Can someone remind me the currency units again? Here's what I believe was the case:
1 gold ingot = 50 septims
1 square of land = 1 septim
So if I were to have, say, 200 ingots of gold, that's 10,000 septims, enough for a 100x100 plot of land. Correct?
Then it just depends whether all plots are similarly priced, regardless of where on the map they are, or whether that pricing only applies to Empire-controlled lands. I believe it to be the latter.
In any case, I've gone ahead and updated to 1.0, so I guess if I want back on the server I'd have to rollback for now. Which I won't, because you server-folk are all backwater hicks that need to get with the times.