strife
the songs of air--ride down--like knives
who steely claws shine--a red-blood rune
a fall of plenty--a path resumes

[player99]

Allowing robbery and theft is probably lots of fun for the robbers, but what about a victim that for example has spent 6 real months accumulating a nice gold coin collection or a nice wine collection?

Things could get really messy and you would have angry forum posts all over the place if somebody loose his/her possessions.

And how would the probability of the theft be calculated? For example one house/clan has 4 people living there and they have 2 pistols, how many robbers with how many weapons would you need to successfully rob that place?

And what about when an attractive 20 yo wild female comes riding on her dragon, should I reveal my big cannon and blow her out of the sky? Should we all be buying cannons now ?

Just some thoughts, hope you like feedback from small players... 

[generalizethis]

Allowing robbery and theft is probably lots of fun for the robbers, but what about a victim that for example has spent 6 real months accumulating a nice gold coin collection or a nice wine collection?

Things could get really messy and you would have angry forum posts all over the place if somebody loose his/her possessions.

And how would the probability of the theft be calculated? For example one house/clan has 4 people living there and they have 2 pistols, how many robbers with how many weapons would you need to successfully rob that place?

And what about when an attractive 20 yo wild female comes riding on her dragon, should I reveal my big cannon and blow her out of the sky? Should we all be buying cannons now ?

Just some thoughts, hope you like feedback from small players...  

Love the feedback!

Countryside is different than TOWN, so you can live in the safety of TOWN under the protection of law and order, venture out to the countryside looking for adventure and opportunity, or both  

[smooth]

S-CKG liquidation plan

S-CKG (char name CKGE) owns both the stash of CK resulting from CKG items it held at the time of the reorganization as well as the remaining items themselves.

Currently 99,430 units of CK are held by S-CKG

There are currently 1,988,600 shares of S-CKG.

The liquidation will proceed as follows:

S-CKG will be reduced by SPOILs (random controlled by the game engine) until fewer than 99,430 shares exist. That is, approximately 95% of shares will be SPOILed. If all of your shares are SPOILed you will no longer be a shareholder and will receive nothing. If you own a small number of shares this is reasonably likely. If you own a large number of shares this will likely not happen and you will end up with a smaller number.

Following this, 1 CK will be distributed to each share.

The remaining assets, consisting of the undistributed CK and the CKG items will be sold at some time in the future, either separately or in one or more lots consisting of multiple items, and the proceeds distributed to S-CKG holders. Upon the conclusion of this process S-CKG/CKGE will cease to exist. Until that time S-CKG shares will trade freely.

The liquidation will commence no earlier than 24 hours after this post. Trading will continue and those with a small number of shares who do not want to risk having their holdings eliminated by the SPOIL process may attempt to find a buyer (or alternately acquire more shares and reduce the probability of all your shares being SPOILed away).

[generalizethis]

ANOUNCEMENT:




The drawing is unfinished as it was the last testament to a brave, but foolish, artist who wandered
North in search of rare and mystical creatures. We offer this reward for the capture of this dragon
and its return to the Old Duchy. Upon delivery you will receive compensation in the form of 10,000
CKG for living dragon and baronetcies for all those who take part in the capture. The GM will be
posting more details as to where and how one may begin the Quest.

[generalizethis]

HMC

--Game's Business:

PJ has been promoted to Earl. This is the very first promotion in the game that HMC has granted. It goes without saying that the game relies heavily on his programming skills, and there would be no agora without his efforts.

"PJ, for your efforts, you are Promoted to Earl, with all the Honors befitting your Station and Rank. Your Service and Dedication are recognized by All--may you wear the Blue of a Great Noble in Pride, but with a light heart. We salute You, Sir."

(Cannon Fire)

--King's Finances:

The King's life has only so many hours in a day. For this reason, it's proposde that a Queen should be sought for the House of Crichton. Her duties would be to act in accordance of the King's duties when the King is away from the Throne--whether these duties can be handled by her gentle hand, or by the King's gruffer-style is for her to decide. The King realizes that with so few women in the Kingdom, that this request will take time to fulfill--so in the meantime, the King must limit his other duties and spend more time managing the Kingdom's business, but as streams go, the King's lands are irrigated with the rash sensibility of farmer in drought, so the King's Vaults are opened and most everything there is made available for sale. This will be an open event and all offers made public with special items being posted here starting Monday--in the meantime, if you wish to make a private bid, please contact me via PM here or on ##cryptokingdom IRC @ hmc_

--New Players,

Are quests of interest? Too complicated? Not thoroughly automated? Too little payout, for too much time? Are there enough interested players? Do we have a working structure as to make quests work within the game rather than depending on IRC to fulfill communication driven game play?

If you are waiting to ask questions, or voice concerns, now is your opportunity--I'll be glad to play advocate in any case, but remember that my hours for the moment are limited by prior commitments. Once these commitments have been reduced, I'll be able to keep In-Game hours.

Also, could creatures add crop bonuses? I'm sure dragon s$%^ makes for great fertilizer for MUS and CAN.


               House of Crichton

Upcoming...Raffle-4 results (all tickets have been dispersed)

[generalizethis]

To clear up any confusion on opening up the King's vaults, going forward I need to pay myself a salary for the King's full-time work, so all items are available for sale, but this will happen as one or two items every other day or so--if you've had your eye on something special and would like to make an offer, then ask and we can negotiate terms.

My reason for being leery of going full-time as King, was to keep from selling any of it, but the demands of the game are for a full-time King and override my desire to own more than anyone probably should--hope this clears up any confusion.

[Red Erin]

If you read this, no matter how feeble and ill-equipped you are, team up with others and ask for weapons etc. Then share the loot!

I need a change from the ever present farming, and since I am the owner of a fine pistol, which I happened to use in not too bad a fashion at the King's coronation's tournament, I will leave Pada Manor's management to the soundest of the farmers and join the adventure! My horse is a but a H2 horse, but I won't bring him right to the dragon's snout

[Syksy]

- -

Crypto Kingdom (YouTube Full-length motion picture)
a Not-so-short Brief Introduction to CK gameplay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_viKilm6beY

- -

Bumping up my vid a bit. It now contains a full "Table of Contents" time-stamped header (press "Show More" at video description) as well as a collection of important links; perhaps even esteemed CK players will find something interesting to check out in detail. Cheerio!

[generalizethis]

First Items Auctioned to Town Hall

"The Town Hall would like to get: 2 paintings from late 1500-1600s
(ART-18 and 47), 1 old wood table (CAF-14), 100*COH cigars


 
20*JAD, 20*RME



 
10*SW3, 1 old silver cup (SIO-4)


 
1 old document (WRD-5) and in total 6 badges or tokens of copper


 
Unique items are unique, but all the others is carefully considered that the Crown will retain the majority
of its holding. Some tokens, 1 out of 2 was taken. In the consumables and JAD, less than that out of 676
royal items, this is touching 15 of which 5 are unique.
 
The Hall is in the understanding that 25 mil would be a reasonable donation for the lot."

The King thanks the Town Hall for their support and hopes the items find a good home and are a blessing to the community.

[generalizethis]

Raffle Winners!


Congratulations to Tombot, Syksy, Cryptonic and DrC. Your share of 1k in CKG has been awarded, enjoy!

[smooth]

S-CKG liquidation plan

S-CKG (char name CKGE) owns both the stash of CK resulting from CKG items it held at the time of the reorganization as well as the remaining items themselves.

Currently 99,430 units of CK are held by S-CKG

There are currently 1,988,600 shares of S-CKG.

The liquidation will proceed as follows:

S-CKG will be reduced by SPOILs (random controlled by the game engine) until fewer than 99,430 shares exist. That is, approximately 95% of shares will be SPOILed. If all of your shares are SPOILed you will no longer be a shareholder and will receive nothing. If you own a small number of shares this is reasonably likely. If you own a large number of shares this will likely not happen and you will end up with a smaller number.

Following this, 1 CK will be distributed to each share.

The remaining assets, consisting of the undistributed CK and the CKG items will be sold at some time in the future, either separately or in one or more lots consisting of multiple items, and the proceeds distributed to S-CKG holders. Upon the conclusion of this process S-CKG/CKGE will cease to exist. Until that time S-CKG shares will trade freely.

The liquidation will commence no earlier than 24 hours after this post. Trading will continue and those with a small number of shares who do not want to risk having their holdings eliminated by the SPOIL process may attempt to find a buyer (or alternately acquire more shares and reduce the probability of all your shares being SPOILed away).

The plan has proceeded as described above. The CK and a small amount of remaining M have been distributed. S-CKG continues to trade as shares in the ownership of the physical CKG items (and a very small amount of remaining CK).

Following the distribution, S-HODL which was previously a significant holder of S-CKG and S-CON, reinvested its M by purchasing CK on the open market. It now holds slightly more than one CK per share. S-HODL remains an attractive vehicle for passive holdings since dividends are automatically reinvested. This makes S-HODL an entirely fire-and-forget investment. You can buy it, do nothing at all until you check it later, and hopefully it is worth more.

Going forward I plan to apply a 0.1% admin fee on S-HODL reinvestments. This was previously the policy for the share vehicles (S-CKG and S-CON) that S-HODL used for its holdings (S-HODL had no ongoing management fee of its own), but since those no longer exist, S-HODL is holding the CK directly and will charge the fee directly. The fee was not applied on the reinvestment that just occurred.

[MoneroMooo]

The Marquess' army looked happy as they passed the gates of the Stonehaven camp, now well on its way to a permant settlement. Scruffy and tired by the long march back from the expedition to North Face, the soldiers' step took on a new energy, glad to be... maybe not quite home, but close enough, at last.

Stories brought by a messenger from the army had already spread like wildfire in the new town. Rumours of strange beasts, gleaming treasures beyond dreams, tall mountains spitting fire and lightning. The Marquess made a mental note to have a quiet word with the messenger later, but for now, it was time to let the group have a well deserved rest before the next expedition.

Indeed, the news from Cryptotown were as momentous as the ones from the north. The King had abdicated in favour of the Marquess of Plath, and the new King was intent on mounting an expedition to capture a dragon!

While intelligence did not support foul play in the surprise changes in the Crown, the abdication might still cause short term disturbances, and the army was back at the right time to prepare for this. Hoping that the dragon quest was not a ploy to gather troops away from their respective counties, Mooo of Stonehaven started making plans to dispatch part of the troops to the south.

[generalizethis]

The king has consulted with wise men and read ancient scrolls concerning the capture of Dragons and learned they are weak against magic, but how much magic and what kind is still uncertain...or even how one may acquire more.

Zenon is most wise and ancient in the practice of the dark arts, but has not been seen for some time, so the King sends messengers out to bring him to the Palace so HMC can consult him on the matter.

Syksy has some magical training, but will it suffice in lowering the Dragon's ferocious temperament and BV? Can Syksy raise his magic enough to combat such primal power?

[generalizethis]

After looking around the palace for what to put up for auction, I scratch my head when I sees these--

https://cryptokingdom.me/marketplace/item/CAF-15

Ancient, blessed, elaborate? What's inside?

Picking up a manifest from the containers I read:

Old Dept Store unsold stock

Hmmm, unless there's Dragon Eggs inside,
I'll be happy to let someone else open the mysterious crates.

Auction ends Tuesday 4:00am EST

[generalizethis]

Update: Dragon Quest





So far the quest has garnered commitments from Syksy, Moneromooo, and RedErin.
Anyone wishing to join in the fun, and danger, please add your name to our list of intrepid hunters.

[ChrisPop]

King, how can I put a bid for the auction? I place a buy order on CK? Or I post it here?