Re: (TFT) Jobs table: 100,000 simulated soldiers and farmers

[Joey Beutel <mejobo@comcast.net>]

> Still, making too much surplus isn't good (and it will  drive up your
> prices, though having no wait could be nice for some  more commonly
> sold items).
> Too much surplus drives prices down, not up.
Right, but if you are just making a few extra things here and there,  
wouldnt' that increase their price, as they are paying more for not  
having to wait to get whatever item you are selling? Basically, you  
are beating the competition in service, so you got to make a bit  
more....
> > So lets say that old Bilbo has gone on his adventure, dealt with  
> > Smaug,
> but the battle of the Five Armies never happened. So these guys are
> sitting on  a mountain of treasure and the >nearest settlement is  
> Dale.Gold is
> fixing to become very cheap in Dale in that scenario.
>
> Probably not.  Within the context of the whole of Middle Earth, gold  
> is
> still a valuable  commodity... unless they get so much gold that it  
> ruins it
> (like for the  Spanish in real life, to an extent), which would need  
> to be a
> LOT  relative to how much was in Middle Earth before, the effect  
> isn't to
> make  gold cheap in Dale, per se, its to make Dale rich- EVERYTHING  
> will be
> cheap, given how wealthy everyone is (cept, of course, they dont'  
> all get  the
> gold, as I recall).
>
> Mansa Musa of Mali went on hajj to Mecca, he devaluated gold for 12  
> years
> in Egypt and in what is now Saudi Arabia. Price on goods super- 
> inflated as a
> result of his generosity and wealth.
Yeah, but if anyone from Egypt went to France, or wherever, they'd  
still be rich. Its just like how in America, everything (basic  
commodities) is more expensive, but more people are richer than in a  
third world country... we rarely think of America as poor, however, in  
part because when trading outside the US, they have more relative money.

But, of course, prices will rise in Egypt, or Dale.
> If your campaign is getting unbalanced, 1 way to right things is to  
> make
> taxes and fees and tithes. Then tinker with your economics by  
> introducing a
> change at Court off-stage. Another thing that medieval kings also  
> did was to
> recall the currency and devaluate it. This was hard on the economy  
> but it
> is a  way to raise prices realistically.
>
>
>
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