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[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 33 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Love it. These ridiculus "gold" prices in games and mangas etc have always been a pet peeve of mine

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 33 points 1 day ago

This hand-crafted, gold necklace with diamond, ruby sapphire, and emeralds adorning the intricately carved centerpiece?

5 gold pieces.

That moldy slice of bread you picked up accidentally from a barrel in the bottom of a 1500 year old shipwreck?

..... I'll give you 3 gold.

[–] TASchwitters@lemmings.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well, they do take place in a fictional universe, where we can assume scarcity is different.

[–] Zos_Kia@jlai.lu 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Still metallurgy is not cheap in terms of energy when you only have wood to burn!

[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Funnily, with gold you don't even need heat for things like forming coins.

[–] Zos_Kia@jlai.lu 3 points 16 hours ago

If i recall correctly, you can hammer the coin when it's cold to put the decorations on it, but you still need to melt the metal at some point to get it at the right thickness and give it the circular shape. I may be wrong tho