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General Discussion / Re: How Much is a Credit Worth?
« on: February 14, 2020, 08:23:46 PM »The question now is how exactly do credits keep their value?Not very well. a player can actually pull credits out of CPUs that didn't " blow up quite enough " after a battle.
Yeah, I dint understand how an entirely virtual currency works. What's it backed up by?
Bitcoin.
This is my thinking as well, the cryptocurrencies of today can be stored in offline wallets, which translates pretty well into starsector, seeing as every pda holder seems to also be the holder of such a wallet, since the pda is what is referenced whenever a transaction is made. It wouldn't be too far fetched to imagine that credits aren't actually "lost" when a fleet is destroyed, but still exist in the same wallet as before, which now has no owner and subsequently noone who can access it. How credits are "pulled out" after a fleet battle is harder to explain though, maybe the release of credits is a failsafe in case the physical unit holding the credits (the ship computer) is destroyed, preventing deflation. However, since all the baseline prices for different commodities seem to be sectorially agreed upon, and only change locally, I don't really see how the market could inflate or deflate on a sectorial level.
Space bitcoin.