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Will there be multiple currencies, perhaps used by different races? If so, will there be any variation in the exchange rates between those currencies?

TL;DRStarting out there is only UEC; separate Xi'an and Banu currencies would most likely come later, probably converted to UEC for trade, and Erin Roberts says this is a stretch goal not coming soon.

Well … so starting out it's just going to be the UEC. There most likely will be a currency for the Xi'an. Most likely be a currency for the Banu. But that's a longer term aspect and you probably wouldn't trade in it. So you would … basically everything would be translated to UEC and we would just trade from there. And then maybe down the road if we got more into "Hey, future expansions" - which by the way we have a huge amount of work already but we've talked long term about being able to play another race like the Xi'an and the Banu - in that case it would probably make sense that you would have currency for those particular races.

But until … while you're playing Human you will trade in UEC and there'd be just a … basically a currency … just like now if I'm in dollars and I'm in Europe I can pay in my card in dollars even though they're translating it from … exchange rate from Euros.

We likely wouldn't have an identical translation mechanism everywhere which means for the more economically orientated players it presents some interesting opportunities in terms of arbitrage and things like that. It becomes a commodity like anything else to where the value is one thing here and it's slightly different there and therefore you can basically accept a contract and transfer that value via whatever mechanics we come up with then ... you could make some money.

Just to be clear this is a stretch goal this one.

It's not going to be any time soon.

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