gold bar market : boom, now bust?

[Psychodad]

Ok, but what purpose does the gold bar serve?

I don't have to transfer gold-coin via a ship to a location to use it. If the gold-bar is only a version of currency, similar to bullion in your explanation, why transport it? Why not have it converted to gold-coin(or in this game, why convert it to gold bars at all) which is more easily spent, stored and apparently not subject to the fluctuations of the market as are gold bars.

I suppose it might sit easier with me if gold-bars were made at a smelter, who had to get the gold ore from a mine, then the bars that resulted were transported to a goldsmith and could then be used to create gold coin.

[Most Lee Harmless]

In the game, gold coins must be stored in the purse, in a bank, or buried : each is subject to risk of loss, cost and/or limitations in varied ways. Bullion has other risks attached : be it stored in a warehouse, subject to voodoo attack, or sent by ship for sale, and thus subject to skirmish and loss. So, I see it as two forms of the same currency, which is the metal called gold, with different uses and risks attached to each. In the real world, a payment by cash or by a credit card performs the same function, it buys something : but each work differently, with different costs, advantages and limitations.

I do like the idea of mines for gold and iron : they would make a nice addition to the hide-out, but rather than get into separate buildings for each function, mining, processing, etc., I reckon it should be considered as an industry : so a gold mine would deliver raw gold to the goldsmith ; an iron mine would deliver finished iron to the warehouse, and perhaps iron (and lumber from a Forestry) would be delivered to the Tool-Maker for that resource.

[Psychodad]

+1

[Captain meow]

In the game, gold coins must be stored in the purse, in a bank, or buried : each is subject to risk of loss, cost and/or limitations in varied ways. Bullion has other risks attached : be it stored in a warehouse, subject to voodoo attack, or sent by ship for sale, and thus subject to skirmish and loss. So, I see it as two forms of the same currency, which is the metal called gold, with different uses and risks attached to each. In the real world, a payment by cash or by a credit card performs the same function, it buys something : but each work differently, with different costs, advantages and limitations.

I do like the idea of mines for gold and iron : they would make a nice addition to the hide-out, but rather than get into separate buildings for each function, mining, processing, etc., I reckon it should be considered as an industry : so a gold mine would deliver raw gold to the goldsmith ; an iron mine would deliver finished iron to the warehouse, and perhaps iron (and lumber from a Forestry) would be delivered to the Tool-Maker for that resource.

i like it

[Redjack02]

+1

[Loki]

+1

[Roileon]

In the game, gold coins must be stored in the purse, in a bank, or buried : each is subject to risk of loss, cost and/or limitations in varied ways. Bullion has other risks attached : be it stored in a warehouse, subject to voodoo attack, or sent by ship for sale, and thus subject to skirmish and loss. So, I see it as two forms of the same currency, which is the metal called gold, with different uses and risks attached to each. In the real world, a payment by cash or by a credit card performs the same function, it buys something : but each work differently, with different costs, advantages and limitations.

I completely agree with this quoted half and so -1 from me. Although I do find everything in this thread an interesting proposal.

[Captain Jack]

Back to the solution discussion, how about we change the formula to:

-0.015 * market stock + 3000

gradually, by 0.01 daily. This means that it will take 25 days to reach 0.015 (current formula = -0.04 * market stock + 3000)

or right away at a set date.

Feedback?

[Jim Hawkins]

Right away please

[Most Lee Harmless]

either suits me fine