Ancient

The Ancients Era helps establishing the very first userbase.

Players can join by obtaining 1000 gold, which they can obtain exclusively by sending XMR to HM The King (in game name for Risto Pietilä, the main creator of the game, much like Richard Garriott and Lord British).

After 100 real-days = 200 game-years, the mechanisms will be greatly changed, so that the characters will have limited lifespan etc. Then also the passing of time will be slowed, so that 1 real-day = 1 game-month.Everything that happens during the Ancient era, will be referred Ancient later in the game. This is a great honor, and one that cannot be granted once the Ancient era ends.

Originally, the gold could be purchased at the rate of 1000 gold for 50 XMR. The enthousiasm, though, soon depleted the available gold (gold is generated daily in a fixed amount) and thus the remaining gold was put into an auction that to this day already quadrupled in price.

Would-be players can get some bonus gold under two cumulative conditions: During this era, gold generates stone with a diminishing return
 * be a Monero Economy Workgroup (MEW) member - they get 25% of the MEW voting power as extra gold
 * having posted very early in the game


 * 1) The first 200 gold each generate daily: 10 stone
 * 2) The next 1,800 gold (thus, up to 2000): 5 stone
 * 3) The next 98,000 gold (thus, up to 100000): 2 stone
 * 4) The next 200,000 gold (thus, up to 300000): 2 stone
 * 5) Starting from 300,001 gold: none