Change gold they said, it's easy they said, it'll be fun they said.

[Rotem]

18 files, 429 new lines and 548 lines removed.

That's the amount of changes required to convert the old gold into a new currency of few different coins. Every gold related code line had to be changed, at first, I had 87 errors in the source and I had to resolve each, it took hours of work.

Every now and then someone will go on saying "make TWC feel like an HP game", I'll ask how and they'll say MAKE GOLD INTO KNUTS SICKLES AND GALLEONS. THAT'S EASY, NO EFFORT CHANGE.

One guy even tried to write 5 lines of code claiming that'll do the trick. Oh boy how wrong they were.

In the next update, gold is no longer in your Stats, all your gold will be converted into 4 currency items, platinum, gold, silver and bronze. While, renaming to HP currency is doable and now that the hard work is done, also easy, I'll address that in a second.

The currency ratios are as follows:
Bronze = 1 old gold
Silver = 100 old gold
Gold = 10000 old gold
Platinum = 1000000 old gold

This creates a better looking currency, instead of seeing large numbers, you see a few hundred coins represented by this new currency. The value is the same, you won't lose a single gold you farmed.

When you log in after the update, all your banked gold and on-hand gold will be in your inventory, make sure to drop it inside your vault for protection, bankers no longer store gold, instead they are used to exchange lower valued coins to higher valued coins. Each 100 coins would be equal to the next coin.

As for the problem with the HP currency names, when I made the change, I knew I might rename the coins after, the change is just very complicated and I preferred to handle naming later, platinum, gold, silver and bronze are generic names. There however a few things to sort out before I change their names:

With the HP coins, the exchange rates are dumb, they're not each coin equals 100 coins of the tier below, not only is it harder to calculate values but also results in giving you more coins, the money you have on hand would look higher which won't help me create a sense of respect for gold. The fact HP currency has only 3 coins also boosts this.

You'll end up with a lot of galleons and they'll be common as fuck, I want the highest valued coin to feel heavy, when you get -a single- coin of those, you'll feel happy. A platinum coin is not one coin, it's 1mill and it feels a ton better that way. It isn't about the name, it's about the values.

On that topic, while, knuts, sickles and galleons are basically bronze, silver and gold (the colors and materials are the same), we'd have to invent a name for platinum.

[Vanchi]

So will this be a change for the economy, or is it just a design change?

[Rotem]

So will this be a change for the economy, or is it just a design change?

What's the difference between the 2?