[Discuss] About gold transfers

[Thomas Dalton]

> I might consider. But the point is that I strongly oppose any kind of
> micro-management. Whoever manages his region, realm or whatever by
> individual gold pieces, morale points, CS or whatever doesn't understand
> what BM is all about.

A gold piece is an enormous amount of money.

A bit of research tells me the first Pound Sterling (I'm British so am
going to be biased and use my currency - it doesn't make much
difference) coin was introduced in 1489 and weighed half a troy ounce.
And, apparently, £1 in 1489 is worth just over £450 now. I know it's
not possible to pin an exact date on BM (seeing as it doesn't take
place in England, it wouldn't help much anyway) and the site I got the
inflation details from says it's very approximate, but it gives a
general order of magnitude for the amounts of money we're dealing
with.

(Quick check: Soldiers get paid about 1/10 gold a day (very roughly),
which is 36.5 gold a year, which in current terms is about £16k which
is pretty close to a realistic value for a soldier's salary today. It
seems Tom has the value of gold about right in his calculations - well
done!)

So, having the smallest amount you can transfer being over £10k seems
a little excessive.


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