[Freeciv-Dev] Re: capitalization

[Ashley Penney <ashp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 10:11:21PM +0100, phil hunt said:
> On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Jeff Mallatt wrote:
> 
> > At 2000/08/22 17:06 , Nicolas Brunel wrote:
> > >> However, until then, I have no objection to installing Capitalization at
> > >> game start.  Anyone else object?
> > >
> > >I know about the possibility of selling buildings. But, it will look
> > >strange to have capitalization available too soon in the game. It's like
> > >to have an unavailable to build nuclear weapon at the start of the game.
> > >Is it possible to give it another name ?
> > 
> > I've been thinking long on this, and the only thing I have come up with is
> > "Coinage" (which is not great).  The idea is of turning raw production
> > (i.e., gold bullion) into money (i.e., gold coins).
> 
> "Coinage" is a good name, IMO. 
 
"Commerce" always seemed like a good choice to me.  Anyone at almost any
stage of developement can be engaged in commerce.  Even if that means swapping
a few sheep for a pig. :)

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