Spiralin Wrote:I actually calculated most of the WoW money sets that we already have, like 15 copper for a cheap alcholic beverage.
I've found that it would resemble a 1940-1950 money system, with silver being a dollar. 1Copper=1Penny, 1Gold=100 Dollars.
U.S. Standards of course
In which case I must note that 100 dollars back then was worth much more than it is now.
I know, which is what I mean by that. I'm talking in a 1940's-1950's setting, that a silver would be worth a dollar from way back then.
I've generally gone by my own little scale of this.
Gold: Anything costing anything in the Gold range is high-up there and expensive. It's usually highly valueable, you folks have to remember that apparently Gold is the currency in which Kingdom's operate on. They recruit batallions through Gold bushels and all that neato stuff. It's pretty important. So buying a really expensive new Horse would probably cost you around twenty-five gold IMO. Or a very nice set of plate armor would cost you twenty. Or hell, even an enchanted weapon.
Silver: I consider this the... like what you would use to buy a fancy gaming system or a computer kinda currency range etc. Full-fledged meals at an Inn or something like that, a fine glass of wine would probs cost around three silver or so IMO.
Copper: I have long sat that most things cost copper on Azeroth, from buying a loaf of bread to some other food items and simple utensils.
Here allow me to show you what I meant.
As Amerason said, a new house, 25 gold, Now, I say a gold is worth about 100 US dollars from the times between 1940-1950. Reasoning behind this, is a house usually cost maybe $2,500 dollars? No? Then maybe the price would be raised. Possibly somewhere within the 1900s US currency system, as a 60% speed mount, is what, 10 gold? So I would convert that to like a car, 10 gold = $1,000 dollars, fair price for a car from those times, 15 copper for a drink, that'd be about 15 pennies. That's how I've always looked at it.