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<blockquote data-quote="jdavis" data-source="post: 540604" data-attributes="member: 8704"><p>I found the wealth system to be the most combersome and generally odd system in the whole game. It looks like it runs on a Logrithmic scale (sort of) and it is just goofy (laptop computer DC 23, Dodge Neon DC 26). There is quite a bit of difference in buying a laptop computer (mine cost&nbsp; $1300) and a car (My wife's new Neon $16,000) but the difference of DC 3 just doesn't show that logically. Most people don't think in logarithms, it is just awkward. I understand why they did it but the good old fashoned money system just works fine by me, this is just a needless complication. Instead of using a easy system I am used to (a linear scale, 1=$1, 2=$2) I have to refer to a table or whip out the old Calculus book (DC 2= $5 DC 26= $12000). It's just needlessly bulky, as far as how to split up wealth? Well if everybody raises their wealth by one, the person with a DC 2 going to DC 3 just scored a whopping $7 the person going from DC 12 to DC 13 got $75 the person going from DC 28 to DC 29 got $7,500. Seems like somebody got the shaft there. Instead of making money less important to the game it seems to have caused alot of confusion and wasted time in figuring out if you can get a shovel or not. Sometimes the easiest way is the best way.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="jdavis, post: 540604, member: 8704"] I found the wealth system to be the most combersome and generally odd system in the whole game. It looks like it runs on a Logrithmic scale (sort of) and it is just goofy (laptop computer DC 23, Dodge Neon DC 26). There is quite a bit of difference in buying a laptop computer (mine cost $1300) and a car (My wife's new Neon $16,000) but the difference of DC 3 just doesn't show that logically. Most people don't think in logarithms, it is just awkward. I understand why they did it but the good old fashoned money system just works fine by me, this is just a needless complication. Instead of using a easy system I am used to (a linear scale, 1=$1, 2=$2) I have to refer to a table or whip out the old Calculus book (DC 2= $5 DC 26= $12000). It's just needlessly bulky, as far as how to split up wealth? Well if everybody raises their wealth by one, the person with a DC 2 going to DC 3 just scored a whopping $7 the person going from DC 12 to DC 13 got $75 the person going from DC 28 to DC 29 got $7,500. Seems like somebody got the shaft there. Instead of making money less important to the game it seems to have caused alot of confusion and wasted time in figuring out if you can get a shovel or not. Sometimes the easiest way is the best way. [/QUOTE]

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