Yeah, I like being thrown into a new world and still somehow understanding the basics of it so it’s familiar. No need to name everything differently if that’s not the focus of the game.
Credits will do fine
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LazyBaby@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Tropes exist because they work and who cares what the money is called
dabu@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Protoknuckles@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Credits are for future and guns, it’s coins/pieces of gold/silver when swords.
ApplyingAutomation@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Somehow I understand completely & agree.
ruuster13@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
2 strips of gold-pressed latinum for you
17jGuFCOn89iY@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
There’s just so many more interesting options. Like what if the worms are their dollars?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
what if their dollars are worms?
LazyBaby@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I think that’s super valid for a novel especially, as long as you don’t mind that the movie adaptation decides it’s not worth taking 10 minutes out of the runtime to explain vs something people will immediately understand
Or maybe there is nothing else interesting in the novel, and it won’t matter anyway because no one reads or adapts it
charokol@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
The money can’t be any real earth currency, and making up something like florbs would also make people roll their eyes. Credits is fine
Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
Exactly. You've got limited time to tell your story in a movie, so establishing a fake currency that nobody except hardcore numistatics nerds will care about is kinda pointless when everyone already understands that credits = future money.
And as you say using a real currency will at best make no sense, or at worst offend a group of people who may boycott your movie.
I image its the same reason for the Gold/Silver currency in many fantasy settings.
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I think that’s also because a couple hundred years ago practically every currency was just a certain weight of gold, silver or copper. Different coins were just an easy way to recognize the weight.
schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Maybe we need to get some numismatics to weigh in here, but I think currency could be extremely tricky depending on where and when you were. I remember reading about medieval Italy and it seemed every city issued its own currency with different denominations, names, and weights. And even then, people would be scraping them to get some precious metals off of them, and with all those different currencies, counterfeiting must have been a real issue.
To apply this Tolkien, the Shire would probably have a different currency than even Bree, though Butterman would even take your coins from Gondor out of politeness to travelers.
GraniteM@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“I need a length of rope!”
[Puts down a gold coin worth a month’s wages.]
schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
And for everything else, there is multipass.
anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I think in Rick and Morty one of the rack currencies is called a schmeckle, which is Yiddish for penis (diminutive).
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No, they won’t.
charokol@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Oh, okay
DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
no, now that you’ve said this i want to see a sci-fi movie where all trade is based on the Vietnamese Đồng