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jagkilledme

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DMMetalaane said :
I'd honestly say that trying to figure out the legitimate value of money in official canon is a more difficult hoop to jump through.

I mean, this is a world where party hats are worth literal tons of gold, whilst an entire city's treasury only had 160,000 gold (Lumbridge during BOL). Uh-huh.

Probably easier for a community to assign their own prices on everything instead of ramming your head against the wall in trying to comprehend how money works in Jagex canon. I mean, these are the brilliant folks who say that 10+ years of story was actually only 1 year in Gielinor. Don't expect them to have any sense with money.

Fluctuating player market =/= lore because there are items there you technically cannot acquire but that are on the G.E purely because of game mechanics. I am going to break your arm so that the bone juts out and then I will stab you to death with your own insides. I will win this chess game, is what I am saying.

30-Jun-2015 20:52:31

DMMetalaane

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I know. It's just that Jagex has done almost nothing to make that clear, to make it transparent that money works differently in official canon. The only example, to my knowledge, is indeed that Lumbridge treasury bit. There might be more distinction in the novels, but they're both old and extended universe content that falls below the actual game in canon hierarchy. Save yourself.
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30-Jun-2015 21:03:41

jagkilledme

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DMMetalaane said :
I know. It's just that Jagex has done almost nothing to make that clear, to make it transparent that money works differently in official canon. The only example, to my knowledge, is indeed that Lumbridge treasury bit. There might be more distinction in the novels, but they're both old and extended universe content that falls below the actual game in canon hierarchy.

Actual NPC shop prices are all we have to go on, pretty much, except for a handful of mentions elsewhere. As for the book, there's nothing in it that pertains to money, only racial lore and items like the Ring of Life. I am going to break your arm so that the bone juts out and then I will stab you to death with your own insides. I will win this chess game, is what I am saying.

30-Jun-2015 21:53:33

Regrette

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DMMetalaane said :
I'd honestly say that trying to figure out the legitimate value of money in official canon is a more difficult hoop to jump through.

I mean, this is a world where party hats are worth literal tons of gold, whilst an entire city's treasury only had 160,000 gold (Lumbridge during BOL). Uh-huh.

Probably easier for a community to assign their own prices on everything instead of ramming your head against the wall in trying to comprehend how money works in Jagex canon. I mean, these are the brilliant folks who say that 10+ years of story was actually only 1 year in Gielinor. Don't expect them to have any sense with money.

It doesn't make a ton of sense, but that's exactly why it's realistic, in my view. There are all kinds of things in the real world with ridiculous and completely nonsensical prices; why would Gielinor be exempt from such silliness?

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01-Jul-2015 04:19:16