Topic: Crypto Kingdom - 1991 Retro Virtual World(City) - page 149. (Read 632699 times)

Hard to believe it's almost here. I only wish I had started playing earlier.

I would think sword when you reach knighthood would be a very powerful gesture. A gold or silver staff for when you reach wizard. Perhaps a street named after you when you reach one of landed positions. I'm working on symbolism theme--maybe time to go to bed and get some better inspiration.  

Thank you for building this Risto.

I've closed all the google sheet tabs I can. My hands are starting to shake... I don't know if I can go another hour like this.

Crypto Kingdom Vigil

Where I live, it is getting late...

... but the release is tomorrow, 24 calendar days since the start of the Ultima project. This has really felt the same as the original design of the game, from idea to acceptance of first characters and selling of gold to them, in 9 days. Incredible progress by the smallest possible team in the shortest possible time frame is the best thing in life. We already have the MG-2's and gifts and possessions so the joy of work well-done is the greatest reward.

It will be 3 more hours until it's again my turn to pick the baton and check the next iteration of the game. The database is currently ready for migration, but the platform needs a few more stuff put together. It is my intention that I could start sending the passwords by (in most cases) the Bitcointalk PM, in about 14 hours from now. Sending the temp passwords and making sure that the account gets activated by the right person, will take some manual work. The accounts will be activated in the order of precedence, which means that it may take quite a bit longer for the commoners. For security reasons I will ask for help if I need; do not offer it yourself as it will raise suspicion rather

The tomorrow's release is interactive, online version, named V.3.9U Reconstruction. It is a stopgap measure to get the data migrated to the Ultima platform as soon as possible. It will handle the data types Characters, Items, Lots and Buildings. It is not very much playable yet, meaning that there is not much to play - the life of commoners and new non-depositing entrants is quite boring. This is all intended, for now. The new releases V.4 (by end of Sept), V.5 (Oct) and V.6 (Dec) will make this a game. Currently it is a graphic interface for a growing database of objects, tradable between characters. The number of different tradable things is 2,000+, and the total number of instances is 300,000+, making some specialization needed for merchants, who cannot be knowledgeable about all things all the time.

While it is a fact that this is the most important milestone in the game so far, yet it is not yet a game that we are releasing (  ), perhaps there is something we could do to make the entry of the new players nice at this stage. We are not so many yet and we need everyone who are interested, to get hooked to the game, with nothing else to show except our glorious history and the items that testify to it. There will be the automated character promotion working from the get go, all the way from L1 to L14. The level promotion formula is top secret, nobody else except me and the Wizard Dev know it. It has 17 things that (might) affect the promotions. Promotions will be happening on the year change, which also bumps up the age of the character.

We will be having a Promotion Gift functionality, where existing players can semi-automatically list items to be gifted to each of the characters who reach a certain level. A few of these have already been conceived, including the 3 CKS silver ring by the Town Hall (THS1, to be gifted to chars reaching L3) and the 3 CKG gold coin by the Town (CT1600C, gifting condition undecided). Hopefully we will get an increasing list of quality items to be given to the new players now, to raise them to status nearer to the Ancients and the 1600s and give them a clear edge compared to the masses that will join us when the game not only exists, but is playable as well later this year and the years following.

The integrated items trading platform will be first viewable to me in a few hours, for which reason cannot say too much about it. I won't be expecting anything less than a full-blown exchange though, with all the 2,000 items categorized and ready to be traded. For the first time, micropayments will be feasible in the game, making it possible for the items to be traded at any price, even 1,000 m ($0.0005). To avoid clutter, in the future there will be an unique item creation fee of about 10,000 m (about 1/100 of the L3 PC game-annual salary).

I will leave for the thought process, what could be the best gift from the King and to which level!

To make the transition as smooth as possible, could you please stop viewing the Google Sheet in question

Great Gifts of Celebration!

Many might remember that more than 2 years ago, all doors were removed from buildings and have been stored in the basement of Arco di Sergiu ever since. The guard who normally patrols outside the building, decided by happenstance to go inside as well, and in a quiet corner, behind the piles of doors, lay a GIANT BARREL! Similar to what they are using in Villa Nova da Gaia. The contents were examined and with the most certainty, the liquid inside is a pre-earthquake wine. We are naming it W1603A, after the year of bottling, because no drink may be claimed to be ancient.

The barrel was so huge that 14,226 bottles were filled. Nobody had laid claim to the barrel, so it was decided that it is a gift to everyone in the Town. The function of distribution took heavily into account the existing stocks of wine the people had (it's fair to give to those who already have the same kind, right?) and a little also the culture accumulated (CULture is always the end-all beneficiary of every goodness). Everybody was given at least 12 bottles to taste.

It is not known yet at all whether the wine is good or not, at least it is already oak-matured...

The CHURCH is giving 600 bottles of free beer to everyone who has declared themselves to be a beer-drinker.

The TOWN is giving 600 liters of free mead to everyone who is a mead-drinker.

The KING is declaring amnesty on all overdrafts and giving 500,000 m playmoney to all accounts that would otherwise have less.

This is very exciting! We have been waiting for so many months, but the day is finally almost here!

Migration Announcement


The Google DB goes on pause effective immediately. Do not make any changes to the tabs there!

The schedule is that today, in about 4 hours, the Google DB will be prepared for data transfer (by me).

We hope to be able to open the Ultima platform for the players tomorrow, using the procedure described in the earlier message.

After this, Google DB may only be used for external actions, the results of which must be imported to the Ultima DB.

Extremely Important


Migration of Character Accounts to CK Ultima Platform


General

In the year 1603, the Kingdom will finally be playable in the proprietary gaming software, called Crypto Kingdom Ultima platform. Our centuries-long exile will have been ended.

Meanwhile, the Kingdom has greatly prospered, with 40 Nobles, 100 other PC/Corps, 6 boroughs, 140,000 floor-sqm, etc.

To ensure that the keys to all this (already vast, but hopefully just the seed) wealth are given to the right hands, the following procedure has been decided, and this will overrule everything that has been said previously about this. It may be changed by Town Council vote.

There are currently no Tribe Accounts - every character must be logged in separately when it is played. It is advisable, as always, to use separate password.


Character Account Types

1. Character Account M1

This is the anonymous character account, where no information has been provided to enable access to the account if the password is lost. There is no way to prove identity in this case, which results in the eventual death of the character and sweep of assets if no heir is designated.

2. Character Account M2

This is the anonymous character account, where there are password recovery details provided (eg. email address for resetting password). In this case, the account is not as easy to be lost, but easier to be hacked than in the M1 case (since a breach in any of the reset-password services compromises the account).

3. Character Account M3

A higher security level, against both loss of passwords and unauthorized access. There are manual IRL/online procedures for authenticating the rightful owner of the account regardless of the login, which makes it always possible for you to regain the account. The details are kept secret for security reasons. This is the account for the one who wants to play The Person Known As basis, transcending both the physical and online bureaucracy. (Extra charge.) NOTE: Do not ever buy an account that is in security level M3, because the original owner might have any tricks in place to gain it back regardless of what the new owner does (including change of all passwords).


Character Account transfer procedure

Each character has been determined "rightful owner" credentials (/CHAR "E"). The username for the character account is in /CHAR "D". The password will be given by me to the credentials address. Depending about the size of the account etc., there might be additional security checks involved. (If I or anyone asks security questions about game events etc., just answer them ) The progress and accreditation of the authentication is shown in /CHAR "F"-"G".

Once the account is accredited (/CHAR "G"), the "Credentials" (/CHAR "E") become invalid.


Unclaimed accounts

Character Accounts not claimed in 14 days since the original contact attempt to the credentials, will be put on Wealth Management assigned by the Town. The Wealth Managers do conservative gold and bond investments and correct obvious imbalances (such as no clothes). There is a charge. A character can be claimed using the original credentials until 1617 (mid-December 2015), after which the ownership of the characters passes to the Town. The characters might have died in the meantime, but this does not change the claims deadline. The Town can do to the characters as they wish afterwards.

Regarding Clothing

Sir noms has realized that he has multiple suits and it is time to auction one off. Up for sale is a very historic item. This is a blue noble suit that was purchased from Tavastia by myself in an effort to get noble clothes. It was only after selling it to me that Tavastia realized he would be incurring his father's (His Majesty the King) wrath by doing so.

Because of this, the suit not only is ancient and quite valuable as a 1450 suit, and likely a museum piece.  It was also historic because it is a gift from the first King of Crypto Kingdom to his heir.  A rare visit of Dr SS included a conversation about this very suit a day or so ago.  He proposed that the best solution would be to raffle/auction the suit so it could "become owned by a nonguilty and it might find its way to a legitimate museum, perhaps not near the Royal Palace though.."

Additionally, the wearer of this suit will gain all the benefits of wearing clothing later in-game.


This suit was purchased for 300m in the late 1500's, and I am putting it up for auction starting at 220m, with "Buy It Now" at 300m.  This is a 24 hour auction, so it ends exactly 24 hours from this post.

A) goes to Tavastia for 15 mil

B)-E) to OZ for 670 mil

Congratulations for the winners!

The company is now emptied so that 1,432,137 m is divided per old share. The investments did not go entirely bad since in the space of 37 years only, which included the dreaded Earthquake, the NAV was able to be increased by 43%, and when the company was still actively operating, it paid yearly dividends as well.

OZ bids:
B) 130 Mil
C) 180 Mil
D) 180 Mil
E) 180 Mil

For which reason: Tavastia 125

About 9 minutes left

120

The Bank is happy to lend it out now!

As we take your money at 1.4% per week, the loans can be negotiated in the 2.0-3.0% range. Just recently Golden Harp Corp. contracted 600 million!

More BSB1610 have been added for sale at a price of 91/100.

The Prince of OZ bought all the bank issued short bonds, at a total of 1780,000,000 moneritos.

Rome completely understands the reasoning. There is no harm done, and it will be sorted out.

B) 115 mil

By chance, if you intend to remodel them, I am offering my arch services! All the rest of the buildings in the Boulevard (North) in 3-W are designed by me and have uniform appearance (Town Registry, Portal, Zech Offices, Smooth Offices).

i will "buy it now" for 500 for both F and G.

Tavastia: 230+230