#(Just curious) How do the developers define the ratio of the in-game currencies

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exotic fern
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Since there is Euro in the game, I guess it must NOT be based on real-life currency rates in 1980. Is it based on real-life currency rates in 2014?

cloud granite
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what do you mean by ratio ?

exotic fern
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Sorry that my mother tongue is not English, I mean like 1USD to 0.6GBP

exotic fern
cloud granite
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also yeah, both money and the prices are immovable because the ingame currency has no inflation; it's based on a manual balancing and has no real grounding in real life economies

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the euro symbol is only there for familiarity

exotic fern
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Well yeah I know they are fixed and immovable, but is there any references?
I googled and found that the GBP EUR JPY AUD CHF rate in game is at about the level of 2015 irl.

fickle ore
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Yes, it was once fixed and that's that

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The currencies change so fast, it's not worth it to change them all the time

exotic fern
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Yes I know, I was just trying to add some more currencies by a mod, but wondering the references

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You know, to make it IMMERSIVE

fickle ore
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You mean as in where it's chanegd?

exotic fern
# fickle ore You mean as in where it's chanegd?

I didn't get your point. I think the exchange rate in game is referenced from about 2015 irl, so if I make a mod to add a new currency into the game, it should also follow the 2015 exchange rate to make it more immersive

fickle ore
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And we didn't understand that, so now it makes sense 🙂
Honestly, I don't know. I guess one way would be to check all dev logs to see any mention of currencies, but that would be tedious

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The other way would be to, as you did, try to find the most normalized value

exotic fern
fickle ore
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Nah but that one seems too tedious to find something in there

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Going by what is in steamdb, there seemed to have been no changes on that file since April 2021. Unfortunately there is no history data after that date

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So it must be older than that

exotic fern
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I found that someone made a mod about the currency, and the modder even tried to update it XD

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Ok thank you everyone, I think this question is solved.

fickle ore
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You can mark it as solved then 🙂

exotic fern
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Hmm how should I mark that "solved"?

fickle ore
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Also yes I remember someone talking about that in modding before

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Isn't there a button for it?

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Or a tag?

exotic fern
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I didn't see that

fickle ore
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I see others marked as solved

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Ah, now 😄

exotic fern
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Oh found it

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Ah yes, Kenneth once said that 1 Software Inc. $ = 1 USD in 2015

cloud granite
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oh nice find

soft blaze
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(ten years later)

visual goblet
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2015 is often the “benchmark” when comparing real values of currencies

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has been for a hot minute