After a long time of, permit me to say, "feeling such that the best days of the life are either behind or in a distant and uncertain future", Martti feels better when he is informed to have won 370 bottles of a selection of wines in the King's raffle where the tickets were given to the holders of asks and highest bids in the Lot market, one for each such position.
Martti's hack was lame but powerful in its simplicity. When the contest was announced (full text below)
To quickly populate the Lots Ask/Bid market, during the following days starting from now, King will give item prizes to the highest bidder or the (lowest) ask of a random lot. Listing everything you can for sale, and especially placing the highest bid promptly, you have the best chance to help the liquidity of the game and earn your share of the prizes worth 100+ mil. Also legitimate lot trades are eligible to win prizes!
, Martti figured that King is in haste with getting this done, and placing bids and asks should be done quickly. The prizes to be gifted each round can amount to ~20 mil, so winning even once is to win in a lottery. (Prize was worth about 10 mil only, hinting that the rounds may come quite often to let the King dispose of his promised 100 mil).
So every lot was furnished with a 1.0 mil bid, except those in 1-SE that have a backlog in taxes, not a showstopper for a serious buyer, but too much to pay for Martti, who does not have money and is not interested in buying land, just to gain the prizes promised.
The balance was negative, which was surprising, but the reason was that NPC salaries were paid already. It was only slightly negative, because a few of the suits had sold. Now is a chance to sell a few more before the NPCC annual evaluation. And of course list the wines and why not start drinking them as well! In 2 months, Martti will be 30, so not a spring chicken anymore. In the game design plans, wines would belong to the daily menu of characters over 35, and spirits to those over 65.
Quite a number of items were listed for sale but the market did not bear any selling to the bids. Therefore, the negative balance once again prevented the placing of bids. Martti would have checked the pricing of tailors (yes, masochistic but perhaps the sun will rise to the business at a later day) and started to acquire IC for the coronet, and possibly to buy (or at least place bids) for Ming China, and order a carriage (! - but it is needed in the Coronation) and another horse, possibly a H2 to make the carriage look about even with the existing H3. And RAF-2 to gain at least one gemstone out of the total stock of 380, consisting of 13 different types.
All these plans require money, and despite the advertisement and the honestly good price of the lot, it has not gone yet. Heart bleeding, Martti lowers the price to 39 mil. For a 225 sqm south/east facing beauty, talking distance from the OT wall in the People's Borough (22), it is not much.
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