30th Annual Vienna Conference

Welcome to the 30th Annual Vienna Conference! This year, we will once and for all mark corporate boundaries through an auction! The auction will be broken up into rounds, and each company will have an amount of Bids each round. Bids can be used for the following.

Bidding on Unclaimed Provinces: Whoever has the most bids on the province wins. In the event of a tie, neither party receives the province, but the bids they made remain on the province. They can stack more bids on the province to try to win the province.

Buy Bids: A Bid can be bought for 300 IP. Bids bought can be used immediately.

Sell Bids: A Bid can be sold for 175 IP.

Hostile Buyout: A non-refundable 4 bids can be spent to buyout a non-core, non-capital, non-secondary province. Once a hostile buyout attempt is declared, you can cancel the attempt, but the 4 bids will not be refunded. You will not gain IP from this action.

The defender can spend a non-refundable 4 bids to block the buyout attempt.

Before I close, let me state that IPOs may pop up over the course of this conference. In that case, the initial seven claims (capital, two cores, four secondaries) will receive maximum priority over any other type of claim.

At the beginning of the next round, IP will be given to those who gained new, previously unclaimed, provinces. Each province reclaimed for the private sector will generate 375 IP for the owner.
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Each of these companies have 10 Bids this round. This round ends at Noon EDT Thursday. Bids must be used publicly.

Questions: what is AP? And if a bid is used for a normal claim (not hostile buyout), can it be withdrawn and refunded to use on another province before the round ends?

Gurra09 said:

Questions: what is AP? And if a bid is used for a normal claim (not hostile buyout), can it be withdrawn and refunded to use on another province before the round ends?

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AP was the original name before bids, and I forgot to change. Fixed.

Yes, normal claims can be withdrawn and refunded before the round ends.

With approval from the Secretary-General and her Executive Council, the BPRO delegation presents our bids on the following islands and island groups for which reclamation operations are planned and ready to be set in motion:

1 bid on Bonin Islands
1 bid on Fiji Islands
1 bid on Gilbert Islands
1 bid on New Britain
1 bid on New Caledonia
1 bid on New Hebrides Islands
1 bid on Solomon Islands
1 bid on Tahiti

The Bikini-Pacific Reclamation Organization is also spearheading a new rainforest preservation effort on New Guinea and we make the following bids to accomodate this project:

1 bid on New Guinea
1 bid on Papua

-Transkei
-Canary Islands
-Cape
-Normandy
-Ascension Island
-Falklands
-Cape Verde
-Bundjalung
-Western Australia
-Arnharn Land

The NCR Financial Group IPO

1. California
2. Nevada
3. Arizona
4. Texas
5. Sonora
6. Zacatecas
7. Michoacan

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In case of additional available bids:
8. Utah
9. Kansas
10. Louisiana

Each of these companies have 10 Bids this round. This round ends at Noon EDT Saturday. Bids must be used publicly.

Blue Oyster Cult, NERO, Gong-Lu Energy International, and the Gödel Finance Industry Group have 20 bids since 10 were unused last round.

From: The Universal Hasnine Survey Company
To: Bikini-Pacific Reclamation Organization, Ever-Expanding Great Railway Corporation, Fate, NCR Financial Group

The following provinces have deposits of hasnine: Solomon Islands, Jeju, Mindanao, Cape, and California.

From: St. Helena Consulting
To: NCR Financial Group

Don't forget your technology! Pick a field and, if you wish, a specific building or unit within that field to generate a technology.

Bids:
Central America
Cuba
Bahamas
Windward Islands
Rio de Janeiro
Azores
Gibraltar
Sardinia
Crete
Sinai

Additional bids (3,000 IP):
Aden
Socotra
Comoros
Maldives
Mauritius
Ceylon
Banten
Singapore
Oregon
Bermuda

Technology:
Civilian: Hasnine Mine

San Francisco's favorable investment climate is very lucrative for capital-intensive extraction industries.

BPRO bids:
Alaska (1 bid)
Aleutian Islands (1 bid)
Bali (2 bids)
Ecuador (1 bid)
Moluccas (1 bid)
North Island (1 bid)
Nusa Tenggara (1 bid)
South Island (1 bid)
Tasmania (2 bids)
Timor (1 bid)
Vancouver (1 bid)
Yukon (1 bid)

Edit: Added the additional bids the BPRO bought.

Fate:

Baffin Island
Gascony
Asturias
Portugal
Eora
Kulin
Kaurna
Andalusia
Castille
Catalonia

-Ivory Coast
-Gold Coast
-Tasmania
-Dahomey


-Netherlands
-Brussels School x4.

Gong-Lu Bids

Chahar
Jehol
Ninghsia
Liaoning
Manchuria
Pyongan
Hupei
Hunan
Sichuan
Mongolia

From: St. Helena Consulting
To: NCR Financial Group

Your technology has been generated.

Additional NCR bids entered, at the cost of $3k IP.

Fate Group Bids additional 1200 IP sum worth of bids.

-Ivory Coast
-Gold Coast
-Tasmania
-Dahomey

Zappericus said:

Gong-Lu Bids

Chahar
Jehol
Ninghsia
Liaoning
Manchuria
Pyongan
Hupei
Hunan
Sichuan
Mongolia

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Don't forget you have 10 bids unused from last round.

Woo!

- Tsinghai
- Yunnan
- Thibet
- Sinkiang
- Hainan
- Nepal
- Laos
- Isan
- Cambodia
- Yudia

BRPO buys 4 additional bids for 1200 IP and use them as follows:

Bali (+2 bids)
Ecuador (+1 bid)
Tasmania (+1 bid)

Hey guys, when you make new claims, could you edit those claims into your old claims? It keeps things organized. Still post that you edited your original post though.