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<blockquote data-quote="Chimera" data-source="post: 53540" data-attributes="member: 2002"><p>I'm right in there with the doughy one. IMC, I've set the Gold to Silver ratio at 40:1 (more historic, but a little harder to compute) and then 20:1 Silver to Copper. Then I've reduced the prices of everything to roughly 40% of the PHB to reflect a stronger currency valuation, then restated everything into Silver "dollars" (to name the predominate local currency).</p><p></p><p>Some things are so clearly out of line that it's insane. Take a Heavy Horse for one. The standard heavy "draft" horse would be much cheaper - it has to be, or take a look at what it does to your economy. 4 heavy horses to haul your heavy wagon runs 800gps. Factor in losses and horse replacement, and your shipping costs go through the roof. Clearly, many items need to be examined and re-priced.</p><p></p><p>Or you have people going the other way, reducing the value of a GP to nearly $1, and having peasants somehow make 1500 gps per year in order to justify their economy. </p><p></p><p>(Ok, even at book rates, assuming a Bushel of Barley costs 2 silver and weighs 40 pounds, that means that peasant grew 7500 bushels of Barley (plowing a good 300 acres by himself, I imagine), suffered no loss after harvest (whereas today in Russia, for example, crop losses run as high as 40-50%) and somehow managed to haul those 150 TONS of Barley to market all by his lonesome. Yeah, I buy that!)</p><p></p><p>Restated for clarity: Many items need to be repriced.</p><p></p><p>OTOH: I see no problem with it taking 20 days of wages for a peasant to buy a barrel. How much do those things cost today? Then how long would it take your typical $1/day Chinese/Philipino/Whomever laborer to afford that? I suspect that it would be much more than 20 days...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chimera, post: 53540, member: 2002"] I'm right in there with the doughy one. IMC, I've set the Gold to Silver ratio at 40:1 (more historic, but a little harder to compute) and then 20:1 Silver to Copper. Then I've reduced the prices of everything to roughly 40% of the PHB to reflect a stronger currency valuation, then restated everything into Silver "dollars" (to name the predominate local currency). Some things are so clearly out of line that it's insane. Take a Heavy Horse for one. The standard heavy "draft" horse would be much cheaper - it has to be, or take a look at what it does to your economy. 4 heavy horses to haul your heavy wagon runs 800gps. Factor in losses and horse replacement, and your shipping costs go through the roof. Clearly, many items need to be examined and re-priced. Or you have people going the other way, reducing the value of a GP to nearly $1, and having peasants somehow make 1500 gps per year in order to justify their economy. (Ok, even at book rates, assuming a Bushel of Barley costs 2 silver and weighs 40 pounds, that means that peasant grew 7500 bushels of Barley (plowing a good 300 acres by himself, I imagine), suffered no loss after harvest (whereas today in Russia, for example, crop losses run as high as 40-50%) and somehow managed to haul those 150 TONS of Barley to market all by his lonesome. Yeah, I buy that!) Restated for clarity: Many items need to be repriced. OTOH: I see no problem with it taking 20 days of wages for a peasant to buy a barrel. How much do those things cost today? Then how long would it take your typical $1/day Chinese/Philipino/Whomever laborer to afford that? I suspect that it would be much more than 20 days... [/QUOTE]
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