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So whats the currency in dollars?
Well, seeing as 100 coppers=1 silver, and 100 silvers=1 gold, if 1 copper=1 dollar than 1 silver=100 dollars and 1 gold=10000 dollars. I’d put a copper at closer to a cent (silver at a dollar, gold at a hundred dollars)… although, wasn’t there a dev interview recently that said something along the lines that they can’t be compared to real-world currency?
If I recall correctly in all if not some MMO’s that use the CSG currency, it has nothing to do with real life currency and cannot be compared.
To answer what I feel you’re hinting at as Aaron said, 100 copper is 1 silver and 100 silver is 1 gold, they decided against adding platinum from the game. So gold is as high as it can get.
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The way you phrased your question is kind of like asking, “How many yen are in a pound?” It doesn’t make sense contextually. (Yes, you could make exchange rate arguments, but with a fluxuating market, that’s only good for about 3 minutes.) As people said above, it’s 100 copper to a silver, 100 silver to a gold, and 1000 gold to a platinum (If I remember my GW1 conversion). Ironically, 250 years later our heroes find less money instead of more. Take THAT, inflation!
Interestingly, those are also the metals used in jewelry crafting. I wonder if we could theoretically find mithril or orichalcum coins. (it’d take a lot of farming to get it.)
Nah, only the Black Lion Trading Company has the rights to produce coins (Or is it another company / city / country? Who knows this part of lore?). If you try to craft your gold-ore into coins you go to jail.
As everyone else said you can probably loosely compare them to real world currencies in the sense that there’s 100 cents in a dollar and 100 coppers in a silver. Although I don’t know of any real world currencies with a 3rd unit to compare to gold.
(The UK has copper, silver and gold coloured coins, but they don’t add up the same way. Coppers are 1p and 2p, silver are 5p, 10p, 20p or 50p and gold are £1, 100p = £1)
But you can’t really compare prices, certainly not expecting them to be 1:1. Different currencies, different cultures, and different factors affecting the price of goods.
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10 bucks at the moment is about 66 gold.
That’s about as far you need to think about real world currencies versus fantasy currencies.
Or do I need to remind you that a gold ingot goes for 1,81 silver in the TP?
The interesting thing here is that all races accept the same currency, which probably means they are NOT minted.
Minting was usually done by cultures that were powerful, and decided they could show it by stamping their rulers visage in their currency, adding value to them while subtracting value from non-minted / differently-minted currencies.
He is talking about relative value.
For example: my character spends 1g on a weapon. For her (at the moment), this is 1/15th of her total net worth. She can, by Tyrian standards, be considered “middle class”. So how “valuable” is 1g to Earth standards? Well, I dunno about you, but 1/15th of my net value is several thousand bucks (I’m middle class too, kinda). So buying a 1g bow in Tyria would be like buying a brand new assault rifle in real life (they can cost up to $4000, easily).
Buying a legendary would be like buying the ancient sword of a real life Japanese Emperor, which will cost you a few million $ at least.
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For example: my character spends 1g on a weapon. For her (at the moment), this is 1/15th of her total net worth. She can, by Tyrian standards, be considered “middle class”. So how “valuable” is 1g to Earth standards? Well, I dunno about you, but 1/15th of my net value is several thousand bucks (I’m middle class too, kinda). So buying a 1g bow in Tyria would be like buying a brand new assault rifle in real life (they can cost up to $4000, easily).
Buying a legendary would be like buying the ancient sword of a real life Japanese Emperor, which will cost you a few million $ at least.
Good comparison. I can see a “good weapon” (level 80 being the standard) costing a couple thousand here on Earth as well.
Also, one standard I’ve see around the roleplay community is 6 copper = about 1 Euro (or ca. $1.30). This is based on alcohol prices in-game vs in real life. (Other things are hard to compare since the price of gear, etc. scales with level, while that obviously doesn’t happen in real life, unless you want to say your warrior starts out with a plastic toy to defend themselves. xD)
He is talking about relative value.
For example: my character spends 1g on a weapon. For her (at the moment), this is 1/15th of her total net worth. She can, by Tyrian standards, be considered “middle class”. So how “valuable” is 1g to Earth standards? Well, I dunno about you, but 1/15th of my net value is several thousand bucks (I’m middle class too, kinda). So buying a 1g bow in Tyria would be like buying a brand new assault rifle in real life (they can cost up to $4000, easily).
Buying a legendary would be like buying the ancient sword of a real life Japanese Emperor, which will cost you a few million $ at least.
Relative value. Thank you, I just couldn’t find the right term. Though I dont think it would be accurate to use the TP to figure out relative value because the prices are dependant on OUR world (game market) nstead of the current economic lore of Tyria. For instance, that mission where your going to infiltrate the mouth of Zhatain, this charr makes a friendly bet of 50 gold. Now think about that, if 1g is several thousand bucks, would you really bet like that? That charr could’ve been millionaire, but I really doubt that. That’s why I feel 1g is like $50-$100 compared to us.
Relative value. Thank you, I just couldn’t find the right term. Though I dont think it would be accurate to use the TP to figure out relative value because the prices are dependant on OUR world (game market) nstead of the current economic lore of Tyria. For instance, that mission where your going to infiltrate the mouth of Zhatain, this charr makes a friendly bet of 50 gold. Now think about that, if 1g is several thousand bucks, would you really bet like that? That charr could’ve been millionaire, but I really doubt that. That’s why I feel 1g is like $50-$100 compared to us.
Its more likely that charr was a pretty rich guy, because we have another info.
“It’s an arena where criminals can earn out of their jail sentences while providing the people of Lion’s Arch with entertainment.”
“Brutal.”
Magnus let out a broad-beamed laugh. “They’d much rather fight in my arena than languish in a cell. I buy their billets, and the Lionguard makes sure they don’t run off, and they fight until they’ve paid me back. It’s in everyone’s best interest.” He grinned. “My booming enterprise might just be the place for you to find the fighters you need.”
Eir shook her head. “I come asking after a norn legend and get sent to jailbirds.”
Magnus laughed. “I saw a pair yesterday, a man and a charr. They fought like devils and destroyed a bearbaiting pit”-he paused to spit-“which I personally was glad of. But as head of the Lionguard, well, I had to lock them up. They’re stewing just now in the dockside row house, but I’m about to send my agent to buy their billet.”
“How much is their billet?”
“About five hundred gold.”
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Haha great thoughts here but the issue is in our current world, weapons are not common occurrences. We are expected not to own weapons – it isn’t necessity for daily life or necessary for common professions. In a fantasy world, some form of weapons would be far more accessible and widely distributed, just even for hunting and defense against raiding centaurs or wild beasts and so on. As a poor example, rifles in some places in the Middle East would be cheaper than the weapons we can get here as prized possessions. So I believe that exact comparison would not hold up too well. We would have to think of a 1g basic weapon as say an iPod or something? LOL it’s hard to make the comparison. I guess just maybe a sort of a middle class basic item to have
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