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Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 6:49 am
by quadz08
I think that the fewer moving parts we have in the game, the better, as a general rule. That may just be my inexperience talking, though.

Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 9:47 am
by inspiratieloos
There is such a thing as too simple. You have to factor in game balance, mod effort and player effort.

The money system is perfectly balanced (in theory) and easy to play, the mods just have to separately determine the price of every item in the game.
Yaw's system is very easy to both mod/play, but it's just going to cause massive trouble when you actually use it in practice.
The second system I proposed is more complex than the money system, doesn't really differ in playability but is easier to mod.

It really depends on what the people that will actually be modding the game prefer (more work for mods vs. more work for players).

Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 9:51 am
by Bub Bidderskins
What about characters needing to spend money for sustenance? That could be a major pain in the ass, so we might just leave that out, unless the players want to buy beer or something for RP reasons.

Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 10:05 am
by inspiratieloos
The money system is geared towards having to buy food. But you can just say "pick up some groceries on the way home" get reduced some gold and don't care one way or another.

The wealth system depends on what value you give food, if you say a week's worth of food takes 'mediocre' wealth the 'normal' wealth characters will have food cut into a small part of their income, 'mediocre' wealth people earn just enough/slightly more than necessary to survive 'fair' and higher don't have to think about the cost of food at all (unless they're buying luxury foods) and 'poor' and lower will have to actively get food from somewhere.

Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 4:18 pm
by CooLDoG
Isn't money quite easy to mod? Also, money is just more fun to me than the mystical "wealth levels" that we are now talking about.

Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 6:17 pm
by Kcdaspot
Just go with something and stay on it for like a month and then tweak the fuck outta of it goddamn.

It doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to make cents. (Seewutididtherelol)

Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 8:26 pm
by inspiratieloos
In post 104, CooLDoG wrote:Isn't money quite easy to mod? Also, money is just more fun to me than the mystical "wealth levels" that we are now talking about.

Well for every item that is on the expensive side there are technically hundreds of possible prizes to give it, this goes for every item in the game. Would you like to give the answer to the question: "What can I get here and how much does it cost?"
I'm not the one that has to do it, so I don't think that I should say that money will be better because I can use it more easily as a player.

Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 1:28 am
by CooLDoG
Well, shouldn't the player ask, "does this store have x? and if it does how much would it cost?" Also, common sense would connote what is in each store. A smith would have iron workings and weapons other shops would be named by the items that they contain. Also, with the gold levels you still have to know if a store has something.

I don't like rolling for money either. It doesn't make cents and Kspot would say. When you buy something there is no random element ever.

Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 7:02 am
by T-Bone
In post 98, quadz08 wrote:I honestly feel like having money is kind of silly...

I mean, we have a game mod for a reason, right? "I want to buy this mid-level sword" Moderator uses his brain and goes "you don't have enough money." We don't need to create a fully functioning economy.


This is actually what I usually do in RPGs I run. Money is trivial.

Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 7:29 am
by inspiratieloos
We really need to get one of the people that are actually going to run this (DN) in here to make a decision. The chosen system can then be worked out further, that should only take a few days.

Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 8:41 am
by Bub Bidderskins
Yes. Who are actually going to be the mods in anyway?

Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 1:39 pm
by DeathNote
Well... It seems I am needed to be the final call on this but I really dont want to be. I have never run a site like this before so while I can create a neat environment and dthrilling quests for people, I dont know if my judgement for mechanics is of par.

Still... I suppose I should throw my two cents in...

Skill Level:
First four years will be until adulthood.
Four additional phases can be used at a cost of five years per phase.

Gold Distribution:
Gold will be determined based on character creation. The Moderator will not distribute a set number of "Gold" but will instead give a description of Gold Count. (Ex. Low, Med, High)

Gold Usage:
No set price tag but instead will be based on characters current Gold Count.

(Basically I am going to keep tabs on who is doing what with their Gold and determine how much Gold players have from there. I dont want to have to play the numbers game.)

Posted: Sat May 26, 2012 9:17 am
by Bub Bidderskins
Okay, so it'll basically be based off of insp's system, although I don't like the idea of having to roll to determine whether you can buy something or not. That just doesn't seem realistic. I say we make wealth a number from 0 to 5. Items and characters have a number for their wealth. If an item is below the character's wealth, then it's essentially free. If it's at the character's wealth, then it costs 1 point of wealth. If it's above the character's wealth, then the character can't buy it. 0 wealth represents the most mundane of mundane items. Bread and water. If you reach wealth 0, then you literally have no money and can't buy food.

Numerous items of lower wealth should add up to a higher wealth item. I was thinking about a base of 5. 5 level 0 items to reach level 1, 5 level 1 items to reach level 2, and so on.

Posted: Sat May 26, 2012 9:41 am
by DeathNote
Thats fine Bub. I am just stating that items will not have a set cost and players will not have a set amount of gold.

Posted: Sat May 26, 2012 9:45 am
by Bub Bidderskins
In post 113, DeathNote wrote:Thats fine Bub. I am just stating that items will not have a set cost and players will not have a set amount of gold.


Yeah, now that I think about it, it would be a pain for the mods to play accountant.

Posted: Sun May 27, 2012 6:46 am
by T-Bone
Not found of the phases being set, but the gold system is the right way to go.

Posted: Sat May 18, 2013 2:58 pm
by jeep
In Fate, your Resources skill represents your wealth abstractly. It seems to work out pretty well. There are ways to deal with the current money on hand, but mostly it is easy to handle as just a skill. If you start tracking money, it becomes less of a story game.

Posted: Sat May 18, 2013 11:19 pm
by inspiratieloos
I'm pretty sure that's treated as an Aspect, anyway what we have now is basically the same thing.

Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2018 1:56 am
by Annadog40
I read the thread and I think if there are only gold coins, 100 gold coins should equal $1. That will allow for more diversity in spending. Also for the weightlessness, have the money stored in an enchanted pouch.

The pouch would make the money weightless either due to weightless enchantments or the money is actually in your bank.

More expensive variants could allow for easy access to exactly how much money you need, so if you need 354 gold, you can pull out just the right amount. There could be some theft prevention measures like multiple pouches enchanted to be interconnected to one bank vault where the money actually sits.

Pouches would teleport the money to your pouch upon demand. In the case of theft for a multi system pouch or one attached to a bank, the victim could go to the bank and cancel the stolen pouch to prevent any more theft.

Posted: Sat May 04, 2019 8:43 am
by vonflare
I think there should be denominations (copper/silver/gold or whatever) because if we're going the route of '100 gold = $1' then we're dealing with thousands of gold pieces for each transaction and that's kind of a flavor fail since 'gold' is supposed to be an expensive currency. And even if it was called 'copper' or 'coins' it's still awkward to talk about thousands of pieces of currency in a normal transaction.

Posted: Sun May 05, 2019 2:13 am
by Annadog40
It could be a cultural thing. Maybe the newer Briaf uses denominations but the Passini do not. The newer system would be more common. Though in order for that to work, gold would have to be more common on Hais (the planet name) than on earth. It could work by swapping Gold and Copper and have silver be the top since it is far more useful than gold.

Though that might be a more deviation from the 'gold standard' or a 'flavor fail'. hmmmm

Maybe there was a crash in the gold market which was part of the reason the Passini collapsed and when the Briaf dominated, they came up with a new system of coinage.

Though how would the new coins equal into each other? The only example I remember from this thread was eight 'bits' of silver being one gold with gold being about one USD.

Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2020 2:03 am
by Annadog40
Thinking about this, maybe there could be a cool historical/magical event that got rid of like 90% of the planets gold or something which also ties in with the Passini's downfall. If we want to be typical, have silver be = 1 USD and gold be 100 USD then copper equals pennies.

I like the gun=sword and car=armor idea.