Player Features and Ideas Discussion

the game is simple...
balancing the economy is not

adding 4-8 new currencies (4 empire 4+ pirates)
1) will make the game far more difficult for very little added benefit
2) do nothing to balance the economy as a real exchange rate will have to be set, nullfying the point of having all the new currencies in the first place.

unless your goal is to create a currency exchange which will be a real headache and benefit no one other than a new class of money traders (lol)
or
throw eve's economy back to stone age bartering for goods. since no one will be able to trade liquid isk, we will be bartering in crap, most likely ore since (almost) everything can be reprocessed into ore.