The haste in the drafting of messages has caused some errors, which are now corrected:

Quote from: rpietila on April 19, 2016, 03:46:09 PM

Amber and Jade may be cut in shape to be used as gemstones. At present the standard size of polished Amber plate is 100 g. The jeweler takes the small pieces as his commission, so 1*AMBNP yields 3*AMBP. Amber plates can be used eg in the rim of the coronet. 10 plates are enough. 1*JAD can be made Jade nuggets, 50 g each, so that 1*JAD yields 10*JADN. Do not spend all your unworked AMBNP/JAD on these entry level cuttings though.

AMBNP->5*AMBP ; JAD->20*JADN. Conversion is free of charge. See the properties of the items in the item details.

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The rules regarding the proper appearance of a coronet are as follows:

The Coronet can be thought of having 16 points for stones (or pearls):

8 in the rim, so that the #1 stone faces due front, #2/#3 are next to it, etc, until #8 is directly backwards
8 in the elevated parts (fleurs de lis, strawberry leaves, etc), always on top (towards the ceiling Wink

) of the stones in the rims
Only the highest nobles have the elevated positions available for stones, midranking ones must use pearls
Pearls are not to be mounted on the rim, stones must be used, and the usage of non-royal gemstones (eg. JADN) is reserved for those only who cannot afford stones)
It is ok to have just one stone in the point of honor, or even none at all.
The coronet must be symmetric along the plane that is perpendicular to the line between the wearer's ears.

Coronet design tool will be provided latest when the gems appear.

The NPCC will be given their RAF-2 tickets today, so it is already possible to corner the chances to get the gems. First round of raffle is March-May 1637.

Quote from: rpietila on April 19, 2016, 09:34:32 PM

K10 item
- 6-horse that is very elaborate, pick color, amount of gold and silver = 140 mil

K9 item
- 4-horse that is very elaborate, pick color, amount of gold and silver = 50 mil
- 6-horse that is ~~very elaborate, pick color, amount of gold and silver~~ = 70 mil

The K9 6-horse model is most elaborate of course, yet its price is still raised to 80 mil as well as the 4-horse model described to 60 mil. The K10 flagship is 160 mil. (Note during Noms' tenure, they cost over 200 mil each).

Quote from: rpietila on April 19, 2016, 06:55:03 PM

1* 20 ct Imperial Diamond

If it should happen that our majesty does not win the Imperial Diamond in the raffle, we make the reserve bid of 350,000,000 m for it, expiring end-1638 (allowing the mounting of it in some important piece of regalia before the coronation). We take no grudge if the owner wishes to keep it rather, believing that we can nevertheless make our robes majestic enough using other means in our possession.

It is not that we value the Imperial Diamond any less than as of this writing (it is the largest diamond in existence after this round; larger ones may come later in the game). But popular voice warned that boosting the price of a new item group, in this case gemstones, to a very high value in the day of introduction, only causes the valuation to drop in the future, and it is not fun. To preserve the fun, we slash our bid to 250,000,000 m.