Topic: Remember King of Ether? It is back! But it is Duke now... (Read 201 times)

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Here is a brief description:

Becoming a Duke
Select a Country you feel like ruling.
Select payment: anything larger than a suggested min. price.
Read instructions and pay the "I trust you" or "I don't trust you" way.
If you are reasonably paranoid, as any Duke should be, use contract
address to find it on href="https://etherscan.io">etherscan.io and read the contract.

You do this - you become a Duke. To comfort your predecessor, to throw him a bone, so to speak, money you paid will go to him. Keep in mind that the next Duke has to pay MORE, so if some impostor decides to overthrow you, he'll pay dearly, and you will end up with 50% more than you spent... Well, there is always a chance that they will be too scared, so no one will come.

After two months of tyranny (it is your tyranny, so it is a good thing), the price of a throne will begin to go down, 5% a day. It is like you are asking "Ok, are you still afraid to challenge me?!"

And even if an usurper comes and kicks... sorry, asks you away, your name will stay in the blockchain for as long as Ethereum itself exists.

Long live the Duke!

Destroying the Country
Dark side has cookies? A lie! If overthrown, you will get back exactly what you paid (minus a small commission). No profit. One has to be deep on the Dark Side to bring devastation on an entire country, so this is going to be his reward.

Ok, in human language: to destroy the country, you pay more, become the Duke of a DESTROYED country (it will clearly say so in a block chain) and when (if) the next Duke overthrows you, you will get back what you paid (minus small fee) - no extra bonus, as it would be in case of taking the throne of an intact country.

Restoring the Country or adding a new one
To overthrow the Dark Duke, you have to take a throne. As with Destroying, Restoring rewards you (when/if you are overthrown) with exactly (minus fee) same money you paid. No extra bonus.
Being on a Bright Side, you should forget about greed. Correct?

To make it even harder (more demanding to your Bright Side), the next Duke can overthrow the creator of a country by paying the same price Creator paid. So again, you do it not for profit, but for the sheer pleasure of giving a life to a new country. As for money, you will break equal, when the next Duke takes the throne. Minus a small fee. There is always a small fee...