Topic: Crypto Kingdom - 1991 Retro Virtual World(City) - page 191. (Read 632699 times)

Back from the Far East Lands, tired from work but spirit rested and cleaned, the Earl of Iberia reads amazed all the developments of the last 10 days. He will join his fellow citizens on the Town Hall this evening so he can join the buzz and meet all his cherished colleagues.

(Monero House funding): i will order 10 coins, please.
(San Pietro): Amazed by the fast and heavenly construction, i will order another 10 Monero House coins to be dispatched to the Bishop headquarters as a present.

I will start to think about the design and mintage rules for my own currency. Awesome development! Ive been unable to find a deadline for that. this week?

Kind regards,
Lord Paulson, Earl of Iberia.

May you get into Crypto Kingdam even if it beath thy final wish and before you breatheth thy final breath.

Hello,

I am Zrue. A little bit about me-I have grown up poor, visiting farms and boroughs often asking for odd jobs to help pay for my food that day. When a kind soul would help me with work, room, or board, I would always say "may The Lord bless and provide for you" before leaving for my next location.  I am a man of strong faith.

I was listening to a traveller talk about this "Crypto Kingdom" whilst sitting at the pub eating my meal of the day. I overheard him say that there is a church that you can join that will put a roof over your head, a meal into your stomach, and like-minded company into your life. 

I have spent all of my remaining food, money, and favors to get to Crypto Kingdom. I arrive penniless and weary, but luckily there are many a nice park in the Kingdom.  Tomorrow I make my way to the church to speak with Our Lord. I would like to apply to be a servant of The Church in any way it would accept me.

God Bless.

The magnificant San Pietro construction is taking place, a very exciting time. However, it was close to 2B over budget. To close our current financial deficit, the church is selling off 4600 gold at 514,000 (10k below midprice). Please reply if you are interested. Your purchase not only gives you CKG to speculate with once our friends in Polonous respond to us, but also helps The Church. Christo et Ecclesiae!

I am offering to sell up to 2000 units of gold for the midprice (524,000). If you have any offers, please reply here or on IRC.

I also have stone available to sell, at 70 per unit of stone. I can sell up to 1M stone in borough 1 and 600k of stone in borough 3.

I also have 66 SCI for sale for 50M.

Preview of the Rules of the Gold collecting activity


There will be a Coin Registry listing all coins minted. For a coin to be qualified to be added to the Registry, it must have the following:

- Minted by Royal Decree (in the future, goldsmiths can manufacture all kinds of unique items but they don't count unless a Royal approval is first received; it will be given as before, for major Jubilees and upon special inquiries). The Mint will be constructed to the Old Town and all these coins will be minted there in the future.

- Minimum mintage of 7, no maximum. Maximum size of 25 g, currently the technology does not allow for smaller than 3 g but will in the future (minting small coins is more expensive per coin).

- The DB treatment of the coins is different from objects (coins are instances of a Coin (as shares of stock), objects are unique and separate items (as Ancient clothes)).

- In the Most Ancient era, 8 types of coins were minted by HM (1), Town Hall (1), Jacket (3) and binaryFate (3). They are now in /gold items tab.

- Now up to 93 types of coins may be minted if everyone takes heed of this opportunity. The probable number will be about 20-30.

- During the Most Ancient and Ancient era, the King minted "Coin of the Realm" circulating gold coins every year he sold gold. There are 80-90 such years, the earliest being 1400 and latest 1600. Those coins weigh a standard 5 g each and up to 20 were given as part of the gold sold, every year, every player (the rest being "unallocated"). In total, about 5,000 coins were minted. The King kept for himself only the remainders of the mint runs of 20 coins, which has lead to a situation where he has only the 7th largest amount of coins, and several years are totally "cornered" unwittingly by players who happened to be the only one buying gold in that year, and who bought minimum 100 CKG, and have since not sold small amounts of gold causing them to lose some of the coins.

- When the Mint starts operation and technology progresses, "Coins of the Realm" 2, 3, 5 and 10 g will be minted annually upon need (annum = 12 real-days). The characters are encouraged to bring their gold to the Mint to be minted into these beautiful coins at cost.

- Later on in the Online version, you will be given the option to "freeze" certain coins that you want to keep as your collection, so that they will not be used when you sell "gold" (currently most characters are anyway not selling so much that any coins or items need to be touched).

- We will organize a coin bazaar in the IRC soon. The convention is that trades are "P.O." (=premium only), meaning that when the coin changes owner, the T_GOLD is not touched (the buyer gives the same amount of unallocated gold in return, plus the premium expressed in moneretos). Since the premiums in most cases are only in the order of 1 million or even less, it's encouraged to sell packages of coins in different years, or "investor kits" of several coins per year from multiple years, to have a meaningful amount of money to be registered. Or just do gifts and trades (gifting a P.O. gold item can be done without informing the recipient, though for it to be a true gift, you should transfer the amount of gold as well).

- Everyone must take care himself that he has enough gold to accommodate all the gold objects he has. They may be created without warning at any time, causing a loss of the items deemed least valuable by the administrator.

I would like to order 20 coins to be created with a value of 50 gold each. They will look like this: http://i.imgur.com/PR3Wivo.png

They will contain the words CRYPTO KINGDOM on the top, 1600 on the right, MONERO on the right, and NON PROGREDI EST REGREDI on the bottom, with a picture of a templar in the middle. These will have reeded edges.

Building companies generate building labor points, similar to quarry points or SCI points.

In Quarry, you had (still have, but Quarry is inactive) the 3 tranches of excavation that you could assign the points yearly to. They would turn to stone.

In SCI, you can save points, they don't expire, and you can buy advances with them. (Later, you will likely have the choice to further some advance, but not save the points for later use.)

In Building, you have teams of builders that generate Labor points towards a building project of your choice, and they must be used daily. This way the construction of most buildings takes time, because you want to have many projects going on simultaneously in order to not waste any points (or perhaps you have an overflow project like Versailles that can buy at the floor price all "excess" labor).

When exactly it will happen like that is still unclear. Version 5 the latest.

Any hints to us what those new building company rules may be?

My alter ego being one the core developers, I welcome this announcement with much excitement. I will acquire my allowed share of 25 XMR of  Monero House coins.

I take advantage of the opportunity to announce that now that the ancient times are over, we cannot expect everyone to know every of us. Heraldry will become more prevalent. And here is the arms of the House d'Armagnac.



Its blazon is as follows (and is in French, since blazon are done in French, even in Great Britain):
(litterally: of steel to the lion of orangey, which is of the d'Armagnac family)

It is an adaptation of the arms of the historical d'Armagnac. Tinctures (colours) have been changed for those of Monero.

The 150th Anniversary of the Monero House

The Monero House was one of the original buildings planned to be built into the new CryptoTown, along with the Noble Palace and the Royal Palace. It was built as the 16th building in the Town to Earls' Street 2, across the street from the Tower of the Royal Palace.

The funds donated by HG The Bishop and HM The King were not sufficient to build more than 1 floor and the second was planned to be constructed "soon". After 150 years the building still stands 1 main floor high, whereas all the rest Earls' St buildings have been raised to their 2nd or 3rd level. The reason why it has not been completed is that the proceeds of the business must be donated 100% to the Monero devfund, and no fundraisers have been organized.

The heyday of the Monero House was in the 1400s. It housed the first hotel in town and the restaurant was also the most popular until the 1500s it had to give way to places such as the Bank and El Bulli. Monero House has lots of culture, and its experienced manager is MGR-5.

Now the time has come to arrange the fundraiser as there is the opportunity to mint coins and Monero House has a good name but unfortunately no gold (which would not already be in objects that have been donated, including the (now) Marquess of Tavastia 50th anniversary of Introduction medal (50 g) from 1500). The plan is as follows:

Monero House has been given a special privilege of minting as many coins as needed. One coin weighs 7 grams (for the 7 core devs of Monero). Everyone may order maximum 50 coins (in /TACCC tab). The premium per coin is 1 g of gold. In other words you pay 8 g to get a Monero House coin weighing 7 g, and the maximum amount you can donate to Monero House this way is about 25 XMR if you buy the whole allotment of 50 coins.

Since Monero House is such a central institution, even the people not normally interested in coin collecting desire to have one of these coins. It will become the starter for coin collecting due to the potentially higher mintage than most coins, which also guarantees its liquidity in the aftermarket.

To enshrine our motto (not in words yet but approx. "through extremely slow action, finally a glorious victory will come"), we declare that no new Monero House coins of any design will be minted in another 150 years (5 real-years).

The design of this coin will be selected from the proposals submitted.

The Monero House will use the proceeds of this crowdfunding to repair the Earthquake damage, and build additional floors to the House, to continue the donations to the devfund.

If we are talking about the House of the Pious in d'Armagnac haw, it is already there:

Join the Church!

The Church offers free lodging to anyone will to join his ranks. In exchange, you will work and live as a cleric and you can join one of the many orders, progress in ranks...

Are you interested in quenching our citizens' thirst? Then the Fellowship of Benedict, responsible for all the beer in crypto-kingdom, will be for you.
Maybe you are in more abstract matters, craving for knowlege, understanding, and teaching? In that case, the Poor Company of Theophany is what you are looking for.
Or does your strenght relies in your muscle and you will to protect the poor. The Knights of the Temple promise you foreign expeditions and protection of any pilgrim or merchant or else.
You do not have to choose now. You can be a clerk at the office or enter the Path of Ordinary and start your travel to become a priest in our churches, starting as an acolyte and progressing all the way until you are in charge of your own church. And when new orders will be created, you will be allowed to change path.
The Church care for the soul of any citizen and for the realisation of his members. Whatever your choice is, rest assured you will never have to worry about food and shelters as long as you stay among us.

The Pious Order office will soon be built. Even if you don't plan to join the Church now, you are welcome to join the Pious Order, with its own merits and advantages. Until the construction of the office is done, there is a 20% discount on fees.

Contact me, the Bishop, or Callixtus, the Archdeacon, if you have any question or feel ready.

The final ancient years: 1600

The Ancient Character Collectors' Coin

The 93 Ancient Characters will have an opportunity to mint a gold coin for their glory and commemorating their deeds in the Ancient era. Only one type of coin (with a mintage of 1-500) per character is allowed. The details of the program are in /TACCC tab in the Char DB. All orders must be submitted by 2015-3-15.

In addition to being completely fungible from the economic side (each gram of gold = 1 CKG is indestructible and has the same dividend and same voting right), the gold will also be completely itemized when Items are implemented. This means that all your gold takes some physical form as coins, objects, etc. It is possible to collect the Ancient gold coins such as these (which will be the last Ancient gold coins minted). They can be sold at a premium, traded and gifted. The mintage cost is negligible compared to the potential value added, and there is no downside since gold is gold.

To restrict the number of different coins existing and improve collectibility, the minting rights will (continue to be) based on the Royal commission only. This is the opportunity that has been granted, the first time in 100 years!

Building has ended

The last buildings (save The Prince of OZ North African Palace & Courtyard, which will come to the DB soon) have been constructed. The Town paved and gardened a lot of areas, including some owned by other characters, for public benefit. The King was so moved by the construction of the new church that he commissioned a 300 m long and 30 m wide Esplanade (+ leveling the land) to be constructed from the Barbican to the North Gate of Borough 5 (soon to be named after the Church once its name is locked in). The final building was the new Obelisk in the Trust in Economy Square in the centre of the New City Borough. (One of the first projects in the new era will be to construct a road to B. 2, since all the others currently have a road!)

No more changes to NPCs (/SERV) or businesses

It is needless to make these since nothing is happening until the next version, and no benefit can be had any more. So save your time!

If you buy and sell NPC, you can still conduct the trade and make changes, but as told, optimization is unnecessary, the formulas in the new version will probably change anyway.

The earth has been shaking and water has started to taste ominous

The scientists and wise men believe we will soon be hit with an earthquake, and buildings from 1430-1565 will be hit. Also the old scrolls say that the waters will become unhealthy around this time, forcing us to drink only alcohol. While these developments have not yet happened, be prepared that they may do soon.

Farewell, my loving people.

San Pietro


Floorplan of the main floor, Facade and side view

The Church in 5-C was finished by the heroic efforts of the workmen. It took about 4,000 man-years to build (cost of labor divided by the average cost of man-year). This kind of projects will be extremely difficult to organize in the Online once the new building company rules start. You can't just easily recruit 4,000 people so it will take years to build! (And 1 year is 12 days)

The cost was 3,279,196,393 m (1:2,000 of all XMR mined). In addition to being the most expensive building ever (and the highest budget overdraft compared to the original 1,500 million), the church broke several other town building records, the most notable being the following:


- Highest interior (on average about 20 m and at the apex of the dome, 36 m - previous records held by the House of Magnificence in 2-C were 12 m and 25 m)

- Highest dome (36 m from inside, beating the House of Magnificence's 25 m by 11 m)

- Most gold in building (8,650 gold beats the House of Magnificence's 8,190 gold by a narrow margin)

- Highest (continuous spiral) staircase (two of them 34 m high; the Clocktower in 2-C having 28 m)

- Most statues used as exterior decoration (12 apostles, 8 other - the runner-ups have perhaps 4 gilded statues at max)

- Largest room by area (826 sqm, compared to the Hall of Magnificence's 538 sqm)  

- Longest room (47 m, actually beating the previous record by 1 meter only! The 46-m long room is in the Portal in 3-W)

- Widest room (36 m, with the only contender, the House of Magnificence coming far behind)

- Largest room by volume (incalculable, but approximately 2x as big as the House of Magnificence in 2-C, which took the previous record from the Town Hall in 1-C by 5x in 1530 when it was built)

- Most stone used in construction (7+ million, which is about double that as the University in 1-NW, Palace of Culture & Science in 3-C, The Prince of OZ Multicomplex in 3-W (all 3 copies of each other btw.), the Portal in 3-W and the unfinished Citadel in 1-W took. The Plans for Citadel are calling for an additional 5 million stone to be used, perhaps finally making it bigger.)

- Most high-arched space (more than 2,000 sqm, it's difficult to find records which comes closest but Noble Palace in 1-C is one possibility)

- Most Stained-glass windows (430 sqm, the previous record being a paltry 44 sqm in the House of the Pious in 1-S)

- Largest building by volume (incalculable, perhaps about double as big as anything else)

- Largest Royal donation for construction (1,100,000,000 m, in the same ballpark as the cost of the Royal Palace)

- Highest luxury% (250%, in contrast to Noble Palace in 1-C with 220%)

- Largest buttresses (some parts of the church outer walls are 3 m thick, with 2 m being the average. No other building has double-thick walls or 3 m thick anything.)

- Most records broken at one go (17, compared to the House of Magnificence's 12 in 1530)


The notable records not broken by the new church (there are 20 of them, so not even half of the records were shattered at once):

- Total floor area (The University in 1-NW with its 3,513 sqm is about 1,000 sqm larger)

- Largest window area (The University has double as much, and several other buildings have more)

- Highest number of floors (The Clocktower in 2-C and Triple Towers in 2-E have 7 taxable floors, and several other buildings have 7 actual floors, whereas the Church only has 2 taxable and 5 actual)

- Highest building (The Town Clocktower in 2-C is 43 m from the street level, the Church is only 42 m, but clocktower includes pedestal which is not normally counted. Both were built with special permission, because normal building high is limited to 30 m.)

- Longest building (The Royal Palace of Malla in 1-C is 70 m long, the Church only 63 m)

- Widest building (The Palace of Culture & Science in 3-C is 42 m x 42 m, the church is only 40 m wide)

- Oldest building (The Cathedral in 1-C was built in 1432, the Throne Room of the Royal Palace in the same year slightly after)

- Highest efficiency (The Triple Towers have 3.38. To beat this, the Church would need to have 8,113 floor-sqm in the same lot)

- Largest lot (The Citadel in 1-W has a 90-q lot, handsomely larger than anything other - the maximum lot size is one chapelry, 150 q)

- Most expensive lot (It could be argued that the Royal Palace or Citadel now sit on the most expensive lands, or that upon the time of construction, the University would have had the most expensive, but in terms of actual m payments, the Embassy Tower in 1-C was most expensive both in total (700 mil) and per q (175 mil) - The Lucky Lion building in 1-C and the Arco di Sergiu in 1-S lands were bought piecewise and could also contest the biggest paid per lot, also the Palace of Culture and Science lot was bought for 700 mil prior to the construction. The most expensive unbuilt lot per quadrat, 1-W-K6, was last sold for 275 mil/q, a long time ago. This church was built on a lot donated by the Town, which absent the church, could perhaps have fetched about 500-600 mil)

- Largest dome (in diameter, the Theater dome is larger (later matched by the House of Magnificence); in height, the church is (church dome is not round but pointed))

- Most gilded interior (The House of Magnificence in 2-C has 250 sqm of gilded interior, this one doesn't)

- Most opulent staircase (The church stairs are small spirals, but in the House of Magnificence in 2-C, the main staircase goes up 13 meters as 3 m wide and it built in the special Magnificent style, double the cost of Opulent, is partly gilded, cost about 60 million, and takes up a room 8x8 m in size and 17 m high).

- Most gold in one object (the dome is 6,530 gold, compared to 5,690 gold of the House of Magnificence's dome, 4,020 gold in the Theatre's dome. But the roof of the Royal Palace is also gilded, with 6,640 gold, and holds the record).

- Highest desire% (The Town Hall in 1-C offices facing the Central Square have 22%; the 14% of the church does not come even close)

- Most AIC spawned by a single building (The University Main Building in 1-NW has 3,000+, followed by the Noble Palace with 2,800 and and this with 2,700. Possibly the most valuable AIC is still the Royal Palace, which was fully built prior to 1450, from which age not many AIC exist.)

- Largest and tallest window (The Palace of Culture & Science has a 4 m wide, 10 m high, 38 sqm window, for which the church's paltry 3 x 8 x 22 is no match).

- Largest supporting columns (The structural columns supporting the dome are 8x 2x2 m, but the Theatre in 1-E has 12x similar columns. In both, the columns are partly submerged in structures. In all, the Church's columns are much bigger, but that record is already under Buttresses.)

- Largest balcony/roof garden (Finding the winner in this one is hard, but it is possible that the Portal in 3-W has the largest area of these. The largest number of balconies is 52, which each of the Triple Towers in 2-E have.)

- Most columns in facade (The Town Hall in 1-C incl Annex in 1-S has 147 columns surrounding the building and arcades throughout.)

The Bishop and I are working on a very comprehensive proposal to radically modify The Church and how all of its possible branches are utilized. You are in for a surprise when it is presented to you

Some things such as prices, will be heavily modified in this plan.

These are yearly prices. I asked for feedback earler and got none. :/ I'm willing to reconsider, now that I have at least one feedback and from the most important person in the kingdom!

San Pietro needs your support! The most magnificent of Church building, devoted to the Culture of Future Time and the end of Ancient times, is underfunded. So far, 420 million moneretoj were donated and three eminent citizens secured their eternal memory in stone.

Plans of Basilica di San Pietro

But there is more to give, especially after the sudden increase in price of material. Only one-sixth of the funding is covered. I beseech you, citizens of crypto-kingdom, to show your devotion to the realm

Additionally, effective immediately (and retroactively), 50% of any donation will count as a discount to the admittance in the Pious Order of Supplicants, the place to discuss and network among peers once the building is finished.
Also, until the construction of the Pious Order office, there is a 20% on admittance fees. This discount is cumulative with the donation discount (the donation discount applies after the 20% discount). As a reminder, here are the entrance fees:


For the glory of God and of Crypto-Kingdom!

Update: since His Majesty gave feedback on the price, they are undergoing reevaluation

The Church is willing to offer housing for free to anyone willing to become a monk. In exchange for free housing, one will have to work for the Church, be it as a brewer, a teacher, a clerk, a soldier... according to his desires and abilities. Women are accepted too. The Church needs more manpower and becoming a monk means you will never have to worry for food or shelter. Every money or asset you would get by other means would still be yours.

And this solves the renting issue, since there is no renting.

Necessary housing will be soon be built. As usual, the Archdeacon takes care of the technicalities so if you are interested in donating or providing the necessary resources at a fair price, contact him.

Understood. Perhaps I will look into building the cheaper single homes, to help provide additional dwellings for new players.