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[xzardas]

Hey there everyone! It's been so long since i posted something. So, i have a question for paul. What will be the currency and the system for it?

I mean, are we going to have money like: coins, stone coins, nuts, shells?

And are we going to be able to carve, smith the money or pick it off the ground? or maybe dropped by certain mobs like bandits or something.
do we have to go to someone to let our money get value, to let our money get "value" at some kind of estate or something.
are we going to get money by doing quests at npc's?

Hope to hear something just wondering.

[pspeed]

My current plan:

There will be gold coins.  You will not be able to mint them yourself but you can trade pretty much everything else for gold at the proper merchant.

I may in fact just call them "coins" and leave the metal as some special non-reproducible alloy.  "Gold coins" implies a value that will make bartering seem silly without smaller denominations and multi-denomination currency tends to be more tedious than fun.  But for example, selling a flower for one gold means that logically a sword should be 200 gold or something ridiculous... ie: there is no reason a sword should be worth more than 10 times its weight in gold.  10 or so _gold_ coins would be theoretically acceptable for a plain sword... but then you have the trouble that small items cannot be sold/bought for reasonable amounts.

So... yes there will be money.  And it will probably just be called "coins".

[Michael]

I once stated that an idea for a name was "runas" but Paul didn't like the idea, oh well

[pspeed]

I once stated that an idea for a name was "runas" but Paul didn't like the idea, oh well

That would be like naming our money "statesians".  Actually, more like if there was a world currency called "earthians".

...unlikely.