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Post by Speck on Oct 1, 2008 1:22:36 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]INTRIGUE! I have to say, Speckles, you know how to push a plot. ^_^ *grabs the popcorn and sits back*[/glow] I do? Cool! Here I was just thinking that I push cliffhanger after cliffhanger at people. >.> I didn't really have much of a plan when I started writing that post, I think... Do I really look like I have a plan? No, I'm just a dog chasing cars! I wouldn't know what to do with one if I caught it! (Name that reference! =D) |
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Post by Rider on Oct 1, 2008 8:13:46 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]INTRIGUE! I have to say, Speckles, you know how to push a plot. ^_^ *grabs the popcorn and sits back*[/glow] I do? Cool! Here I was just thinking that I push cliffhanger after cliffhanger at people. >.> I didn't really have much of a plan when I started writing that post, I think... Do I really look like I have a plan? No, I'm just a dog chasing cars! I wouldn't know what to do with one if I caught it! (Name that reference! =D) [glow=red,2,300]The Joker, The Dark Knight. ^_^ Now go catch a car, Speckles. ^_^[/glow] |
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Post by Huntress on Oct 1, 2008 8:28:41 GMT -5
Hey, I'll be having no crewmembers getting run over >> You lot are hard to replace.
Personally, that 'merchant sailor daddy gone missing' is giving me a serious Will Turner vibe, but then again, I'm known to get a PotC reference out of most anything, so do continue xD
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Post by Speck on Oct 1, 2008 13:55:24 GMT -5
Hey, I'll be having no crewmembers getting run over >> You lot are hard to replace. Personally, that 'merchant sailor daddy gone missing' is giving me a serious Will Turner vibe, but then again, I'm known to get a PotC reference out of most anything, so do continue xD Well, he was never saved to work for Davey Jones, just so you know. Unlike Mr. Turner, Mr. Speckleton really was a legitimate merchant sailor, not a pirate. *shuts mouth and tries to figure out what the code is for* |
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Post by Fraze on Oct 1, 2008 14:40:12 GMT -5
Sorry I haven't posted for a few days. Studying for a durn physics test that I took yesterday got in the way of everything I'd rather have been doing, and then I was busy for the rest of yesterday as well. Expect a new post from me later today.
EDIT: I think it's about time to nail down a good exchange rate between shinies and Earth monies. In my mind, I've seen 1 s as around US$1. My pricing in the Spacefleet Gift Shop is built around that exchange rate.
Given that Spacefleet has easy access to space travel, I think $7 million is way too much for a ticket. So, what would be a closer estimate for the shiny-to-dollar exchange rate? As it's looking, it seems like 1 shiny may be closer to one cent. US$70,000 for a super-upperclass vacation seems reasonable.
In which case, I should change the shop prices.
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Post by Huntress on Oct 1, 2008 16:43:24 GMT -5
Mrmwell, the entire point of those travel agencies was that seven million is way overpriced. They're bound to cut an atleast 60% profit, or more. I'm getting too sleepy here at this point to calculate the possible prices and percentages (while avoiding alliteration, no less >>) but it should only cost us a fraction of that price if we manage to get directly to the source, a.k.a. the spaceport.
But as for money value, it's less to do with the actual exchange rate and more about the inflation level, as in, what you can afford for one shiny (there's an economic term for that, but I only know it in Estonian, so bear with me). And I'd assume that one shiny would buy you more than one US cent. Otherwise they wouldn't be coined... a shiny is a coin, right? >>
In other words, the shiny-to-dollar exchange rate actually sounds plausible to me... if not even one-shiny-two-dollars. I'd think that one gold coin would get you more than a cheezburger at McD's. (Then again, with today's inflation, we can always assume that one dollar's worth of money is a lot in the NTWF-era.)
In other words, I'm rambling, should go to sleep now, and will possibly get back to you on all this tomorrow :3
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Post by Rider on Oct 1, 2008 16:46:36 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]The old NTWF Cafe worked on a shiny being 10 US cents, but a shiny-to-dollar exchange rate may be easier to remember. ^_^[/glow]
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Post by Speck on Oct 2, 2008 1:43:36 GMT -5
I can't wait to post my next post, but I can't just yet. (Waiting for some time to pass in the actual role play, of course.)
I wonder if this is what it feels like to be a writer for Heroes. Or Lost, for that matter. >.>;
Edit: On exchange rate... I was thinking that it was a 1:1 shiny-to-dollar ratio. Otherwise, I would have to change how much I priced those bottles of rum-lemonade (or lemon rum punch, what have you).
Going by the 1:0.1 ratio, keeping in mind that Speck charged Fredrick 30 shinies per bottle of rum-lemonade, that would equate to $3 per bottle. Which means that she would have only made $54 total; I'm pretty sure that wouldn't be enough to get a swank private room at the bathhouse, and I'm assuming that Speck had plenty of change left over.
Unless we go by the theory that 1 shiny is worth more in the NTWFera.
I'm all for the 1:1 ratio. Either that, or 1:0.5, in which case one shiny is worth more in the NTWFera.
If we also take into consideration that Ikkin has "a few pieces of eight" on her, that implies that one shiny is worth more. Why would we have fractions of a cent if they couldn't actually buy anything? (I could also be mis-remembering what a piece of eight actually is. In which case, completely ignore this point.)
Also, what is the approximate time period of the NTWFera, in relation to the Western calendar? I was thinking at or before the Industrial Revolution. Since Spacefleet has been made public, I would think that the farmers in Dunburrow (and any surrounding areas) would soon ask for technology that would help their crops. Likewise, transportation within Tabloid Town would be upgraded...
Since magic also exists, I would expect there to be less technology. I'm of the theory that if you have more magic, you have less advanced technology (and vise versa).
Plus, if we make the NTWFera equal to about 1760, then we're not too far from the golden age of pirates. Give or take a couple of generations. XD
(The golden age of pirates was circa early 1700s, correct me if I'm wrong?)
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Post by Fraze on Oct 5, 2008 14:09:16 GMT -5
*Crackup* Kat, when the first two were named John and Jacob, I knew just where you were going with that. Much love.
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Post by Omni on Oct 5, 2008 14:49:19 GMT -5
Let me guess, the boys' last lame is "Shmidt"?
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Post by Kengplant on Oct 5, 2008 14:51:16 GMT -5
Oooooh, so this is where the OOC char goes!
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Post by Speck on Oct 5, 2008 15:11:12 GMT -5
I didn't want to double post before, so... Nice Dr. Horrible reference, Xylophone. =D
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Post by Rider on Oct 5, 2008 17:27:32 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]Speck, I wouldn't put a timeframe on the NTWF. It's like putting a timeframe on Neopia. There's everything from the Cretaceous period to the Space Age. XD Putting a value on the Shiny would mean disregarding everyone's previous perception of the value of the shiny. Otherwise my Cafe was a big rip-off.[/glow]
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Post by Fraze on Oct 5, 2008 18:10:32 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]Speck, I wouldn't put a timeframe on the NTWF. It's like putting a timeframe on Neopia. There's everything from the Cretaceous period to the Space Age. XD Putting a value on the Shiny would mean disregarding everyone's previous perception of the value of the shiny. Otherwise my Cafe was a big rip-off.[/glow] That's the problem--everyone has a different perception of what a shiny is worth. I can understand that we'd just want to leave some things completely open to individual perception--for example, the geography of the distant lands of GW!NTWF--but with something as pervasive as the shiny, it'd be good to have at least a commonly accepted estimate of its worth. This won't necessarily involve retconning what we've done before. The NTWF Cafe seemed to be in a very different universe than the GW universe. To me, the NTWF Cafe seemed to be in a universe much closer to our own, with people coming close to admitting openly that they're really in a forum--whereas in GW, we really are completely immersed in the NTWF world. The value of the shiny could be very different in these two Netwuffs. As an aside, this is exactly the kind of conversation I thought I'd never have. *Shifty eyes* |
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Post by Rider on Oct 5, 2008 18:34:27 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]Why not? It's a legit question. XDDD
Though that does make sense, and similarly, the Tabloids would have to be in that same other universe. Otherwise we'd all be shooting at our relatives. XD Way to ruin a good battle.[/glow]
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