 No More Nuyen, Drop Nuyen in favor of generic currency |
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 Mar 30 2005, 04:02 PM
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The King In Yellow  Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,922 Joined: 26-February 05 From: JWD Member No.: 7,121  |
Putting in credcards, UCAS dollars, a holograph of my wife and children, and all those nightclub membership cards? Granted, the wallet could also double as a pocket secretary, but the idea is to have all the official things you need in one handy format that does NOT require a data reader to be displayed (sure, I can save the holograph of wife and kids onto a cred stick, but what good is it there?). |
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Mar 30 2005, 04:13 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 619 Joined: 27-May 03 From: Detroit Member No.: 4,642 |
What I liked about CredSticks is that in a lot of the art they were sharp and pointy. A pain to carry around in your pocket, but handy if you're out of other options for weapons. ;)
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Mar 30 2005, 04:15 PM
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Moving Target Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 870 Joined: 6-January 04 From: Idaho Member No.: 5,960 |
I think alot of people underestimate the subtle genious of credsticks, their practical and fluff purposes.
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Mar 30 2005, 04:13 PM
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The King In Yellow Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,922 Joined: 26-February 05 From: JWD Member No.: 7,121 |
Yay! Currency you can kill with! Finally, I can say with good reason my money's blood stained!
Would you mind telling? |
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Mar 30 2005, 04:14 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,013 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
No such thing. Perhaps you mean credsticks? :P
Not in general use.
Can easily go in a pocket somewhere, or even just get stored on your pocket secretary.
Probably just encoded onto the credstick. Faster and cheaper. ~J |
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Mar 30 2005, 04:26 PM
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Chrome to the Core Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,152 Joined: 14-October 03 From: ::1 Member No.: 5,715 |
Especially easier to just encode it onto the credstick. If you're a member of the club, you get the special discount on cover charges. If you're not... Well, let's just say it's cheaper to go to a five-star restaurant with your weightlifting girlfriend.
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Mar 30 2005, 04:39 PM
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Moving Target Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 870 Joined: 6-January 04 From: Idaho Member No.: 5,960 |
i'm still trying to reconcile the greatness of the credstick within my own soul... but I shall try to put it into words.
Credsticks engender in myself and my players the same feeling that cash does in real life. When we are paid with a briefcase of certified credsticks it just gives us that warm fuzzy feeling in our tummies like that briefcase was actually full of bundled 100s. The genious of concept is that credsticks can be used as either a sexy,slim check book without the outmoded shape and writing...or used as cash to be carried about in large quantities whilst engaging in shady transactions to protect identities. It serves all the practical needs while giving those lovers of money any type of emotional fix they require from a currency all in one long, penlike, phallic symbol. |
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Mar 30 2005, 04:34 PM
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Chrome to the Core Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,152 Joined: 14-October 03 From: ::1 Member No.: 5,715 |
Actually, I tend to carry around $1,000 in hard cash for those "just in case" moments of purchasing something that could be tracked back to you via credstick purchases.
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Mar 30 2005, 04:45 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,013 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Certified cred.
~J |
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Mar 30 2005, 05:33 PM
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King of the Hobos Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,117 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 127 |
Personal opinion or something from one of the books? |
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Mar 30 2005, 05:40 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,013 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
I'm not finding the quote on-hand, but I'm almost positive that it's canon that credsticks have almost entirely supplanted physical currency.
~J |
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Mar 30 2005, 05:51 PM
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Ain Soph Aur Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,477 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Montreal, Canada Member No.: 600 |
So? I call dollars "bucks", "piastre" (in french), "smackers" and "tomatoes". I hardly see a problem with some UCAS runners (players) calling Nuyen "dollars" when they don't have to be specific that they're dealing in Nuyen. |
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Mar 30 2005, 07:23 PM
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Moving Target Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 870 Joined: 6-January 04 From: Idaho Member No.: 5,960 |
*waits for Kag to set them straight*
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Mar 30 2005, 07:34 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,013 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Got it: Sprawl Survival Guide, page 39: "Though finances have become more abstract over the last century, as electronic credit has gradually replaced cold hard cash". In the same book, page 91: "Panhandling's harder than it once was, now that we no longer use coins or hard cash."
~J |
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Mar 30 2005, 07:44 PM
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It's for winners Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 523 Joined: 8-February 05 From: Wiltshire with da shooty stuff Member No.: 7,067 |
wow!!! nuyen is generic, we use it every where almost as common as visa is now!
wouldn't catch me doing a run for any other form of payment! :S It would be very wrong to get rid of it!! :nuyen: :nuyen: :nuyen: :nuyen: NUYEN forever!!! Just my personal opinion!! torz x :D |
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Mar 30 2005, 07:40 PM
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The King In Yellow Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,922 Joined: 26-February 05 From: JWD Member No.: 7,121 |
It makes sense the government wants you to pay only electronically. after all, you always leave a data trail that way, no matter whether you use SINed credsticks or checksticks. Hard currency is much harder to track, and hence, the government hates it, but cannot extinguish it either, because it makes bribing, black market business and generally illegal financial transfer that much easier. Paying in hard currency seems to be frowned upon, but not illegal. Hence, one could even expect banks to take those currencies, at least shadier banks. |
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Mar 30 2005, 07:58 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,013 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Hence almost entirely. Certainly it wouldn't be a factor in the continued production of wallets (or lack thereof).
~J |
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Mar 30 2005, 07:50 PM
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Moving Target Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 870 Joined: 6-January 04 From: Idaho Member No.: 5,960 |
But there is a common and acceptable hard currency...it's called certified credsticks. They are paid for using registered cred and are the same exact thing as hard currency, whoever holds it owns the money in it without any kind of security measures.
I think some people maybe don't understand the difference between registered credsticks and certified credsticks. |
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Mar 30 2005, 08:07 PM
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The King In Yellow Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,922 Joined: 26-February 05 From: JWD Member No.: 7,121 |
So certified credsticks are basically chips with data on them symbolising a set amount of money, and don't come with any tracker, tag or serial number? Well, if you change the stick shape to soemthing less impractical, it would make perfect sense to have a wallet or soemthing for them.
Then again, maybe there could be something like a stick friendly wallet anyway. I doupt the wallet industry would just resign and die. ;) |
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Mar 30 2005, 08:12 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,013 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
No, they'd change and build them differently. We've already had a transition from wallets meant to be kept in coat pockets to wallets meant to be kept in back pockets. Sticks are very wallet-ish-friendly, having carried around upwards of a dozen pens and mechanical pencils in high school I feel I'm quite qualified to speak on convenience of stick-shaped objects.
~J |
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Mar 30 2005, 08:18 PM
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It's for winners Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 523 Joined: 8-February 05 From: Wiltshire with da shooty stuff Member No.: 7,067 |
I always imagined them the same size as the memory stick you can get for laptops, as sort of thing but not on a key ring?? (would be handy though)
torz x :D |
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Mar 30 2005, 08:20 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 227 Joined: 18-August 03 Member No.: 5,513 |
I've always played under that assumption myself. |
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Mar 30 2005, 09:51 PM
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King of the Hobos Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,117 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 127 |
Ah, I thought you meant that the UCAS dollar itself was mostly defunct rather than just physical currency. |
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Mar 30 2005, 09:57 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,013 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Ah. Nope, it's still around.
~J |
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Mar 31 2005, 12:43 AM
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Moving Target Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 870 Joined: 6-January 04 From: Idaho Member No.: 5,960 |
Credstick bandoleer!!
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