Topic: Crypto Kingdom - 1991 Retro Virtual World(City) - page 158. (Read 632671 times)

King bids 460 for the same.

Hey guys, I am very happy that the game is making so much progress.  Can't wait to play online version

In order of celebration, I will gift the following to the Wizard:
- 1x KR1600O (p.o)
- 1x CR1586E (p.o)
- 1x CR1488E (p.o)
- 1x CR1468E (p.o)
- 1x CH1600Y (p.o)

We think this has been said before, but let it be said again as there is a need:

Nobles (anyone in L8 or higher) may not build in Borough 4. It is designated for the poor. Thank you.

(From now on, nobles building there will result in auctioning of the place and giving the money to the Church.)

Important Update


Starting from 1601.1 (about 2015-8-16), the time will start moving in this era of Reconstruction, at a speed of 1 year per 1 real-week. "Script hosting" will happen once per real-week. Gold will be paid dividends. All buildings will dip to the same pool, and will be assigned pool shares based on a rudimentary and uniform formula, whose result can be seen in /CHAR tab "Z". The pool consists of all the current economic subgame pools, which collectively contain about 15,000 million. 15% of this will be divided each week, making owning buildings a very profitable exercise going forward.

Everyone (admins at least) can speculate in the Char DB whether it might make sense to repair the buildings. Windowless buildings are at -50%, so you can double your payout by finding and assembling windows. The Royal Palace repairs recently cost perhaps 750 million if windows are counted to market value. It is a lot, but RP is on track of receiving a 147 million (!!) pool dividend next Sunday. The profitability just became quite interesting.

NPC's will not cost anything, nor be useful in anything. Sorry. At least they won't age/die. 

We are currently testing the V.4: Reconstruction playable online version, and also scrum-developing Version Ultima, which can either be directed to be a version with a larger feature-set than V.4 by Christmas, or "an online DB access with player accounts" (as V.2:Ancients was to be), in as little as 1-2 weeks.

Cryptonic would like to present the Wizard Developer P.J. with a physical Monero coin minted far away from the Kingdom in a secret lab. It's 1.08 Troy Oz .999 fine silver coin. Only 50 coins of this type have been created. I do hope you will like this little gift. You have inspired me to settle down in the Old Town recently. Thank you very much!

Grand Hotel Property Update

The Grand Hotel Corporation continues to repair and restore after the devastation that we experienced.  After the cleanup, the remaining items that could be salvaged from the building are being auctioned off to help restore the facility to the highest standards (IC credit auctions).

All properties were quickly repaired to 80% to prevent any further damage.

Luxury Levels have been upgraded to the following levels for the properties:

The Grand Hotel Basement Shops - 80%
The Grand Hotel Restaurant - 250%
The Grand Hotel - 200%
The Grand Hotel Cocktail Bar - 250%
The Grand Hotel Annex Basement Shops - 80%
The Grand Hotel Annex Hotel - 200%
The New Grand Basement Shops - 80%
The New Grand Restaurant - 150%
The New Grand Hotel - 100%
The New Grand Offices - 100%
The New Grand Apartments - 109%

Total cost of structural repairs to buildings - 227,680,000
Total cost for Luxury Improvements - 1,427,780,000

The Grand Hotel would like to welcome all to visit for a stay and dine at the properties.  We are sure you will be impressed with the updates and great service we provide!

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 ~24 hours

IC Lot                 High Bidder                Bid
Lot 1-100 IC    The Earl of Sarajas           35M
Lot 2-100 IC     Lord Thud                       32M
Lot 3-100 IC     Jungherr Paul                  30M
Lot 4-100 IC     Dr. SS                           26M
Lot 5-100 IC     G2M                              25M

All pay the same price, the lowest winning or highest losing bid


Nobles should take note if they do not have transportation and arrange to acquire accordingly:

The Earl of Sarajas bids 1*35 mil (on the condition that all pay the same price, the lowest winning or highest losing bid)
Lord Thud bids 1*32 mil (same)
Jungherr Paul bids 1*30 mil (same)
Dr. SS bids 1*26 mil

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 32 hours

IC Lot    -   High Bidder     -  Bid
Lot 1-100 IC - G2M -           25M
Lot 2-100 IC - G2M -           25M
Lot 3-100 IC - G2M -           25M
Lot 4-100 IC - G2M -           25M
Lot 5-100 IC - G2M -           25M


Nobles should take note if they do not have transportation and arrange to acquire accordingly:

The New Era is dawning in a more practical way as building is now enabled. "Reconstruction" will follow the previous eras, especially the Cultured (c. 1565-1599), the era of prosperity before the earthquake.

May the future be even better - thinks the King when commissioning an Obelisk to be built in a yet-undisclosed location in his Versailles borough - This is a fitting way to start a major Era

-*---*-

And then, laborers start to assemble in the 1-NW-U6, near the old University site, near the Two Springs and near Zenon's Castle:

The Wizard Developer P.J. has selected his homestead, from among all the fine lands gifted to him by the players, and he is building a castle there. The donator of this lot is HE The Prince of OZ.



(facade from South)

The castle is mostly 4 floors, with a tower, having a total of 609 sqm divided between a laboratory for wizard experiments (this has 5 m thick walls to protect the environment), main reception/living floor with a 211 sqm terrace, a mezzanine for servants and kitchen, a noble floor for high receptions with good views everywhere, and 2 private tower floors.

189 * WIAS Ancient Window @ 900,000 = 170,100,000
189 * window assembly work @ 60,000 = 11,340,000
1,012,500 * stone in Borough 1 @ 105 = 106,312,500
3,375 qum * labor @ 12,000 = 40,500,000
154 sqm * high-arching labor @ 80,000 = 12,320,000
405 cum terraforming @ 3,000 = 1,215,000
total luxuries (50-150%) = 103,700,000
609 sqm * height surcharge @ 50,000 = 30,450,000 0 <----until the end of year, 100% discount on this tax! (then, 75% discount)
1 * Royal Architect commission = 80,000,000
1 * Royal BI commission = 20,000,000
------------------------------------------------------------
TOTAL COSTS 575,946,500 m 545,496,500 m

What we can deduce from the calculus is the inordinate cost of windows at present. But there is a limited quantity of WIAS (these were bought from NF) and no more will come. Another observation is the small share of building labor - only about 65 mil! In this project at least, the majority of the bill was items that are not consumed, but can be reused.

You can find a lot of detailed information in the initial post of this thread.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.9156194

If that doesn't answer your questions, I am sure you will be helped and welcomed here for further assistance.

Honestly, I can't understand this game. How is it played,where is it played,etc.. You should make it more centralized like a true game so new players can understand something.

Building Calculator V.3.9

This calculator enables you to build buildings and repair collapsed buildings. It is in use for now.

Preface

Buildings reside in /BLDG and they are an optional property of a Lot. A Lot may have 0 or more Buildings. A Building is a functional, not a structural unit. Therefore it is possible for several identical structures in the same lot to be part of one Building, and one structural unit to be split in several different Buildings according to the features and usage.

Buildings consist of:
- a frame, which is saved as a pixel image with notes;
- stone, as much as is needed to build the frame;
- windows (different types), either to fill all of the windowholes or none of them (we are lacking windows);
- luxuries, according to the formula lux%*sqm;
- facades.

Soon also doors and staircases will be implemented, and after the complete Items management, all interior fixed and movable features.


The frame costs money to make, and this is a sunken cost. The frame deteriorates slowly (repair%) and needs renovation or risks collapse.

Stone can be recycled in 90%, regardless if you take it down or it collapses.

Windows don't age, but may get destroyed for other reasons such as the great white light.

Luxuries depreciate slowly.

Facades depreciate slowly.


The formula for building is as follows
You may never make more than one Building/Repair Project to one building during one year (a real-week).

1. Demolition:
- If you demolish stone, every qum (1x1x1 m) yields 270 stone (or 90% of the building total - check if current, in /BLDG#Total_stone - in case of total demolition), and costs 10 m/stone (2,700 m/qum) to retrieve. Same when you clear up collapsed buildings.
- Windows can be demolished at no cost and they come back to your inventory. Collapsed buildings don't have windows in any case.
- Luxury can be cleared at no cost and yields IC as follows: sqm * lux.

2. Repair or Luxury upgrade to an existing building:
- For 40,000 m/sqm, you can upgrade repair by 0.2 (0.8 max). For 60,000, upgrade to 0.8. For 120,000, to 1.15.
- Luxury costs 2,000 m/1%/1sqm, and can be added to the existing luxury to the maximums mentioned previously.

3. New building (materials):
- Calculate the number of qum of stone in your walls, ceilings and other structures, multiply by 300. You need this many stone.
- Calculate the sqm of windowholes. You need this many windows, (or you must leave them all unopened and repair earliest 1601).
- Doorholes dont' cost or require anything for now. The installation of proper doors later will cost you. Number of doorholes (sqm) will be recorded now.
- Same for wooden staircases.
- Also same for facades. You will soon be able to invest money to make a nice facade to your place.

4. New building (labor):
- One qum of stone requires 12,000 m labor
In addition, the surcharges for particularly skilled work:
- High arch with the longer span of 5-12 m (low arch can only span 4 anyway), or a dome max 14 m: 80,000 m/sqm
- Columns (any elements whose height>2.6*max(length,width)): 50,000 m/cum
- Massive Columns (any elements whose height>5.1*max(length,width)): 150,000 m/cum

5. Features:
- Paving needs 100 stone per sqm, and the work costs 2,400 m/sqm (the footprint + paved yards)
- Pedestal/terraform needs no materials, and the work costs 3,000 m/qum
- Park/Garden needs no materials, and the work costs 5,000 m/sqm

6. Additionals:
- There is a surcharge based on the height of the roofline (the ceiling of the highest floor that has at least 50% of the floor area of the floor area of the largest floor, or other BI-approved metric): buildings with max 15 m don't have surcharge; for each additional meter, the surcharge is 10,000 m per sqm.
Good news - this surcharge is waived completely in 1600 (this week); in 1601 (next week) you pay only 1/4, in 1602 only 1/2, in 1603 only 3/4 of the surcharge. This makes it really worthwhile to build the tall structures now, even just the frames, without windows and lux (earliest opportunity to update is after year changes).
- The Architect and Building Inspector will charge for their services.

All building costs (except materials purchased) will go to the same account, #37 Special Services Pool

The new building(s) needs to be recorded in /BLDG tab. There is no need to record them anywhere else, including the /LOT or the antiquated Building Registry.

Let it be clarified that the auction will run 48 hours from the timestamp of the post above. So about 30 more hours.

Earl noms is 440 for 2-C-B1 and 300 for 1-SE-V13.

How would you call different dwellings?

There is a well-defined order in different residential buildings. The definition goes like this:

House.

Anything can be called a house, when no acceptable more specific term is available, from the 20 sqm dwellings in 2-W to the Round Table House, which is rumored to be 5,000 sqm when ready. (Normally the small and very large buildings are called "house" and the midsize ones take the more specific name).

Apartment.

If there are other residences sharing the same quadrat (eg. different floors), it is not a house but an apartment.

Townhouse.

Denotes a 2-3 floor (very rarely 1 or 4) construction which must face a street 10 m wide. Typically 100-200 sqm in size.

Palace.

Palace must be 200 sqm at least, its lot must be 2 q at least, and have at least 20 m face to a street 10 m wide. The builder must be a noble and the lux minimum 100%.

Palaces are subdivided to:
- pocket palace (known for being a 2-3 q lot only) <- Tavastia Palace
- town palace (4 q in 2x2 formation) <- The Town Palace of New Liberty
- town palace 1st class (minimum 600 sqm and 6 q lot) <- The 1001 Nights Palace
- grand palace (minimum 1000 sqm and 9 q lot) <- Noble Palace

Larger palaces often have rooms or areas whose lux is 250-350%.

Castle

Castle typically has perimeter wall, some garden or space inside the wall, and often somewhat less lux than the similar sized palace. Lot is minimum 4 q.

Villa

Villa means a rural house, which in the game context means that the lot is large compared to the building, eg. Villa Rotonda.

Hall, Store, Hotel

If the main feature/usage of the building is a hall, store or hotel. Similar apply.

Tower.

Any building whose main body is higher than it is long and wide, usually both, may be called a tower.


We are soon ready to enable new building, including re-erecting collapsed buildings from the original blueprints if desired.

Haruki, not especially known for his riches, would like to match The Marchioness of Neverland's stone donation and welcome the Wizard with 20,000 stone too.

May a lot of modest stone donations lead to a good stone reserve for the Wizard!

The Wizard has already received so many great gifts that it was very difficult to find anything to gift him with that he would not already have.. until I discovered that he has no stone! (Although perhaps a wizard has his wizardly ways to secure the stone that is needed for construction.)

HR Roopatra The Marchioness of Neverland, gifts the Wizard with
20,000 stone (a modest donation towards getting his dream castle construction started)
and RO1600J collectible coin (p.o.)

The Baroness Asenath grants to the Wizard an ancient and proven magical item.  One of the few items of known and proven true magic, and the only such item that is not a weapon or piece of armor that remains fully intact.

It is a Small beauty mirror, with magical properties, gained in the year 1404 and remains miraculously in perfect condition.  It is unique in the Kingdom, and perhaps in the world.

This mirror was gift from her grandmother, (who was reputed to have fairy blood), on Asenath's coming of age ceremony.  
There is some unreadable script engraved on the back that she was told means:
"When held in fear or love, may give or take a life"  

This is the mirror Asenath used to distract the harem guards when Joseph of New Liberty Saved her from death at the time of their meeting.
It has thus given life by allowing another to take life.  It may have been used on other occasions, but if so this is shrouded in mystery.

Items of such magical power belong in the hands of a great wizard, and so it shall be.  This gift is given in the spirit of friendship with the hopes of great things to come for the Kingdom, and in gratitude for the wonders that have graced the realm since arrival.


May it bring greatness to the Magus, wizard developer.

We have just promoted some characters in the Kingdom, and want to shed some light to the topic.

Levels L1-L7 are commoners and levels L8-L13 nobility. Level L14 can be royalty and L15 always is.


You start the game in L1, which will be promoted to L2 after an estimated 30 minutes of thought given to the game.

L3 is gained after doing any ingame decision, such as making a deposit, acquiring a non-trivial amount of gold, or any land.

From here, the advancement gets slower with the approximate rate through L4...L6 being one promotion per 10 real-weeks. You can make it faster by being active. All kinds of activity counts.
* L5 is difficult to get without a house, and L6 typically requires it
* It is OK to not have transportation, and buying a carriage is a sign that "please promote me to Baron"

While nearly all characters will reach L6 during their life, L7 is a special level not easily gained.


It is possible to born Jungherr (sockpuppets of the Earls+, costs money), or be promoted Knight from the outset if special credentials (Dame Roopatra's start), or ingame (many will be promoted Baron instead). All these are L8.

Baron L9 is a very common level consisting of old masters that have been ennobled in their late years, power players starting from this level (cost), high ranking players (The Prince of Soul started Baron) and businessmen that have been picked from lower levels and who might be trying to advance to higher levels.
* Barons should have a decent house to live in (a townhouse at minimum), and transportation helps.

Landed nobility L10-L13 is a tight funnel where advancing each level is difficult since only about 1/3 of the Earls ever make it to Marquess etc. The King is making all the decisions whom to promote and while excellence in one thing has been the way to raise up to this far, excellence in all things is demanded here. Or at least helps. Currently we are checking the transport situation of the nobles, and the living conditions will be the next in line.
* A house of an Earl historically is 200 sqm and 100% minimum lux, and in the Old Town. And we appreciate our history
* It is OK to ride a horse if you are an Earl but for promotion to Marquess, a carriage is a must.
* Charity is a most important consideration in the promotions. And administration of the game.
* We aim to promote everyone who has 10k CKG to Earl if they have the minimums met.
* The fiefs in the countryside will provide large tax incomes.

I'll bid 25M per all 5 lots, 125M total. Can I bid on things other than CKG yet? Do I exist?


To appreciate something that has existed 115 years before the thought of me was even conceived, and approximately 4x longer than I've been around will fill me with amazement for many years to come. Rarity happens to be in scarce supply as well, and is a very arresting attribute of anything of antiquated ancestry.

TYVM, YM