>Sci-fi game
>currency is called "credits"

>>712970657 (OP)
Well what should they be called?

What term would you use instead of credits then?

>>712970670
Spesos

>>712970670
Woolongs

>>712970670
mililitres (of cum)

>fantasy game
>currency is called "gold points"

>>712970670
galaxollars

>>712970670
Brouzouf

>>712970884
The p stands for pieces, idiot

>>712970670
Joy

>>712970657 (OP)
>fantasy game
>rubles

>>712970670
Moolah

>>712970670
Fulah

>>712970971
My legs are ok!

>>712970670
Rumbillars

>>712970884
Pieces, anon. Gold pieces.

>>712970670
Whatever resource is most critical to the kind of society the setting has going. Water, fuel, slaves, years. It's all good.

>>712970657 (OP)
The economy is already moving there
Memecoin is only a few steps removed from credits. The basic structure is already there, and they're mostly called "coin" because it's weird autistic psychos trying to float them instead of normal people, who are going to stop calling them "coin" the moment they enter standard use. What they end up calling them, I don't know, but credits are more likely than coins. Slang currency terms will likely continue to be used as well. Bucks ain't going anywhere.
The other major (inevitable) shift is your several dozen, unregulated memecoins being supplanted in their entirety by one or two major, stable alternatives, held by backers everyone can trust, spendable at denominations that average people can actually use.

And then there's science fiction element is just getting value interchangability across cultures with fundamentally different values, to prevent scamming the species addicted to gold, by the species who shits it, or whatever the case may be, but most settings don't bother getting into that anyways.

>Sci-fi game
>Starts with a scene with space ships shooting lasers
>Omg the ayy lmaos are attacking us
>Their motivation is to take over the planet and either wipe out humans or create hybrid hapa ayylmaolets in pods or good ol' fashioned intergalactic rape

>>712970657 (OP)
Toxotransmosis moment.

>>712970819
heh

>>712971359
Rumbillars sounds like something you'd find in the inventory of a knockoff Mos Eisley cantina vendor. "Two rumbillars for a sip of synthale, five if you want the bottle, mate." Honestly though, has a nice jingle to it—could totally see some janky arcade-style space RPG slapping that on the UI next to a pixelated coin icon.

>>712970670
>>712970819
>>712970835
>>712970875

>>712970884
>>712971039

Without a multi-galactic government, how do you even back-up a currency? It has to be something everyone agrees to have inherent value.

>>712971683
>Sci-fi game
>The ayys are here to civilize humanity and stop us from destroying each other
>the old world power structures fight against them and are the bad guys
Think about it realistically, what would ayys that are so much more advanced than humans possibly want from us that they don't already have or can get somewhere else without as much resistance?

>>712970657 (OP)
>Sci-fi game
>currency is called "resources"

>>712970670
Dactariats

>>712972752
boring answer: it's space fuel or the unobtainium that is required for FTL or ship weapons

otherwise, like the real world: the currency of the planet/empire that makes the most weapons

>>712973149
Habitable worlds

>game starts with you being stranded in some backward planet
>you earn their primitive currency there
>midway, you are back in civilization
>can still use the primitive currency to buy stuff from vending machine

>>712973149
The insurance that we become peaceful instead of militaristic and an eventual threat to them, obviously.

>>712973258
>Can travel between stars
>Can't terraform the millions of habitable zone worlds to be habitable

>>712970657 (OP)
>Sci-fi game
>currency is called "Brouzoufs"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECEz3a4GErE

>>712972752
Anon, when you grow up you will understand that resources are wealth.

>>712970819
I should kick your ass for making me chuckle. Shit wasn't even funny. Fuck you.

>>712972752
Give it physical value. In my world people would use scrap coins which are made from metal. You can use them on fabricators to print items.

>>712973441
Wealth is a relative concept that only really applies in a shortage economy. With tech advanced enough that you theoretically have an infinity of everything wealth really stops being a factor.

>>712972752
In real life, energy is extremely important to the economy. Keeping energy costs low is important for keeping inflation under control. In a sci-fi future (where the economy will be even more energy-intensive), "energy credits" will just be an abstraction for fiat currency and energy.

>>712973564
You don't have an infinity of everything though. Resources have to be gathered, processed, and shipped to the places that need them. It being the future doesn't remove this from existence. Unless your setting has perfected energy converted directly to matter in which case you have to change how society works completely.

>>712970657 (OP)
>finish game
>endroll is called credits

>>712973564
Not really. You'll still need some kind of raw resource, even if it's just the fuel and/or manpower to run the economy. Uranium and plutonium can be reprocessed from nuclear waste and uranium might theoretically be extracted from seawater someday, but it's still much cheaper to just mine it out of the ground and throw the waste away. Similarly, synthesising everything will only put a ceiling on the price, not make it cheap.

>>712973694
Even then, turning energy into resources will still probably be much more expensive than just mining them out of the ground.

>>712970657 (OP)
>fantasy game
>it's gold
>sci fi game
>credits
>contemporary game
>american dollars
Really bringing their A-game on this worldbuilding, huh.

>>712971443
>Whatever resource is most critical to the kind of society the setting has going.
So we should now all pay in oil or what? What a fucking retarded suggestion

>>712970670
Digidollars you inhuman cunt.

>>712974037
The USA is the richest, most powerful country in the world. Even its enemies acknowledge this. Also, many developers are American.

>>712974206
>criticize default as generic
>"yeah but it's the default though"
So what. Gold is historically the most popular non-fiat and it's still a boring choice for fantasy currency.

>FPS game from 2002-2010
>Takes place in a desert shooting towelheads
>Allahu akbar

>>712974328
What currency do you want, then? Silver? Bronze? Wood? Coal? Charcoal? Oil?

>>712974410
Souls

>>712970670
(You)s

>>712974410
Flesh

>>712974410
Beaver pelts, forked twigs, various beetles, slaves, severed foreskins, sparkly magic horse shit. All it takes is a little imagination.

There was some kids show, I think it was Cyber chase or Cyber crash, and I remember one episode there was a planet or website or something they were on had a currency called "Snafus" and I use that name everytime I do a sci-fi game for table top.

>>712970657 (OP)
I liked it when japanese science fiction games used the word zenny for currency.

Capcom used that term in a lot of their games.

>get asked what to use instead of credits
>every single alternative (if any) provided is distilled anus
Every time. And it's not just you retards either, every time a dev goes out of their way to be super original and try and reinvent the wheel it ends up shit.

>>712970670
>>712970657 (OP)
>>712970819
>>712973149
>>712972752

>>712974889
With the technology and industrial capabilities of the time, it was actually easier to actually go there than to fake it. The USSR also congratulated the USA.

>>712973564
Humans like every other animal will reproduce to the very limit of the environmental capacity of their surroundings. If you create infinite everything, then you just get infinity humans in a couple of generations

>>712975665
Kill yourself, Malthus. You've been wrong for hundreds of years.

>>712970670
C-Bills, Kroners, Dollars, Marks, Yen, Whatever the fuck Capellans call their House Bills...

If sci-fi writers had even a modicum of creativity they'd understand that one singular currency wouldn't happen and people would just start trading in their local currencies before transferring to a separate currency for trading with other nations.

>>712975756
Literally who?

>>712975756
He was right, thoughtbeit.

>>712973564
Human work is scarce, and I aint doin any until you provide me sone wealth for it

>>712970657 (OP)
>>712972752
In space-faring society (honestly even just in a society that inhabits space larger than a cave innawoods) the ability to acquire anything is mostly gated by logistics and time, any currency would naturally just concentrate in the hands of gestalt entities with the most time, the best ability to use large scale logistics and the ability to blockade others.
Consequently the only currency that is used are psychosynthetic meme discs that feel good to spend on arbitrary goods.

>>712972752
You collect tax in your currency. You issue fines that need to be settled in your currency. You make judgement with settlements denominated in your currency. You fine/jail people for not trading goods in your currency.
It's backed by the demand for it you create and the inherent demand for a medium of exchange an economy creates. A space shoemaker is rich in shoes, but he has all the shoes he needs plus he can make more, but he wants other things which are not shoes, maybe he even doesn't know what yet. That's why he has a demand for a universal form of wealth that can be converted to any other form at a later date.

>>712975129
>They traveled to the moon and built a soundstage there in order to fake the moon landing
>Americans would have beaten the Soviets much earlier, but they couldn't figure out how to wrangle an entire camera crew and filming equipment onto a spacecraft

>>712976472
Money is not wealth. It's a comparison number of how much wealth you're allowed to access compared to someone else. Money is not worth shit if there are no resources to buy.

>>712973347
What game?

>>712975876
He was wrong.

>>712976713
Which is why inflation is so dangerous to a fiat currency system.

>>712976913
Exactly.

you will own nothin goy

and you vill never be happy!

>space faring age
>everyone looks like a mutt mutant and dysgenic
>Starsector

>>712975129
You are never ever leaving this enclosed plane alive you retarded golem. CGI is all you get in this life which is more than you deserve anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VglZ9a6CEcE

>game is set in the future
>Earth isn't ruled by G-d's Chosen People

>>712976471
Every jewish golem is now programmed with the same dream. Billions of them everywhere.

There are daisy-chained 5G balloons flying over the amazon forest 24/7 providing the native tribes with 5G internet access even though they likely don't even have phones. Only a matter of time before even those are programmed with the same dream.

>>712970670
Toxotransmosis tokens.

>>712979137
All goyim should be tortured forever to punish them for their crimes against the Chosen People. And also because torture makes our circumcised penises hard.

>>712970670
Rupees

>>712970670
credbits

>>712970884
10000 copper coins = 100 silver coins = 1 gold coin

>>712979270
>>712974889
>using npc woahjack in the big 25
pack it up unc