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Why does each race not have their own currency.
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Dub Step
Death To Everyone But Us
#21 - 2013-05-13 18:28:24 UTC
Hey, don't forget Aurum, that was a GREAT addition to the game wasn't it.
Ken 1138
State War Academy
Caldari State
#22 - 2013-05-13 18:48:30 UTC
From what i understood we capsuleers only use ISK. But on planets for non space faring people they have their own currency.

Like Caldari factory workers get payed in near worthless vouchers and worker currency. But are worth alot less than ISK. 5000 ISK is more than most workers make in years.

In Amarr slaves are currency.
shimiku
Zircron Industries
#23 - 2013-05-13 18:57:47 UTC
its simple look at the EU most of them use EURO so all 4 empires agreed to use the same currency so it was easyer for them to trade cross all regions of their empires ???
Ioci
Bad Girl Posse
#24 - 2013-05-13 19:04:14 UTC
Let me say what many are too stubborn to say.

I dunno.

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Himnos Altar
An Errant Venture
#25 - 2013-05-13 19:43:20 UTC
De'Veldrin wrote:
Grideris wrote:
ISK is Intersteller Kredit. It's designed for inter-empire and space trade.

Different planets (or corporations in the State) have their own local currencies. However a single ISK is worth a very large amount of these planetary currencies, so we seldom deal with them since they're just too small for us to use.


Pretty much this.

Aside from making my epeen grow due to larger numbers, having 590 bazillion googleplex trillion Amarrian religion monies and 14 trillion apple date monkey purple Gallente Orgy Credits isn't going to give me any more buying power than I have now. In fact, given exchange rates, it would probably give me less.



I came to the thread expecting a ridiculous suggestion, was not dissapointed.

But God Dammit now I want Orgy Credits!
Djana Libra
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#26 - 2013-05-13 19:47:24 UTC
that would mean more spreadsheet tabs Oo
Ckra Trald
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#27 - 2013-05-13 20:31:35 UTC
lore

planetary currency is worthless compared to isk

we are rich space people.

its like 50bil gallente credits to 50k isk somewhere in lore

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Jarod Garamonde
Jolly Codgers
Get Off My Lawn
#28 - 2013-05-13 20:33:49 UTC
Missive Ernaga wrote:
Why does the entire universe use the same currency?

It makes no sense that warring empires would be attached to the same currency.

Why don't we have four different kinds of isk?

Caldari ISK would be given for caldari misisons and bounties on caldari-based rats.

Gallente ISK for gallente stuff.

so on and so forth.

This would introduce interesting gameplay to the game in the form of currency trading(it would also make the Currency Column mean something.

The old isk in the game would be 1:1 convertable via NPCs for racial isk, but would not be able to be spend on the market anymore.

When setting up a buy or sell order, you would have to select which current you are selling the goods for.



OP is a dumb.

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Kult Altol
The Safe Space
#29 - 2013-05-13 21:19:28 UTC
It's already here, it's called LP......

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Markku Laaksonen
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#30 - 2013-05-13 21:32:08 UTC
We can travel from one side of the galaxy ('cluster' whatever) to the other in less time than it takes for a New Yorker to go see trees. Why shouldn't we all use ISK?

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Kadl
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#31 - 2013-05-13 21:46:52 UTC  |  Edited by: Kadl
RP: Concord or something

Design: CCP didn't want to design currency markets at the beginning, and has not wanted to spend the time since then.

I like the idea of multiple currencies. It would add a nice bit of national separation which is sometimes lacking. I think that the systems would be relatively simple to design. The current market could be quickly modified to add in that level of complexity. It would add another aspect to consider when trading. The complexity and additional steps needed to purchase things might discourage some players.
Gealbhan
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#32 - 2013-05-13 21:53:37 UTC
The four empires do have their own currency for the planet dwellers. We pod pilots use our own currency in effect we are the 5th empire.
Super spikinator
Hegemonous Conscripts
#33 - 2013-05-13 22:00:24 UTC
The Interstellar Kredit is capsuleer fiat money, used so that we don't destabilise the known universe of EvE. Also, it was a nifty way of putting the króna into the game.
Black Panpher
CastleKickers
Rote Kapelle
#34 - 2013-05-13 22:03:34 UTC
If you can speak English you should be able to figure this out for yourself.

Unless of course you didn't know what ISK stood for.
Shamus O'Reilly
Candy Cabal
#35 - 2013-05-14 00:32:12 UTC
Abrazzar wrote:
Masuka Taredi wrote:
Jake Warbird wrote:
We minmatar use rusted spaceship parts as currency.


Surely you mean duct tape??

Bottle caps.

im sorry i dont live in a nuclear future wasteland filled with super mutants with plasma rifles and pip boys

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Jarod Garamonde
Jolly Codgers
Get Off My Lawn
#36 - 2013-05-14 00:59:00 UTC
Gealbhan wrote:
The four empires do have their own currency for the planet dwellers. We pod pilots use our own currency in effect we are the 5th empire.


*ahem*

6th. Remember that Jove is an empire, too...

That moment when you realize the crazy lady with all the cats was right...

    [#savethelance]
rswfire
#37 - 2013-05-14 01:04:39 UTC
Kadl wrote:
RP: Concord or something

Design: CCP didn't want to design currency markets at the beginning, and has not wanted to spend the time since then.

I like the idea of multiple currencies. It would add a nice bit of national separation which is sometimes lacking. I think that the systems would be relatively simple to design. The current market could be quickly modified to add in that level of complexity. It would add another aspect to consider when trading. The complexity and additional steps needed to purchase things might discourage some players.


There are quite a few difficult aspects to separating currency at this stage of the game's life. You'd have to separate the markets (presumably changing the buy/sell orders to whatever faction holds the system), figure out how to convert all the player ISK into multiple currency (let them decide? what about their active buy/sell orders?), and create methods of acquiring these currencies. It is a cool idea in theory. Other games have it, and it would give incentive for people to explore more of empire space (and perhaps beyond.) But from a technical point of view, it would take some serious effort to implement.

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Radius Prime
Tax Evading Ass.
#38 - 2013-05-14 01:48:44 UTC
Missive Ernaga wrote:
Why does the entire universe use the same currency?

It makes no sense that warring empires would be attached to the same currency.

Why don't we have four different kinds of isk?

Caldari ISK would be given for caldari misisons and bounties on caldari-based rats.

Gallente ISK for gallente stuff.

so on and so forth.

This would introduce interesting gameplay to the game in the form of currency trading(it would also make the Currency Column mean something.

The old isk in the game would be 1:1 convertable via NPCs for racial isk, but would not be able to be spend on the market anymore.

When setting up a buy or sell order, you would have to select which current you are selling the goods for.


We have AUR, PLEX, ISK, CCP will take $ and Euro just as well. One would think the Jove have a different type. Certain goods are so stable in price they could basically be considered currency as well. As for the empires, I don't see why it would be necessary. One could argue Inter Stellar K(....) was agreed upon by all 4 to be the universal currency in all of the EVE-universe.

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Alexa Coates
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#39 - 2013-05-14 02:13:30 UTC
Shamus O'Reilly wrote:
Abrazzar wrote:
Masuka Taredi wrote:
Jake Warbird wrote:
We minmatar use rusted spaceship parts as currency.


Surely you mean duct tape??

Bottle caps.

im sorry i dont live in a nuclear future wasteland filled with super mutants with plasma rifles and pip boys

...thanks for reminding me...

Cry

That's a Templar, an Amarr fighter used by carriers.
Gealbhan
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#40 - 2013-05-14 02:29:12 UTC
Jarod Garamonde wrote:
Gealbhan wrote:
The four empires do have their own currency for the planet dwellers. We pod pilots use our own currency in effect we are the 5th empire.


*ahem*

6th. Remember that Jove is an empire, too...


Ah yes, they're kind of like Saint Columba. If you don't talk about them every now and again people forget about them.
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