(12-10-2017, 07:14 AM)C Wrote: Sounsyy post and a discussion thread
http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/showthread....#pid259952
Another discussion thread ( with another Sounsyy post)
http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/showthread.php?tid=8488
Long and short of it, the conversion seems to be up to the individual.
10 Gil to one USD
2:1
5:1
100:1
Whatever...
Because of that, my characters generally carry a descriptive amount rather than a numerical one. Meaning, "enough to get by" or "bulging coin purse(lol)", etc. Not "1000 Gil" or "only 10 Gil."
I'm honestly of a similar mindset when it comes to effective amount vs actual amount, and I tend to adapt my numbers to fit whatever the people around me are using. That said, as someone who's starting to actually sell things in-character, its kind of important for me to have information for people beyond "This costs a lot" and "This costs very little", because people tend to want you to give them concrete numbers.Â
The nice thing about currency in WoW RP is that I think most people just have an innate sense of what a gold or silver coin should be worth. Gil seems to be a much more abstract concept, like if you handed a group of people random amounts of Turkish Lira and told them to trade among themselves with it. They just guess its worth based on how much everyone else has. Â
That said, the fact that Gil is readily accepted at all merchants outside of the Eorzean Alliance leads me to believe that Gil is itself minted on precious metals. It'll probably never happen, but if we could find out what denominations are printed on what metals and how much they weigh, we could roughly calculate, at least, the minimum relative value of each coin. Â
Maybe Koji will get an urge to talk economics one day. I feel like he's been really quiet since Stormblood launch...
