Hi. I joined near the very end of Tale II and never got the chance to advance very far. For various reasons, I didn't come back right away when Tale III started, and just joined again at the beginning of 2008. That's why I look very old while being very inexperienced.
In Tale II my mentor and I had our CPs up in northern Sinai near what is now the border with Tanis... somewhere near 2430, 5900. The CS has moved though, so this Tale I can be found further southeast at 3489, 4911.
I'm going to try to use this space to collect any missing information I come across. If anything I've got here looks useful, then I'll probably move it over to the main Wiki.
The first time I had a chance to get away from using the Old Egypt flax seeds, I was given a choice between four different seed varieties with no clue about what the yield would be from any of them. So... I had to experiment. I decided to collect the data here for others to look at. As I come across new seed varieties I'll add their yield information here.
So far these numbers represent a single planting of each type. No attempt has been made to find out whether there is any randomness involved from one planting to the next.
There seems to be some variation in the time it takes to reach each stage of planting (time between weedings, or time between seed harvests) but I haven't found a good way to time that.
If anyone has any suggestions for accurately timing in-game events I'd love it if you'd get in touch somehow.
I've left the Old Egypt numbers at the top for comparison. The rest are in alphabetical order.
| Seed Type | Weeded Harvest | Wild Harvest | ||||||
| Water | Weedings | Flax Yield | Rotten Flax Yield | Harvests | Seeds per Harvest | Dropped Seeds | Seeds Gained | |
| Old Egypt | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 5 | ||
| Nile Green | x | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |
| Tedra#833 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 23 | |
| Tedra#962 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 24 | |
| Tedra#1617 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 53 | |
| Tedra's Folly | 1 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 47 | |
In the real world, a deben is 0.091kg; or, put another way, there are 10,989 deben in a kilogram. I doubt that we're all meant to be carrying around a maximum of 0.02kg so the in-game deben isn't 1:1 with the real world. On the other hand, the in-game deben can't be 1:1 with the real-world kilogram, or even the pound, or we'd all be body-builders. So I'm curious if Teppy had a particular ratio in mind when setting things up.
In the old and middle kingdoms 1 deben was 12-14g for a gold deben and 27g for a copper deben. In the new kingdom 1 deben was 91g as is listed above. {source for the weight data is http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/weights/weight.html)
So a player with str and dex of 0 can carry a maximum of 7kg, 13.5kg, and 45.5kg (max gold, copper, and new kingdom weights respectively). A player who has passed acro and safari (str and dex = 7) have maximum carrys of 56kg, 108kg and 364kg respectively. ~rwindmtg