[crossfire] Re: I'll commit the large denomination coin archtypes, I'd like to edit the amber coin to look more ambery (any objections)?

[Miguel Ghobangieno]

If we are to do this it should be in addition to the
current (blank) coins.

--- Brendan Lally <brenlally at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12/31/05, Miguel Ghobangieno
> <mikeeusaa at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > While regional currencies exchange values could
> change
> > depending on factors that are not in the game yet
> the
> > silver, plat, gold, jade, and amberonium coins
> should
> > keep their absolute value forever.
> 
> Actually, something I think might be interesting
> would be to have
> major and minor currencies.
> 
> Consider the (pre-decimalisation) British Currency.
> Prices were given in pounds, shillings and pence, 12
> p made one
> shilling, and 20 shillings one pound
> 
> There was a one penny coin, a one shilling coin, and
> a one pound note.
> In principle it was possible to use these, and only
> these, for
> purchasing items. However, there were a number of
> other coins of
> intermediate values which were extensively used to
> make up
> intermediate values, without prices being quoted in
> them. (note that I
> am referencing old British currancy, simply because
> there were so many
> coins of arbitrary values that were issued -
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_coinage#Denominations_of_pre-decimal_coins_and_their_years_of_production
> looks to be a fairly good list).
> 
> Now, what I am wondering, is if the coins with which
> shops make change
> couldn't be the thing that varied, so that money
> would be taken from
> one of 12 or so different types of coins, and change
> given in a
> similar manner (to take an example from the above
> list, an item which
> would require 50 shillings (gold) change might cause
> it to be given in
> the form of two unites and a half unite in one
> place, but one two
> guinea coin and two double florins somewhere else.
> 
> These could all be legal tender everywhere, whilst
> causing a player
> who would travel in certain areas of the world to
> have different types
> of coins to someone else elsewhere.
> 
> A modern form of this can be seen to a lesser extent
> with the euro
> coins and notes, whilst they lack the amusingly
> contradictory values,
> they have different designs on the reverse depending
> on which country
> they are from, so that a coin with a design from a
> country relatively
> far away is a mild curiosity on the occasions they
> are encountered.
> 
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