Topic: Crypto Kingdom - 1991 Retro Virtual World(City) - page 227. (Read 632671 times)

Quentin Moon votes [L5]

1) Marketplace
2) Auditorium
3) Casino

Thank you sir!

98m still needed.

I'll give 10m.

Fantastic! That is really beautiful work!


Thanks already to Lord Karl for his generous donation!

Approximately 108m more needs to be raised.
 

Lord Jacket Votes:

1 - Theatre
2 - Marketplace
3 - Casino

Thanks; I will let smooth himself do the transaction

I will donate 100M towards this.

The massive beauty of this one can only be appreciated from the facade view.

Now is the time to help University to pay the remaining bills!

Architecture competition vote:
Lord Karl [L9]

1- MarketPlace
2- Casino
3- Auditorium

Congratulations to all the designers, ALL entries are excellent!

Both characters vote as follows:

Second place: Theater

Third place: Brewery

Please vote three (3) designs as the rules dictate!

Thanks for being the first voter. I had promised to myself to give the first one a bonus Took quite long 

smooth (level 10): 4 votes for casino

Itrix (level 4): 1 vote for casino

The University needs your help!

The construction of the Military Sciences Department has left our esteemed University in debt over 200m!

With the greatest recognition of all of the donations to date, we further request that all who are able offer their assistance at this time.

Donations will be recognized in a permanent plaque on the building, and major donations will receive further recognition such as naming of specific facilities.

All the designs have been submitted, so the voting can now start!.

All the entries that were submitted in due time are in the competition for winning the lot A4!

All the competition entries can be seen on a Google Document, here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18-BnmgAThRfDKiLIq0Fi3AFOnk5H2zFjkolTIz04nFI/edit?usp=sharing

IMPORTANT, Voting Instructions:

1. Each Character can vote once, for his/her 3 favorite designs. (some players have multiple characters, and when so, please state clearly which character is giving the vote)

2. Each character that submitted a design is obligated to vote! However it is not allowed to vote a building that was designed by you, or a building that was submitted in your name.

3. Your pick for 1st place will receive 100% of your total number of votes, the second place 50% and the third 25%.

4. The number of votes depends on the characters current level in the game, as described in this table:
L15: 6 votes
L11-14: 5 votes
L10: 4 votes
L9: 3 votes
L6-8: 2 votes
L3-5: 1 vote

5. The votes will be given publicly in this thread.

6. The voting ends after 48 hours, at 8.00pm GMT, on the 28th November 2014. Any vote given after that deadline will not be registered.

The Results of the Vote:

After the voting has ended the vote totals are calculated and the design with the highest number of votes is the winner. The character who submitted it may then reveal if there were backers behind him, and who becomes the owner of the lot and the building. The building must be built without delay.

The winner with the most votes gets the lot 1-C-A4 for free (value of the lot is at least 500,000,000 m)!

The second place gets 500 gold.
The 3rd place gets 300 gold.
The 4th place gets 200 gold.
The 5th place gets 100 gold. (If not enough designs are submitted, the gold is not granted for them.)

All designs that entered the competition become public domain, free to be used by anyone.

The Deadline for the Architecture Competition for lot A4 is Today at 7.00pm GMT! So in a little less than 3 hours!

Submit your entry before that and you will be in the competition for this prestige lot in the center of Old Town. To submit, send me a PM here, with the details of your building, including the blue prints and the cost calculation! Preferred format is google doc (send a link to the document you created), but other formats of entry are possible as well.

Once I have received your message, I will reply with a confirmation that you have entered the competition. If I have not replied your message, it means I haven´t received your entry! In that case please resend the message by PM, thank you.

The Dead Line is Final! All entries that have not been submitted to Roopatra by the given time, will be denied entry to the competition!
However if your building blueprint or cost calculation is not ready by the dead line, send the drawing anyway before the deadline closes, and it will enter the competition as it is, with a note that the design is not finalized.

Good luck for the competition everyone!

Good News! The first building to the University, Military Sciences Department (cum Army Headquarters) will be constructed this year 1492 to the appropriate lot in the University haw.

As usual, the design is magnificent. The lack of luxuries is compensated by an even more liberal use of stone, including the 11 facade columns, 2x2 in diameter and 11 m high. Inside there is everything needed for the various functions of the building, among them a Lecture Hall that can be divided with woollen curtains to the size required. The full length of the Hall is 25 m, which makes it the longest hall in the town. Both the basement and attic are large, due to the fact that the building features only one main floor.

In addition to what is previously donated, the Army will gift 500,000 stone towards the construction in virtue of the shared use of the building.

We have heard that Master Asenath has taken courageous journey to the ends of the Earth and returned successfully. She is supposed to have some very rare most ancient items with her, and before any of these come to the marketplace, the Marquess is instructed to communicate with His Majesty.

The visiting tailors are ready to make Centennary Jubilee clothes. To our amazement, they are willing to offer them at the prices mentioned in "trade clothes" tab. Orders must be made latest 1498. (These clothes will probably become very rare since the pressing need for them is moderate at best, and the tailoring is soon becoming an ordinary trade.

The only possibility to gain Most Ancient gold items ever (barring imports) is also coming as soon as we have time to spex it, hopefully today. The city is now bustling enough to support goldsmiths with their showy lifestyle. A great gathering of goldsmiths is coming in these final years of the Most Ancient era, and they will present their prices to convert some of your gold to rings, medallions, utensils, cups and special requests. In these forms, the recovery rate of the gold will be about 99% (and gold will continue staking as normally) so you only lose what goes to the goldsmiths. Even that is not really a loss since 50% of the money goes to the Services pool, in other words as much as the resident NPC servants and the guest workers do.

May I get 18 town hall stocks?

Looking forward to seeing the creative entries.
Quentin Moon

Architect competition for 1-C-A4 (see rules earlier in the thread) design submission period ends in 24 hours.

News from the Services Pool update:

Services Pool has 4 sources:
- PCs
- Local servants (resident NPCs)
- Guest workers (non-resident NPCs)
- Tourists (wealthy visiting NPCs).

These are by and large equal in size.

It has 6 destinations:
- Accommodation (for NPCs)
- Hotels (for tourists)
- Eating and drinking (for all)
- Shopping (for all)
- Halls (for all)
- Special (for all)

Eating and drinking is the largest by far, surpassing even combined accommodation and hotels. The city has well responded to the need, though, and currently has 26 establishment serving the hungry and thirsty, in 5 price categories. The list below was a composition of a large work of PC's telling where they like to eat, tourists visiting places that are accessible and in the city centre, and NPC's eating cheaply near places where they live. The greatest concentrations of NPCs are near the Department Store where there are 3 highrises, the Hive area with 2 highrises and a garrison of 27 soldiers, and the Citadel with lots of soldiers and no services.

The results show that tourists could not support any restaurant totally, they are still so few. Eg. Town Hall has   /$$$$ but did not do so well. The players did support Grand Hotel, G & Q and Monero House, which were the winners. Many  /$$ taverns did very well just because there are so many NPC's. The 3 worst-performing ones were all managed by the Royal family who do not apparently understand that $$$ price point is too low for the players to get interested and simultaneously too high for NPCs. It was the winning recipe for Grail and Quail, though, due to their excellent location they were able to attract both tourists, PC's and NPC's, despite the food being  . Grand Hotel has solidified its position as the restaurant in town (overwhelming victory in popular vote over Noble Palace, which was not mentioned even once as a diner). Good income is the result of one service bringing in 16 times the money that the $ place makes (not so much that the place was full - it never is, and it is large).

The city can easily support more taverns but the target group needs to be thought out. Luck also plays a role: H, D and Q used to be a place frequented by players. Now nobody goes there but the neighboring Hive residents (who are many). Roopatra's 2 taverns were packed full in the last calculation, then she enlarged them. Now they are doing only average, despite Mama's receiving its first  . Royal Palace basement used to have a  /$$ place, a miracle combo of royal kitchen food, cheaply, in a good location. Still it was visited neither by PCs nor NPCs. We re-branded it King's Kitchen and tripled the price. Now it is doing OK. The only target group, tourists, did not care so much, rather wanted to eat expensively since it's King's kitchen anyway.


The midprice hotel race did not have a clear winner. All hotels get quite a good fill, and they are quite small anyway. In the luxury hotel category, the Noble Palace did not receive much income, relative to the Grand Hotel. It is catering to a segment that is not visiting our town in a regular basis, and to make up for it, the prices are so high that no occasional visitor goes there. Everyone except the Most Honorable Chairman of the Club advices his guests to go to Grand Hotel instead. The own memberbase is still so small that receptions are few. As a result, Noble Palace is mostly empty. (GH had the same problem with lacking audience in the last week, but now it's starting to hit the spot so perhaps NP will do it sooner or later.)

The King's Old Department Store did very well. It was originally intended to be a luxury goods outlet for PC's, but now it is in the middle of 80 guesthouse rooms and NPC family apartments and serves them. The commercial space in the ground floors of buildings did not do very well, except in the coveted locations.