New Borough 22 Opens - - - after an epic challenge!The land between Boroughs "Old Town" (1) and "San Pietro" (5) has been targeted for expansion for decades. It is good building ground, possibility to quarry stone, there is a valley in the middle and in the centre of it is the iconic King's Esplanade, the 30 m wide road leading from San Pietro to Old Town. The sides are more hilly, and might later become nice sites for hillside villas (at present there are no height differences so this will be the first one with naturally different elevation).
Previously this land has not been possible to be used due to the technical difficulty of mapping the elevations, and also we have not wanted to build too tight because of hygiene and other concerns. But this is changing...
The Challenge - Gain 1,000 S-B22 and the borough unlocks!The Project B-22 is structured as a corporation. It will have some important rules:
- Gaining shares of this corporation happens in the way the Gamemaster sees fit, and 1 character at one time can usually gain only 1 or a few shares. The cost of gaining shares may be progressive, giving the edge to small players. (Very small players are not in the business of buying boroughs though...)
- Gains from the shares acquired go to Gamemaster defined places. Money gains tend to go to devfund. The corporation will gain little if any of the proceeds.
- During the year or opportunity when 1,000 shares total are gained, there will not be new shares, and the land will be given to the corporation, with the exception of possible impassable areas and the N-S area of King's Esplanade (30x300 m out of the total 450x300 m). It is planned that 1,000 shares will take 10 or more years to gain.
- The Corporation selects their governance model independently, and also decides what happens to the land, how it is divided among shareholders etc. It is unlikely that any faction will have total control of the company due to the way the shares are gained.
- The shares are free-trading and the Corp may organize itself already before the land is given.
Value of the landSince the only place with connected boroughs is the area 1-22-5, it is right to say that the land is extremely, if not the most central.
Directly to the north of this, the latest land trade (TIE haw) was conducted at 1.4 mil/sqm. To the south (RT House), the price was 0.22/sqm. Both are for large plots of undeveloped land and rather long ago. This range would lead B.22 to be worth something between 22-140 billion m, from which it is possible to gauge the realistic price per share.
The Task of 1617During the year 1617, every character may gain shares as follows:
50*SCI - 1 share
150*SCI - 2 shares
300*SCI - 3 shares
500*SCI - 4 shares
etc, with an additional share being always 50*SCI more expensive than the previous.
This is a rather flying start - it will become both slower and more expensive to gain them in the future. Only the characters up to 144 are allowed to participate (no sockpuppets to escape the progression please
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Please: to make the manual conversion easier, consume only once per character. If you absolutely need to add to your already consumed amount, add 1*SCI to make it stand out.
This will be open for about 7 days, until something else for next year.
but I guess that pretty much applies to any change! 
