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25 Years of the Bear

It's already been 25 (functional) years of the Grizzly Bear Brewery! *phew* how time flies...



Due to the occasion, as well as the recent share evaluation, a Quasquibicentenary development and evaluation (and celebration?) is in place.

Recorded dividend history of S-GBB:



Thank you all for your interest in the Grizzly Bear, and I'm wishing everybody an another successful 25 years in CK!

Kind regards,
Lord Syksy, CEO of the Grizzly Bear

The Jewelry editor is now live.
Find it at "Master Goldsmith" on the left menu.

Let's see who will win the coronet competition (assuming HM Zechriah chooses not to compete).

New pages in the Wiki:

http://cryptokingdom.gamepedia.com/HoF_The_Most_Cultured --> Hall of Fame list of dead Characters with the highest Culture
http://cryptokingdom.gamepedia.com/HoF_The_Most_Wise --> Hall of Fame list of Characters with the highest Wisdom
Both need to be updated regularly, but are nice ways to count character "high scores".

http://cryptokingdom.gamepedia.com/Foreign_Owned_Corporation --> What it is, why get one, and how to have it set up for you.
http://cryptokingdom.gamepedia.com/Coin_Rarity_Classes --> Coinrarity and Collector Badges explained
http://cryptokingdom.gamepedia.com/Ming_China --> Item page for this very collectible series of tableware
http://cryptokingdom.gamepedia.com/Spirits --> Dedicated to all the different potions and hard drinks available in the Kingdom
http://cryptokingdom.gamepedia.com/Royal_Palace_Fire ->History page for the Royal Palace Fire
http://cryptokingdom.gamepedia.com/Campaign_of_The_Great_River --> History page for the Campaign of The Great River


Welcome Page has also been updated with more information, as well as Syksy's new image(s). I´d be happy to hear any ideas on what to include there, or other tips on how to make it better.

New command added to ckBot in IRC! Get the top 5 owners of any CK item using the 'owns' command.

Note: you must be logged in with ckBot in order to use this. Not my rule, the API requires a token for this command.

!owns :

example:

Code:

!owns W1634F


saddam: Top 5 Owners of W1634F:
1. CROWN : 2,690
2. SADDAM : 1,981
3. DJJACKET : 1,636
4. RAKSHASA : 1,575
5. PLATH : 900

The Coronation - Event Time and All Sub-Events with possibility to win Gems


The coronation live event will be held in November 19th-22nd 1642 (officially summer 1640..) that is Saturday June 4th, 2016, at 19 UTC lasting about 3 hours. It happens in IRC freenode ##crypto-kingdom.


Everyone who wants to "attend" Coronation, and not be present in the live event, should message "Crown" ingame latest a month (24 hours) before the  event, and make sure his stats for the sub-events are registered in the appropriate places by admins (other than me). This overrides all previous possible messages on the subject.


The Sub-Events that may win prizes are as follows:


Sharpshooter (Pistol-shooting contest)
rules upthread

Horseback (Pistol-shooting contest)
rules upthread

Half-Section (Pistol-shooting contest)
rules upthread

Residence (Lifestyle contest)

This contest evaluates the style of the players. Each House may participate only once (with the main character). The things evaluated are:
- Style of the Residence/Villa (only one each may exist per character, their IC payouts are summed up)
- Style of Carriage(s)
- Quality of Horses in personal Stables
- Size and Quality of Wardrobe (Unique suits and SFS items)
- Number and Stature of household items (Gold, Silver and Ming China cutlery and tableware; Italian Furniture; Mirrors)
- ART items in the house.
King determines the order of lifestyle status, and hence, prizes.

Coronet (item contest)
- King determines the order of stature of Coronets (with no regard to the level of the owner) and this is recorded as permanent information in the item details as well for the awe of future generations.

Sophomore (beauty contest)

Everyone started in 1601-1619 are eligible. Tell about yourself and your game, what you think of CK, what your character aims to accomplish and how it is going, etc. This will need to be done beforehand on the thread, or copypasted to the IRC window in the live event. Popular vote determines who gets the prizes.

Freshman (beauty contest)

Everyone started in 1620-1639 are eligible. Tell about yourself and your game, what you think of CK, what your character aims to accomplish and how it is going, etc. This will need to be done beforehand on the thread, or copypasted to the IRC window in the live event. Popular vote determines who gets the prizes.

Prize Pool

The total number of gems is transferred to SSP. It is currently worth 1,340 mil.

The DIA10 will be raffled as a grand prize among the winners of all the 7 Sub-Events.

The Event Winners get as follows:

Sharpshooter: DIA5
Horseback: SAPX
Half-Section: COA-16
Residence: EMEX
Sophomore: DIA2
Freshman: DIA2
Coronet: TOPX

Depending on how many participants are and how well they perform, the King may award additional prizes of:
DIA1
RUB
SAP
EME
TOP. In total, there are 52 such gems in the pool.

The unawarded prizes will be raffled among all the guests, as follows:
- The peers get 200 raffle tickets for attending the event
- Others get 100 tickets
- Participants in the sub-events get 50 tickets (max 350 per char).

The Main Menu link Master Goldsmith, will be finished tomorrow!

sorry for all the things not going to the Billboard - it is under a rehaul, with a new Welcome billboard for new players etc...

Tailor-1 conversion update as we are nearing the end of the conversion period at 10 IC

About 3 hours left, until I may update the price if I feel like that, the d20 says so, and I am awake.

DJJACKET (31): 158
FREEMASONRY (385): 150
M-TAILORS (436): 133
OZ (26): 61
NEWCORP (60): 40
HOKUSAI (64): 30
CROWN (1): 23
CRICHTON (130): 20
PLATH (198): 15
KRONICBLAZER (46): 10
CRYPTONIC (120): 7
GERALDINHO (217): 6
JOSé (232): 5
NORTHFACE (182): 2
MADAM_STOKA (259): 2
RAMSEY (184): 1
PETRICHOR (196): 1
STONEHAVEN (197): 1

It shows that we have 665 TAI-1 existing, which might be about right. It will be very interesting to see how it turns out. For sure the "meantime" before the Clans is out, will be as interesting as the shifting to the Clans as the NPCC will now have access to cheap suits, which they however need to sell to the players (and gain points in the meantime) before the era of NPCC is finished.

The GM event was played on live IRC solver, with the following results:

Upon large spends of SCI, it was deduced that the following parties had the following chances of being the mastermind:
local robbers   1
english   2
french   2
swedish   3
danish   1
rossiyan   1
polonian king   1
pope   1
polonian rebels   1
louhi   1
dragon   1
mystical   1
empire   3
certain player   1

Then it was determined by d20, who the culprit was. Events were played, resulting in the gaining back of 4/9 aquilas. The story was similar in all the eyewitnesses (some were taken without witnesses though): short and well-built nice people with accent were making friends with the guardians of the aquilas, and at the same moment (determined by the time it took for the news to reach CryptoTown), lured the guardians to a drinking binge using imported VOD, and stole the item. Our select horses were better than theirs, so a basic interception worked in most cases, and a few of the suspects remain for interrogation.

An additional round was arranged where the King had send all available forces to Petrichor to blockade the river. (It was at that time known that the culprit was not the Rossiyans nor any of the far foreign powers. An additional 3 aquilas were caught. Only 2 remained missing, and the trail of evidence points to the North. What if Louhi is not dead? Or her heir has assumed the throne? Or what is behind all this?

GM event:   TERRIBLE TREACHERY !

The Kingdom has enjoyed peace ever since Louhi was assumed dead, Embassy of Sweden was built, Ironlock was secured and Prince(pending) kronicblazer was ransomed from the Polonian rebels. Perhaps our security had taken a vacation because about the same time terrible news reach CryptoTown from all the corners of the realm: 10 Ancient Battle Aquilas cannot be found! This leaves us with 17 only, and our enemies with 10!      

All COA-items had a 20-40% chance of being stolen by various treacherous means by unknown actors, with the exception of 0% for Forte Spagnolo (because no one is allowed to the castle due to latest events) and 100% for SirJacket (which was already captured by King of Polonia forces and is assumed to be in Polonian rebels' hands). Most active, disciplined and large troops had 20% chance; smallest and sloppiest troops or outright storaged items had 40%.

Check yours!  


This is clearly done by a concerted action and we do not know the enemy yet. Prompt SCI spending might give clues as to the whereabouts of these items and their possessor/s. They are believed to give the ancient boost of 20%/30% to the Command to enemies as well as to us. If nothing else helps, they can be captured in the battlefield against the enemy if they bring it against our forces.

Zenon was summoned and at a cost of 500 SCI (paid), he gave the following minutes:

Spend SCI towards getting info on a stolen aquila by CONSUME SCI amount [item_id]. Timestamp matters.

Prompt spenders of SCI towards the Medicine of Youth project (CONSUME SCI amount [MoY]) get a ridiculously good return:
- Each SCI spent (max 300 per character) gives one ticket in the MoY-raffle
- The existing project (currently managed by Royal House as Zenon was merged to it) has 7,000 tickets, corresponding to the 7000/10000 readiness (no foreign help has been received on this one)
- All the time, hassle, facilities and ingredients (including the base VOH for each bottle of the elixir) have been/will be paid by the project at no compensation
- The final number of bottles (probably around 500) will be raffled to the tickets.

Please see for yourself if there is quota left. The excess SCI spent will be returned.

King's managed characters have a 24 hour moratorium before they may act on this.



GM event:   Shameful state of University, Literary Society, and Scientific Progress

Despite good intentions to make scientific progress happen in the realm, SCI is universally shunned and worthy projects remain unfunded.

SPOIL SCI 20 [shameful]

The last time a major new set of house necessities/luxuries was introduced, was already 21 years ago (Ming China). The Italian Furniture is similar in the way that:

- it has in total 18 different items, each fungible;
- different items in the series fit together well;
- convertible from IC in unlimited amounts but for limited time only, no future production of the same items;
- is the icebreaker/flagship series of an item type that will also have less prestigious alternatives in the future;
- is therefore a collectible.

The pieces are Most Elaborate or Very Elaborate, so you will certainly find lesser quality more cheaply in the future, but this model is not obtainable at all except for the limited time (will be announced 1 year in advance and end latest 1648-1650 when the Quartermillennial Silver Tableware comes).

The prices range 10...500 IC and the item levels K4...K9.

Please see the Duty Paid IC Shop for the items, or compare in the Furniture (CAF) item type with the existing ancient furniture!

Bitch(TM)  -  Rating Agency founded


Bitch will evaluate the securities for their investment merits on the following 3 subjects, and give a rating of C-B-A-AA-AAA in each:

1. Corporate governance.

A: The company must have CEO, his salary and perks, mission, and dividend policy listed in the item details page.
AA: The above, plus dated NAV calculation, which is updated when it changes materially and/or profit/loss statements or projections.
AAA: 10 years of flawless track record in "AA" level.
B: Gaps in CEO performance related to what the info says or other small issues, or the info sheet is inadequate or partly outdated.
C: Info missing.

2. Ownership

A: The company is widely owned and nobody has absolute majority (over half).
AA: The company is widely owned and nobody has over 1/3.
AAA: The company is very widely owned and nobody has over 1/4.
B: Ownership is concentrated, or someone owns absolute majority.
C: Very concentrated ownership.

3. Markets

A: The stock has active aftermarket and though there is spread, it is possible to find a good price to buy and sell with some time at hand.
AA: There is market making or similar activity going on, allowing in practice the purchase and sale without waiting period.
AAA: The stock is extremely liquid, small spread, and/or there is a market making that enables going in and out of a sizable position (200 mil) without punitive slippage.
B: The stock is sparsely traded and in practice, the beneficial trades need to be negotiated over chat or the bid/ask system over time.
C: The stock is hardly traded at all.
 
The rated companies are shown in "Common Stock" in Agora. If a company received at least "A" in all categories, their stock level is bumped to "1" (from "0"). Four companies exist in the 1 Class:

NewCorp
RWWC
B22 Corp
Bank (The Hypothecary Bank in CryptoTown)

The following companies can rise to 1 Class by doing the recommended actions:

Marketmaking for stock:

General Surety
Martti Tailors (1 bil minimum marketcap: current = 0.5 bil)

Giving out the accurate corporate information in the item description/notes:

HODL Fund
Grizzly Bear
Town Hall

(nearly everything will be 1 Class by doing both, since the only remaining requirement is that the corp is not majority owned by one char)

New: Star Rating: In addition to the detailed rating, the 1 Class securities receive star rating, which is (number of A's in the detailed rating - 2 ). The star rating allows them to be shown first in the alphabetical list of securities.

Check out the new Welcome Page!

This one is geared towards the New Players, with all the information that helps you get started with the game. When registering a new character, the welcome page loads as a starting screen for the first 10 logins into your character. After that you are already considered an old player, and login redirects to Billboard.

Don't mind the lack of visual effects; Welcome page is still getting its visual update, as Syksy is creating some cool images Crypto Kingdom -style that will be updated to the welcome page once ready.

It has never been this easy to refer Crypto Kingdom to your friends; now all New Players can access all important game info directly after registering, and start their journey in Crypto Kingdom!

Common Shares:
Check the marketplace for
S-GH
S-LL
S-NP
S-PGC
S-RAQ
S-RW
S-SIF
S-STO
S-TH

Collectible Silver, at new silver conversion price (41,500m /CKS):
A unique opportunity to collect almost the full series of silver coins and items, or for someone who wants to start making markets! These sold quickly, but we still have some THS1; 3 CKG silver rings left! They make for nice gifts. (We also donated 5 of these silver rings to the LotRaffle. Nobles may consider donating something (that doesn´t spoil immediately, or have taxes attached to it) as well, to character #254)

Knight's Battle Equipment
PWS-4, Sword; Ancient, Imported at 100mil
PWA-3, Knight's Body Armor; Ancient, Imported at 75mil
PWI-2, Knight's Shield; Ancient, Imported at 50mil
PWH-3, Knight's Helmet; Ancient, Imported at 25mil

Don't forget the sales on Land and Gems either:

Just checked Master Goldsmith. Pretty cool. It's great to see things taking shape.

Town is selling land to anyone at a fixed price of 1,000 mil per chapelry.


The urban land in the game is based on chapelry (150x100 m) as the basic unit. A chapelry has one of the following statuses:

1) unopened (belongs to the OldDuchy and may be purchased by Town at the buyer's discretion - 117 exist)

2A) raw (whole chapelry where no business has started (these are for sale at a fixed price) - 8 exist)

2B) raw (owned by someone else but the Town - 19 exist)

3) active farm (19 exist)

4) active quarry (none exist, probably a mistake as some should)

5) quarried (with nothing to do but to zone it - 7 exist)

6) zoned (appearing in the Lot registry - 55 exist)


Town is selling the following chapelries:

6-N, 3 hardness, 722 quarry geology   
6-NW, 2 hardness, 110 quarry geology
6-SE, 3 hardness, 960 quarry geology
6-SW   , 3 hardness, 841 quarry geology

If the topsoil is removed, the hardness gets better by 1 (ones with "3" can be made "2" and the process yields the stone deposits as well). It is however unlikely that this would make a commercial success. The topsoil is thick, and "3" is already a very decent hardness as for the durability for buildings. All except 6-NW are farmable.

Farming yields 65*S-VE1 that may be sold but need to be returned if the farming is discontinued. Building a farm is 5,000*BLD (nonrefundable).

A farmed chap may be quarried, but not the other way.

Any chap may be zoned, but not returned to other use when this is done.

If you want to buy any of these now, do it. NewCorp already bought 3 over the last 2 weeks.

The Town has obligation to have 10% of the "opened" area in unsold raw chaps, and this means that new land will be opened soon in some way. We have already used many These may initially be higher than 1,000 mil per chap, but unlikely lower as Town has the monopoly on new land.

Contact me for purchase of any of these.

Bug fixed in building payout calculations:

The newest buildings when constructed, have had their repair=0.00 instead repair=1.00. This has caused them to "enjoy" -60% payouts in some pools and -30% in others. The Building Editor has reported the values with this error, and also the error has been saved to the building stats.

All the newly built ones with repair=0, will be set to repair=1 today. Also the new building generation will be fixed. To compensate for the loss of income, the ones in 1639-1640 that were affected in the double round, get 1.05 as their starting repair, and better future payouts.

Hello!

The TOS says as follows:


So the assets remained yours until the claims deadline (17 Jan 2016) or (death+30), depending if you had claimed the account or not. Now they belong to the Town and have been sold and money used for marketing the game.

The only appointee to handle late claims is HH the Mayor (djjacket / SirJacket) himself. It is possible to contact him and explain the case. He seeks to use fair and equitable principles in awarding possible compensation.

IPO: Martti Tailors Corp (S-MT)

(1641) Martti Tailors Inc seeks to capitalise on the massive opportunity when the game shifts to Clans and there is a shortfall of 4,500 suits. Martti has been in the tailor business since 1629 and is the third most longstanding major tailor operator in the town, after the North Face Company and Sir Cryptonic. The company was initially structured by Martti transferring all the tailor assets (23 tailors in TAI-2 or higher and 48 suits, of which 15 green or higher) to the company, which keeping all the debts to himself. The assets were valued at 205 mil. Calculation follows in the end.

The company has 500 shares valued at 1 mil each at the IPO. Instead of getting 205 shares, Martti needs to pay back his personal debts, so receives only 45 shares and a 160 mil privileged mortgage to the company, to be paid immediately as the company receives the IPO funds. The management contract is 16 years (Martti wants to retire at 50) and priced at 5 mil per year. This is payable in shares, so Martti gets 5*16 = 80 shares, making his total ownership 125 shares (25%). The 375 shares are sold to the public, with Martti's existing business partners having priority. Everything listed is buyable by all, a part is withheld and offered to the partners.

Of the 375 mil raised, 160 goes to paying the bridge loan and 215 will be used to convert 130*TAI-1 at the excellent conversion price of 10 IC (1641 only) and buffer the increase in stock levels. To finance more production to stock, which can be sold as Clans comes live, a debt facility will also be negotiated when it is known how much the NPCC still buy and how long Clans still will take. Interested shareholders take priority with these negotiations.

* Appendix: Valuation of the existing tailors and suits and other relevant issues:

IC price used is 0.075 (mil). CUL price (negligible effect) is 0.045.

The valuation of the TAI-1 is based on their conversion now = 0.750.

The life expectancy of all NPC is 3/0.13 = 23 years. In practice, to take into account the variance and profit requirement, they are trading at about 10-20 years profit in the market. TAI-2...TAI-5 were appraised at 10 years profit. Since they promote more readily (15-20%) than spoil (13%), the lifetime value is calculated conservatively at one level higher than current. The value of their production is calculated at suit book price, which is 62.5% of the IC conversion price, which is an extremely conservative assumption, but also takes into account the carry cost before most of the suits can be sold. This lead TAI-2 and TAI-3 to be valued at 5.000, TAI-4 at 12.450 and TAI-5 at 16.150.

The suits existing were estimated to suffer 2 spoils before they can be sold to the peak demand at the conversion price. This assumes that Clans comes latest before the spoil of 1649 (about July 22th). It is scheduled to come sooner, even much so.

Martti's experience and immaterial capital was valued at zero. However, the modest 5 mil management fee (compared to the 10-40 mil that King pays to the managers of his companies) will be paid as a lump sum for 16 years, and is not refundable if the AGM ousts Martti from the position.

My character died quite a while ago. She had a significant amount of property in form of gold and moneretos, including direct purchases with XMR at early phase of the game. Now every item shows 0. Why? I thought characters can push their heritage forward to their heirs?

A large Gold Deal was conducted yesterday when the German Protestants (LittleFlock #410) bought 9500 CKG from TownSwipe, bringing over 5000 XMR more to Town(Swipe) coffers! The total now standing at over 11,000 XMR from the TownSwipe sales alone.

The Gold is sold, and so have many other items, the remaining land is discounted..

Freaky Friday Weekend sales: All land prices slashed -10%
Old Town
1-E-E32 @ 90mil 81mil
1-N-C5 @ 260mil (includes building) 234mil
1-N-C6 @ 260mil 234mil
1-NW-P11 @ 120mil 108mil
1-SW-L26 @ 50mil 45mil

New Town:
2-C-C5 @ 70mil 63mil
2-NW-H4 @ 400mil Includes the item/BFO-1 The Maximos Labyrinth made out of living plants 360mil
2-W-V1 @ 240mil 216mil
2-W-V6 @ 396mil 356mil

Culture&Science
3-W-C12 @ 120mil 108mil

People's Borough (B.22) land 20mil /q 18mil /q
22-N-D12 now 54mil
22-N-D14 now 108mil
22-N-D29 now 18mil
22-NE-A11 now 27mil SOLD!
22-S-F15 now 67mil

Borough 4 9mil /q now at 8mil /q
4-C-A15 now 12.8mil
4-NW-E5 now 8mil
4-NW-F2 now 8mil
4-NW-G1 now 8mil
4-NW-G6 now 8mil
4-NW-H2 now 8mil
4-NW-H3 now 8mil
4-NW-H5 now 8mil
4-NW-H6 now 8mil
4-NW-H8 now 8mil
4-NW-H9 now 8mil

Gem prices slashed -10%
DIA5 at 100mil 90mil
EMEX at 70mil 63mil
TOPX at 40mil 36mil

New pages in the Wiki:
http://cryptokingdom.gamepedia.com/Science_Technology_Tree --> Science Subgame here, what are we currently researching, what is the progress, also recently completed technologies
http://cryptokingdom.gamepedia.com/Lot_Raffle --> This one's for the new players; one of the main ways to get your game going when you've just arrived dirt poor into Crypto Kingdom. Nobles, please consider donating items to lot raffle (#254) to help the new players  The number of items in the raffle pool is kept at about 10,000 to have the probabilities as intended. Donate only durable items such as Wine that is not in danger of immediate spoiling, Spirits, and other things that do not have strings (such as taxes) attached, and are worth more than 10,000 m per unit, but are not exceedingly valuable (not more than 100 mil even if you'd like).
http://cryptokingdom.gamepedia.com/Smelter --> Smelter gets rid of your illiquid gold items and gives you back fungible bars and coins, for a fee. Here's how it works.
http://cryptokingdom.gamepedia.com/Factory --> Factories are needed for some in-game businesses, such as a Brewery. Factory facts, figures, requirements and costs explained.
http://cryptokingdom.gamepedia.com/Siberian_Flying_Squirrel_Pelts --> Item page for our beloved Winter Collection from Rossiya.
http://cryptokingdom.gamepedia.com/Quasquibicentenary_Jubilee --> History page for the 225th Jubilee Celebration in the Crypto Kingdom, Who was there, lavish giftgiving, badges awarded, the raffle and much more.