Any games in the gambling industry but none outside of that that I can think of. I doubt the market for CryptoKingdom gold to USD will ever be allowed due to the regulations involved and I don't think its worth heading down that road at this point.

That being said, if I asked you to help design a website for me in exchange for 100 CryptoKingdom gold then that might be allowable (though unlikely to be a legally binding contract).

The game currency is again split to allow greater precision:

- 1:1,000,000 XMR = monerito = basic unit = "m"
- 1,000 m = kilo = "k"/"km"
- 1,000,000 m = 1 XMR = monero = "M" (or Monero logo) "Mm" )


- Playing the game costs money, and the money is transferred to the game hosting company when you pay it. No scam involved if you get what you pay for.

- Currently I am thinking of selling Level Upgrade Kits for about 15 XMR. This would be the main method of financing the game, hosting and development. The levels that you have to pay to get, would be 5, 6, 7. The first few levels are free, and the higher Nobility levels are bonus levels for good work and give you free money rather than take it. Playing one character from teenage to Nobility and die at about 65 yo, is a 2-year project and costs the 3*15 XMR, very cheap indeed.

- Selling virtual stuff such as ingame currency is not a problem anywhere. To get more ingame currency, moneritos, you have to send in moneros that will officially be converted (technically it is an outright sale with no refund). All the other ways of exchanging your RL value for game value need to be done via ingame currency exchangers.

- If it happened that someone wants to cash out, it has to be done on aftermarket, using the exchangers, or selling stuff against RL payment.

I am not interested to talk more about legality. We are playing a youthful game, their game is ailing. Incompatible.

The game will have (resource) gold, which can be used in many prestigious ways such as in shiny clothes, jewellery, and platings of statues. It has great utility value. It is quite indestructible, you can recover the gold almost fully from any application and remold it.

Since for many reasons it is expected to have a stable value (even more than that of the currency itself ), it can be used for initial funding of the development. There only needs to be rules about how gold is handled so that no new gold will be created to the company or insiders. My transparent mechanism is every 2 hours of active measured online play, one coin worth about 0.05 M at the time - enough to sustain a character for 1.25 real-days with food and drinks - and accompanied with a captcha.

The world starts with a certain quantity that is rather large so that the initial inflation is low, but if the game gets millions of players, the total amount gradually grows to 100 times or more larger.


What else valuable the game will have?
- taxing rights (produce resources) are granted to king's faithful nobles for the rest of the character lifetime.
- farms can be started by anyone (so have no initial value): after investment, hard work, and luck, they start to produce profit.
- zoning rights in the city are auctioned.
- all the other mechanisms will be based on combining resources (produced in farms) and work (character-workdays = 1h of real-time), this creates for example all the buildings in the city - whose resale value is high.


The initial sale of gold is a one-time fundraiser, because the company will not have the right to generate more of it (unless it runs a budget surplus and buys in the ingame market to release the moneritos back in circulation; this gold may be sold against a real-life payment).

Taxing rights is more of a perk for players to aspire higher, and can be given to game developers and helpers who cannot be compensated IRL due to paperwork, but they don't produce income.

Zoning right sale (buyer gets to: clearance of land => receive wood; quarry for stone => receive stone; build roads; zone for plots => sell plots) is an important item of income.

Other income sources are drink taxes and imported luxuries (price paid is removed from the game == goes to company's pocket). Most payments by characters go to various labor pools and are given back to characters in proportion to their work in the following simple way (example is from house construction):


We take the carpenter as an example. Carpentry is an artesan skill that can be learned by doing. It has 6 skill levels, and the increase of skill increases the efficiency of work as follows:

0 (no skill) 100% work
1 (beginner) 125% work
2 (novice) 150% work
3 (expert) 200% work
4 (master) 300% work
5 (wizard) 400% work.

This directly corresponds to payment as follows:

Everyone who has selected "building projects - carpenter" as their current pursuit (it can be changed anytime - 24 hours offline lets your character do 24 workdays carpentry meanwhile) will participate in a pool with his efficiency rating.

Suppose the project is the only thing happening in town and takes minimum 240 days to complete. This means that there is 25 units of carpenter work available daily. The constructor is willing to pay the guild-mandated wage for this job, 3,500m per unit. (1 unit is 1 day of 100% efficiency).

Now if carpenters with exactly 25 units of work total show up, they get their wages, and the castle progresses at top speed. If more carpenters are available, the castle owner still sees work progress at the top speed, but the income for the carpenters is lowered because some of them go unemployed. If less carpenters show up, the progress is delayed. It is possible to adjust the amount paid per unit, to make the carpenters come to your project in expense of others. (The price elasticity is automatic, all carpenters get paid equally in proportion to their efficiency = skill.)

There will be many pools to choose from, and some require certain skills to even be available. Other trades are structured as "proprietors" (tailor, goldsmith, doctor), or businesses (distillery, stables, farm).

There doesn't. Please create your own game with a different design. From the point of view of Monero, we would like very much to see many different games using Monero.

I would guess that the funding would come in XMR from the Monero community. But I'm not sure what rpietila has in mind for that.

Where content beats graphics(TM)

The town is composed of Boroughs. One borough is subdivided to Chapelries. One chapelry fits into a smartphone screen in bird's-eye view, so that every plot is clickable (about 10x15 plots). Thus the Borough is about 1,350 plots. Since a modest house occupies one plot, the population of a borough may reach 1,000 citizens (families will be implemented in version 5). It is possible for the population be much less also, if the borough mainly consists of castles and gardens. New boroughs are opened when existing ones feel busy.

When a borough is opened, it is governed by Sheriff (player character nominated by town council, who receives a salary), or his Deputy (a sheriff has many duties and may need to delegate). When at least 20 characters of level 5 or higher reside in the borough, it starts self-governance. In order of seniority (highest level; earliest appointment), the citizens are asked to join the Borough Court. Highest nobles or busiest businessmen may opt out, leaving their place to the next until 5 seats are filled. These convene together and appoint a Bailiff (typically a senior one among them) to manage the affairs of the borough.

A borough is entitled to collect property tax for stone buildings. (Before incorporation, buildings are tax-free to encourage migration.) The court decides the rate, and the bailiff manages the use of funds. Haws are exempted from property tax. They are areas of land that the King has donated to his chosen men, and must be walled at the expense of the owner to enforce the exemption. A borough needs many public buildings and constabulary may be appointed to help visitors and combat crime. Bailiff also gets a salary.

From the top down, Town Council is nominated in the same fashion, but with largest holders of Gold game-wide taking priority. 10 seats are to be filled. Town Council is lead by Mayor, chosen among the Councillors. Town Council's largest source of income are drink taxes. The water in the city is not potable, so all drinks must either be imported from overseas (Wine, Cognac), procured from farmers (Beer) or distilled in the city (Mead). It is handy to tax all of them, and fair, since the rich consume the more expensive drinks. The town also gets to keep the zoning income (sale of land in new boroughs for development), but King (who owns the land) has his fingers in the game also.

Even after helping the poor boroughs (via sheriffs, that are overseeing multiple boroughs and have to listen to the bailiffs' pleas for donations to projects), and running a bureaucracy, the town runs a surplus. It is distributed as dividends to the gold holders, which the councillors eagerly decide, being the gold holders themselves. (The drink taxes they, however, cannot decide. That would constitute a major conflict of interest.)

The King is another entity. His main income is the foie gras tax from the countryside. It is so healthy, delicious, and therefore, precious and valuable, that the King can arrange the sale of the surplus and live well off the proceeds. King has his own army of Knights of different levels, all well-paid player characters, ready to accomplish whatever is in King's heart.

The King also appoints all Nobles. In practice, this may be delegated to his Ministers, since the population of Nobles is targeted to be 5% of the characters. That allows for peaceful income distribution by the in-kind tax of everything that the countryside produces. The tax rate starts at 10% for potatoes and goes up to 50% for foie gras, which the nobles divide between themselves in an elaborate pyramid model so that the highest ranking ones can eat it every other day. (The poor nobles stealthily sell it in the city, though, and eat meat instead.)

City officials and other prominent people may be promoted to noble titles without actually giving them the feoff. The lowest noble rank of Baron cannot even have a feoff since the smallest one is Earldom, obviously ruled by an Earl. The number of Earldoms, on the other hand, is only 1 per 50 characters (further reduced by some holding many). The King must keep the nobles happy by granting them haws, titles, and gold instead. On the other hand, the nobles also pay a semiannual homage to the King by sending gifts out of their good fortune. I scratch your back, you scratch mine.

"Pssst...  I need some CKgold to get my caviar, can you spot me some?"
"No, but if some XMR shows up at this address in the next 5 minutes, I might have what you want."

I found a game that incorporates some of the concepts, but was a bit psychedelic at first glance.

First game of luck is now designed for the Kingdom. (As a designer, I like to create something previously unseen )

- Player has a choice of 8 winning lines. These are numbered from 2 to 9. He can play any combination of lines with an amount of XMR that makes the maximum payout in one line to be 3,000 XMR (Kelly betting). Casino margin is 1%.

- The winning lines have a payout table that could be as follows:

hits   payout
6   204
5   56
4   12
3   6

This example is the line number 4.

- The game draws three single numbers (from 0 to 9) at random. What counts is whether they are divisible to the number in the winning line. In this case you make 6 times your investment (5:1 odds), if all numbers turned out to be "4", or if one was an "8" and another one a "4".

- If you play multiple lines, it is possible to win two jackpots at the same time (3s and 9s with 9-9-9), or even three (2s, 4s and 8s with 8-8-8). The game is therefore very suitable to the Chinese market.

Now it is possible if you are a Bitcointalk user! And besides you get 2,000 gold for 100 XMR. And only 40k gold is for sale ( ) since the initial stash of 1,000,000 will be generated over 100 real-days, linearly, and may be much prized in the open market already after a few weeks.

So I totally urge you to reserve yours! I may put a cap on high amounts so that as many as possible can get at least some..