Money

[RedTailedLizerd 12]

Please no.

I am sorry for leaving a loser-esque reply. I had a great long little essay (about 300 words at least) on why not, then I had to check a fact in another tab and my whole comment disapeered. Foruming on iPods, eh?

[djzombie 22]

That's not a haiku,

This is a haiku to you.

Just an example.

 

you are so lucky

that i cannot remember

how to use doorknobs

 

i shit you not i have a book in my bookstand called zombie haiku.

 

my rigor mortis

is mainly why I'm slower

and the severed foot.

 

through the giant glass

we stare at them staring back

as the window bends.

Edited August 6, 2013 by djzombie

[harley001 315]

You're right.  Because in a zombie infested world what every person wants in exchange for their weapons and supplies is green colored paper....

[MasterShak3 154]

To be honest, I don't see how gold and silver is valuable anymore, other than the 'value' we assign to it.  All the hype about buying gold and silver 'in case tha gub'ment collapses'.  I can't eat gold or silver.  Can't drink it.  Might be able to bash someone's head in with a gold bar or a silver candlestick and take their food and water.  Might be able to melt it down into bullets, but lead would be easier to melt down and more common (can walk into a fishing store and get 50 pounds of lead fishing weights without so much as a sideways glance).  Honestly cash would be more valuable than gold or silver in a survival situation.  If a vending machine is still working I can put a dollar in and get a water without having to break into it.  I can use it as tinder to help start a fire.  As a makeshift bandage (US 'paper' money is more cloth like)

The only reason why it's still of any value anymore IMO is because stupid people like shiny things.  Well that and electronics, which by extension is a 'shiny thing'.

The only reason why 'bottle caps' work as currency in a game like fallout is because there's an economy (and the very idea of an economy) and traders (NPCs) who will actually trade you goods for bottle caps.

As many have said above, the only currency that will more than likely take place will be 'natural' currency that the players decide on, food, drinks, bullets, meds and the like, nothing that the Devs put in.  I wouldn't mind if they added in money as an item in game but it would be pretty much a 'junk' item like empty tin cans, sure it would have it's uses, but not as currency, unless a vast majority of players decide to start using money as the currency in DayZ.

Honestly, I think Gold is still in demand because of rappers.

 

[AP_Norris 1018]

Honestly, I think Gold is still in demand because of rappers.

 

Gold is the best known conducter, usually used for PC components. But that's no use in an apocalypse. IMO bullets are the best form of currency. You'd carry ammo for guns you don't even have just in case. If everybody does that... Then tada a currency that everybody is already using.

[MasterShak3 154]

Agreed ^

[enforcer1975 1111]

No.

 

Money only works if we have banks to honour the fact that the piece of paper in your hand is worth something.  No banks = useless money.

 

You could use it to wipe your...

[AP_Norris 1018]

You could use it to wipe your...

Bullets so they don't Jam...

[King of kong 1117]

This is probably the worst idea I've seen all week. In the collapse of Homo Sapien structure, I'd doubt people would just open up a shop where you can buy a few anti-material rifles for a few "Gold coins" or a care package loaded with "Perks" or "shit". Why not go play WarZ? it's the perfect, arcadey Americanised-crap (No offense yankees). It's designed to appease Lil' kids and toilet brushes alike.

[enforcer1975 1111]

This is probably the worst idea I've seen all week. In the collapse of Homo Sapien structure, I'd doubt people would just open up a shop where you can buy a few anti-material rifles for a few "Gold coins" or a care package loaded with "Perks" or "shit". Why not go play WarZ? it's the perfect, arcadey Americanised-crap (No offense yankees). It's designed to appease Lil' kids and toilet brushes alike.

Same with the vending machine...like i would bother to spend a coin in case it is still working ( yes, it's electric )...it would just force it open and get what i want.

[King of kong 1117]

Yeah, kinda makes me think of Fallout: New Vegas, there was this really hard DLC where you got put into a villa casino that was overrun by crazy people, there was these hologram things that sold food and sometimes medicine if you gave them a box of smokes or casino chips.