Suggestion: Customize Nation Currency Exchange Ratio

[Danternoust]

Right now my newspapers cost 1 kilojoule. It would be nice to specify exchange ratios in comparison with the Euro, maybe by order of magnitude.

[The Margaritas]

Right now my newspapers cost 1 kilojoule. It would be nice to specify exchange ratios in comparison with the Euro, maybe by order of magnitude.

My currency is the Margarian Franc

1 USD= 1.50 Franc

1 EUR= 1.71 Franc

[The Sherpa Empire]

This would be cool, but probably not worth the trouble to code.

My exchange rate is ‬₹114=$1NSD, so issues that mention quantities of money tend to be unrealistic, since they assume a value close to $1. It's kind of low-key annoying, but the amount of work it would take to resolve is not worth it when only a handful of players actually use currencies far enough from $1 for it to be a problem.

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My currency is the Margarian Franc

1 USD= 1.50 Franc

1 EUR= 1.71 Franc

^This sort of thing is more common than nations like mine.

[Trotterdam]

Right now my newspapers cost 1 kilojoule. It would be nice to specify exchange ratios in comparison with the Euro, maybe by order of magnitude.

...You're seriously using the kilojoule as a currency? A megajoule would be worth a few cents at current electricity prices, depending on where you are. Either use a currency that describes a useful quantity (megajoule or gigajoule), or stick with the SI base unit (joule) so people can apply whatever prefix they need for the amount they're handling right now.

Anyway, the problem with an exchange rate is that every nation in NationStates exists in a vacuum, defined only by its own actions without the ability to interact with other nations in gameplay (except through the WA). There's nothing to exchange with.

Also, if you actually coded issues to multiply their described costs by a user-entered exchange rate, this would lead to a lot of things having improbable costs like 13.274 instead of being rounded to nice numbers like real shops would usually do. Practically, issues rarely mention any explicit currency values, and shouldn't be taken too seriously when they do.

My exchange rate is ‬₹114=$1NSD, so issues that mention quantities of money tend to be unrealistic, since they assume a value close to $1. It's kind of low-key annoying, but the amount of work it would take to resolve is not worth it when only a handful of players actually use currencies far enough from $1 for it to be a problem.

The "NSD" does not canonically exist. It was made up by roleplayers and is never used by the game itself. Therefore, the game cannot tell you how much anything is worth relative to it.

The actual currency used by the game itself is the Standard Monetary Unit. I have estimated a real-life comparison of 5 SMU = 1 USD, based on this putting the richest NationStates nations as slightly better than the richest real-life nations, but not to an absurd degree (this does lead to the poorest NationStates nations being truly pathetic, as in average income of one cent per year - don't ask me what they eat).

[USS Monitor]

Right now my newspapers cost 1 kilojoule. It would be nice to specify exchange ratios in comparison with the Euro, maybe by order of magnitude.

...You're seriously using the kilojoule as a currency? A megajoule would be worth a few cents at current electricity prices, depending on where you are. Either use a currency that describes a useful quantity (megajoule or gigajoule), or stick with the SI base unit (joule) so people can apply whatever prefix they need for the amount they're handling right now.

Anyway, the problem with an exchange rate is that every nation in NationStates exists in a vacuum, defined only by its own actions without the ability to interact with other nations in gameplay (except through the WA). There's nothing to exchange with.

Also, if you actually coded issues to multiply their described costs by a user-entered exchange rate, this would lead to a lot of things having improbable costs like 13.274 instead of being rounded to nice numbers like real shops would usually do. Practically, issues rarely mention any explicit currency values, and shouldn't be taken too seriously when they do.

My exchange rate is ‬₹114=$1NSD, so issues that mention quantities of money tend to be unrealistic, since they assume a value close to $1. It's kind of low-key annoying, but the amount of work it would take to resolve is not worth it when only a handful of players actually use currencies far enough from $1 for it to be a problem.

The "NSD" does not canonically exist. It was made up by roleplayers and is never used by the game itself. Therefore, the game cannot tell you how much anything is worth relative to it.

The actual currency used by the game itself is the Standard Monetary Unit. I have estimated a real-life comparison of 5 SMU = 1 USD, based on this putting the richest NationStates nations as slightly better than the richest real-life nations, but not to an absurd degree (this does lead to the poorest NationStates nations being truly pathetic, as in average income of one cent per year - don't ask me what they eat).

Stop pretending to be some kind of authority. The Sherpa Empire's prices are borked because the game expects rupees to work like dollars, and it was abundantly clear what I was talking about. Neither your comments to me nor your critique of Danternoust's choice to use "kilojoules" as his national currency are at all helpful.