Renaissance Kingdoms: Carpenter guide

The first of a series of RK level 2 guides I am going to post in my blog. Most of them are lost around RK forums, here you can find them easily. NOw, ladies and gentlemen, the Carpenter Guide:

General remarks

• The trade of carpenter is a job for level 2 players.
• The carpenter can make small ladders, large ladders, oars, hulls, shafts, boats, hoes (not implemented yet), unhooped buckets, and blunted axes.
• A carpenter uses wood bushels.
• Before you make a decision, ask your mayor if there aren't to much carpenters already in the town to avoid overproduction.

The trade of carpenter.

1) It's necessary to buy wood bushels from the market.

2) The wood bushels need to be placed in the property inventory

3) You can make the following products in your workshop:

- small ladders (1 wood bushel)
- large ladders (2 small ladders)
- oars (1 wood bushel)
- hulls (3 wood bushel)
- 3 shafts (1 wood bushel)
- boat (You can make one boat from 1 hull and from 2 oars)
- hoes (not implemented yet)
- (You can make one hoe from 1 plowshare and from 3 wood bushels)
- unhooped buckets (1 wood bushel)
- blunted axes (You can make one blunted axe from 1 axe blade and from 1 shaft)

You need to work one day for each item

Prices & profits.

• The average price for wood bushels is £4.

• Although free to choose, the prices must respect a certain degree of honesty so consumer and producer can both benefit. SOme cities also have a price cap law.

• Approximate price calculations for carpentry items are based upon £4 for wood bushels and £26 for one working day.

- small ladders - £4 + £26 = £30
- large ladders - £30 + £30 + £26 =£86
- oars - £4 + £26 = £30
- hulls - £12 + £26 = £38
- 3 shafts - £4 + £26 = £30/3 = £10
- boat - £38 + £30 + £30 + £26 = £124
- hoes (not implemented yet) - (You can make one hoe from 1 plowshare and from 3 wood bushels)
- unhooped buckets - £4 + £26 = £30
- blunted axes (You can make one blunted axe from 1 axe blade and from 1 shaft)

(Guide made by the player Baiboe)

Neopets: flash games!

Don't get frightened by the childish look of Neopets. Yes, this site has a good part of its pages dedicated to children, with the option of adopting a virtual pet and creating it, putting clothes on it, feeding it, playing with it (or them, since you can have more than one). It can be fun if you miss the good old times, and as a site from nickelodeon, neopets is certainly the best choice.

However, the biggest and the best section of this site is its flash games room. They have plenty of flash games, one better than another, ranging from action, adventure, sports, old arcade ones... there is even an stock market simulator. I used to spend hours playing the games of this site, in my opinion it is one of the great ways of cleaning the head after a hard day studying/working.

*Site address: http://www.neopets.com/

*Free? Yes, tottally. If you are interested in the "pet creation" part of the site, you may buy things to make your pet more beautiful. The flash games section is tottally free though. You may find some ads, but all of them are related to neopets events.

*Time spent playing: To be able to maintain your pet, a log-in of 5 minutes every 3 days is obligatory.

HattriX-Ray

This one is a great Hatrick tool. I always had it in favorites when I played Hattrick. I am going to show you some things it does and I am sure you won't do nothing but agree with me.

This is one of the free tools in the site: You can see how the combined habilities of your players affct their penalty hability. It is great when you are competing with your team in the national cup of our country.

Another browser-based tool allows you to compare the habilities of your players, not only to know who really is good at something, but what are exactly the stats of the players you are training, and what player of yours is the most suitable to be your coach:

And not only this: how to increase your stadium to maximize your profits, what is the best number os spokesperson your team should have, etc..


Site address: http://www.databased.at/hattrick/x-ray/index.asp?starter=spokes



Free? Half of its features, the most sophisticated ones are paid though. Limited access too, so, use it, copy and paste the information you need through the season in your computer ;) However after nearly three months, your account is reset, and you can use it all again :)

Hattrick: talking about formations

When I played Hattrick I used mainly the 3-5-2 formation. Yes, if you want to win in Hattrick you should go for it. Invest most of the money you earn from your stadium with players that have good habilities in "inner mildfield". You can compensate your lack in investment in other areas by buying inner mildfields with good secondary habilities in "scoring" and defense.

One of the key factors to win a game in HT in to dominate the field, to see your players having the domain of the ball in the entire game (and the 3-5-2 is perfect for it). However, to face a team using the 3-5-2 I sometimes ordered the 3-4-3, with the intention of increasing my chances of a sucessful goal. Yes the midfield domain increased the score chances for the adersary team, but you always have some if your disadvantage isn't that big.

Utopia: the oldest free browser game

Simple formula: a kingdom, five races, an army. Technology and spells help you in war. So... why this game is different from many others?

The community! Yes, other players are really nice, and you join the game already in a random empire (kind of alliance), what forces everybody, since the begginning, to work together to win. And you are really going to love to win with them :)

*Free? Yes, but too many ads. You ay pay to do not see them any more though.

*Time spent playing: three log-ins of 15 minutes everyday are enough, you may spend more if you want though - there will be always a reason for it ;)

*Site adress: utopia.swirve.com

Books in Renaissance Kingdoms

Books in RK are used to get knowledge. They may be difficult to find though. Here is a complete guide shoing the location of all Books. Have fun :)

Availability of Books: (by book)

Metaphysics A - Aristotle - Greek

-Cornwall
- Wiltshire
- Comté d'Artois
- Comté de Flandres
- Duché de Savoie
- Duché de Champagne
- Franche-Comté
- Markgrafschaft von Baden

Metaphysics E - Aristotle - Greek

- Duché de Bourgogne-
-Duché du Lyonnais
-Dauphiné

Metaphysics (Gamma) - Aristotle - Greek

- Duché d'Alençon
- Duché d'Anjou
- Duché du Berry
- Duché de Bretagne
- Duché de Touraine

Metaphysics Z - Aristotle - Greek

- Comté de Provence
- Duché du Bourbonnais
-Auvergne

Poetics - Aristotle - Greek

- Comté d'Artois
- Comté du Languedoc
- Comté du Maine
- Comté du Périgord
- Comté du Poitou
- Comté de Provence
- Duché du Berry
- Duché du Bourbonnais-Auvergne
- Duché de Bourgogne
- Duché d'Orléans
- Duché de Savoie
- Franche-Comté

Physics - Aristotle - Greek

- Comté de Provence
- Duché du Bourbonnais-Auvergne
- Duché du Lyonnais
-Dauphiné
- Franche-Comté

Parmenidas - Plato - Greek

- Comté d'Artois
- Comté de Flandres
- Comté du Limousin
- Comté du Poitou
- Duché d'Anjou
- Duché du Berry
- Duché de Bretagne
- Duché de Champagne
- Duché de Normandie
- Duché de Touraine

The Symposium - Plato - Greek

- Cornwall
- Wiltshire
- Comté du Limousin
- Duché d'Anjou
- Duché de Bretagne
- Duché de Normandie

Timaeus - Plato - Greek

- Cornwall
- Sussex
- Duché d'Anjou
- Duché du Berry
- Duché de Bourgogne
- Duché du Lyonnais
-Dauphiné
- Franche-Comté
- Markgrafschaft von Baden


The Republic - Plato - Greek

- Cornwall
- Sussex
- Wiltshire
- Comté du Limousin
- Comté du Poitou
- Duché du Bourbonnais
-Auvergne
- Markgrafschaft von Baden

De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods) - Cicero - Latin

- Duché d'Alençon
- Duché du Bourbonnais
-Auvergne
- Duché de Bretagne
- Duché de Touraine
- Comté du Languedoc
- Comté du Limousin
- Comté de Provence

De Providentia (On Providence) - Seneca - Latin

- Wiltshire
- Comté d'Artois
- Comté du Poitou
- Duché du Berry
- Duché d'Orléans
- Franche-Comté

The Nicomachean Ethics : I - The Study of the Good - Aristotle - Greek

- Cumberland
- Stafford
- Sussex
- Am Mumhain
- Burggrafschaft von Nürnberg
- Comté d'Artois
- Comté de Flandres
- Comté du Maine
- Comté de Toulouse
- Comté de Provence
- Condado de Barcelona
- Condado do Porto
- Confédération Helvétique
- Duché de Bourgogne
- Duché du Bourbonnais
-Auvergne
- Duché de Gascogne
- Duché de Guyenne
- Duché de Lorraine
- Duché de Touraine
- Franche-Comté
- Herzogtum von Bayern
- Ksiestwo Mazowieckie
- Markgrafschaft von Baden
- Repubblica di Genova
- Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft

The Nicomachean Ethics : II - Virtue - Aristotle - Greek

- County of Ayr
- County Palatine of Chester
- Wiltshire
- Comté de Béarn
- Comté du Limousin
- Comté de Provence
- Comté du Périgord
- Comté de Rouergue
- Condado do Porto
- Confédération Helvétique
- Duché d'Alençon
- Duché de Bretagne
- Duché du Berry
- Duché de Champagne
- Duché de Savoie
- Duché de Touraine
- Erzherzogtum von Österreich
- Fürstentum von Mainz
- Grafschaft von Augsburg
- Kraljevina Hrvatska
- Markgrafschaft von Baden
- Provincia di Terre di Lavoro
- Reino de Aragon
- Reino de Castilla
- Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft
- Serbie (Краљевина Србија)

The Nicomachean Ethics : III - Courage and Temperance - Aristotle - Greek

- Cornwall
- County of Ayr
- Stafford
- Sussex
- Worcester
- Burggrafschaft von Nürnberg
- Comté de Béarn
- Comté du Languedoc
- Comté de Toulouse
- Condado de Coimbra
- Ducato di Milano
- Ducato di Modena
- Duché d'Alençon
- Duché d'Anjou
- Duché de Bretagne
- Duché de Normandie
- Duché de Savoie
- Erzherzogtum von Österreich
- Grafschaft von Württemberg
- Herzogtum Steiermark
- Ksiestwo Krakowskie
- Provincia di Terre di Lavoro
- Reino de Aragon

The Nicomachean Ethics : IV - Other Virtues - Aristotle - Greek

- Somerset
- Wiltshire
- Am Mumhain
- Comté du Languedoc
- Comté du Limousin
- Comté du Périgord
- Condado de Lisboa
- Condado do Porto
- County Palatine Of Lancaster
- Ducato di Milano
- Duché d'Anjou
- Duché de Gascogne
- Duché du Lyonnais Dauphiné
- Duché de Normandie
- Duché du Bourbonnais
-Auvergne
- Duché de Bourgogne
- Fürstentum von Mainz
- Grafschaft von Augsburg
- Ksiestwo Krakowskie
- Ksiestwo Mazowieckie
- Kraljevina Hrvatska
- Reino de Aragon
- Serbie (Краљевина Србија)

The Nicomachean Ethics : V -Justice - Aristotle - Greek

- Cornwall
- County of Glasgow
- Cumberland
- Worcester
- Comté d'Armagnac et de Comminges
- Comté d'Artois
- Comté de Flandres
- Comté du Maine
- Comté du Poitou
- Comté de Rouergue
- Condado de Barcelona
- Condado de Coimbra
- Condado de Lisboa
- Ducato di Modena
- Duché d'Orléans
- Duché du Berry
- Duché de Guyenne
- Duché du Lyonnais Dauphiné
- Duché de Savoie
- Franche-Comté
- Graafschap Holland
- Herzogtum von Bayern
- Herzogtum Steiermark
- Ksiestwo Wielkopolskie
- Repubblica di Genova

The Nicomachean Ethics : VIII - Friendship - Aristotle - Greek

- Somerset
- Comté d'Armagnac et de Comminges
- Comté de Flandres
- Comté du Poitou
- County of Glasgow
- County Palatine of Chester
- County Palatine Of Lancaster
- Duché du Bourbonnais
-Auvergne
- Duché de Champagne
- Duché de Lorraine
- Duché d'Orléans
- Graafschap Holland
- Grafschaft von Württemberg
- Ksiestwo Wielkopolskie
- Reino de Castilla

The Nicomachean Ethics : X - True Happiness - Aristotle - Greek

- Comté de Flandres
- Comté de Provence
- Comté du Languedoc
- Duché d'Alençon
- Duché d'Anjou
- Duché de Bretagne
- Duché de Champagne
- Duché de Normandie
- Duché de Savoie
- Duché de Touraine

Imperium Nova: feudalism in space

Great browser-based game: you are a dinastic house, in space, and specialize yourself in some services: mercantile, technology, military, among more than ten. In some services, like covert operations and military, specialization does not mean exclusivity: you have access to some additional things.

The game has everything: economy, politics, good RP, wars... it is a garanteed great amount of fun. It was difficult for me to find this jewel, the administrators do not advertise and do not participate in any game lists around.

Site address: http://www.imperiumnova.com/

Free: Up to two spheres of activity, yes. If you want more, you will need to subscribe - and subscrition can be done only through Paypal. So far, for me, it hasn't decreased the fun - or I wouldn't have posted it here ;) . The site is tottally clean though, and has no ads.

Time spent playing/day: if you don't like wars too much, 15 minutes a day is enough. Prepare yourself to spend more time online though :)

A game from gamers to gamers

Incredible! When I found this game I
thought it couldn't be real. An incredible great browser game tottally free!

In Lords of War and Money you may choose between six races: knight, barbarian, necro, demon, elf and dark elf. Each one has it different qualities, as always. You recruit your units, create your strategy, fight against the others and gain xp to go ahead in the levels.

Site adreess: www.lordswm.com

Time spend playing: an 1 vs 1 fight lasts 15 minutes, but you may play as much as you want. And there is another kinds of battles to, as 2 vs.2, 3 vs. 3, etc.

Free? Yes, and no ads. You may donate to the site and receive some tottally dispensable features though.

Renaissance Kingdoms: Church Way subjects

RK: University

The study of theology cannot be done in just any order -- there are conditions and prerequisites for certain subjects, and so it's best to follow a certain path so as to not waste your time with unproductive studies. The 14 Church Way skills are divided into two branches, Morals and Ontotheology.

Morals: Moral skills will probably be useful for confession, when it is coded. There are two basic subjects that you should master at 100% before studying the seven advanced Moral skills, also known as the seven virtues.

• Aristotle's Moral Principles:You will possess 50% of this skill at the beginning of your studies. Study by working along or enroll in classes at the University.

• The Roman Church: Organization and History: Discover this skill by taking a class at the University and continue your studies through classes or self-study.

***Next come the seven virtues. At the beginning of your studies, you will possess 20% mastery of two random Moral skills.

• The Good:
  Achieve 51% in your knowledge of the Greek language
  Read "The Nicomachean Ethics : I - The Study of the Good" to achieve 0% of The Good
  Read "The Nicomachean Ethics : I - The Study of the Good" to achieve 50% of The Good
  

• Virtue:
  Achieve 51% in your knowledge of the Greek language
  Read "The Nicomachean Ethics : II -The Virtue" to achieve 0% of Virtue
  Read "The Nicomachean Ethics : II -The Virtue" or "The Nicomachean Ethics : IV - Other Virtues" to achieve 25% of Virtue
  Read "The Nicomachean Ethics : II -The Virtue" or "The Nicomachean Ethics : IV - Other Virtues" to achieve Virtue at 50%

NOTE: If your University library lacks "The Nicomachean Ethics : II -The Virtue" but does have "The Nicomachean Ethics : IV - Other Virtues," you can reverse the order. What matters is that you read both books to increase your knowledge beyond 50% and up to 70%.
NOTE2: It may be possible to increase your knowledge from 0 to 50% with a reading of either book.

• Justice:
  Achieve 51% in your knowledge of the Greek language
  Read "The Nicomachean Ethics : V - Justice" to achieve 0% of Justice
  Read "The Nicomachean Ethics : V - Justice" to achieve 50% of Justice
  

• Temperance:
  Achieve 51% in your knowledge of the Greek language
  Read "The Nicomachean Ethics : III - Courage and Temperance" to achieve 0% of Temperance
  Read "The Nicomachean Ethics : III - Courage and Temperance" to achieve 50% of Temperance

• Friendship:
  Achieve 51% in your knowledge of the Greek language
  Read "The Nicomachean Ethics : VIII - Friendship" to achieve 0% of Friendship
  Read "The Nicomachean Ethics : VIII - Friendship" to achieve 50% of Friendship
  

• Pleasure and Delight:
  Enroll in a class to discover this skill.
  Study alone or take classes until you reach 50%.
  

• A Seventh Thing:
  Enroll in a course to discover this skill.
  Study alone or take classes until you reach 50%.
  

And then:
- To pass the 50% threshold for the seven Moral skills: master (at 100%) "The Roman Church: Organization and History." Then, study alone or take classes to advance your skill to 70%.

- To pass the 70% threshold for the seven Moral skills: master (at 100%) "Aristotle's Moral Principles." Then, study alone or take classes to advance your skill to 100%.

It is also possible to discover these skills and then study alone or take courses to reach 50%. However, reading books to reach 50% is faster and less expensive, provided the books are available in your library (otherwise, you would have to travel to a different University library). While confession remains uncoded, these skills are not used as opposed to the Ontotheology skills, which are used to enhance your persuasiveness when preaching. In any case, the last two virtues do not correspond to any of the books, so it will be necessary to discover them and advance your knowledge through classes or self-study.

***Ontotheology: There are five ontotheological skills. Three of them have no prerequisites to block your mastery:

• Logic:You will possess 50% of this skill at the beginning of your studies. To advance your knowledge, study alone or enroll in classes at the University.

• The Sense of Being: Discover this skill by enrolling in a course at University and then advance your knowledge through classes or self-study.

• The Beginning of the World: Discover this skill by enrolling in a course at University and then advance your knowledge through classes or self-study.

The final two skills have many prerequisites:

• Theology: Science of the First Matters:
  Study alone or enroll in classes until you achieve 20%
  Master "Aristotle's Moral Principles" at 100%
  Master "Logic" and "The Beginning of the World" at 100%
  Study alone or enroll in classes until you achieve 70%
  Read "Metaphysics A" and then enroll in classes or study alone until you achieve 100% NOTE: The various thresholds for this skill require confirmation. It may be possible to advance beyond with the listed thresholds while meeting only some of the requirements.
  

• Ontology: Science of Being:
  Master "Aristotle's Moral Principles" and "Logic" at 100%
  Study alone or enroll in classes until you achieve 20%
  Master "The Sense of Being" at 100%
  Study alone or enroll in classes until you achieve 70%
  Read "Metaphysics Γ (Gamma)" and then enroll in classes or study alone until you achieve 100%