View attachment 3328 Are 20 pixels worth $1? I mean, people around here say one pixel = $1, but who buys a can of soda for $20 e_e Maybe it'd make sense! Like, you get $5 per monster you kill (100 pixels), you buy cans of soda for $1 (20 pixels), and you wouldn't mind buying a processor for $100 (2000 pixels), wouldya?
Liquid Erchius fuel: 500pix for 20 units? Thats the sort of thing that gets the store a "fuck off". Pixels have always been finicky to be perfectly honest, but most people do look at them as 1pix = 1 dollar/pound/yen/whatever. This is particularly shown in player run bar-type *shiver* areas. Drinks usually do not cost any more than five pixels. Which is funny because now alcohol is cheaper than soda cans. Congrats.
These prices are based on the item's value as a videogame item though, not a realistic price. In the game chocolate heals you. In RP it doesn't.
Pixels in general are hard to RP as currency because they're suppose to be this wonder-material that can be transmuted into whatever material the 3D-printer requires, but the ingame production-method for making pixels is "refining" gold and other precious metals, which do not have the transmutable properties... Personally, I just avoid using pixels for s**t anymore. Goods for goods trading works better in the frontier.
I usually sitck with 1px=$1, but also trade in goods like gold/platinum. We are never going to figure out an actual economy in this game though, so you just gotta do what you think is right.
The Staff is currently discussing a means by which to provide a more stable, more realistic frontier economy without depending on bartering. Pixels have always been hard to work with because of the confusion between an ingame and in-character context. Beyond that, the general lack of seriousness and respect with which most people treat the economy, and wealth, results in further depreciation for the system as it is in place now. From a personal perspective, however, 1P = 1$ stems from the idea of simplicity. In reality, you aren't going to gut an animal and pull out a wad of cash from it's belly. You aren't going to take that wad of cash and transform it into furniture. But in-game you can. In Character and In Game in this particular instance have to be separated.
