Find Eco gear for Jamira's new game

ROFL! Yeah, you don't know the full story yet. But thanks for your engagement ;-) I appreciate it so much.

The game has another background. I have no money for it. Neither to build such a ship nor to maintenance it over the years. Not one Euro left for this. The basic budget is 0,00 €, the budget for the following years after purchase is 0,00 € so far. The goal - at the other hand - is a very comfortable river boat. Not only for a few weeks of vacation but probably for live at it with nearly same comfort as at home in our flat on land for several months. Even if it's cold and wet. We have an extraordinary net of water routes in Germany. With the right boat you'll be able to start at Mecklenburgische Seenplatte (NE of Germany) and end at Bodensee (deep S) riding the river Rhein upward or Chech Republic (SE) riding the river Elbe upward. Or riding down these rivers and reach Rotterdam or Hamburg. Not to speek about reaching Berlin. Using the river Spree and several canals like the Mittellandkanal offers tons of possibilities. I don't know yet what about reaching polish inland lakes as well - or France?

So to say the goal is to get a comfortable boat to spent a lot of time there for a couple above 60 years for several months per year, occasionally visits from children and friends, without costs. And btw. I won't build this ship by myself. I think professionals should do the job.

That's the game:

Budget: 0,00 €, effect: 500.000 € for purchase plus 50.000 € per year for maintanence. Sounds crazy. I know. But it's just a game. Tricky part is to find investors and build and sell at least enough of such boats to earn enough money for my own boat. I don't have much time left. At the age of 63 I estimate 10 years maximum. Better less than 10 years.

 

Well, tourism is one side. Sell ships plus earn money from several services is another side. The basic idea is: We'll have more and more wealthy and still fit retirees during the next years in Germany. What I need is to thrill 100 or 1000 (?) of them and engage them to buy or rent one of my boats. No fucking bank will give any credit to a jobless, 63 years old man without securities and zero own capital. I will not get any single Euro from a bank in Germany. That's the challenge.

You are right. I'm in need to offer a serious concept - technical, procedural and monetary. That's what I'm working at. Regarding "hype": I just started to think about an electric engine. That's hardcore for a boat. Alas, it's a hype in Germany because of all the diesel affairs at the automobile sector.

Two sayings became my mottos:

• Think big! (Robert Muldoon, NZL)
• Everyone said: "That's not possible." Than one came who didn't know that and just made it.

Besides of all this I am still a mechanical engineer and know a lot. Meanwhile I have time to play a game and no fear if it doesn't work. Nothing to lose even. But it offers a lot of fun. I will meet some interesting folks and will learn a bit about building ships and monetary issues. If it doesn't work - no worries, was just a try
I'm not in need to do meaningful things. Vice versa you are. With your little son. My children are 37 and 40 and earn way more money then I ever did. I can carefree play crazy games meanwhile. You should fire your son. As my wife and I did with our children when they were young - like Landon now.

For me it is really a game. A challenge. With real cash economy btw. Probably Jamira's Life After EU?

Eco gear for me would mean a tough shipyard, a good marketing partner and a trustworthy financier. I am just two meters off the starting line of a 5000 meters run.

 

The main goal is to play a game. The boat itself has prio 2 only. But the boat is a thing I can set as a goal I'm really interested in. The game becomes serious because of it. I bought two better jackets already to look more serious

 

Hehe! Nice advice. But the goal is basicly to play a game in real life. The boat is the target the game aims at. (I should use more accurate words when I post in a foreign language.)

No levels, restrictions, rules and all that shit in a computer game or in chess and such type of games. Regarding skills and knowledge I am at level 60 from 100 already. But I don't see it this way. The challenge for me is to throw a crazy idea onto the table and see how far I come with it. The monetary aspect is secondary for me. My main interest is fun. To have something to kill time. I am lazy, poor, old and bored. I'm not the type of man who would play a lottery, hoping to win the jackpot one day or at least a decent number of millions of Euro. I want to play in real life without stress but fun. I hope to find others who find my ideas interesting and decide to participate. And play together with me. To start with the smallest solution to become better and better over time is a no go for me. I want to start with the top solution. Everything else would be senseless for me.

 

Oh, I can so much relate to that. I am also playing that game, or so I see it in the meantime. The prize however is life itself. It is redeem yourself or perish. I've taken the first step by re-planting myself to a place very similar to Alaska ;) And with totally insufficient funds to boot, and zero ducks aligned in a row (e.g. in form of job offers or whatever). Mining for strands of nourishment that new roots could attach to is the current challenge. The rest doesn't belong here -- again it's someone else's thread. Just wanted to say that yes, I do find the thought interesting. Everybody searches for solutions to their predicaments, but ever so often you find them only superficially dissimilar.

But this VR we like(d) to play, it is treacherous. It teaches you that losing a life doesn't matter. You just spend yourself over and over again. Ever read 'Riverworld' by Philip José Farmer? Not the movie, the actual books which go so much deeper. What if "Real Life"™ actually worked like that? We just haven't found the key to harnessing it at will. Then you could reset yourself as often as needed to achieve your own riverboat...

 

YEP!

 

Yep, that's much closer to my dream. Holy crap: Twin Detroit 8V92TA's 735 HP each. LOL, okay. But what I want is a slow river boat with complete different apportionment of space and aesthetics regarding furnishment way beyond you american folks have. The 65" TV alone would claim half of the living room, we would need two seperated working places, one sleeping room and shower cabin only, a serious kitchen and a small guest room. But a wide sun deck!

 

BINGO!

 

Have you ever heard of the "one red paperclip" story?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_red_paperclip