Do you think in Gold or Plat?

[Merrelll]

I am soo poor I think in electrum.

[GhoulsTouch]

I R New Gld Pls...

(Cryptic message for any chum who has been to some of the places I have)

[HumanJHawkins]

I think in copper, because the max money any toon can carry is 2^32 copper pieces. And I don't want anyone rounding that off and shorting me my copper!

If you think in silver, you lose 6 copper (a beer!)
If you think in gold, you lose 96 copper (room and board in a nice place!!!)
If you think in plat, you lose 296 copper (a good hook... um... I mean a lavish party for a small group of friends!!!!!)

[AbsynthMinded]

I find it interesting that almost all posts on the forums discuss item values in terms of plat...

Am I the only one that thinks in gold? It seems strange to me that everyone else thinks in plat, when the game itself does EVERYTHING in gold... Selling/buying from vendors and on the Auction House is all done in gold... so it seems natural to me to think in gold...

But the vast majority of people on these forums only reference value in plat....

I find it interesting, and wonder how that social convention came about....

I think in terms of Cheese and Pie.

To be quite honest I wish the DEVs would make coin have weight and require storing massive coin wealth at Banks. Further add a Gem category to personal wealth as that was what players over a tabletop had to do to maintain portable wealth of significant value. This is of coarse beyond the conversion of wealth into ever better equipment through master craftsmen in the realm.

To seriously answer the question at a certain point I stopped seeing gold as the money standard. All I see is plat now. When once I winced at the concept of spending 10s and 100s of thousands or millions of gold, I now only feel even the slightest concern when spending over 100 thousand plat.

This is my personal view and given that I have met players who claim to buy millions of plat a month though farmers, no merits can be given to the actual value of anything in the game anymore. On the flip side, of late the value of everything on my servers AH seems to be at bargain basement prices. Where as once I could count on certain items and effects to fetch truly impressive amounts now they are ridiculously cheap.

[Modinator0]

i dont really know why copper, silver, and plat even exist. almost everything is denominated in gold. once you get past say, korthos, everything costs at least a gold, and pretty much every money drop is at least 10 silver

[khaldan]

I think in plat, mostly because i don't think I've ever had more than 50k gold, while easily having millions of plat.

[Kromize]

I find it interesting that almost all posts on the forums discuss item values in terms of plat...

Am I the only one that thinks in gold? It seems strange to me that everyone else thinks in plat, when the game itself does EVERYTHING in gold... Selling/buying from vendors and on the Auction House is all done in gold... so it seems natural to me to think in gold...

But the vast majority of people on these forums only reference value in plat....

I find it interesting, and wonder how that social convention came about....

Plat is the most expensive currency in DnD. However, there is a flaw in the design that makes it only a 10:1 ration(the same ration for gold to silver, and silver to copper as well. With this being true, in a game where most items start out being priced in gold, it makes me wonder why they even put copper or silver in. In this case, the only times you ever have to actually worry about stuff in terms of gold, in the first few levels, you you need so much gold to buy it. But when it get's into the thousands, and tens of thousands, it becomes easier to calculate when using plat as a base. Because when I open my inventory, I don't see 3, 560, 000 gold, I see, 356,000 plat. Gold is much less significant, and silver and copper don't even come into thought.

[Trefor]

Gold from PnP days. It just doesn't feel right with platinum as the standard.

[Asketes]

For the longest time i've thought in plat, and wanted the AH changed to pp.

BUT NOW: i'm so used to taking a digit off the gold 100,000gp = 10,000pp that now I am seeing 10,000pp and taking off a digit out of habit.

I bought 20 taps for 150k pp, thinking it was 15kpp..


haha what a tard I am. I suppose we'll get used to it.

WHAT REALLY IRKS ME:
the DB's that are taking advantage of it, and adding a zero to let us idiots pay 10x more than the real value is

[Fomori]

As an old school pnp player, most games are in the gold system so I am used to thinking in GOLD.

I can make the transitions to plat as need, but its been an interesting concept to make sure when I am looking at auctions to make sure I remember to multiply by 10 before I go 'wow thats a GREAT deal'.

[Thelmallen]

I find it interesting that almost all posts on the forums discuss item values in terms of plat...

Am I the only one that thinks in gold? It seems strange to me that everyone else thinks in plat, when the game itself does EVERYTHING in gold... Selling/buying from vendors and on the Auction House is all done in gold... so it seems natural to me to think in gold...

But the vast majority of people on these forums only reference value in plat....

I find it interesting, and wonder how that social convention came about....

I still think in terms of GP, not PP or 'plat'. That's what I get for playing PnP for the last 27 years!

[hecate355]

gold here, cause it always felt like middle point

[Chazzie]

I think in the terms of gold,then covert to plat this change of everything now listed as plat Has thrown me off a bit but like everything else Ill adjust over time. Back in my days of AD&D PnP Days if we found plat ,It was like Pulling a Boss Beater,Happen once in awhile and it made our night,I do miss Electrum from them days and I understand they trashed it in a version of PnP ,,,"You open a chest and find 5750 (Pause) Electrum" "OOOooo-that bites thought you were going to say gold" LOL "Electrum Junk" LOL but we still took it if we could carry it

[Alabore]

Most games?
Gold.

AH when selling?
Plat.

[Mockduck]

I've long thought in Plat. I realize that from a PnP experience it's not right, really, but since Plat flows so plentiful in DDO it's just easier for me to think in terms of the number on the left of the money bar. I'm cool with a gold standard though.

[kitsune_ko]

I always think in gold, even when dealing in plat my first though it "How much gold is that?". I will eventually get used to the new standard I guess, though some warning to the change would have been nice. And I am a little unimpressed that AH there is a lot of equipment that is listed in plat for what they should be selling in gold.

I would hope that its more people not used to the new system when posting, and not trying to suck in those not used to the new standard.


Kit

[systemstate]

I think in gold. Most of my guildies seem to think in gold as well.

[Saith-Deri]

Gold from PnP days. It just doesn't feel right with platinum as the standard.

This. But now that the AH has fully switched to plat, I'll have to re-train my brain.

[bringjoy]

GOLD -- and woe is me with the new "all-plat" system

[moops]

Plat. . and usually its "Ill offer you 200k or 300k"

Like the other posters, when I meet people who talk in gold i always tend to think that they are new or people that have never had any high value items to trade or sell.

AH displays in plat as well as vendors now, so no more confusion

My Last DM in pnp converted all our gold to plat as well.