Taxation and Events...

[Edi]

Didn't mean to imply that this is like a life and death issue or anything, the word pound just jumped at me when I read the event list. It really doesn't matter for gameplay purposes, but just seeing it there made me think about it and caused a reaction of major "WTF?!".

I'm not really a harcore realism advocate or anything, I can quite easily rationalize things that don't have much impact and am all fine with abstractions, but sometimes details like this just jump out at me, because I've dabbled with writing fantasy, and the amounts we're talking about here would turn any regular fantasy world upside down.

If I wanted to use an imperial measurement system weight unit for denoting amounts of gold, I'd use the ounce, that'd be 28 grams instead of 450 and change, but if IW wants to keep the pound, that's no skin off my back and won't reduce my enjoyment of the game. I'll still be going "WTF?" and shaking my head at it, but its real net effect is absolutely nil.

I just wanted to point out a humorous little detail, was all.

As for the discussion you've had, licker and PvK, I agree with practically all the points you bring up.

Edi

[PDF]

Originally posted by licker:

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Originally posted by PvK:
There's a good example of how the anti-realism camp would rather have their game worlds be completely silly than use a reasonable unit of measurement, even when it has zero effect of gameplay.

PvK

Ahh yes, that's the entire point isn't it? The anti-realism camp (though that's a bit of a misnomer, but I'll stick with it for the sake of this discussion) doesn't give two #@$@s what the monatary unit is called. We (assuming I'm speaking for anyone besides me) also don't care what the names of the units are, or how 'accurately' modeled the weapon system is, or a variety of other things that, as you say, don't have a great (or any) impact on gameplay.

I like to think that we are simply more imaginative than the realism crowd, you know the guys who will spend a week debating the impact of a broad sword on a watermelon or whatever inanities they prefer

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So let's suppose the monetary units is called "ton of ****"
Won't you think it'll be somewhat dirty & stupid, even if it has no play effect ?
And why "swords" ain't called "bananas" in the game ? Who knows if Dom world is not a Monty Python world ?

[Daynarr]

Originally posted by PDF:

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Originally posted by licker:

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Originally posted by PvK:
There's a good example of how the anti-realism camp would rather have their game worlds be completely silly than use a reasonable unit of measurement, even when it has zero effect of gameplay.

PvK

Ahh yes, that's the entire point isn't it? The anti-realism camp (though that's a bit of a misnomer, but I'll stick with it for the sake of this discussion) doesn't give two #@$@s what the monatary unit is called. We (assuming I'm speaking for anyone besides me) also don't care what the names of the units are, or how 'accurately' modeled the weapon system is, or a variety of other things that, as you say, don't have a great (or any) impact on gameplay.

I like to think that we are simply more imaginative than the realism crowd, you know the guys who will spend a week debating the impact of a broad sword on a watermelon or whatever inanities they prefer

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So let's suppose the monetary units is called "ton of ****"
Won't you think it'll be somewhat dirty & stupid, even if it has no play effect ?
And why "swords" ain't called "bananas" in the game ? Who knows if Dom world is not a Monty Python world ?

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Maybe we will be able to make such mod in the future.

[licker]

Heh, sigh...

But I knew that was coming

As I said anti-realism was a misnomer, no one championed 'silliness', just nit-picking details that don't much matter, and don't cause most people to look twice

Not that there's anything wrong with looking twice, why just this morning I saw a girl wearing a ... err, no nevermind, this isn't the right forum for that

[Psitticine]

People, for the Last time, PLEASE watch your language. This IS a family board. We don't want to censor anybody, so it would not feel good to turn on a language filter. Please do not force us to do so.