We the King proclaim our willingness to sell IC outright at the price of 400,000 m/IC (as long as we retain 1,000 IC for our possible immediate needs to acquire a K10 item
).
Sorry for capping the auction, which is currently at the same price
The losers may turn to us, as always.
We bid 500 mil for the Stone Village Hotel in 2-C. It will be a good place to host the guests of our summer parties in the future. If we get it of course - the building is historic, same design as the Town Halls of Justice and workforce is included. (For the potential buyer, we remind that the Bank is willing to lend up to half of the purchase price - if you are not afraid that the leverage is the reason why the property
is in auction...
).
The
Summer Pavilion in 2-NW (used to be called Summer Palace, but we adjusted down its importance) will be an approx 1,200 sqm event venue which includes full length Wine Cellar.
We have heard rumors that the
wine making in the Kingdom - previously somewhat possible as evidenced by the Forte Spagnolo vineyards in 1-S - is abruptly collapsing. The climate just is unsuitable after the
Flood Earthquake. FS can explain more. Wine will soon be possible to be acquired from France with IC, and later on imported by the Shippers & Merchants (subgame). In a few years from bottling, the character of the vintage is known to the experts, and good ones may be growing in enjoyment for up to 50 years (a real-year). Drinking good wine is good for your health, especially in Ultima.
As for other building projects that we undertake: to celebrate the Bicentenary (and to get to the Summer Pavilion better), the road between Old Town and New City will be constructed. Finally! Every other chapelry is connected by road. The road in this case is 10 m wide and paved. It will be raffled in the King's 200y Party, so that the King pays the construction and it is named after the winner's choosing.
(The road to University borough is called "Boulevard" and to San Pietro is "King's Esplanade". The planned road from San Pietro to Versailles is "Champs Elysees". The one leading to B.4 is unnamed: some lower level NPC Town official is currently trying to
sell the right to name it for 20 million, and we have not reacted to the industrious conduct, surprising though it is. So the offer stays in force.
Stone prices are increasing. While the capabilities of the Kingdom's bookkeeping system do not allow NPC to be utilized, and quarrying cannot be started, the building has started in earnest and one project - The New Department Store (2,990 sqm) - yesterday took 3.4 million stone.
In case no remedy can be found before, and it is quite possible, as V.5 is far away, the peasants reactivate their old trade relations to sell stone to us, delivered to any borough, at a fixed price of 200 m/stone. There was never the intention to limit the building by the lack of stone. (The lack of windows is a premeditated game decision).
The RWWC is getting their shit together, and can offer the following schedule in window production:- Continuously going on: conversion of WIA35 to WIAxxx, about 350 sqm of windows are converted per real-day
- In the beginning of 1601: 2,000*WIRS, first class of historical buildings may buy at reduced price, others market
- Approximately in the beginning of 1602: Rouen order of 5,000*WIRS (already paid)
- In the beginning of 1602: 3,500*WIRS, the new factory comes online, 2nd class may buy cheaply, others market
- From here onwards, 3,500*WIRS will be produced per year (real-week).
If there was no hoarding/warehousing of windows by any parties, and no new construction, and all wanted to fit the windows to their existing buildings, all the buildings would have windows by mid-1603 (3 weeks). The market forces dictate that the above is not true, and the windows shortage will be with us for some time still, a feature of this Era.
