Crypto Kingdom Town Council meets for important decisionsTown Council meetings will be reinstated effective tomorrow. The time for the first meeting is 7:30 PM UTC, which is the same as bitcointalk server time.
The town council is the rulebound highest governing authority in the game, and consists of 6 members, selected by the holders of the gold.
Currently TC members are as follows:
HM The King (rpietila)
HH The Prince of Forte Spagnolo (fluffypony, Riccardo)
HE The Prince of North Face (djjacket)
Dame Roopatra (Roopatra)
Lord sXpher (sXpher)
Lord Paulson (paulsonnumismatics)
The reason the meetings are reinstated is that the game has been paused for quite a time, but is now in an important juncture regarding how to continue.
- The original Online version was contracted as a 4-week/$12k project. $15k was paid from Town but nothing was delivered on time (due November-14).
- Later the project manager Riccardo decided that we need a larger software. I learnt of this quite late after it had been commissioned, and yielded to the plan of converting the non-delivered software to the V.4. Meanwhile I had paid 80,000 CKG (about $22k) from my own funds towards the finishing of the original version and it was transferred to the larger project.
- Riccardo has assumed the costs of the further development with the understanding that he would recoup them later at least in part when the software is ready. There is currently no calculation of the costs available, and this remains an issue that the TC needs to address, since the unambiguous paper trail ends at the 4-week project, (during and) after which the communication has not been on a solid ground.
- Thud is working for the CK as a consultant in further development and specification of the Ultima version. We have found an interested programmer and contracted him to finish the Ultima version quickly to show that it is possible (or prove that it isn't). His payment plan is as follows:
* 14.8. EUR 3500
* 31.8. EUR 5250
* 30.9. EUR 3500
* 31.10. when the Ultima version is playable EUR 7000
* 19.12. when everything is ready EUR 15750.
CK has the option to cancel the project at every milestone, which makes our first financial commitment happen in 14.8., when the game engine and database should be ready. That also coincides with the playtesting phase of V.4, which provides us information how to continue.
- The Town has about $16k in the coffers and further incomes are possible when the game is again playable. Town does not have any gold to sell (and creating new gold is forbidden) so we need to think about ways to finance the projects if we want to go on with Ultima and/or Riccardo presents a bill from V.4.
- I am sure we can get over those decisions, as they are the easy part, involving just money and sound judgement. The really interesting thing is how to get our great new game to be played by many people, and realize the Grand Vision(TM)!
So welcome Councillors to the meeting!
King
PS. Lamentably the cessation of charging the daily overdue interest of the T_MON balances has lead to leniency in repaying them. The interest will be reinstated tomorrow at 0.8% per real-day, the same rate as before. If 21 days pass with a character still having a negative balance, it is assumed that s/he is absent, on holiday, or lost interest ( ), in which case the accumulation of further interest is stopped by automatically selling the character's assets starting from gold balances, to get the monereto balance to zero. The Marquess of Ramsey (saddambitcoin) is the treasurer and accepts deposits.
Please help me to spread the word concerning all these issues!