tiistai 2. helmikuuta 2016

March 1625 - Day 21-22

Martti did not have time to login at all yesterday, but that is completely fine. The game is designed so that it is mandatory to login only once per every calendar week, to do the health challenge all at once, and lose some bonus for doing it, but no spectacular penalty. (In fact, Martti is the only one of the about 10 GM-played characters at the moment, who actually consumes every day.)

If the game interests you, but even a weekly commitment does not feel right, it is possible to start a Foreign Owned Corporation (FOC). This is a standalone corporation account (not owned by anything ingame, so only owned and controlled by the one who has the access to the account. The advantage is to never need to do health, disadvantage is to miss most of the bonuses that are usually aimed towards PC only. But it is good for investing and betting for the game's success because it is easy to setup and may earliest expire after 350 years of inactivity. The UI, controls and commands are completely same as with player characters. This account type has a 50 XMR flat setup fee. If interested, contact admins for deposit.

Now, the much-awaited thing happened: Martti's character Level shows: L4.


This was completely planned and expected, but still feels good of course! The next promotion has more achievement required: Martti needs to have a house and suitable experience. Also the minimum age is 20 and the target age for Expert L5 is 25 years. So it is expected that it will take 2-7 years, but can take even longer, to reach this level.

Getting there by 20 is probably difficult and requires tying up all the money to house in an early age. But waiting too long is not good either. The Baron promotion happens from Master and closes latest in the age of 45. After that, Masters will promote Wizards L7, which is of course good, but getting to Baron and Earl (Martti's lifetime goal), is very difficult anymore.

So recursively engineering from there, the promotion to Baron L13 should happen about 40, which means that Master L6 needs to be about 30, and therefore it fits neatly in place if Expert L5 could be got at 22 years, in 4 years. That should be doable since Martti is actually quite wealthy already, having lived his first years in opportune times.

The "4-year plan" will therefore consist on:
1. Buy/build a house that at minimum meets the level promotion criteria.
2. Always wear a green suit, never get caught in poor peoples' clothes (or without clothes, which happens if the Moth ate your suit, and after 1 year the bailiff will fine you for indecency if new ones are not bought meantime).
3. Buy a sword. There are many personal things that can be bought, and Martti would like a horse, a service of Ming China, collection of coins, red suit, boots, etc. But all costs money and/or IC, and is either behind deposit or hard work. Since Martti has decided on the latter, he must first work hard, and the betterment of living standard will probably be possible in the later years, God willing.
4. Gain experience and explore all possibilities to enhance bankroll, taking even large risks if the expected value is good.

Why Sword is a priority is that Martti is young and in a good physical shape. Training in swordsmanship may give him the possibility to join the army, which will (depending on the situation) allow gains of loot and in social standing (in the ancient times, every PC was Knighted on the spot, now only based on valor in battle), or an untimely disability or death. When Skills game module comes (which will happen while Martti is still in battleworthy age), those who have had a sword for some years gain a nice starting value to the skill. The international situation is troubled and anything may come up.

This is the Quasquibicentenary (225th) Jubilee year, so because so many interesting things are going on, the health challenge and petty market making are not reported. Only interesting things are.

Success Tracker
Age: 18/60? (at present, it looks possible to live to be 60, since diseases are not implemented yet, and Martti has good wealth base to keep himself nourished with the usual foodstuffs even in times of a tough health challenge and/or disrupted market ("famine"))
Level: 4/14 (only 4 actual promotions are needed though, if following normal schedule, since L6 promotes to L13 often)
Wealth: 25/1000 (9.2% annual gain in wealth is needed for 42 years to get to the target, so while the start exceeded expectations, it will get difficult very soon because the "unlimited" earning opportunities return only 0.2-5%, compared to the "limited" ones at 10-15%. Martti has maxxed out his limited ones already.)

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