When did the UEC move away from paper money; or do they still use some paper money? Is the Star Citizen economy tied to a gold standard?asked by Bucurel
TL;DRThe UEC was always a digital currency not tied to a gold standard, though physical currency items may exist where comm-arrays are absent, and the economy's workings will be explored once in-game expenditure exists.
So UEC stands for United Earth Credits and that came along in the Messer era and we haven't quite known how, but I believe it was always a digital currency first and foremost not attached to a gold standard. Gold standard has been abandoned for a long time there's not that much gold around to support an economy.
Bitcoin?
A little bit! Most people are, need a. We've done stories about this about how the difficulties tracking digital currency across the systems when we have that lag in communications. When you have to send a comm-array. So if you buy something at this convenience store in this system to notify your bank that you spent that money the trip that information takes and how they handle with local relay stations.So we've been talking about what did those currency chips may look like what are you collecting when you find currency. So there might actually be physical currency that you come around which are basically not transferrable data things that get stocked around versus kind of wiring and those would be potentially more reliable in systems without comm-arrays versus the more central areas where you can hook into the Spectrum and transfer it that way.
That is interesting. What if I bought something but it's literally maybe thirty solar systems away so by the time the information had reached another solar system there might be inflation.
Well we did a fun story about this bank robber who was basically going to all her banks and withdrawing money at each one and racing faster than the comm relays could go and so they didn't know she had already withdrawn her money in the previous banks which was really fun. So we have built in safeties so that you can't do that now.But we're going to have to explore that hopefully in 2.0 the Social Module and the alpha getting some form of expenditure once the stores are online we can start seeing how currency works more from the design aspect and we'll update the lore to address the needs and concerns about how people are interacting with the credits in game. So something you'll have to think about from a character design standpoint, is all those pockets to keep your spare change. Are we getting a fanny pack is that in the pipeline?
That's what it is.
The official marine CDS fanny pack, hold your extra clips of ammo.
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