Terrible news! The greatest loss to the Kingdom ever since the Earthquake 25 years ago happened last night! The Royal Palace (main wing = centre) burned to the ground!! To get to see the Royal Palace, we will now first time explore the Town Map in detail. (The walking around the town is available for non-players, so the link works!) The Palace is the large building forming the north side of the Central Square. (Do not care about the graphics, they will get better over time :) )
The land of Crypto Kingdom is vast: by oxcart it takes 4 months to reach Plath to the south from CryptoTown, and even more to reach Ultima Thule, the mystical northest point in North Face. These and many others are Counties, where preparations for new towns are made, trade with locals conducted for mutual benefit and even battles fought! The Final Battle of the Campaign on the River 1623 was fought in Stonehaven county, just north of CryptoTown.
At present we have only one town, CryptoTown, soon 200 years old. It is divided to 25 boroughs and each is subdivided to 9 chapelries, for 225 chapelries in total. Each chapelry fits the screen, and consists of a continuous land area of 150x100 m. All the chapelries of a borough are likewise continuous and join each other. The boroughs are not exactly continuous, they have some space between them, but the navigation arrows lead to different boroughs directly. What is notable in practice is that the opened boroughs (numbers 1-9) do not form a continuous area but have unimplemented boroughs between them. The map is also much in development.
It is likely that CryptoTown will concentrate on developing this area for some time, it is 3.38 sq km, so can easily accommodate more people. There is even a proposal of a perimeter wall/fortification enclosing the whole area. Martti's unbuilt lot of 250 sqm is not small in the ancient era standards. For instance the "palace" of HRH Zechariah the Prince Royal, Heir to the Throne, is a modest 330 sqm building on a 280 sqm lot. Only in the 1600s, enough land was opened to allow people to have low buildings and much green. Many of the buildings of the 1400-1500s, are actually higher and have more floors than the newer buildings. They used to have roof gardens due to the lack of space, but so many of such buildings collapsed in the Earthquake that the building regulations were changed.
Uh - oh, the game is not only walking around (which I will have plenty of time to explain more in the following months). Business and health need to be taken of as well. The fire of the Royal Palace had devastated 1.2% of the "building shares" of the town, and caused a more than 10% drop in CKG price. Many of Martti's lowball bids were also filled and as a result, he found himself negative balance -1,873,210 m! Let's try to sort out the situation. Negative balances should not even happen as a result of the market (only of taxes and such), but if they do, happen, the character cannot buy anything until the balance is remedied.
- First, the health challenge is finished Moderate for the second year.
- Second, find out where it is possible to sell to the bids with a small profit or at least not much of a loss. RON gave a profit of 10k. The others had such a wide difference between bid and ask that they were only listed.
- Third: the reason was found. 2 stinky low bids in NPC had been filled because the promotion round was already and the next one is only in 2 years, a long time. Martti, a 16-year old farmboy now possessed two servants, a BUT-2 and a SPE-1. Their costs are 1.05 mil and 2.10 mil yearly, respectively. The total is now 4 times Martti's own salary, so something needs to be done!
Levelheaded analysis shows that BUT-2 and BUT-3 approximately make back their cost. From BUT-4 it starts to make profit ~0.6 mil/year. SPE-1 on the other hand, is a net cost of ~0.8 mil and even after one promotion, is still a drag. SPE promote slower than BUT. Only SPE-4 is decisively profitable! So we sell the SPE-1 back to the market, it was just a dream with no reality in Martti's life. The balance is left -0.7 mil negative, in the hopes that something of the listed items will be sold. No bids can be placed if balance is negative.
In the end, Martti consumes the first bottle of wine in his life - W1618W (rated 9.5/20 and therefore very cheap). It is Christmas, after all.
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