#can you tell I got way too deep into 'why are echoes decimalised' | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

the-perspicacious-mercenary · 5 months ago

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Okay so I know one hundred pennies equal one echo because that's the most convenient way to actually play, but what if they didn't.

What if the Bazaar issued coins worth a seventh of an echo, then seventy-seven pennies made one of those? Yeah it would be a nightmare to keep track of but consider. It would be cool.

#fallen london #The idea of splitting the Echo into one-hundreths has to come from the Fourth #in fact I'd argue that payments is rostygold and other trade goods is a holdover from earlier cities #where actual echoes were the province of rich merchants and nobody would bother minting something as small as a penny #(and the Third probably standardised the value of common trade goods and didn't bother with coins at all unless the Masters demanded it)#can you tell I got way too deep into 'why are echoes decimalised'#considering the answer is almost certainly 'because the player is accustomed to a decimal currency'

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