January 1637 - Day 105

Martti wakes up early in the morning (6 am == January 6th) to check whether his copper token is sold! Well, it hasn't, yet. So, eager to find the right price, Martti lowers the ask to 22 mil and plans to patiently wait there with his offer.

How did he acquire such a treasure? Well, it's this King's raffle to reward players who have placed many asks and bids in the Lot market. To level the playing field, the source data that Martti used in generating his bids is published. Martti's bids are a function of lot area, chapelry-specific "max bid per sqm", a randomiser, upper cap, and rounding to 3 decimals. It took him about 20 minutes to generate the BUY lot_id 1 amount commands, which have now gained him a diamond most ancient copper token already! In addition to fake bids (Martti does not have a real intention to get those fulfilled, just wishes to win prizes), the data can be used to make blanket bids in a certain chapelry for instance, with real intentions.

King had granted a break to his own characters from health management for the duration of his sick leave (1632-1635). If large GIVE consumable_id amount 5 appear in the Changelog, they are to make up for the skipped challenges. The Wisdom normally generated during this time is forfeit (yet the average consumption of substances will be "give-consumed").

This has caused Martti the need to marketbuy things and give them away. Balance is therefore a few mil down from its high point. Martti also saw some papers in the trashbin and upon quick glance, realised that they are the unmasked Wisdom values for all characters! (Presumably used in the King's coming RAF-2 allocation due next month) The values revealed that during his years 1-15, Martti has acquired 1*A points (where A is a scaling constant), then in the years 15-20, an additional 1*A points. The years 20-30 were 2*A points, so the progress seems linear. In fact, due to the loss of wisdom during the 4 years Martti was sick, means that the accumulation in the other years was about 1.66x that of in the previous years.

CAN alone is good, cheap and even somewhat healthy. What Martti saw next in the paper gave him the goosebumps - the table of the item:healthiness values !!! While the values do change, the changes are very gradual (or if not, they will be announced). Martti now knows there are substance/s where a single dose gives more wisdom than a year's quota of CAN, and spirit/s where a bottle beats a year's load of BEER. The foods' effects are known. If I am kidding, it is by a very slim margin compared to the truth revealed.

Martti was approached by Dame Erin of Pada regarding teaming up for the Coronation carriage ride. His duty is to acquire the 2 horses needed and hers is to procure a K7 carriage. In a sort of a spending spree, Martti seeks to buy a K5 himself just to make use of his (soon, at least) 2 horses and get some additional RAF-2 that are allocated to the owners of carriages, among other allocations.

Also, since we are at it - Martti browses through the Ming China catalogue. It's now 15 years since that was introduced. During that time, 1*IC was approx 0.3 million. Now the IC is 0.09/0.07 mil. In the meantime, some have sold their wares for prices near the IC-value of the items. Martti's belief is that once the weak hands are shaken out, the owners of these wares will keep theirs rather religiously and not sell them.

The market with ancient suits had the same phenomenon in the late 1500s: There were plenty on suits existing, but nobody wanted to sell, suits were needed and wanted by new players, and no new production existed. All the conditions that made suit prices to reach quite some heights are planned for Ming China. We only need to wait for the influx of players, and hopefully get some item bids filled in the meantime, so that there is something to sell ! :)