Currency

[hhyyrylainen]

@Katt47

To start off with; what will be the name of our in-game currency? Thrivebucks (Spore reference)?

Likely the players who want to design all the tech, including toothbrushes, would also want to name their own currency.

I think the default should be something quite neutral like “credits” or just “currency”. Before money is invented the monetary unit would have the name of whatever the people use as a hold of value (for example squirrel skins).

@Zahyyy

(we do use gold as our currency, the moneycash sbelgiumr we use just represents the gold).

@Omicron

IIRC we don’t anymore. As in, in the past you could literally go to the bank with your money and exchange it for its worth in gold, now you can’t anymore.

Basically all currencies nowadays are fiat money:

Fiat money

@Zahyyy

something you will use as a currency has to be a stable element, has to be rare, but not too rare, should be in a solid form and so on, which would always result in gold, in our situation. So we might take a similar approach to determine what should be used as a currency and then you just decide how you represent it

A good example of something that fulfills these criteria, are bottlecaps in the fallout universe. They are rare enough and more cannot be manufactured as the technology is lost, so they can retain value by not being too abundant, not being really useful for much and they are easy to transport.