02-19-2018, 05:59 PM | #1 |
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What is the dollar equiv of a Crimp
Not a dockside kidnapper, a Credit Imperial. Someone must have brought it up in the past.
Naturally currency equivs between wildly differing times and places can only be approximations but it is nice to have.
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02-19-2018, 08:02 PM | #2 |
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Re: What is the dollar equiv of a Crimp
ISW: 1 Solar == 2.80 USD in 2000
I don't have the stats on the 3I handy, but I'm pretty sure it was tied to the 1985 dollar. |
02-19-2018, 09:06 PM | #3 | |
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Re: What is the dollar equiv of a Crimp
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Freelance traveller says that an Alexandria handcomp is 1500 Cr. I'm pretty sure that can't be right as you can get something with about the same specs for no more then a few hundred dollars(the Alexandria surely has more memory of course but the technological advances should have cheapened that memory too). Of course that article was written awhile ago.
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02-20-2018, 04:32 AM | #4 |
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Re: What is the dollar equiv of a Crimp
Hard to say, as the economies are so different, and book prices are hard to match up. But, back the day with the LBBs (call it 1980; close enough), I recall it seemed like it was roughly Cr 10 = USD $1.
Four posts in, we've already got a spread of a factor of three. So you'll have ot ask yourself why you even want an answer to the question. With error bars that large, does having a number really help you price anything compared to just picking a price in crimps? |
02-20-2018, 06:47 AM | #5 |
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Re: What is the dollar equiv of a Crimp
As a 3000 year old piece of paper, an actual ancient Terran dollar note of any sort is probably a fairly expensive antique.
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02-20-2018, 07:01 AM | #6 | |
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Re: What is the dollar equiv of a Crimp
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Honestly a factor of 3 is probably about all the accuracy you can ever get out of an RPG price list, because it's not that weird for prices of virtually identical stuff to vary by a factor of 2 or 3 in stores across the street from each other. Or from week to week if you can catch the good sales.
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02-20-2018, 09:52 AM | #7 |
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Re: What is the dollar equiv of a Crimp
My impression is that it was meant to be about US$1 at the time of publication, or almost $4 today.
https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc...2&year2=201801 |
02-20-2018, 04:05 PM | #8 | |
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Re: What is the dollar equiv of a Crimp
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I believe that GURPS and CT both said 10 Cr to 1 USD, but both fixed it to the USD at the time of their respective publications. Making the CT Conversion 10 CR to 1 USD circa 1977 and the GT conversion 10 Cr to 1 USD circa the mid 1980s. |
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02-20-2018, 06:43 PM | #9 |
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Re: What is the dollar equiv of a Crimp
CT Cr are 1977 US dollars, pretty much across the board.
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02-20-2018, 10:37 PM | #10 | |
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