The $Mini-Game BETA: Join, bid, play

[Captain]

Auction was supposed to end in 1 or 2 days from now. (3 days from Sunday, but does that count sunday?)

REgardless, what do you (the bidders) want? I can end it sooner. Tomorrow would be fine. Tuesday okay?

[Captain]

Davout, sorry to disappoint you. I understand what you're saying but I'm not going to change it without a solution to replace it with. Can you suggest one that would not have as a consequence that we end up encouraging waste and corruption?

[Kramerman]

Im happy. I am ready to start whenever everyone else is.

[Franses]

Ending tomorrow sounds good to me. Are others able to join later?
If someone bids higher just before closure such that his competator is not able to define a new bid, I suggest that the competitor may still opt for the tiles that are not sold. Of course this is automatically solved if others are able to join later.

Perhaps in the final game we should organize two or three auctions selling 50%/33% of the tiles per auction. That way those who lost out in the first auction get a second/third chance.

[Epistax]

We shoulda done it the way the US did: At the starting bell, everyone run out and claim territory, first come first serve.

Yes, we really did do it that way. Why? It was bad land that no one would want, unless it was free and we made a fuss about it.

[Kramerman]

Originally posted by Epistax
We shoulda done it the way the US did: At the starting bell, everyone run out and claim territory, first come first serve.

Yes, we really did do it that way. Why? It was bad land that no one would want, unless it was free and we made a fuss about it.

yup. If the land wasnt free, it was dirt cheap (that was the decent land). Alotta people made alotta money by land speculation. Thats what I would do if we used that system, but we dont.

[GhengisFarb™]

This is just a beta version, right? After we the major kinks worked out we restart the real version?

[Epistax]

I would like it if beta just meant none of the rules currently are final, and no funds you have are sure to say. I would hope properties stay under the same control, and many more will be available soon.

[jdd2007]

suggestions anyone? what do we do with all the money we're going to accumulate, besides use it to make more money? is there any way to splurge? sponsor your own library wing perhaps?

this is role playing, right? well, only an idiot would not spend money [there arent any here.] look, when we have lots of money, people will start building enourmous mansions, and all types of things. they will hire their own army (outside the game) bribe people, and pay [ever-increasing] taxes. if i had hundreds of thousands of Lytons, here is what i would do:

-buy an ENOURMOUS house
-buy winter homes in the mountains
-buy summer homes by the sea
-get properties in various cities
-construct monuments to past leaders
-buy the Jungle Gazette
-get a monopoly on the banana trade
-make a fleet of ships
-hire a bunch of people
-pay my way on long trips around Abanaba

as you can see, no one will have piles of Lytons around when you have the $ to construct ever more magnificent homes.

[adaMada]

Sine I'm not showing up on the lists, and I hadn't really made a definitive decision before, I might as well go ahead and do it now (it's only a beta )... I'll take 005 for $1,200

-- adaMada

[GhengisFarb™]

Changed my bid to $225 on tiles 15 and 22. Figured since I called my company "Apolotonian Weapon Works", I ought to try to stay close to Apolyton.

[Franses]

Originally posted by Captain


suggestions anyone? what do we do with all the money we're going to accumulate, besides use it to make more money? is there any way to splurge? sponsor your own library wing perhaps?

When conquering the world in the real game we might stumble upon some nice artifacts e.g. the golden shield of .... or the magic bowl of ..... Some of the rich people might buy these artifacts on an auction and make all the others jealous. Of course, everybody wants his own mansion in Paris (if we ever conquer that) and who does not eventually want to buy a summer house on the beaches of Apolyton?

[Franses]

If I understand it correctly there will always be more food then needed. Why not add a brewery (building, cost: 60 shields) that converts 1 food into one barrel of beer. Demand will be 1 barrel per head count.

Similarly we could add a black smith. A black smith requires a building and one unit of labor. The black smith provides horseshoes and gear for knights, spearman, swordsman etc. Of course the black smith is no longer needed in case we get more advanced and do not longer use horses. Instead we build infantery and tanks. In that case ammunition factories are needed.

We could also add extra production facilities to the tiles. For example you might plant banana trees in jungle tiles, sheep on grasslans etc. You have to buy the banana trees/sheep first and after that the banana's/wool can be sold to the people. Or will it become to complicated this way?

[civman2000]

2 Questions:
1. Must warehouses be declared to be for commerce or shields when built, or do they work for either?
2. Is one laborer able to turn one shield to production per turn or do you have to hire new ones every turn? Because gettting say 10 laborers to build a warehouse is pretty much impossible at this stage of the game. FOr example, I will have 5 shields in 5 turns. Say then I hire 2 laborers. In 5 more turns I would have a warehouse, each turn one laborer would use a shield from the 5 i had stored and the other would use the new one that is produced that turn.

[GhengisFarb™]

Here are the current lands STILL AVAILABLE IN BOLDYou purchase no more that 3 tiles (borrowing money from the government) and if you wish to borrow more than $1000 you can purchase only one tile. (IE, the only way you can purchase more than one tile is to buy a buch of unimproved jungle.)



001 Apolyton N (horse, grass, rd), $1000
....$1000...NYE
002 Apolyton NE (mined grass rd), $1000
....$1100...Franses
....$1000...MrWIA
003a Apolyton SW (forest, rd), $1200
....$1200...Jonny
003b Apolyton W (forest, rd), $1200
....$1200...Spiffor
004 Apolyton NW (grass), $500
....$525...GhengisFarb
005 Apolyton NW10 (mined forest rd), $1200
....$1200...adaMada
006 Apolyton NW11 (mined grass rd), $1000
....$1400...Kloreep


007 Apolyton NW12 (mined grass rd), $1000

008 Apolyton NE1 (mined grass rd), $1000
....$1000...civman2000
009 Termina N (jungle), $200
....$500...Epistax

010 Termina NE (mined grass rd), $1000

011 Termina E (mined grass rd), $1000
....$1020...Rendelnep
012 Termina NW (jungle), $200
....$250...Epistax
013 Termina NE1 (jungle), $200
....$250...UnOrthOdOx
014 Termina NE2 (jungle), $200
....$200...UnOrthOdOx
015 Termina NE3 (jungle), $200
....$225...GhengisFarb

016 Tassagrad N (mined grass rd), $1000

017 Tassagrad NE (jungle), $200

018 Tassagrad SE (jungle), $200
....$200...Sheik

019 Tassagrad S (grass rd, mine?), $1000

020 Tassagrad SW (mined grass rd), $1000

021 Tassagrad W (jungle), $200
....$200...Shiek

022 Tassagrad NW (jungle), $200

023 Tassagrad NW10 (jungle), $200
....$250...jdd2007
024 Tassagrad NW11 (jungle), $200
....$250...jdd2007
025 Tassagrad NW12 (jungle), $200
....$250...jdd2007
026 BHQ N (mountain), $200[/b]
....$225...GhengisFarb

027 BHQ NE (jungle), $200

028 BHQ S (jungle), $200

029 BHQ SW (mined grass rd river), $1500
....$1500...Kman
030 BHQ W (mined grass rd river), $1500
....$1500...Captain

031 BHQ NW (mined grass river), $1500