Topic: Crypto Kingdom - 1991 Retro Virtual World(City) - page 88. (Read 632701 times)

MoneroHouse bids 65 mil.

In-Town Farming starts!

Previously the town was such that support activities such as farming happened in the "middle boroughs" that were not shown. Now we are expanding to the middle boroughs, so we need to allocate space for farming, if we are to continue having fresh superveg!

Farm is a new way to make use of a chapelry which is not immediately needed for quarrying or building, or is unsuitable for them. A chapelry which has been quarried or zoned, cannot be used as a farm any more. A farm may be converted to a quarry or zoned for other uses.

A farm equals 100 S-VE1 production shares, which produce approx. 2,500 "superveg" and 7,500 "other veg". Superveg is the first crop of new produce in July, which is coveted because of a higher health effect and the fact that all veg from previous year has spoiled in May.

The NPCC accounts, which start next year, require 35,000*VEG each, and since 15,000 of this is after the spoil, we can count 50,000*VEG each, for the total of 350,000 VEG. Compared to this, the PC consumption is not big, perhaps 20,000 VEG since most of them need to eat stronger stuff.

The current nominal production of system account Farmers, and the 5 Manors, and the vegetable gardens is 162,000 VEG per year. Houston - we have a business opportunity here! If no farms are started, the Farmers account (town) will just get the excess shares and the money.

So about 19 in-town farms could be started even with the current number of mouths. As they are located in urban land (and also protected by the perimeter fortifications soon to be built), the ownership is fully protected and yield quite stable. The chapelries that are bright green in the /Map are available for farming right here. 25 such chapelries exist in opened Boroughs. (Opening a borough means that Town has bought it from the King - King cannot do anything with unopened boroughs.) The grass green chapelries with no quarry geology are likely to be farmable as well when their boroughs are opened.

Farming does not require B.23 to be completed, only zoning of the middle chapelries does, (and urban building is not open yet at all, though is coming closer at this speed of design effort..)

To make farming as easy as possible, it does not yet use the NPC nor other inputs. Instead they are reduced to an annual upkeep cost (similar to eg. Brewery), which goes to Labor. The VEG yield is given as a dividend directly based on a list of chapelries designated as Farms. This allows landowners to create a corporation and put the land there and give the access to a manager who would get an agreed-upon compensation. King is seeking to consolidate his available lands for this purpose and give the manager the title of Viscount of TVA Duchy (King does not have any suitable chapelries though, but this will increase the willingness to buy them). Also NewCorp (who has many) is seeking a similar arrangement.

The farms (at least for now) are equal in costs and production (which will change but not in a few years):
15 mil    Production value at book prices 3,000 for superveg, 1,000 for other VEG
- 5 mil   Upkeep
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10 mil profit

An upfront investment of 4*S-BLD is required. This goes to wood farm structures that are demolished in the end of farming with 0 value.

Farms announced now will start producing superveg in July, 1627.

This should be an interesting challenge and give some insight into the mass consumption side of the game, so count me in.

Would like to auction my last items:

3x S-B22 shares
5x CR1588E 5ckg rare coins (only 60 exist)
My home at master village 1-SE-V11
60x S-SIF (Smooth Investment Fund)
12x w1616 wines

CT1600  (Bronze Reconstruction Medal)
CT1616  (HM The King rpietila I 250 birthday)
KFB1598 (King's Favor Badge)

The shares and the gold is roughly 64M at lowest bid prices. So starting price at 65M for the whole lot. Auction ending in 24 hours.

I would be interested as well

The Hypothecary Bank Loan Offer to the buyers of S-B22

The Hypothecary Bank in CryptoTown has served the house owners for over a century. The business model is simple - long term bullet loans are given against a mortgage guarantee (meaning a lot is marked such that you cannot sell it before paying back, and if you don't pay, Bank takes the lot).

Usually, 50% of the raw land buy price is accepted as guarantee. In case of B.22, the conversion from shares at a listed price makes it possible to offer the loans based on the share price (S-B22). Since the share is not consumed in the process, 40% of the share price can be used as guarantee.

Hypothecary Bank has been struggling with operational costs. This time we offer the deal to every new landowner in B-22 at the same terms and same parameters. This makes it possible to squeeze the loan administration cost to the minimum.

Every loan will have the same terms:
- 25 years
- mortgage to the lot
- loan amount: 40% of the conversion price * share price
- administration fee: 1 mil including awarding and regular payback of the loan
- interest rate 1.2%
- early repayment possible against 5 mil fee and the payment is discounted to the present using CON midrate.

For instance, if the share price of B-22 is 4 mil (new shares), loan amount would be 1.4 mil per share. A purchase of 9 squares (225 sqm) from the small lot area, would give a loan of 9 * 1.4 mil = 12.6 mil (this much you get). The payback amount would include the 1 mil + the interest for 25 years, as follows: (12.6 mil + 1 mil) * 1.012^25 = 18.325 mil. The effective interest rate is 1.51% (if the amount is bigger, tending to 1.2%).

Yes, it's Ernak's property now.

Nevermind. The log is very confusing, showing a transfer of 0 items of that type (so no transfer), and there's another bug in the labelling, but I think it's actually OK.

Edit: https://cryptokingdom.me/land/lot/details/743 shows as own by the swipe char, but is likely owned by avitohol's heir (not sure who, as the changelog doesn't want to find dead people so I can check)

Something is off. The changelog shows 8 properties swept in, but only 4 sold. Those unsold still show as owned by the Swipe character.



That sounds fun, I'm in

Borough 22 - final push

Borough 22 borders to the west, the highest mountain in town, to the north, Old Town, in the east is the King's Esplanade and south is San Pietro. The town map is in /Map and borough plan is in /B22 (below).



To get the SCI conversion project finished, the following will be done:
- Split the shares 1:4 and conversion accordingly, to boost conversion.
- New conversion table effective 1627 onwards:

1 share = 4*SCI
2 shares = 12*SCI
3 shares = 24*SCI
4 shares = 40*SCI
5 shares = 60*SCI
6 shares = 84*SCI
7 shares = 112*SCI
8 shares = 144*SCI
9 shares = 180*SCI
10 shares = 220*SCI
11 shares = 264*SCI
12 shares = 312*SCI
13 shares = 364*SCI
14 shares = 420*SCI
15 shares = 480*SCI
16 shares = 544*SCI
17 shares = 612*SCI
18 shares = 684*SCI
19 shares = 760*SCI
20 shares = 840*SCI

- 50 SCI maps to 4 shares and 150 SCI to 8 shares as previously, with some left over.
- You can send any amount of SCI and the excess (not exactly fitting a price point) will be kept.
- No need to remove bids; the new share is a different item created by dividend.
- Once all the 4,000 shares have been issued, the land allocation starts without delay. Note that only 4/9 chapelries are immediately buildable, the rest will be quarried first, with up to 15 year delay in access to the land!
- The lots available, cost between 4 to 200+ (new) shares. Numbers in the map above are lot prices. If not indicated, lots cost 1 share (~4 mil per square (5x5 m).
- The rest of the practical things are listed in the /B22.

TownSwipe dump has finished, and many characters now own new goods!
TownSwipe account made ~1200 XMR (mil) on the sales. The funds are earmarked for marketing of Crypto Kingdom.
A big thank you to all participants!

NPCC - the new implementation of NPC's - Quest - Nice prizes!

The consumables have been produced in a distributed way for some time already, but there has been one oversized consumer only. This is changing with 200 NPC being implemented in one consumer account. There will be several accounts, with the same objectives and utility function, and the consumers will be pitted against each other to find the best deals from the producers, via the market!

Labor pool is funding each account with 200 mil per year, so you get to play with real money in a real market!! 7 people are sought to control these accounts and the Quest would start in the beginning of 1627 (next Monday). The consumes are packed in neat blocks with mainly a daily quota of food and drinks, and the annual quota of luxuries and suit situation. Playing the NPCC account is designed for login every day, though 1 day a week can be skipped without the penalty becoming extreme. Once a week a longer time need to be spent to optimize the wines.

Manor lords etc. are NOT excluded. This is a 3-year challenge only at this time, and prizes are good (King pays all prizes):

Winner with highest utility (consume points accumulated): Quest completed + medal
1-2 place: 50 CKG
3 place: 25 CKG
4 place: 15 CKG
5 place: 10 CKG
6 place: 5 CKG
7 place: something

The project sheet is in GameDB/NPCC, it is not yet final though, will be soon! If you enjoy playing this game, please enroll!

Palazzo Casino Yearly Report - 1626

This is the 2nd report that the Palazzo Gaming Corp (PGC) has produced. This is mostly a formality, but also contains some information about the direction that the company wishes to go. It also includes information regarding dividends. These reports will be posted yearly. Check out the casino here: http://54.200.147.156/

Assets:

Last year, the company took stock of their assets. Included in the vault were:

- 3,971*CR1625E (19,855 CKG)
- 81,374*CT1625
- 594 mil in cash


At the end of 1626, the following assets exist in the company vault:

- 4,226*CR1625E (21,130 CKG)
- 85,378*CT1625
- 553 mil in cash


Revenue change since last year:
CKG: +1275 (1,147,500,000m)
CT1625: +4004 (180,180,000m)
m: -41 mil

This gives us a net gain from 1626 of 1,286,680,000m. This works out to +128,668m per share for the yearly PPS. A fine year indeed!


Dividends:

PGC will not be issuing dividends until the year 1640, unless huge surplus profits are realized.  It would not be fair to investors in the company to give dividends to the founders until the shares are equal. The poison-pill clause states that this will happen at earliest in 1640.

Game Announcements:

Diamond Quest is still under development. A massive sickness ricocheted through the Quest development team, putting progress back many months. A doctor has been dispatched and it looks like work will soon resume.

We are still planning to migrate to the new server. The site will likely be accessible from a subdomain of cryptokingdom.me.

There is also a rumor that a new game involving CAN may be in the works in future years, we will keep you posted!

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It is also open for anybody at
https://cryptokingdom.me/player/register


There's a day-by-day starter blog on how to build up your character from nil initial investment at:
http://marttick.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-adventures-of-martti-1-march-1622.html

And the Wiki is at (and open for contribution by any and all, as is typical for Wikis):
http://cryptokingdom.gamepedia.com

Remember the auction closes 48hours from the post. About 13 hours left. Get your stuff cheap and support the game!

Update on the S-B23 share situation

All shares have been sold or traded from stone. Please do not give stone to the corp now, or it will just need to be returned to you. We will keep you informed with what's next in the very near future. Stay tuned!

For those who have been collecting B-22 Shares and would like to jump into B-23 instead of waiting for B-22 to complete. 
The Duke of North Face is offering a 3:2 trade opportunity to trade your B-22 shares for B-23 shares.

Convert your B-22 shares you obtained from SCI contributions for B-23 shares above!

Update on the S-B23 share situation

At the moment, 395 shares have been claimed by stone deposits, and 199 shares have been purchased. This leaves us with a total of 406/1000 shares remaining. This has been in about 14 hours. If you are thinking about getting any shares of Borough 23, I wouldn't wait if you want to get in on the initial purchase.  The town is hoping to open this borough as soon as possible!

To further expedite this process, all Councillors+WM cannot deposit any more stone, and the window for others will be open for 24 hours from this post.  Once that window has closed, the only way to acquire B-S23 shares will be with m.

Uses for NPC, weapons etc.

Again, take a look at my yesterday masterpiece, the complete stats sheet (updated) for all NPC (tab /NPCtypes).

This list below is incomplete, highlights only.

Manager line (MGR-1...MGR5) produce management points, which are needed in economic subgames (more coming). Currently:
- large households/organisations ("magnificence")
- counties
- research projects
(- quarry
- building)

Assistant line (ASS-1...ASS-3) produce assistant points, same purpose as above.

Worker line (WOR-1...WOR-4) produce labor points, for county PRE, quarry, building.

Officer line (LT...COL) produce Command to lead army units (small garrisons do not require officer, NCO is enough).

Soldier line (PTE...MSG) produce FP, the fighting strength of the army.

Weapons and horses (CANN, MKT, PIS, H1...H9) increase the BV of the army. Horses also increase mobility in transit. Officers will spawn their horses (H1...H5) to owners, after which officers need to be accompanied with them separately. Also troops may be accompanied with horses. MKT (musket) is a weapon for foot soldiers, PIS (pistol, to be researched) for shock cavalry. All soldiers without an implemented weapon will use their personal (side)arm, typically a short/longsword (bad quality) or a pike. Archers are being phased out due to advances in technology. Soldiers (PTE, CPL, SGT and MSG) can use all weapons fungibly. Mercenaries will leave end 1628 with their weapons, unless d20 shows otherwise.

In addition to army, horses are needed for riding (level promotion benefit for L5 or higher) and carriages (for L6 and higher - benefit does not mean requirement). Also the estates and possible in-town farms will need horses. It is yet undecided whether mobile military units (Regiments, and lighter RRF troops) will be separate characters.

Tailor line produces suits and clothes, each type producing its own color with progression to WOS-A1 (Blue). Then a small number is promoted to TAI-8 (and TAI-9) which produce S-WOS, individual suit labor points. These can be used only by The North Face Company (HH The Duke), and have a spoil%, so please sell either the TAI-8 or the points to the duke for maximum benefit.

All the other lines produce m, CUL+IC and SCI in variable amounts and combinations, which are all now 100% spelled out in the NPC datasheet. They may and do change, but significant changes are announced, and the datasheet is the master and thus always correct.

CryptoTown Map

Check out /Map, for the map of the 1600-era Cryptotown, with the extent of 225 chapelries, of which:
- 19 densely built
- 25 opened for building
- 32 ready to quarry/farm plains
- 62 ready to farm plains (geology not assessed)
- 17 hard plains (good for building tall structures)
- 18 forested
- 9 forested (unimplemented not inside the 25 boroughs)
- 21 swampy (unhealthy, ungood for building, unfarmable and unquarriable)
- 9 wet (ungood for building, unquarriable)
- 1 "mountain" peak
- 9 hard hilly (no vegetation)
- 24 hilly (lightly forested)

Most of the new plans require that the advance of Urban Construction (completion of B.22 SCI project, 530/1000) is ready!

New NPCs: WOR-1/2/3/4, ENG-1/2/3/4/5,   ENG conversion, STO deallocation, Max prices for STO, WOS-items

The heyday of allocated stone by borough (with Building module open 1570s - 1605) has passed. We are moving back to allocated stone, but so that the allocation is by town/county. Stone remains to be exceedingly costly to transport great distances due to its weight. Therefore, quarrying in the area of the Town will continue. All stone in town will be STO1 soon! The transport cost will be added to the construction labor cost.

Quarry will be opened soon with rules similar to Q2 (allocated NPC required to operate quarries). Stocking up on MGN points now costs money but there is no opening a quarry without them when it starts soon!

A quarry is also an incredible labor point hog. In the heyday of Quarry-1 (1522-1540s), 1,000+ NPC were working in quarries at the same time.

A new line of NPC has been opened, WOR-1...WOR-4, ENG-1...ENG-5, in which WOR produce 1-4 WP (labor points) and engineers produce SCI.

OTH has been converted to WOR 1:1.

It is possible to accredit SPE and MGR in all the levels (1-5) to ENG in the same level. This is a one-time conversion opportunity ending end-November (Saturday). So if you have eg. a MGR-2 that is not needed and not saleable, convert him to ENG-2 for SCI! Admins help.

Old ann repeated: according to info we have, the mercenaries stay until next retire round (end-1628) and then the same number (minus casualties only, so far none) goes back to their country. The d20 can still alter this outcome, but if any of them stay, at least the muskets need to be redeemed at the same price as domestic production.

The latest style of wool suits and clothes (WOS-A1...WOS-G until 1634) will have nominal prices at which the profitability of tailors is calculated, and maximum prices at which unlimited quantity of the suits is available until the production can meet the demand. (the hungryMob has been messing the markets at random which will now decisively end). The maximum price is 1.6*nominal. This also happens to stone, which is available from near peasants in unlimited quantity at 160.

Counties will be able to start the quarrying of stone when they reach ~50 PRE. At this time, the labor used will also start to accrue to the county's own economy pool. As the necessary advances are unlocked, the stone can be used for roads and forts, or stockpiled for needs in the new town in the county. If paying the workers feels like a stupid idea, it is possible to get tax shares S-STOx as well, which are forced labor quarries.

All stone in the counties now, will be converted to STO1 and remains in CryptoTown (you can move it back to "your" character or where it came from, or convert S-B23 with it) and will not be used in PRE anymore. Other components of PRE accumulation remain the same for 1626 at least.