gold silver and copper coins

[silver dragon [dragania cnl]]

i do wonder why there aren't any gold silver and copper coins as i know or atleast i think i know there's gold silver and copper coins in the age this game is set in

and i think if they want to keep the NPC's saying septims i think it should be the gold coins and silver septims and copper septims is where their respective coins is and maybe have 2 variants like one is how much total money you have and the other is how many coins of each coin type you have

[pho_kko]

why complicate a system that works fine as is

[silver dragon [dragania cnl]]

i know it works fine but i wonder why it's just gold septims and there's not silver septims and copper septims

[Mr. Monday]

Originally posted by silver dragon dragania cnl:

i know it works fine but i wonder why it's just gold septims and there's not silver septims and copper septims

Because of K.I.S.S.

[silver dragon [dragania cnl]]

and i don't know what that stands for

[voehringer_nitron]

Keep it simple (redacted)

[silver dragon [dragania cnl]]

there's loads of games which has this kind of money mechanism so why not the elder scrolls aswell and why just keep simplify everything? for me personly the money could easily be split up to these 3 types and i'm sure with that it can make the echonomics more interresting than saying here's the 43 septims i should pay for sword

[smr1957]

There is a mod which directly addresses that very issue:

Coins of Tamriel - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/51871


and this, which just adds some ancient coins:

Skyrim Coin Replacer Redux - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/48195

[silver dragon [dragania cnl]]

even though there's mods for it for those like me who wants to have it like that but couldn't it be in the base game with 2 finance types and the first one is standard septims and the other one is finance trouble and of course you can't change it if you chose one or the other with the same save file

[Capt. Carrot]

i imagine that the game lore is recreating what USED to happen before the invention of fractional currency.

way, way back before the invention of ha'pennies, groats, farthings, etc... there was only ONE denomination of coin and to give the customer change the shopkeeper would physically cut the coin down.

[silver dragon [dragania cnl]]

alright and then maybe at some point there will be fractional currency if the time is right? then let's say fractional currency is beginning to start off the year of the next elder scrolls has to be specific then for this type of currency to be more limited?

[alexander_dougherty]

Originally posted by silver dragon dragania cnl:

i do wonder why there aren't any gold silver and copper coins as i know or atleast i think i know there's gold silver and copper coins in the age this game is set in

Because this game grew out of earlier games, which in turn grew out of earlier games still. And the earliest Role Playing Games games couldn't handle the complexity of three different types of coin, let alone the fact that historically the exchange rates between copper and Silver and Gold weren't as fixed as people think. (move to an area where silver is rarer and it's worth more, meaning you get more copper for it and it requires less silver to get Gold. And if you start adding those coins, then sooner or later someone is going to say "where are the Brass and Bronze coins" (which existed in most of europe at the same time as copper/silver/gold).

Bearing this in mind, it's no surprise that most established game series just stick with the currency they currently have, and quite a few new ones too for that matter just have gold.

[silver dragon [dragania cnl]]

all i want is more complicated currency than just one type which is gold septims as we see them as and i'm sure everyone understand it's an RPG set in a fictional place with fictional things going on and fictional characters than just saying: "bruh where are the other types of currencies becouse i live in set area!?"

and i also ask for 2 variants of gameplay the standard one which just use septims we already have and complicated currency which use the copper/silver/gold or whatever bethesda can think of to have something similar to that

[John]

Originally posted by silver dragon dragania cnl:

all i want is more complicated currency than just one type which is gold septims as we see them as and i'm sure everyone understand it's an RPG set in a fictional place with fictional things going on and fictional characters than just saying: "bruh where are the other types of currencies becouse i live in set area!?"

and i also ask for 2 variants of gameplay the standard one which just use septims we already have and complicated currency which use the copper/silver/gold or whatever bethesda can think of to have something similar to that

But why, in the end it's just a number of money you have. If you want bronze and silver coins, just find a mod for it, it probably exists. But still, the only thing it does, is put a few extra lines of space in your inventory, it's useless and no one really cares about it. If there is no such mod and you want a mod for it, just make it yourself dude.

[silver dragon [dragania cnl]]

alright and i know it's a completely different game but same genre of game: lord of the rings online has what i ask for so why can't elder scrolls have it? people who plays the game bargains for different amount of gold silver or copper or a combination of all 3 and i bet you'd say it's a online game and elder scrolls is an offline game so it shouldn't have that strictly becouse of that

the NPC's can easily be bargained with is the speech is high enough with the right perks so the amount of money is different

[smr1957]

Originally posted by silver dragon dragania cnl:

,,, i'm sure everyone understand it's an RPG set in a fictional place with fictional things going on and fictional characters than just saying: "bruh where are the other types of currencies becouse i live in set area!?" ...

Not to be salty, but that applies to what you are asking as well.

Also, I already listed a mod that can be installed that changes this, in my very first reply, so I don't really see the point in discussing why this wasn't included. It's a design choice - and one which is made and done in exactly the same manner in the overwhelming majority of games that have money in them.