[crossfire] Pet Peeve - converters/altars/other that take gold, not money.

[Mitch Obrian]

On one of my map areas the kingdom that owns the area
is short on gold due to dwarves taking over the mines.
Thus it want's people to pay in gold rather then
silver etc. (This is explained in the maps). It has a
boat load of emeralds though... so it pays you in
emeralds for stuff you do etc.

For most things though... peeps just probably don't
know.

--- Mark Wedel <
     
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        This is an old pet peeve of mine - originally, I
     
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      thought it was just a matter 
     
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      of old maps not being updated, but I'm seeing new
     
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      maps that are similarly broken.
     
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        What is basically comes down to is altars,
     
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      converter tables, etc that require 
     
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      gold.  You can't use platinum, you can't use silver,
     
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      it must be gold and only gold.
     
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        This then requires that you go to the bank,
     
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      convert that platinum to gold, go 
     
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      back, etc.
     
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        If you set the altar/converter to take 'money'
     
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      instead of 'gold' or other 
     
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      coinage, it will take the appropriate sum of money
     
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      (it has to be all of one type 
     
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      of money, and it won't make change).  Not that money
     
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      is in silver pieces, so to 
     
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      convert existing objects, the sacrifice count needs
     
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      to be increased.
     
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        Maybe map designers don't know about this.  I
     
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      can't think of any compelling 
     
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      reason that the requirement should be gold.  After
     
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      all, when you to the shop to 
     
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      sell stuff, they pay you in platinum.  There are
     
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      tables to convert from one 
     
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      coinage to another with no extra fee.  If you buy
     
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      stuff from a shop, it will 
     
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      take any of those currencies.
     
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        If one were to think about this in modern currency
     
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      terms, it'd be like a place 
     
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      saying it will only take $5 bills, and not $20 bills
     
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      (substitute $ for currency 
     
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      of choice).  Such a policy could make sense if
     
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      you're being something for $15, 
     
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      but most all the tables I've seen are wanting sums
     
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      in the hundreds, if not 
     
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      thousands - surely such tables would prefer the
     
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      bigger currency and not the 
     
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      small bills.
     
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