World Economy: Ideas

[mgilbrtsn]

I WASNT BEING SARCASTIC THERE ARE ACTUALLY NICKELS AND PENNIES AND DOLLAR BILLS IN GAME OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111!!!@!@!#!$

And the "preference" for money will come in at a later date, when mass trading is to be done, because the money doesnt have a weight, and will eventually (long time from now) just become a representative for material items.

ok, my apologies

[mrcalhou]

There was actually a nice little (read: long) thread on economics issues. Money is nice, but if it doesn't do anything, and isn't programmed as a hard currency, then few would bother to use it. There's also problems with inflation and deflation. I think regional resources and high rates of item decay (like when stuff goes boom in Eve) would do wonders to help develop a real economy where people and certain, small groups couldn't be self-sufficient.

[blake378]

not all tribes will have access to the junk piles for scavenging things so in a way that makes it so that some tribes or solo players will have to trade with other tribes