Adds some money types. #27963
Adds some money types. #27963
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This reverts commit 48dcbfc.
Adds two new currencies, for the free merchants and the as-yet nonexistent campus faction.
This makes sure the shopkeeper will have some, but the amount will vary randomly
Adds a price value, pretty much randomly set for now.
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You've got some unrelated changes in with this PR. |
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Yes, my local repository seems to be borked. I'm trying to fix it, but it's not updating... will probably have to restart this pr after I've figured it out |
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Suppose the PR is as good a place for this as any: the (standard game mode) CDDA starts 5 days after the Cataclysm. Is this currency one that the Free Merchants developed pre-Cataclysm? And if so, why? I ask because developing a currency is no small thing (and there's likely been other things on peoples minds in the week after the apocalypse). |
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The Free Merchants would probably have worked out some form of promissory note within a few days of the Cataclysm; one of the reasons I like the signed bills is that they feel like something that would have started naturally ("sure, I'll take cash... but only if you write on it something to guarantee it's worth the food I'm owed!") and been rapidly adopted among them. I assume that the lag between "end of the world" and "free merchants adopt promissory notes for internal allocation of resources" is short enough that there's not a lot of value in the number of conditionals it would take to simulate the transition period. What is going to eventually be simulated is the longer period where it's slowly adopted by other groups, but for now they only really work among the merchants. |
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Maybe limit for some random period of time per world to rumors about new currency only? End game economics. |
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There's not really a ton of value to limiting it to a period of time. It adds a huge amount of work to every dialogue file related to paying for services, for the niche times a player makes it to the refugee center incredibly early or starts out there. Plus I currently can't limit item spawning in merchant inventories based on game time, so it would prevent me from letting the merchant trade for it. |
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Summary
SUMMARY: Content "Adds Free Merchant currency'"Purpose of change
This adds free merchant currency as discussed in #27955, #27449 and #27447
I do not believe it fully satisfies the latter two issues yet as this is just free merchants, with a small infrastructural change for the Campus mainly because I hope to soon add a few references to their existence amongst the merchants.
Describe the solution
Adds the Free Merchant Certified Note, commonly called the Merch. This is a promissory note printed on old US large-denom currency.
Currently the only way to get this is by bartering with the free merchant shopkeeper. I cannot see any way at this time to make the money less valuable outside the free merchant faction; the code will probably need to be updated to give a factional flag to currency allowing us to give it no or partial value to other factions.
I may add further support for the currency within this PR, eg selling food, but I need it added so that my NPCs can start asking for it.
Describe alternatives you've considered
There's been a long and involved discussion on various options for currency, but ultimately a promissory note is the most logical and this one has a good post apocalyptic flavour.
Additional context
Not yet checked in-game.