BEER, MEAD, MUS, CAN distributed!


Note to NPCC's:

* I gave you DIS, and they cannot be sold, but the mead they produce (and have produced) can be sold if you deem expedient.

* To increase the MUS in circulation and allow competitive selling, I also gave you 100*MUS each. While NPC may consume MUS, it is mainly intended that you sell them (or at least the majority). The value of them (counted at 150k each, while market is much higher), is deducted from your future allowances.

* The initial stock of suits has also been given. You can experiment with the formula that converts them to points. The formula is made such that you should probably buy more, and not sell (especially after the spoil when it comes).

* Just a recoup: NPCC accounts are freely allowed to own and speculate on the following items:
- VEG, MEAT, FOIE
- MEAD, BEER
- CAN, MUS
- Wines and spirits that are allowed to be consumed (some high end products do not belong to the list!)
- Clothes and suits, except unique suits, blue, black and purple suits.

Acquiring other items is forbidden. Only suits have a utility value in the end, and that is massive!


The final utility function and the sheet for marking down the consumes is FINAL (Game DBNPCC). If you have any questions about consumes based on the tentative (earlier) formulas, I will answer them! And of course otherwise as well, this is a massive development in the game economy!!

Is there a list of available API's for crypto kingdom?

Town Council decisions

Order of development: Two major game modules are coming in February-March:
- Building
- Skills.

Several important other things will be fixed when these core mechanics are ready, during spring and summer.

There are no new core mechanics planned until autumn, and Items will be one to be implemented then. Also the Countryside, to function in a planned way, requires much new players, and to get them, we need to have Skills, and then some time.

Building is almost specified, and will be ready in 2 weeks.

Town consists of 25 boroughs, of which 12 are opened (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,11,22,23). In these boroughs, the land may be:
- Farmed (as a whole chapelry)
- Quarried (as a whole chapelry)
- Zones to lots (as a whole chapelry)

Each individial lot may be Stone Building, Wood Building, or Other use (such as empty lot, street, park etc).

(Not all chapelries are eligible for all uses, nor all lots.)

Stone and Wood buildings produce M, CUL, IC and SCI. (Factories don't produce these, but are required for other things to be produced.)

The construction of a stone building requires STO1, WIRS, BLD (building labor, which the S-BLD will be divided into as well) and M (luxuries).

Wood buildings are a different module for starting commoners. They can build them with their own effort and a little money. Only one "wood lot" per character produces any benefit.

Lot view will be redesigned to show the building, and pic can be uploaded. All payouts etc will be visible.

The 12 opened boroughs contain 108 chapelries. Each of these must be designated for some purpose for the time 1628-1640. There will be no zoning or changing purpose during this time. (This is to save everybody's energy for the massive real estate boom that will start at the same time with the opening of Building module.) During this time, lots can be built into, bought and sold. Not eg. resized. Already built-up areas will be checked that their zoning is current.

The building formulas should be ready in 2 days, after which it is possible to give a complete info package for all landowners (here) that allows them to make the decisions that admins will implement in the period before the "freeze until 1640".

You can see this page for info:

https://cryptokingdom.me/wiki

There have also been a couple wrappers written, one in PHP and one in node.js:

https://github.com/spherico/ck_api

https://github.com/saddammonero/cryptokingdom

What are the weights of the basket? Or are they equally weighted? Interesting chart.

Added some more S-HODL shares for sale at a market price of 95000.

Shares are also available for exchange using S-CKG/CKG and S-CON/CON upon request.

Palazzo Casino Yearly Report - 1627

This is the yearly report that Palazzo Gaming Corp (PGC) produces. 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://54.213.226.114/

NOTE: The IP has changed

Assets:

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

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

At the end of 1627, the following assets exist in the company vault:

- 4,175*CR1625E (20,875 CKG)
- 88,516*CT1625
- 468 mil in cash




Revenue change since last year:
CKG: -255 (-191,250,000m)
CT1625: +3138 (141,210,000m)
m: -85 mil

This gives us a smallish loss from 1627 of -135,040,000m. This works out to -13,504m per share for the yearly PPS.


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:

We are still planning to migrate to the new server. The site will likely be accessible from a subdomain of cryptokingdom.me. In the meantime, the Amazon server hardware we were using for the site failed, and it was migrated to a new IP: http://54.213.226.114/

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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County+PRE update

The deadline for county changes is Saturday 23:59.

But before that, it's important to know what you should do!

1. Have SCI in the county, which the admin will consume.

2. Have WOR-points in the county, which are produced and consumed automatically (WOR-x, MGR-x, ASS-x as previously).

3. Have a garrison in the county, or better still, mobile troops. All troops that are pacifying the area, but are not in the county account, need to be told to me separately.

4. You can move all stone away. It is needed in other purposes. It never left the big stone pile in B.9 anyway.

5. Tell publicly in the thread, how you want to treat the locals. Use imagination. Telling nothing will not attach you to the county, also it will not yield much either loot or trade goods.

6. Have patience. In 1522, six Quarry companies started, but after a few years they were 4, then 3, 2, 1 and finally none (who continued quarrying). King recently bought 6 chapelries in the wastelands of CryptoTown for 4,500 mil. Compared to this, the opportunity to get your own County - which is not a chapelry, nor borough, nor farm nor manor, but a whole town (+ all of the others) for a few billion is just so ridiculously cheap!

If you cannot take the cost side, team up. Do something. It seems reality that even if we now enable building and even if you press the building stone from the peasants, we cannot profitably start 10 new towns. Negotiate. If your army costs 20 mil per year, you can take the risk of cutting the size and wishing it will still be enough, or being creative.

I do not have the luxury to let bad preparations count as if they were good. If everyone received the same regardless of their effort, nobody would soon spend the effort. Every PRE-point has been and will be calculated with 0.1 precision and rounded in the end.

7. Have a CLXII, COH, some DOM+FOIE or whatever you prefer. Take a bit distance. A county in a few years is likely worth either more than CK is now, or both the county and CK are not worth much at all. If you do not want to aim for the big prizes, nor do what it takes (it takes a lot), consider organising the financial burden, or the administration away from you. It is not a shame even to close down your preparations (many a present duke had a quarry in the 1500s, but closed it down).

There is the rule that if you do not advance your county, you may lose it, and the most likely time for this to happen is when you die. The reason for such a rule is that it is well known that people cannot be expected to participate in an internet game for multiple years. IRL comes first for most people. It is not a big deal if buildings in town are left to rot, but whole counties cannot be given to such a freehold as they are too important from the game perspective. (I just felt that now is the opportune time to open up the reasoning behind this rule that originally appalled people and idk - may still do -but it's not going to change anyway. Manors can possibly be freehold, I'm thinking of the ramifications...)

8. Counties will start popping up manors when they are advanced/pacified enough (and yes the army does count extremely much in this, you just don't see it yet). That's quite sweet considering each manor brings thousands of meat per year and there is no lack of demand.

9. Despite this exhortation, it is likely that the focus with the game is now on the new Building module, and then I will move on to specify the Skills. Countryside will happen in the "slack time". It is realistically needed when we have much more players, and we will have them when Skills is online, as that is the first interesting new player module in the whole game! (Health is not interesting, and new players can scarcely play anything else.)

10. If you want to involve me in the negotiations concerning what to do with your county, I am concentrating heavily on Building-related aspects, and therefore it might make sense to involve someone else. You know well enough what is coming to make deals!

Lord Syksy and his small garrison at Petrichor will maintain friendly relations to the locals and any and all that wish to be welcomed as friends. Naturally threats will be dealt with, but none of Syksy's troops are allowed to initiate with force except against local wildlife that may prey on the cattle, e.g. wolves.
My relations continue to follow the pattern described the post of regarding the locals of Sisu: https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/819073.msg13531446#msg13531446

Lord Syksy is present at Petrichor and the following applies:

• Troops are allowed to loot NOTHING from the locals, merchants or passing travelers. No exceptions, and severe consequences will follow if hostile and selfish actions are taken towards anybody, unless attacked upon. Then full force will be naturally utilized to neutralize the threat, including the cannon that's been placed to guard Petrichor.
• Lord Syksy has hand-picked his guard (the multiple PTE, and any officers) and has clearly indicated his intentions already before-hand, to discourage enlistment of those prone for looting. This is one reason why for example mercenaries did not come into question for Lord Syksy, even during the looming threat of Gustaf Adolf.
• Lord Syksy is not hesitant to get his hands dirty with even mundane work, and he is intentionally willing to sacrifice his prestige as an Earl for such goals. He has chosen the title Lord over that of normally for Earls, and he wishes to maintain good morale through example. He personally communicates with local community leaders and wishes to build a synergy with them, and not leech them.
• Troops are encouraged to maintain friendly relations to locals, and help them with improving constructions (i.e. improving their rather primitive settlement); this includes e.g. improving local readily existing buildings such as the mill(s), farmland, possibly ore-related actions. Military structures are secondary in priority for the time being, and civilian infrastructure is the main priority.
• Troops are encouraged to seek trade opportunities and other friendly relations as well as gather possible intelligence. Petrichor is intended to function (hopefully) in the future as a road node to North from CryptoTown, where weary travelers can rest, trade, and continue to other more important places.
• Scouting, mapping, road building (or planning) are normal daily activities for also the military personnel enlisted at Petrichor. They naturally spend a lot of time also practicing their skills and upholding their health, but they do attempt to assist the WOR/MGR/ASS there.
• Lord Syksy is present in person 24/7 at Petrichor along with his blood-sister Sini. He is communicating with CryptoTown through messengers, where mainly his own father and son (SyksyII) are taking care of business, for example planning the future family city mansion estate that will hopefully be eventually erected at B23.
• Any profit will be gained through trading, friendly exchange of services with the locals, resource gathering (MUS and such), but there is no forced taxation.