08-10-2022, 02:20 AM | #1 |
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The golden problem of Cidri
The jobs table is way off. Roman soldiers made 9 gold aureus a year (comparable to Cidri's gold coins), while an army regular in Cidri makes 375 gold coins a year. (Not counting living expenses in either case)
Make the jobs table (and cost of living) monthly, and have 25 silvers to the gold coin and you get an annual salary of 36 gold coins which is still very very high (fnording gold debasing greedy dwarves!), but not totally insane. Starting gear is refactored down to $250 (10 gold coins).
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08-10-2022, 11:39 AM | #2 |
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Re: The golden problem of Cidri
Why should the economics of Earth's Rome be coin-for-coin comparable to Cidri? How much did the Romans pay for a short sword or weekly room and board costs?
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08-10-2022, 04:30 PM | #3 |
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Re: The golden problem of Cidri
I prefer a 100:1 silver-to-gold ratio.
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08-10-2022, 04:39 PM | #4 |
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Re: The golden problem of Cidri
Apparently, all the dungeons full of treasure have provided gold to devalue the gold coin (compare the Price Revolution in early modern Europe when a substantial increase in the supply of gold led to increases in the amount of gold required to buy goods and labor- the gold had been looted from Aztecs rather than from undead, but the principle is the same).
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08-10-2022, 06:16 PM | #5 |
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Re: The golden problem of Cidri
What is the source of all this inflationary precious metals?
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08-10-2022, 08:31 PM | #6 |
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Re: The golden problem of Cidri
Who needs wood when you have spring steel?
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08-11-2022, 08:35 AM | #7 |
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Re: The golden problem of Cidri
I thought that TFT based value of a silver piece to be $1 in the late 1970's. The table costs of items were loosely based upon that. I know that I read that somewhere either in Classic or Legacy ITL but I can't find it. Perhaps, it was explained in a subsequent publication. I have seen it discussed on either this forum or on Discord.
If this is the case, the cost and wages in TFT are OK. They are not really dependent upon any other time frame or specific period of Earth history. I assumed that it was explained that way so that everyone could have a reference point for the value of a silver piece. Since that was established over 40 years ago and inflation in our real lives has marched on, it has been a hard reference to keep straight in our minds. Per an inflation calculator at https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/ , $1 in 1980 now requires $3.60 for the same buying power. |
08-11-2022, 11:08 AM | #8 |
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Re: The golden problem of Cidri
Silver Thursday in TFT: https://www.hcobb.com//tft/legacy_first.html#Thursday
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08-11-2022, 12:37 PM | #9 | |
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Re: The golden problem of Cidri
Quote:
I thought that I saw it in text elsewhere in the literature and not in this link. I may be mistaken on that. |
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