How To Make Currency Work

[ThirdEmperor]

Typical mid-game attitude..

Exactly, I'd rather have golden tableware, but most players would rather have iron than gold, even if gold is more valuable.

Therefor, with regards to trade at least, iron is more usefull because pretty much everyone wants to trade for it, while gold is only wanted by high level players.

[DatOneGuy]

Typical mid-game attitude..

Exactly, I'd rather have golden tableware, but most players would rather have iron than gold, even if gold is more valuable.

Therefor, with regards to trade at least, iron is more usefull because pretty much everyone wants to trade for it, while gold is only wanted by high level players.

The people who have such things typically don't have anything I'd want as someone who has gold, or they'll complain that they have to work too much to get gold.

These things really only apply to people who are relatively new and didn't take the time to find a mine before settling down. Iron is also in just about every region, definitely in every SG I'd say. It's more of a localized trading deal, those looking to trade for copper/tin/iron aren't really ready to hit up nople yet most of the times, so they'd be trading with yocals.

In the grand scheme of things people ready to use vending stands have at least a mine, and given the finery forge's need to make it back into a nugget/bar, requires cast iron through trade/or mine.

Overall vending stands need a way of setting it back, the only way now being a real pain in the ass and always requiring a way of having someone to trade somewhere in the process.

(The only way to remove the finery forge from the process of a specific town is to make another standing selling gold coins for gold bars/nuggets at their normal price ; perhaps slightly marked up from their normal price since it's a commodity)