Contraband

[Fyron]

You can certainly pile 30,000 credits! (assuming you can get them in some form of hard currency )

[narf poit chez BOOM]

hmm...what's soft currency?

[Baron Munchausen]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
hmm...what's soft currency?

Technically, 'hard' currency is made of a precious metal, or at least backed by it in a vault somewhere. 'Soft' currency is what we use today... 'fiat' money with no fixed quantity of any precious commodity to stabilize it. Nothing but the word of the government (cough!) guarantees its value.

The sense in which Fyron is using it just means 'physical tokens' though. Something you can stack.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

cheese. you can stack cheese. which brings us to the merits of cheese versus gold.

gold: a shiny yellow color. 0 cheese: comes in shiny yellow and many other colors. 1

gold: a good conducter. 1 cheese: not sure. probably not a good conducter. 0

gold: very heavy and difficult to carry. 0 cheese: relitivily light. 1

gold: can only be gained by mining. 0 cheese: just leave some milk out for a while, then bake it. 1

gold: relitivily soft and workable, easily made into coins. 0.5 cheese: even more soft and pliable, perhaps to much. a pLastic bag contains it nicely, though. 0.5

gold: can be measured out to a standard weight. 1 cheese: comes in many different weights, value of different varieties would have to be determined by an independent panel. 0

gold: doesn't rust. 2 cheese: rots quickly. stocks would have to be replaced swiftly. 0

gold: cannot be eaten. no use in times of famine. 0 cheese: can be eaten. in times of famine, retains it's usefullness. 1.5

gold: 4.5
cheese: 5

and thus we see that cheese is 0.5 of a point better as a currency than gold.

oops. little error.

[ October 10, 2003, 01:23: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[DeadZone]

LMAO

Perhaps you should do a mod where cheese is used instead of credits

[Jayalin]

gold: cannot be eaten. no use in times of famine.

Not entirely correct. Gold can be eaten, was a very popular garnish historically. Even nowadays you'll see it on certain very expensive, out of our reach sort of dishes. More or less just passes through the system though

[Slick]

That explains those "clinking" noises in the toilet.

I've heard of those desserts with gold leaf on them. I'd never eat gold; it's a heavy metal no matter how much they say it won't affect you.

Slick.