Guild Wars 2

So something weird has been happening. When I sell things to merchants, it looks like my coin inventory is depleting instead of gaining coins. For instance, after selling what should be worth 80 coins, my inventory showed 5 coins. The weird thing, is that when I went to buy a bag for 32 coins, my inventory jumped up to 72 coins.

Something similar happened at the trading post. I sold some items and it said I would receive 92 coins in profit. When I retrieved the profit, my coins in my inventory went down to 1. However it still allowed me to buy a bag worth around 30 coins…

I’m not sure if my account is being buggy, or I just have no clue what’s going on. Has anyone else had this issue or am I crazy?

Are you buying from the resale tab?

By “coins” do you mean copper? You also have silver and gold coins. Once you reach 100 copper it automatically turns that into 1 silver and removes the 100 copper. When you reach 100 silver it does the same into 1 gold, removing 100 silver.

So, if you had 25 copper and sold something worth 80 copper then you would have 1 silver, 5 copper. If you didn’t notice the silver going up it would look like you copper went down.

1 silver = 100 copper, 1 gold = 100 silver
so if you have 0g 2s 55c and sell something for 60c, you will then have 0g 3s 15c
you can read it as one big number: 00255 + 60 = 00315

Depending on what country you are from, the ingame currency may be confusing. Some countries don’t break down their currency into smaller values like China. It uses the yuan and everything from 1 to 1 million is the same name. The dollar and euro can be broken down into 100 cents each.

kokocabana.8153:

Depending on what country you are from, the ingame currency may be confusing. Some countries don’t break down their currency into smaller values like China. It uses the yuan and everything from 1 to 1 million is the same name. The dollar and euro can be broken down into 100 cents each.

Sigh… The internet throws mis-info at you around every corner doesn’t it? The Chinese yuan breaks down into 10 jiao or 100 fen just fine. It’s the Japanese yen that like a few others, doesn’t.

Back on topic, 1 gold = 100 silver = 10,000 copper.

huh. 9 months into the game, and this is the first parallel I’ve seen with real-world currency. I always associated the gold/silver/copper with a base-100 number system (we are most used to base-10), not with exchanging cents for dollars. I suppose it is closer, but since the game exchanges it automatically for you, I never connected it :P

for those that are curious, the best way to describe a base-100 number system is to describe a base-8. in base-8, you would count like this: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,20. on the eighth number, you increment the second digit, then on the sixteenth number you increment the second digit again. in base-100, you would increment the second digit on the 100th number.
so 100 copper increments the 1 silver digit, and 100 silver increments the 1 gold digit.

Hmm I get what you’re saying, but I’d definitely go with the cents, dollars and bigger dollars way of describing it :p