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Allen Deckard
Gallente
WTB Supplies
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Posted - 2006.11.20 22:47:00 -
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grr wouldn't let me edit.
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If I am not mistakin (and it's extreemely possible I am) didn't the currency start with isk, then like bars, then globes, then another I cant remember? Used to show up like in the top right of your screen if I remember. Been a long time but unless I am thinkin of another game. But am sure it was eve.
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Kylania
Gallente
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Posted - 2006.11.20 22:50:00 -
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Asheron's Call had a neat thing called Trade Notes. You could carry around coin which had weight, but if you wanted to carry a lot you either had to get a buffed up warrior to carry it all, or you bought trade notes. Each trade note bought for like 10% more than the face value and sold for 10% less than the face value. So each time you got one it took money out of the economy. But coin weighed so much you had to do it. 
I think eventually they did away with it all, first making coins weigh nothing, then getting rid of coins all together and just using a magical "you have this much money" concept.
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Gavin Tanner
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Posted - 2006.11.20 22:53:00 -
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Ok, we agree to haul gold coins around but you guys have to fight with rusty vibro cutlasses, flying in ships wih a solar sail , and all your pics have to show bad teeth. |
Reggie Stoneloader
eXceed Inc.
Ascendant Frontier
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Posted - 2006.11.20 22:57:00 -
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How about adding a handful of new BPOs for "ingots" of minerals? Classify them as trade goods. An ingot uses 100 units of a given mineral but only takes up 0.1 cubic meters of cargo space, a 90% compression rate. It's more believable than everyone hauling passive targeters and tractor beems around for mineral compression, and it would be a token unit of worldly wealth, which could be reprocessed with the corresponding mineral reprocessing skill at near 100% efficiency.
Scanning an Iteron V full of Zydrine bars then politely asking him for half a billion isk at the point of a blaster is my kind of piracy.
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Patch86
Di-Tron Heavy Industries
Freelancer Alliance
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Posted - 2006.11.21 00:13:00 -
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 Originally by: Reggie Stoneloader
How about adding a handful of new BPOs for "ingots" of minerals? Classify them as trade goods. An ingot uses 100 units of a given mineral but only takes up 0.1 cubic meters of cargo space, a 90% compression rate. It's more believable than everyone hauling passive targeters and tractor beems around for mineral compression, and it would be a token unit of worldly wealth, which could be reprocessed with the corresponding mineral reprocessing skill at near 100% efficiency.
Scanning an Iteron V full of Zydrine bars then politely asking him for half a billion isk at the point of a blaster is my kind of piracy.
Not a bad idea, actually.
We all know people insists on building passive targeters and the like as a way of carrying mienrals around lightly, so why not formalise it? Make a real "condensed material" material (ingots, as you say) as a method of carrying around minerals?
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Tonkin
Black Lance
Dusk and Dawn
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Posted - 2006.11.21 00:35:00 -
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lol looting a can off a dead apoc, you recived a t2 tachyon laser and looted 65 pieces of gold.
lol be rather fun but you got WOW for that mate
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Hllaxiu
Shiva
Morsus Mihi
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Posted - 2006.11.21 01:59:00 -
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Edited by: Hllaxiu on 21/11/2006 02:09:01
Originally by: Agent Li
Really? I guess that's why there's so much cash still around in our world.
There are more dollars in this world than there are printed dollars...
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Telemicus Thrace
Thrace Inc
Ushra'Khan
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Posted - 2006.11.21 02:39:00 -
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I'll say no to this idea (the OP). It makes no sense that a 0.0 economy with stations / outposts etc can't access noral banking yet we can still communicate over light years instantly. I do plenty of trade with fuel and equipment haulers and I'm sure not going to wait around until we are both online to pay them in gold pieces because I live on the frontier.
Originally by: Agent Li
It would make piracy REAL piracy, rather like the Pirates of the Carribean...
freighters full of isk.... trying to convoy back and forth with escorts...
Without debating how close Walt Disney comes to portraying real piracy I should point out there are convoys. To hold system sovreignty you need POSs, they need fuel. Apart from ice products you need stuff like coolant, robotics, mechanical parts etc. Those items ae only available from agents and NPC trade, you can't make them.
It is one of the few true ISK sinks. It also means that there is plenty of trade and haulers going from 0.0 to high sec and back again. High end rat loot comes out, fuel goes in. Both are worth ISK.
Any 0.0 hauler pilot worth his salt will be well equiped to deal with inty gangs and full scale bubble camps so don't expect to find easy targets. But the targets are there. Remember a transport ship can fit an MWD and be built to tank as well as a BS. 
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Itoz
Gallente
Shiva
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Posted - 2006.11.21 17:02:00 -
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Originally by: Agent Li
http://www.usdoj.gov/ndic/pubs8/8731/money.htm
A principal method used to launder drug proceeds is the physical transportation of bulk currency and monetary instruments, such as money orders and checks, to destinations outside the United States.
Ah...Lets just make pirate corps carry cash. Kill a pirate and you get his wallet.
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