January 1626 - Day 28

New year, new day! Martti is now 19 and all is good!

Before anything, let's get to the new LotRaffle, which has just opened. So that the players would have something to do, and a chance (about 1%) to win a gold coins and (0.01%) to win some life-changing prizes that the nobles have donated, there is now a tab on the top of the game screen, urging to explore a lot. When it is found, there is a slot machine granting a prize. It reloads every 5 minutes, to a different lot of course.

Martti's first try to locate a place in 4-N did not work out (even taxi drivers do not always find the right address from more than 800 existing), but the second one in 1-SE-E1 (East Alley 1), granted a W1612, an average quality old wine! The next try gave a M, worth, well 1 m... Let's wait for 5 minutes for one more.. This is the only way for CR-A 1 CKG gold coins to come to circulation so despite being only 1 CKG, worth about 0.9 mil by gold value, it is expected they fetch 3 mil in the aftermarket because of the collectors (a new one comes every year, keeping the mintage low)...

Nah, that one revealed 1*CAN, so perhaps Martti's luck is over for today. Without much ado, he will play this subgame a few times every day and report only when the gold coin or something spectacular is gained. The Lot Raffle is a nice and fun way to build up your balance if you don't have any, which luckily is not the case any more for Martti, who now tends to his business:

The slaughter was late, but pigs were therefore bigger. Martti has decided to add meat to his staple, so CONSUME MEAT 50 is a largish (and often not really needed) investment for a normal 19-year-old, but Martti's ambition to become Earl requires long life and good health. The plan is to consume MEAD, BEER and CAN during the rest of the spring according to the market situation, and save the final push to the VEG for when they become affordable again in the autumn time.

Because of the double year dividends, perhaps, the IC price has been pressured and Martti is already 13/20 towards the sword, patiently waiting for dumps in the market and the slow accumulation from his 24 sqm stone house, 100% purchased with debt).

Other than the sword project, Martti has also started to accumulate towards 50*SCI (cost: about 10 mil) to convert to S-B22 shares. Once the initial capital is accumulated, the shares should turn about 3 mil profit when converted and sold. If this can be made happen every year (the project has a limited duration), it would be the first big time business for the aspiring Merchant, and soon worth a red suit as well.