Money system in a village

[Smooblymoobs]

Hi all,

We've been toying with the idea of trying to make coins the currency of our village, so each part of the village can trade any special produce they make.

Has anyone had success with this and if so.. any tips or idea about how you made it work.

Also, we know lots have tried and failed.. so can we avoid too much of the

smoobs

[Procne]

Don't have any experience with this but I would propose:

Start by making a stall which sells some valuable stuff, which everyone needs, but most can't get on their own and have to rely on other people. Like silver / gold, high quality game products or stuff your village has to buy from others. At the same time stall should buy various common items, so that people can get the coins. You may also have to cease giving away the products you sell, to force people to sell their stuff to get coins. Once people start using it and get some coins themselves it would make sense to encourage them to create their own stalls and sell / buy common goods.

[cyrus9586]

had experience in this in W9 when I came back. Unless your village direly wants/agrees to this i would avoid it. The issues we ran into:
Stall to exchange for coins was never stocked
Coin was HEAVILY enforced as the way to get what you needed.
Trading between members was Forbidden.
Coins were left to "council" members to disperse 1000 were to be given out council members kept 900 of them...

#2 and 3 meant that if I needed leather and had metal I had to sell the metal for coin to buy his leather. This was not a good system for a small village. Unless you direly need a set exchange rate I would just let players hash out the trades themselves. But if you need it then dont enforce it as the way only trade option.

[ricky]

I have little experience with the coin system, but what the other two have mentioned are valid.

The treasury (whoever makes the coins) has to have a way to distribute the money, either by having a stall which purchases low value items which everyone can get (meat, leather, curios)
what the treasury (usually village leader) does with the stuff he purchases is up to him. either redistribute the commodities or use it themselves to become a leader-tyrant

each member must also have a stall to sell their items for and to buy other items.

optionally, you could build a notice board in town which people post their WTB/WTS requests and hopefully the village members will fulfill their requests without coins

[bladeking230]

If you have people with specific tasks they can sell stuff that only they make for money. Like a farmer sells seeds and bakery goods. A miner sells ores and stones. Then charge for tables being used for food and so forth. But then you'd have to have population of people doing single task's to get money to use other people more advanced goods. I guess. It would be kinda pointless..