Hi everyone,
In today's devblog we wanted to talk about such how would money work after the apocalypse. Our previous post sparkled some interesting discussion on this on Russian gaming site Riotpixels.com — so we decided to bring this topic to open discussion.
Firstly, we could always go the funny way. Like Fallout's bottle caps or something like that. In that case, money is kind of useless by itself, weighs nothing, doesn't take up space and it can be exchanged for all other goods.
Obviously, coming to an Amazonian village with a suitcase full of euros, you probably won't be able to buy, say, onions. But exchanging onions for an almost fresh sandwich should be possible to do. Money is important in urban culture, where everyone believes that money is valuable.
In this regard, the world of Feral Blue is closer to an Amazonian village than New Vegas, so the idea of traditional money would not be appropriate. So how exactly should we express value of anything?
Our current choice is water. Everyone needs water. It's easily divided: fill the whole tanker with it, if you want, or measure it with little sips. Water can also be, how they say now, 'mined' — through desalination point or by finding rare springs. However, it's not very convenient to save and hard to carry around. Your purse would look like a bundle of thermos.
Some players suggested gunpowder as the currency. We're not sure about this, to be honest. On the one hand, it seems convenient, valuable, rare enough, and it's easy to divide. On the other — it might be a bit too valuable and easy to fake (set fire to a pinch for testing?). Or, if you're Incas living in the Andes, who use catapults (more reliable that way) — why would you need gunpowder anyway?
So what do you think? If the world survived the apocalypse, what would become the currency? Fresh water, soil, gunpowder, wood, vodka?