Better is to use DM here to alert me as I don't recall this forum's notifications of DMs falling into my email's spam folder so it seems a reasonably reliable way to get me initially alerted that someone here is trying to contact me.
I followed CK posts here back when the game was live, one thing that struck me about it was that from the tone of the posts it somehow managed to give me an impression that it had kindred ideas behind it; in particular I was led so expect that its seemingly somewhat "direct" use of Monero meant that basically all (or at least a rather high percentage of) the Monero anyone spent into the game would in effect become "buy side" to game assets.
So I expected it would use some of the ideas come up with for the Galactic Milieu, maybe even things like locking what people paid for game land to that land and maybe also using any "land taxes" paid on the land to build in an increasing value to the land by locking more and more Monero over time into each piece of land.
Basically the kind of naive ideas I originally had about NFTs before I saw their actual implementation; I had naturally assumed a NFT would be a pile of coins locked into manifesting as a particular object, so that upon disassembling or recycling that object it would kind of be melted down into its component coins. Maybe even have a coin for each element or even fundamental particle so one would build compounds by building "baskets" of a variety of coins, maybe form water molecules or gram-molecular-weights out of 2 hydrogen coins plus one oxygen coin, things like that.
Imagine my disappointment when it came out that actually the supposedly-underlying Monero was actually gone!
In my experience, even with early releases of MySQL, most databases are not truly reliable.
That is part of why when writing standard business software suites (accounts payable, accounts receivable, inventory, payroll, job costing etc, all of course subledgers of the general ledger) one builds "trial balance" steps into one's monthends and such; one needs to be ready to find it does not balance, and fix things until the trial balance does balance before running the actual month-end.
Possibly nowadays failure of the trial balance to balance might tend more and more toward being data-entry-clerk error rather than database error but that was not always the case.
In particular I learned that typically game code cannot be relied upon to balance.
Too often exploits are possible, such as moving some inventory from one "room" or "map" or "area" or "region" or whatever to another then crashing the system with timing that ends up duplicating inventory, all kinds of exploits, bugs, and so on.
Nonetheless I do not think actually trying to run on blockchain is generally a good idea; ultimately when something like "The Internet Computer" platform can compile existing games to run on the blockchain then fine, let them do it, we can go fully on blockchain by that mechanism.
Meanwhile though I took the stance that it suffices for now to provide "spot markets" where some currency or other used in some existing game can be traded, and let such markets provide the interface to blockchain.
Having such spot markets for inventory other than currencies is also a nice idea, but overall what we gain by interfacing through markets is a go-between layer so that if some currency or inventory suddenly gets duplicated out of nothing the game is not screwed by suddenly for example having more tokens representing blockchain coins than it has blockchain coins to redeem those tokens with.
It is extremely disappointing that the Monero put into Crypto Kingdom vanished, but even if it had not having it reside in markets as buy-side offers to buy in game stuff might have been more robust than having it however it was supposedly had, that apparently turned out to be that it was not had at all but in fact vanished...
-MarkM-
