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Bicentennial Celebration Preparations in Full Force

Everyone who reacts to the King's Calling as per the earlier message is invited to the Bicentennial Party!

You can check your status in /CHAR "N", ping me if I have forgotten to add you (after at least 24 hours from your post).

We ordered 12,000 bottles of wine to ensure that the month-long celebration does not become dry (it is expected that each guest drinks 30 bottles so there is "some" safety margin).

The wine is a special type of mixed wine, which does not qualify as Ancient, because A) it is forbidden to make ancient stuff B) it is bottled in 1600. Anyway, it cost double the per-bottle rate of the normal wine, so 2000 IC was spent on the purchase, making this the largest IC spend ever unless a higher amount is claimed that we don't know.

If we don't manage to drink it all, the guests will get some to take with them back home. It is likely that this mixed wine is higher rating than the W1600 vintage now, but it is unknown which one will be able to be aged longer and remain enjoyable.

The Summer Pavilion will also be used as part of the celebrations with its new large Wine Cellar.

Needless to say, this wine is special and by Royal Edict no similar wine or wine that claims to be older may ever be imported to the Kingdom. (All this without knowing if it even tastes good, but hopefully it does).

540 mil for 1-SE-V13

550 mil for 2-C-B1
520 mil for 1-SE-V13

Earlier team project in V.4 is in live testing currently.

Ultima also goes live with V.2 functionality on Friday!

Grand Hotel IC Auction

For those of you who are looking to acquire IC credits to "buy" transportation or other items, the Grand Hotel Corporation is auctioning off some of it's IC credits to pay for renovations.  The 1st round of up for auction are 5 lots of 100 IC credits for a total of 500 ICs.  These points can be used to buy silver or any items from the year 1600.


Current Auction Status - Auction closes in ~9 hours

IC Lot                 High Bidder                Bid
Lot 1-100 IC     saddambitcoin               40M
Lot 2-100 IC     cryptonic21                   42M
Lot 3-100 IC     cryptonic21                   42M
Lot 4-100 IC     saddambitcoin               40M
Lot 5-100 IC     Ale                              41M

All pay the same price, the lowest winning or highest losing bid
Currently 40M (Same Price as the King's Offer price)

WINE
(Ultima/V.5 game concept with stocks that start building now)


Let's face it. We must start importing our wine. There is nothing potable produced even in 1000 kilometers distance at the moment.

In V.5/Ultima, it is possible to drink water, but that is very hazardous. Drinking mead is an improvement, but still unhealthy. Beers are the way to go for commoners, but noblemen will opt for wine, at least on occasion. Wine is healthy and enjoyable. Spirits will be available for indulgence.

In Ultima specification (may differ from V.5), 30 days worth of drinks are consumed with one click, and this must be done once for each realday.

A case (12 bottles) of Bordeaux 1600 (12*W1600 in /F_OWN) wine can now be had for 1 IC (1600). There is currently nothing known about this wine; the knowledge whether the vintage is good or not, develops over time, and then it may be challenging/expensive to obtain more from France.

All wine in the same vintage is fungible, it gets better over time, and worse when it's too old. Some vintages age well, others don't. Good vintages may reach the mythical mark of 20/20 points, which makes them not only a heavenly pleasure to drink, but also a medicine, and undoubtedly a pleasure to own as well.

To get an idea how much wine is required to be on an all-wine diet, each realday you will be able to consume 30 bottles of wine, and should, to maintain yourself in the optimum condition.  

Closes 5 pm today. Two historical properties, very well located, both facing south over a main street/square, and incl workforce.

2-C-B1 is going to Cryptonic for 530 mil
1-SE-V13 is going to Earl noms for 500 mil

500 for 1-SE-V13

530 for 2-C-B1
430 for 1-SE-V13

520 mil for 2-C-B1

420 mil for 1-SE-V13

400 for 1-SE-V13.

We the King proclaim our willingness to sell IC outright at the price of 400,000 m/IC (as long as we retain 1,000 IC for our possible immediate needs to acquire a K10 item ).

Sorry for capping the auction, which is currently at the same price  The losers may turn to us, as always.

We bid 500 mil for the Stone Village Hotel in 2-C. It will be a good place to host the guests of our summer parties in the future. If we get it of course - the building is historic, same design as the Town Halls of Justice and workforce is included. (For the potential buyer, we remind that the Bank is willing to lend up to half of the purchase price - if you are not afraid that the leverage is the reason why the property is in auction...  ).

The Summer Pavilion in 2-NW (used to be called Summer Palace, but we adjusted down its importance) will be an approx 1,200 sqm event venue which includes full length Wine Cellar.

We have heard rumors that the wine making in the Kingdom - previously somewhat possible as evidenced by the Forte Spagnolo vineyards in 1-S - is abruptly collapsing. The climate just is unsuitable after the Flood Earthquake. FS can explain more. Wine will soon be possible to be acquired from France with IC, and later on imported by the Shippers & Merchants (subgame). In a few years from bottling, the character of the vintage is known to the experts, and good ones may be growing in enjoyment for up to 50 years (a real-year). Drinking good wine is good for your health, especially in Ultima.

As for other building projects that we undertake: to celebrate the Bicentenary (and to get to the Summer Pavilion better), the road between Old Town and New City will be constructed. Finally! Every other chapelry is connected by road. The road in this case is 10 m wide and paved. It will be raffled in the King's 200y Party, so that the King pays the construction and it is named after the winner's choosing.

(The road to University borough is called "Boulevard" and to San Pietro is "King's Esplanade". The planned road from San Pietro to Versailles is "Champs Elysees". The one leading to B.4 is unnamed: some lower level NPC Town official is currently trying to sell the right to name it for 20 million, and we have not reacted to the industrious conduct, surprising though it is. So the offer stays in force.

Stone prices are increasing. While the capabilities of the Kingdom's bookkeeping system do not allow NPC to be utilized, and quarrying cannot be started, the building has started in earnest and one project - The New Department Store (2,990 sqm) - yesterday took 3.4 million stone.

In case no remedy can be found before, and it is quite possible, as V.5 is far away, the peasants reactivate their old trade relations to sell stone to us, delivered to any borough, at a fixed price of 200 m/stone. There was never the intention to limit the building by the lack of stone. (The lack of windows is a premeditated game decision).

The RWWC is getting their shit together, and can offer the following schedule in window production:
- Continuously going on: conversion of WIA35 to WIAxxx, about 350 sqm of windows are converted per real-day
- In the beginning of 1601: 2,000*WIRS, first class of historical buildings may buy at reduced price, others market
- Approximately in the beginning of 1602: Rouen order of 5,000*WIRS (already paid)
- In the beginning of 1602: 3,500*WIRS, the new factory comes online, 2nd class may buy cheaply, others market
- From here onwards, 3,500*WIRS will be produced per year (real-week).

If there was no hoarding/warehousing of windows by any parties, and no new construction, and all wanted to fit the windows to their existing buildings, all the buildings would have windows by mid-1603 (3 weeks). The market forces dictate that the above is not true, and the windows shortage will be with us for some time still, a feature of this Era.

365 for 1-SE-V13.
42 for lot 2 and 3 of 100 IC.

41M for Lot 5-100 IC

Saddam bids 40M on all 5 lots of IC.

Apologies to anyone hoping for cheap IC, but it just doesn't do for a Prince and an Earl to be without horses!

Also recorded 

I have transferred your most generous gifts in the DB.

Prince of OZ bids:

480 mil for 2-C-B1

350 mil for 1-SE-V13

Cryptonic bids 330 for 1-SE-V13.

Sir binaryFate is currently travelling in a far away country, along an ocean that seemingly has no end.
Rumors of the soon to come Bicentennial Celebration of our King have crossed many lands, and even here he rejoys in advance of such a great and significant event.
The news of the arrival of a Wizard in our town has also been received with great excitement.

Sir binaryFate will do his best to come back in time to the Kingdom to attend the ceremony.
He also realizes that such travels would be far easier if he had a horse...  which he therefore decides to acquire soon.

In the meantime he sends a messenger to the town, who order that the following gifts be made to the wizard:

- 50 CKG
- 200,000 stones
- One of each silver coin (premium + CKS):
TS150
TS151
TS152
TS153
TS154
TS155
TS156
TS157
TS158
TS159

- One of each gold coin (premium):
BF1500E
BF1500J
BF1500Y