Swymir wrote:/The point of the coin press was to have a form of currency. All the way back in the day when people in Quillinoi were complaining because the Quii had no physical backing. Don't tell me that people in Cantr have not thought of currency. It's all over the frigging place. There just isn't a standard that is hard. Now cantr people can have that standard.
Currency is NOT hard, or definite. It is purely a concept based on agreeing the equivalent value of something. Also, it's virtually nowhere IC.
Why is money necessary?
Well, I could go into a whole load of economics, but... flat answer is, it ISN'T. Nor is it a simple concepl at all. So why should people suddenly think of it?
Oh, yes, that was right. I just said currency is not simple. But you say "It's so simply everyone understands it" or something, perhaps. Try explaining it to someone who DOESN'T know what a monetray system is.
"These little bits of paper can be exchanged for a car."
"What? But why would anyone give you a car if you gave them paper? It's too small to be useful to anyone!"
Paper money is perhaps an extreme example. But, say, for a single 50p piece I can go out and buy, say, a can of rice pudding. The can itself contains more metal than the coin. And then it contains rice pudding as well. Which, as a single object, is actually "worth more" if you disregard money?
You see? Money is not a simple concept. Of all the places in game that I've seen, only one could possibly consider using coinage. And they probably shouldn't because they have a perfectly good monetary system as it is.
That would be Quillanoi.
And NONE of the surrounding places can really consider it, because they've turned down the offer of joining the Quii currency many times already... preferring the idea of barter to currency.
