scott2978
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Location: Arizona, USA
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| jmanski wrote: | | Quote: | | If they're all imprinted with nanochips, aren't they traceable? Maybe I'm not understanding you. I suppose they're less traceable than the electronic accounts but I'd think that's still too much evidence for smugglers, Hutts, and corrupt NR and Imperial officials to stomach in their daily lives of crime. |
If you scan a coin and it has a nanochip- it's money! Wouldn't they be relieved? It's not like it takes your picture when you spend it or something......right? |
The way I've implemented it in my games, the nanochip in the coin is like an RFID, you scan the coiins with a hand scanner to verify their authenticity, that's it. They're untraceable because nobody knows who you are when you spend them. With a cred account, it takes your own thumbprint to spend it, and with credsticks you can trace what sredstick the money came from, but with cold hard credits, they're just like a quarter in US money, unless someone sees you spend it, nobody's the wiser.
Also, to keep prices of things consistant, I've made rough analogies to real life things. I usually only use this when we don't know exactly how much something would cost. Starting with spaceships, I liken a small tramp freighter to a cargo van... and a bulk freighter costs about what a semi tractor/trailer would. A comlink costs the same as a cellphone, etc.
I also liken the costs and difficulty involved in travel to travel in the US. Cities and towns are planets, states are sectors and regions are rims of the galaxy. West coast is the core and east coast is the outer rim... for purposes of travel hassles and expense. Hours of driving become days of spaceflight and days of driving are weeks in a ship. For instance, the cost and hassle involved in flying from the outer rim to the core is like driving from the west coast to the east coast. The amount of money you'd spend to take a bus or a plane is about what it'd cost you to book transport on a spaceliner. etc. It works for those things your players want to buy and you're like "How the hell can I find out what that costs?"
You know back to the money system... it's kinda ironic that our current US monetary system resembles my star wars economy a bit. Cred accounts = spending money on the internet straight from your bank account, credsticks = debit cards, and cold hard cash is, well cold hard cash. The last time I actually carried hard currency was when I was driving through rural Virginia... the outer rim... where credsticks would be as welcome as a credit card in a hill-country gas station that hadn't changed since Nixon was the president. |
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