How's about a compromise between the two? Obviously there's gonna be the argument that follows like: "Hey! I can't except Fen-X Credits! They're worthless. I take only Fen-C Credits."
I figure there's gonna be two solutions.
Option A: In the ancient Middle East, you had Empires running amock and all that nice jazz, and so you had several different currencies you could be going by depending on where you lived. Now, that's all well and good, but whenever you had to go to another city to take care of some business and you were NOT a merchant, then you had to stop by and deal with a money changer. For a nominal fee, a money changer would convert one currencey to another. This was actually a pretty simple matter back then because, hey! Silver's Silver and Gold's Gold, right? Right. Good. So, what's to say that we can't have other money-savvy folks running around and making a modest income by helping people overcome the currency barrier?
Option B? Transactions between person A and B of a given Fraction can be handled by the local currency, but if you want to do business with someone in another Fraction, your best bet might be to barter with them. After all, some Fractions can produce unique and valuable goods, materials and services that others can not.
Take my character for example. He has the unique distinction for being the fastest small load (under 500 Kg) delivery service in-system and the fastest medium load (2-3 Metric Tons) delevery service out-of-system. He can actually use both Barter and Local Currency because he is a non-alligned Fen bouncing around all over the place. He finds both to be very useful and convienient.
My advice is, as we say in the Navy, to not Nuke this. In case you can't figure out what -that- means... Well, simply put, anyone in the Nuke Eng field tends to overthink things a bit. We can't blame them as it is their job. They keep our reactors from going boom, yaknow. Thus, to be told you're nuking something means that you're overthinking and should take a step or two back from the issue and take a few breaths.
Anywho... What'cha think? Just chil-lax and use both systems as they seem to work in practice?
Black Aeronaut Technologies Group
Aerospace Solutions for the discerning spacer
"But first, let's test it on the penguin."
"Meep?" O.o
I figure there's gonna be two solutions.
Option A: In the ancient Middle East, you had Empires running amock and all that nice jazz, and so you had several different currencies you could be going by depending on where you lived. Now, that's all well and good, but whenever you had to go to another city to take care of some business and you were NOT a merchant, then you had to stop by and deal with a money changer. For a nominal fee, a money changer would convert one currencey to another. This was actually a pretty simple matter back then because, hey! Silver's Silver and Gold's Gold, right? Right. Good. So, what's to say that we can't have other money-savvy folks running around and making a modest income by helping people overcome the currency barrier?
Option B? Transactions between person A and B of a given Fraction can be handled by the local currency, but if you want to do business with someone in another Fraction, your best bet might be to barter with them. After all, some Fractions can produce unique and valuable goods, materials and services that others can not.
Take my character for example. He has the unique distinction for being the fastest small load (under 500 Kg) delivery service in-system and the fastest medium load (2-3 Metric Tons) delevery service out-of-system. He can actually use both Barter and Local Currency because he is a non-alligned Fen bouncing around all over the place. He finds both to be very useful and convienient.
My advice is, as we say in the Navy, to not Nuke this. In case you can't figure out what -that- means... Well, simply put, anyone in the Nuke Eng field tends to overthink things a bit. We can't blame them as it is their job. They keep our reactors from going boom, yaknow. Thus, to be told you're nuking something means that you're overthinking and should take a step or two back from the issue and take a few breaths.
Anywho... What'cha think? Just chil-lax and use both systems as they seem to work in practice?
Black Aeronaut Technologies Group
Aerospace Solutions for the discerning spacer
"But first, let's test it on the penguin."
"Meep?" O.o