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Ephemeron
Cutting Edge Incorporated
RAZOR Alliance
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Posted - 2008.01.25 05:25:00 -
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I was thinking about the value of dollar going down relative to other major currencies and the next thing I'm wondering about is:
what if Amarr, Caldari, Minmatar, Gallente all had their own currency? That would simply couldn't put up a sell/buy order in Caldari space with non-Caldari isk.
Assume that devs put these 4 currencies in the game with equal value. How fast would the Caldari dollar rise? what would happen to Amarr dollar?
Who would benefit?
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Ephemeron
Cutting Edge Incorporated
RAZOR Alliance
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Posted - 2008.01.25 05:29:00 -
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Edited by: Ephemeron on 25/01/2008 05:31:07
I think factional warfare would have a lot more meaning if each faction had its own currency.
Just think about it, along with regular combat, you try economical warfare to improve value of your factional currency
If CCP did this, would EVE be the first major MMORPG to ever have more than 1 currency?
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Ephemeron
Cutting Edge Incorporated
RAZOR Alliance
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Posted - 2008.01.25 06:32:00 -
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I think if there was this split, ISK would have to be removed compeltely, otherwise everyone just keeps using isk and there's no real competetion
Seriously, such a change would be very radical and it would hurt a lot of people. But I'd live thru it
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Ephemeron
Cutting Edge Incorporated
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Posted - 2008.01.25 07:24:00 -
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Single currency unifies people.
If we are serious about having more conflict in the game, some decent factional warfare, then we need to get rid of that unification factor by splitting the currencies.
Depends what people want - more peace and unity or more conflict? In real life, we all want unity, but this is a game, we kinda want conflict
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Ephemeron
Cutting Edge Incorporated
RAZOR Alliance
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Posted - 2008.01.25 12:02:00 -
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 Originally by: Hirokishi
Edited by: Hirokishi on 25/01/2008 11:58:32
I don't think it would be a good idea to have currencies for each faction...
- the case of Jita : it is by far the biggest market in New-eden so the caldari currency would have a unfair advantage compared to the other factions so using another currency than caldari would mean you would actually lose purchasing power ?
- looking a bit further on the case of jita. as other currencies will be weaker, the people producing items would have one more reason of selling it in jita : why selling something for a lower price (because people have lost their purchasing power) outside caldari while they can sell it more expensive in caldari regions ? Isn't jita painful enough ?
- It would be an headache for many players to cope with this.
- One day you would have enough money to buy a specific item (a bs for example) and a few days later you can't anymore because the currency value you have put your money in has fallen ? I don't think many will like this... And I don't think it will work on the other side.
Don't expect things in a game work like real life. Those are completely different and constraints are not the same...
Eve-online the first MMO for currency traders : no way !
But for same reason, all the producers would start moving their productions to other faction space, where it is cheaper to make stuff, then haul the end products for sale in Jita.
What you'll get is kinda like Caldari = USA and other factions China.
In the end all the shift in production could raise value of other factions and maybe even shift entire Jita tradehub to another region.
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Ephemeron
Cutting Edge Incorporated
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Posted - 2008.01.25 12:05:00 -
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Edited by: Ephemeron on 25/01/2008 12:05:41
also, faction war could play out in such a way as other factions gang up on Caldari and weaken its currency, which may result in Jita trade hub moving to another faction
With faction currency and faction warfare, what you can get is the war for the trade hub. Whoever is stronger gets the trade hub in their faction space. All by natural market forces.
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