Dame Roopatra emerges from her hideout in the swamp land restaurant. She rides her horse back to old town to inspect the damage inflicted by the earthquake. Noble Palace, one of her favourite hangouts is a pile of rubble. Luckily her own buildings are still standing even though they have suffered varying amounts of damage. She dismounts her horse near the Obelisk and stands with the other spectators to witness the state of things.

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This has been disabled until we can come up with a better prize distribution.

After looking around at the destruction that had lay waste to many buildings in the Kingdom, Lord noms took stock of his land and decided that there would need to be much rebuilding. There were some locations that were so damaged, the owners might be interested in just starting anew!  He thought about it, and decided that to help with the Reconstruction, he would like to host a raffle to give lucky winners a free parcel of land.

Once I have the bot in place (hopefully in about 6 hours, but at longest Sunday) you can start playing.

Land Raffle Rules

There will be an up-front cost of 5m (or 10 gold, also accepted) per chance. Pay for your ticket first, then roll. Each ticket gives you a D30 roll (random roll between 1-30). If the number you guessed is the one that the bot gives you, you have won!  At that point, a random land will be selected from the list below and you will immediately be transferred that lot in the game database. Some are only 1q, but there are a few that are 2, and even 4q! There are also two lands in Borough 2 that are especially big. N4 is 12q, and N9 is a huge 20q.  So, for 5m you have a chance of getting 20q of land. Step right up.

I will be using a bot to do the actual die rolls, so that it will be logged in IRC.  You choose the number you wish to roll for directly before rolling so it will be fair. This will be implemented by monoeromooo with a provably fair hash displayed afterwards.  A typicall roll will go like this:



Upon a winning roll, You will then roll for one of my lands. Here is the breakdown of all lands I currently own. As people win them, this graphic will be updated with crossed off lands that are unavailable to win.




Good luck, and let's start betting! Note: this betting will only be allowed when Sphericon is in IRC and has been notified that you wish to play.

I will add in public to try to make the Kingdom Lottery more interesting and functional (already discussed with sphericon):

Target group

People who participate in "small-chance-to-get-rich" lotteries are typically not rich to start with. So the main prize(s) need to be something that makes their "life" different if they win. This makes the new commoners a possible target group but current Nobles hardly so, because they believe and practice that riches should be gained by their effort, and they are already richer than Lord noms (who must pay for the prizes).

Another type of lottery is a slot machine/"dice" that people play for the fun of playing. It needs to have a high payback, otherwise they do not play because the bankroll dwindles too quickly. Some nobles might be addicted to this as well as the commoners.

Third type is something where you have a reasonable chance to win something "nice" that is valuable for you, and hard to get/pricey/"too luxurious" otherwise. The organizing success of this one lies heavily on the organizer's cost of producing that "nicety". Eg. if Sir Jacket can produce red clothes (highest non-noble colour) for 1 million, yet sells them for 10 million because of the monopoly, he is in a prime position to give good odds if such are the prizes. This might appeal to any group, typically low-mid range.

Fourth type is the charity raffle, where the rationale for buying tickets is firstly being able to support the cause, and the prizes are secondary, and usually of low (at least resale) value. Nobles and rich players are the natural target group.

An example of a payout scheme

We want to design a 1/3-type lottery that would appeal to new players. We select "home" to be the prize type. The ticket price needs to be low enough that anyone can buy a ticket and have a reasonable chance to win a home, so that every winner is possibly a player more rooted to the game as well. 250,000 moneritos sounds like a good price. Making the chances divisible by 10,000, that gives 2,500 million as the maximum value of prizes (multiplied by their probability). An example plan is as follows:


This combines the possibility to get rich ("A castle with large gardens, carriage, servants, items, silver, play like the most ancient nobles that I am so much jealous of") to the more down-to-earth considerations ("I don't want to invest real money into any game, I am just playing for fun, but hey the other guy did actually win a house from this, and I got the money by selling my help in the last few days so why not").

The downside from the organizer's pov is that all the items actually have a market value, so you don't get to unload stuff that has value to the buyer only (and not to you). The gold coins perhaps could be procured from them who want to distribute theirs to make them gain value.

The odds for winning a castle or a nice house are 0.03%, those of winning a small house in an own lot 0.3% (this should be so high that there is a guy who has won it!) and anything better than money back 5%. It sounds stupid to have a prize that is lower than the ticket prize, but it's important that about 20-25% win something, otherwise it is disheartening to play, and gets played less.

The game should be designed such that there is little need for manual distribution of prizes. All game concepts - except m - need to be transferred to the winner manually, which requires resources from the organizer, admins cannot spare theirs for private enterprise. Furthermore, while Items can be allocated to new players, they reside in a google DB, and require much larger work as the winner needs to be initialized there before he can be given any possession.

University

It seems that both Fortune, and the Favor of the King (or, perhaps, these are the same) does not shine on the University, and therefore the Chancellor must responsibly step down following the Great Calamity.

Perhaps there is a new Chancellor who wishes to step forward and direct a rebuilding process for a New University. If not, then I would propose in my letter of resignation that the University be dissolved, the assets (remaining building, gold, and wreckage) be returned to the donators in approximate proportion to their donations, and the remaming unbuilt land be returned to the Town. I leave this final decision to the Town.

signed

The (former) Chancellor.

I started a draft of a quickstart guide for new players to give them all of the pertinent information in once place. This is a living document and will be edited and added to often.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bSAIQjnhEIZfuIX7IaYiuw1Y-3PvnNPfQqAfl_AFOcY/edit

Meanwhile a nice looking game Full Metal Wars is doing something similar than us, from the crypto-crowdfunding perspective.

It looks like it's real time so not for people in my age, but check it out

I've added you as an editor

It wouldn't surprise me. I've been thinking about this a lot. For example, take the Average Joe who might hear about Bitcoin and decide to give it a try. Maybe he is buying a video game at his local game shop, and quite honestly, doesn't care if anybody knows that he did. He sees that they accept Bitcoin, and sees it as just another payment method. It allows him to translate his hard-earned money into a video game. He doesn't really care if it's cash, Visa, or Bitcoin.

Enter these non-financial services, like online games. Now, the only way to play this game is to send Monero into it. He may not even care at all about the currency or the fact that it has privacy built-in. He just wants to try this new game his mate told him about. He joins the game, likes it, and ends up learning a bit about cryptocurrencies in the process. IMO, this is the demographic that we want to go after-people who don't even know what crypto is, but support the ecosystem built around it.  

There is only so much trading that crypto people can do amongst themselves until some become rich, some become poor, and many become jaded. We need new blood, and I think online games involving crypto have a very good chance of attracting that group.

The Earl emerges from his haw (it was him defending his and LL's valuables the whole time after all) to survey the damage done.

His house and the Grail and Quail were both in tact; after reading HM's analysis on roof gardens, he is pleasantly surprised the Grail and Quail was unscathed. Perhaps being next to the Cathedral has a multitude of benefits.

Continuing east, he passes the Cathedral and sees the sad state of affairs on the other side; the Town Hall and Lucky Lion main building "ain't as good as they once were". The Earl trembles at the sight, but only briefly, as he had been acutely aware of the possibility for some time. It was still a shock to realize it had actually happened, and while the condition of the Town Hall was undoubtedly worse, the Earl takes only a passing glance at its wreckage as he rushes into the ruins of the LL south tower. After "exploring" for a few hours, he heads back to the Grail and Quail for lunch; he finds many that have just ventured out of the Cathedral there as well. As they bow to give thanks for their food, they remember with grateful hearts all the things that were spared.

On behalf of the LL shareholders, we are taking suggestions for what to do with F7, whether to repair N tower and rebuild something where S tower was, demolish N tower and start over, or something else entirely.