this, because
the game needs a robust, player-driven economy
Since it was featured on https://robertsspaceindustries.com/community the amount of noise and dirty data has skyrocketed to the point its not very helpful anymore.
Have they stated lore wise what the UEE money system works? Like is there a physical form of the UEE credit?This is interesting!
I need to go do some trading, I want to be so rich that I need to organise trading runs just to move my UEC from port to port.
Other than statements that seem to indicate some sort of player driven economy but with regulation by UEE made in mid-2013, they have not described the economic system in a lot of detail. I'm pretty sure they have not been concentrating on this, and haven't worked it out.
You mean like physical in game that can be reacquired through more nefarious ways or more like what @Vavrik mentioned? Honestly I am not sure they have really thought out the full market system for the game yet.
No, I mean all in game money. I'm not talking about trading real money for in game money, allowing it to be converted back to real money. Like how IRL you can pay electronically with credit cards, paypal type services, or just electronic bank transfers, or with physical cash/coins. In the game there only seems to be cashless transfers and I haven't seen a physical version of the UEE Credit in game. You only see your UEE Credits as a number in your MobiGlas. What made me think of that was that Breaking Bad picture of them laying on the cash and joking about using cargo ships to move all your cash. You'd have to have a physical form of the UEE Credit in the game to be able to do anything like that.
Yeah, a physical cash/coin version of the UEE Credit in game. Unless the UEE Credit is some kind of Cryptocurrency where you could just store your credits on your datapad or MobiGlas and wirelessly send your credits to others with no banks involved, then the UEE could just freeze and seize bank accounts used by criminals. Criminals would have to use high value goods like precious metals or materials as a form of money or trade on the black market. I guess criminals and criminal organisations could possibly use Banu money, or Banu banks like offshore banks since the Banu have a lax standpoint on crime and love trading.
Right ok, I get it. No I haven't heard anyone talking about physical in game currency, just the "cashless society" credit thing. I don't think there's even going to be physical currency for Banu money, it'll just convert to UEC credits. There's also been no talk of the UEE taking money from criminals, like by freezing their bank account. That's fine though. It doesn't even stop the idea of a black market, but you'd use commodities and services instead of cash to fund the transactions.
Oh yeah, seizing bank accounts wouldn't stop a black market. Like you say, people would pay with goods and trade goods. High value materials and goods would be used as a kind of currency, like gold or other precious metals or materials.
Might be that the individual servers are pulling prices from a separate server/source that combines everything and manages the trading?
It seems right now, to be running on a pretty simple algorithm, based on each individual outpost/station/strut recent activity with that particular item. To me, this was a throw in because it was easy, and gave us a thing to do other than blowing each other out of the sky for no particular reason other than it is better than picking your nose.
is there evidence of such a thing?
Right now, you can.
