Conspiracy theory? Ramblings of a mad man or Truth?
Author: XtraBu77on
You decide!
Ever since I left the president position many rounds ago, I have been a bit inactive due to my working schedule. I hoped to reconnect and help many people this round by holding the position of Mayor in the town of Cashington. My fun and connection with other players was abruptly halted when I was taken to court over the following by-law:
“By-law 1 (aka Expansion and Creation By-Law)
1) It is prohibited to own more than 2 empty lots by any road lot without it being for sale for no more than 110 I-Shell.
2) It is prohibited to block expansion of shops in terms of empty lots. This includes, but is not limed to, the owning of an empty lot directly behind someone else’s store. These lots shall also not be sold for more than 110 I-Shell.
Violators have until April 11, 23:59 to fix these offences. A fine will be given at that time of 250 I-Shell (per lot) and 400 I-Shell (per lot) ever day thereafter. Violator has 72hours from first fine before the mayor of Cashington will ask for bankruptcy and all fines paid.”
It is well known by all who have ever been mayor that there are always citizens occupying empty lots on the road, and in the beginning of the round those lots are greatly needed. For whatever reason, this by-law was found unfit by the Virtuan Court with no explanation. There was criticism that it was because I said I will declare people bankrupt or what; I still stand by the fact that it says I will ask for bankruptcy, it is known that I can’t request for bankruptcy. However not to bore you, I’ll move on, you can still see the case in the Virtuan Court.
Now while you’re looking around the Virtuan Court, I would like you to take note of the judges there, now look at our Council’s. You will notice that pimgezel1, and sahib are all judges and members of the Council. They also happen to hold moderator status, which is understandable… But why all Council members? Now (stick with me here) I would like to take you all back to a time when (Brendan) was president and enacted by-laws restricting trade etc. That however is not what I would like you to focus on, you may or may-not remember his Council. I know of a few members: pimgezel1, Tuned and Rats!. You also may or may not remember the following round when Tuned was president also bringing Virtua to the brink of warfare, his Council: (Brendan), pimgezel1 and Rats!.
Now, let’s come back to this round. It is well known that Virtua strives to be a democracy, and in terms of presidential elections it is. It is after that point however we have gone terribly wrong. Since my inactivity, the assembly was removed, essentially muting the voice of the people after the president has been elected. They give us the ‘courtesy’ to talk about Government affairs in the ‘Council Public’ club and have ‘graciously’ allowed us to view their discussions in ‘Council Private’ club, which is not and cannot be private given VL 1.1.5. After expressing my views on a topic they were talking about I was told that I may not speak in the ‘private room’, which I can understand in matters of voting because I have no authority to vote. However, I feel that as a citizen of Virtua, (and by the mentioned law) I have a right to voice my opinion on a matter that concerns me, the people I may represent, the Country as a whole, and those who do not speak (new players, etc.). Apparently, viraxje does not feel the same way and has as a result given all members not participating in the council, a chat ban.
I know that since most of you live outside Virtua you don’t particularly care about Virtuan politics, but you must remember these are the kinds of people your leaders are dealing with.
I would now like to apologize for you reading that whole thing, but I feel that I needed to get this off my chest so I can enjoy the game a bit more (and I try to remember… it’s only a game 
). I can’t let things like this build-up inside because then I tend to explode and say things I shouldn’t. Thank you for taking the time to listen.
Garfield calls it a day
Author: garfield86
Ihockey Schneider
Author: pimgezel1
Statistics
Author: Federal Coordinator and bonanza
Shop Turn-Over
Total: 23,815,753.41 ISH
# Name Turn-Over (ISH) City
1 justinote 887,622.54 Eurodam
2 Rockenfeller 639,467.67 Roebelarendsveen
3 Plastic dame 540,071.80 Kronenburg
4 cami 497,645.43 Eurodam
5 Mubarak 411,433.48 Cashington
6 whooty 389,681.48 Eurodam
7 Clarky22m2 385,245.22 Cashington
8 Vincitore 373,029.32 Eurodam
9 Federal Government 316,057.38 Centropolis
10 Jythier 303,336.43 Cashington
11 Kyt 294,164.37 Cashington
12 Pedro Alvarez 289,893.70 Roebelarendsveen
13 The Eye 275,684.34 Zwollar
14 Bossebol 259,882.58 Eurodam
15 Duups 255,127.33 Centropolis
16 SteenGigant 246,990.22 Roebelarendsveen
17 alecto 241,894.25 Centropolis
18 Likemyitem 241,839.19 Cashington
19 Joerik 236,479.72 Eurodam
20 mensje 235,677.51 El Peso
21 paul.stolk 230,391.05 Eurodam
22 alfondo 229,844.71 Ibisha
23 nasi 224,064.22 El Peso
24 loco_tazz 205,126.47 El Peso
25 RecycleBin 203,546.52 Nasdaqar
26 Marvell-S 197,490.77 Monapoli
Turn-Over comparison
Attention, the current round is located at the left, the oldest one at the right. Due to a strike of the Federal Statistic Service, there were no statistics in Round 83.
Garfield makes a request
Author: Garfield86
Garfield’s birthday is coming up
Auteur: Jim Davis
Cashington versus Nasdaqar and Centropolis
Author: iHockey Schneider
Last round the Virtuan Traders Union and Schneider organized the Cash vs. NSQ and CP contest at round 85. The Cashington team was led by The Mysox1, his teammates where: Jythier and Goudie. The Nasdaqar and Centropolis team was led by iHockey Schneider with riser and takenalook as members. After a trade full and long period, the results finally came. After calculating a lot, I came to the result that the Nasdaqar and Centropolis team won with an average of 24. The Cashington team lost with an average of 34. The Nasdaqar and Centropolis Team is now published at the Winners list:
http://fam-schneider.blogspot.com/p/winners-list.html
We hope we can do the contest more often and hope that also new or different people will join our contest.
Again Congratulations to the Nasdaqar and Centropolis team from the Virtuan Traders Union and Schneider.
Garfield irritating?
Auteur: Jim Davis
Garfield likes crime now
Author: Garfield86
Statistics
Shop Turn-Over
Total: 17,407,685.81 ISH
# Name Turn-Over (ISH) City
1 justinote 628,451.80 Eurodam
2 Rockenfeller 495,575.20 Roebelarendsveen
3 Plastic dame 421,025.22 Kronenburg
4 Mubarak 311,272.61 Cashington
5 Vincitore 310,369.57 Eurodam
6 cami 297,153.35 Eurodam
7 whooty 291,916.56 Eurodam
8 Federal Government 287,641.13 Centropolis
9 Clarky22m2 249,622.35 Cashington
10 Bossebol 214,343.11 Eurodam
11 SteenGigant 212,947.17 Roebelarendsveen
12 Joerik 209,763.34 Eurodam
13 Duups 203,960.16 Centropolis
14 Pedro Alvarez 196,998.70 Roebelarendsveen
15 paul.stolk 195,997.96 Eurodam
16 The Eye 187,899.55 Zwollar
17 Jythier 187,562.01 Cashington
18 Likemyitem 187,540.15 Cashington
19 mensje 187,196.55 El Peso
20 Kyt 180,020.92 Cashington
21 Marvell-S 169,331.42 Monapoli
22 alfondo 168,223.40 Ibisha
23 nasi 166,760.99 El Peso
24 loco_tazz 161,557.31 El Peso
25 BolleTripolire 155,969.25 El Peso
26 alecto 153,549.17 Cashington
Sold lots in comparison to total lots:
| City
El Peso Eurodam Kronenburg Monapoli Roebelarendsveen Zwollar Cashington Nasdaqar Centropolis Ibisha |
Number of lots
4715 10782 7738 5603 4976 5779 6324 5190 8971 6410 |
Federal lots sold
2597 5884 3909 2651 2909 1907 2876 2051 2039 2055 |
Number of resources:
City Trees IronOre Gold Diamonds Oil
Eurodam 22364 39212 31215 110 228034
Zwollar 38917 27127 6585 0 64775
Roebelarendsveen 3979 45610 11865 0 47490
Kronenburg 8999 36872 17288 0 284545
El Peso 6841 8320 36378 516 152390
Monapoli 12708 50569 6730 6518 86670
Cashington 4927 78918 5065 0 125740
Nasdaqar 24349 23267 11700 0 146910
Centropolis 12319 43918 4615 0 731617
Ibisha 20142 63984 22621 4512 220380
Sans Francishco 7436 35005 9008 0 85370
TOTAL 162981 452802 163070 11656 2173921
Garfield heeft een concurrent
Auteur: Anoniem
International Court in heavy weather?
Author: known at editoral office
Right after publishing loving words in this paper about the Chairman of the International Court of last trading period, Joep Eerlijk, the quality of the Court went downhill fast.
Cases were waiting to be opened, even after several questions to open the case.
The hope of the inhabitants of the Federation is focussed on the new Chairman Rednax. So far, Rednax did not publish the judges, so it’s a bit to quiet in Court.
Is there still hope for the International Court?
Garfield finds an old one
Author: Garfield86
Nice translations
Author: Troel
When writing articles, newsfeeds and posts in international of English clubs, I sometimes use Google translate to see if my own translation is a nice one (mostly not!). While translating, some nice errors showed up and I just wanted to share them with you, because I think they are funny.
A while ago Craftsman decided to translate Troel. At this moment he still calls me Snork.
The Cyberian politician Joep Eerlijk is better known as Joe Honest, mayor lindapinda86 is called peanut linda 86 , but frankeur got himself a really nice translation: Postage Label.
Fortunately a lot of names are not being translated.
If you see more of this nice translations, please let me know! I’m still laughing about Frans Bauer
Bot Right!
Author: iHockey Schneider
Last days a lot of new bots came to Miniconomy, to support the MC Bot, because the Assistants (Brendan), Rats! and the Federal Coordinator are against the bot. The most known Bots are ‘Super Mega Ultra Tuned robot’, ‘Pimbot’ and ‘SchneiderBOT’. They started to protest, and the Assistants banned them.
Super Mega Ultra Tuned robot has his theory: “In his childhood he had a bad time watching star wars and was scared of the robots in it. After he destroyed all his robot toys, I was lucky to survive!”
After the banning of the bots, a few new players wanted to support the others, and soon the club ‘Mistreated Robot Union’ was built. Also a few new Bots came: ‘Mixernobot’, and ‘Bot of Lithuania’.
If you also want to support the bots, go to Club: Mistreated Robot Union.
Statistics
Author: Federal Coordinator
Shop Turn-Overs
Total: 8,363,296.87 ISH
# Name Turn-Over (ISH) City
1 justinote 270,568.50 Eurodam
2 Federal Government 238,800.15 Centropolis
3 Rockenfeller 223,411.31 Roebelarendsveen
4 Plastic dame 218,230.51 Kronenburg
5 Vincitore 197,199.79 Eurodam
6 whooty 164,684.79 Eurodam
7 Joerik 142,975.97 Eurodam
8 Clarky22m2 139,928.84 Cashington
9 Mubarak 132,909.93 Cashington
10 paul.stolk 127,752.08 Eurodam
11 Bossebol 124,307.55 Eurodam
12 SteenGigant 123,026.68 Roebelarendsveen
13 cami 117,392.24 Eurodam
14 loco_tazz 111,983.50 El Peso
15 mensje 107,079.25 El Peso
16 nasi 105,163.56 El Peso
17 BolleTripolire 100,258.10 El Peso
18 Likemyitem 98,933.11 Cashington
19 Duups 96,274.75 Centropolis
20 Marvell-S 93,906.89 Monapoli
21 The Eye 90,738.71 Zwollar
22 the hawk 89,814.46 Nasdaqar
23 Gold Runner 88,403.33 Cashington
24 Joost007 87,185.20 Eurodam
25 goudie 79,038.09 Nasdaqar
26 alfondo 77,675.23 Ibisha
Garfield acts swiftly
Author: Garfield86
Miniconomy X-files Part 2: The Nasdaqasaurus
Author: thehopehitman2
It is well known around the Federation that Nasdaqar has some of the lushest and most dense forests found in any city. They cover many square miles of rolling hills, fertile valleys, and endless shore line. Some of the forest even remains unexplored by loggers and the locals aren’t even sure of the wonders it may contain.
There has always been a story told by the old timers on the outskirts of town describing a large sharp toothed beast roaming the forests. Many people today dismiss it as a myth and a way for people to scare off unwanted foreigners. The story took a strange turn when a plaster cast of a large reptilian footprint was uncovered in an old warehouse used by the Nasdaqar Police Department for evidence storage. No one could explain how it got there and no records of when it was cast could be found in the system. Dumbfounded, the police chief got on the phone with an expert on large reptiles by the name of Lizarda Croc. Lizarda came to the police station and was immediately shocked at the discovery, so shocked in fact that she contacted the team from the Miniconomy X-files.
Earlier this trade period I received a call from Lizarda who explained she had an unbelievable specimen and I needed to see it. Later in the week she stopped by my office with the plaster cast and explained the significance it possessed. “This is a footprint of a large two-legged dinosaur from the Jurassic period, that alone is not shocking as we find fossils of footprints in the bedrock of el peso, but what is interesting is that this isn’t a fossil, whatever made this had flesh and left behind a scale in the plaster mold” Lizarda explained. Immediately I was intrigued as we could have a survivor from the Jurassic period roaming Nasdaqar’s forests.
Without wasting more time I called the rest of the team and launched a two week expedition through the great forests of Nasdaqar. Our focus was on the old gold mines and caves big enough to harbor such a large creature. Surely if something of this size was roaming the forests it could be found, or at least sign of it could. But what we discovered over the next few weeks shocked even me, and I feel blessed to even be able to write this report.
To be Continued…
Garfield welcomes you
Author: Garfield86
Interview
Author: iHockey Schneider
Last week I had an interesting week, I wanted to visit (Brendan) because I wanted to give an interview but (Brendan) didn’t have much time, so I decided to go to Cyberia and interview they’re president. The first boat I could get I took, and I was wondering because the boat was very empty, only Cami was there who has some outlet stores in Virtua and Cyberia. We talked about the trading and the prices. As soon as we arrived we split up and he had to go to his shop to sell his screwdrivers imported from Virtua. After we said good bye, I walked to the taxi stand, but doodvogeltje already saw me and drove me with his black limcousine to the big Cyberian parliament building. There I met up with a few old friends of mine. As soon as we got at the end of the floor I saw a big door, as we entered the room doodvogeltje went to his desk and offered me a cup of coffee, it was really nice to drink something else than Virtuale. After we had talked about old memories I started with my interview.
How was it to be President of Cyberia?
It was a busy but fascinating round. You meet different people, but the tenseness between Virtua and Cyberia made it hard to lead Cyberia and to keep Cyberia safe from foreign people.
What do you think of the work Tuned did before?
I think that Tuned started a dangerous game, to make Virtua an independent country. Although during the last week he also understood the situation in Cyberia.
Why did you want to try to make the relationship better with Virtua?
In a game as Miniconomy the traders need as much shops as they can get. So the traders can sell more and make more profit, that’s why we play Miniconomy.
Cyberia and Virtua are strong trading countries, so they should work together well. Because not only the players learn to trade better but also they learn to communicate better with people from different countries.
Why did it not work with (Brendan)?
It all worked well with (Brendan), before the round started we had a good relation and have talked about a lot of things. We had made clear agreements, it all went well until the by-laws started, but we had an agreement to talk with each other before we do it.
But later it all came clear to me, (Brendan) was put under pressure by big traders from Virtua. But I have met (Brendan) as a man who wants to be good for everyone and always wants to be friends with everyone, but now I understand why he made some wrong decisions; Because he was under pressure.
I am disappointed by the big traders of Virtua, because they put a (with all respect) person with not so much experience under pressure for their own interests. Abusing people is the worst thing you can do. So I think (Brendan) is not the perpetrator but the victim.
What do you think of the action made by the Federal Government?
That was their only good possible action.
Which tip do you give the next President of Virtua and next President of Cyberia?
First try to make agreements, and make clear what you want to do and how. Do as agreed and don’t get away form course. Always hold your decisions and don’t change them, also if people are pressuring you, you need a policy that is stable for the whole round, and does not change suddenly.
After my interview doodvogeltje had to leave, because there was an important meeting in the Cyberian Parliament. His driver drove me back and I took the boat back to Virtua. Back in Virtua it came to me that Virtua and Cyberia both had good Presidents.