1602 DawnsOh, how the time moves slowly compared to the Ancient years...
The Year-Change procedures will happen during the next some hours, and will be added to this post upon completion.
Gold dividendsThe record amount of 6,000 mil has been given. According to our new yearly (real-week) profit calculation, this is 0.85%. For comparison, the latest Town long bond was at 1.15%. (We will postpone the issuance of the next long bond until 1605, which provides a bond round every 5 years with the duration of 50 years.)
Rental pool payoutsOne share gave 9,000 as a payout. Also the guarding fees and 1-SE chapelry extra taxes were collected for the first time after the break. Guarding fees were as usual stolen by the town and not given to the Army commanders (due to the NPC's in the army not getting paid...)
RWWC happenings and dividendsRWWC gave 300,000 per share as a dividend, which is specially remarkable because it built a new factory as well during the last year.
It has produced 3,500*WIRS and set their price at 420,000 m for everyone, 140,000 m for special quota - the buildings listed in the following:
RWWC HQ & Research
The Noble Palace <-- mostly collapsed
RWWC Windows Factory
Church Offices Building
The Marquess of Arda School for Nobles
The CryptoMuseum-The Hypothecary Bank-Foreign Ministry Bldg
Violin Museum and Violin Making School
Villa Rotonda School of Economics
The Military Sciences Department
The Palace of Culture and Science
The University Main Building <-- collapsed in earthquake
Also the Rouen order of 5,000*WIRS has arrived.
The RWWC is contemplating whether to add yet another production facility. For logistical reasons it is good to be located near the existing ones, but it would require reshaping the 2-W chapelry.
In 1601, the window area needed for new construction alone, notwithstanding the replacement of the earthquake damages, was 3,801 sqm.NewCorp quarry operations have startedThe Corp now has stone for sale in New City, University and San Pietro - price is 150 m/stone except in San Pietro where we ask 155 m/stone due to rationing. (Our direct cost of production was 122 m/stone due to ramp-up costs. The indirect cost is way higher since the Corp is withholding 9 chapelries from the building market and thus forgoing the dividends.)
THC (Town Housing Corporation) greetingsTHC mission is to provide low-cost high-return housing (the kind that many have now started to offer in earnest) in the borders of the inhabited area. When the town expands, the run-down buildings are sold to be development material for developers. THC houses are currently without windows but in good areas, and contain a lot of stone, so check out for the prices and buy yours! THC will resume yearly dividends soon.
Gold itemizationOur new mint has an invention called a
coin press, which allows us to inflate the money supply at will!
Just kidding... But what it does allow, is that it can for the first time produce gold coins in 1 CKG size (previous limit 3 CKG). So all the unallocated gold will be turned to these coins, as well as CR-coins and larger bars, and all marked 1602.
In the future, the new gold will appear in the new A-coins ("A" denoting the size of 1 CKG). If other denominations are wanted for collector purposes, the Mint is happy to smelt your bars and make the coins. The only way to get the future year A coins is via playing or aftermarket. It currently requires 17 hours of online time to get 1*CR1603A, so it is possible that they might gain collector value quickly as the only opportunity to gain them is next week.
The Town has realized that it does not make sense to collect the minting fees for this week's project, as the fees are prorated to the owners of the Town
So the service is free instead.
The Round Table gave 2*CR1524E to all the Knights to avoid the forced smelting.
Stoneton smelted half of its lot of 50 undistributed collectors' coins (ST1600C). The rest will undoubtedly be more valuable due to rarity and history
Please check your new 100% allocated gold balance in the /CKG_COINS tab! If you trade with the coinshop, for now you will need to move both the items in /CKG_COINS and the "gold" in /T_GOLD, but this will not last for many days, apologies for the inconvenience!You may bring any gold to the Coinshop when you sell. HOWEVER - When taking gold after a purchase, you are obliged to fulfill the amount in these pieces ONLY, so that you take as many as the former one as possible first, until moving to the next one etc:
- HM02B10000 (10,000 CKG)
- HM02B1000 (1,000 CKG)
- HM02B100 (100 CKG)
- CR1602E (5 CKG)
- CR1602A (1 CKG)