Talk:Fictional currency

message: I can think of a couple that are already missing, but seriously, just because something was used in a computer game (energy??) as a tradable commodity does not mean it deserves to be listed here. A tidy up is required methinks. 
― Zen tom 19:03, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Do we really need to list ALL those games?

message: I'd like to call attention to the near-fictional currency called "art money";
see http://www.art-money.org. 
― Noe 20:33, 28 November 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Art money 

message: "Credits" gets used in grillions of SF millieu. Can't we collapse it into one entry, listing the representative examples?
Also, while I'm ranting, where are the NuYen (Shadowrun)? Talking about "credits", where are Babylon 5 and Traveller (the GDW role playing game)?
And, of course, I've forgotten to log in. Silly me. -- 131.7.251.200 20:07, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Credits 

message: I have separated this into: from a game and not from a game. I probably missed a lot, I only moved what I knew were games. Every game has it's own currency, not every story does. I think people in general want to look through game currencies and fiction currencies for different reasons. Ooops, I forgot to add monopoly money. 
I'm iffy about Naquadah. Is spice a currency in Dune? I think no. I haven't read the Dune books either though. But is oil a currency in real life? Not even close. No effiecient way of carrying it, really. 
― Lotusduck 17:36, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Game credits separated 

message: At the World Bodypainting Festival 2006, there was a separate currency just for the festival. It was called Klex, and was available in plastic coins of value ½, 1 and 2 Klex. It could actually be used as payment for every small purchase (such as snacks and drinks) on the festival grounds, and had a fixed exchange rate of 1 Klex = 1 €. So what does this make this Klex? A real-world currency, a fictional currency, just a fancy way of using Euros, or what? JIP | Talk 11:32, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds to me just like a form of scrip, like Disney Dollars. Nik42 06:22, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Certainly not fictional if it was being used in real life - well, if the WBF is real life. 86.4.186.107 (talk) 15:02, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fictional currency used in real life? 

message: One entry reads: "Piastres, drachmae, and taels appear in the alternate history novel The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson. The first two are used in Islamic Europe; the latter is the Chinese currency."  Historically, piastres and drachmae were used in Europe and taels were used in China.  So it doesn't seem like these are really fictional currency, although obviously since this is a fictional work they're used in situations which are fictional.  But does that mean every novel that mentions dollars, pounds, francs, lirae, etc. can be listed in this article? PubliusFL 17:27, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, that doesn't sound like a fictional currency to me, either.  I suppose if an althistory book had something like, say, "British dollars" or "United States pounds", where a real currency is used in a country that never used it, it could be on the list.  Is this a situation like that? Nik42 01:03, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Non-fictional fictional currency?

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message: I made a bold move and trimmed the article of all but the most notable examples because I think the AFD showed that the subject of fictional currency is notable, even if the list of all examples is not. I encourage other editors to add more examples of notable trends in the use of fictional currencies and NOT to add an entry for the fictional currency of their favorite TV show. Axem Titanium (talk) 07:08, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Full list of examples – old diff prior to deletion. For easy future reference. -- Quiddity (talk) 08:05, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Wow, this has really turned from a laundry list of random examples, to a high quality article on a relatively niche article. Nice job to the contributors, it turned out really well. --NickPenguin(contribs) 16:10, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. Twas hard work though! I'd really appreciate it if anybody has access to the Clue/Nicholls The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction as apparently it also covers this topic, but I don't have any way to access it. TheGrappler (talk)
I support the move. Perhaps "Money in fiction" might have been a better title but that would have involved more general discussion of the use of money e.g. to drive a plot, or as the moral of the story. There's some information available on that in the source materials but more general reference guides are needed as well. Perhaps Money in fiction is best left for a separate article and another day, with a subsection on currency for which this can be the spun-out main article.
I think that substantial portions of the list should be returned to this page - at the moment the "Examples" section is (a) very repetitive and (b) lacks many concrete examples! But I support the bold removal that was done. It's probably best to act discerningly in terms of adding back entries. One sensible idea to stop the list becoming apparently indiscriminate, would be to require the examples involved to have been mentioned in secondary sources e.g. a specialized encyclopedia. A slightly more liberal attitude would allow the inclusion of a couple of illustrative instances of a type of usage (e.g. "credit") that is supported in secondary sources. Does that seem reasonable? TheGrappler (talk) 01:09, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

text: The entries that have descriptions/analysis elsewhere could be most easily returned. Eg. Final_Fantasy_gameplay#Currency, Sonic_the_Hedgehog_(series)#Rings, Energon (power source), Rupee_(The_Legend_of_Zelda_series)#Hyrule, Whuffie, Money_in_harry_potter#Economy, Federation credit, Ankh-Morpork#Currency, Mark_(Pern)#Currency. The other items will need further research. -- Quiddity (talk) 06:02, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds reasonable to me. Does anybody have any ideas on citations for the last bits on this page at the mo? It was easy enough to find sources for scifi and fantasy but the computer game part seems harder. TheGrappler (talk) 11:40, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move and trim 

message: "Trends..." -vs- "Concept and creation"
For science fiction set in the near future, modern currency names are often used. The selection of familiar currencies such as the dollar or yen, particularly in the far future, may be used to make suggestions about the way history unfolded; however, it would seem strange for aliens to use a recognizable currency.[3] 
Almost the exact same sentence is used in the first para of the "Concept and creation" section as well as the "Trends..." section. Suggest elimination of at least one, or some form of differentiation in prose.
24.250.206.199 (talk) 17:28, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mild Repetition... 

message: There are currency fictionalized the video game world, but that doesn't appear on the page. Can someone add that list? An expert of the world known as WebTV3! (talk) 01:52, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  No video game currencies 

message: I notice that this page lists two currencies within Kingdom of Loathing, however, there are at least eleven more: nickels, dimes, Ka coins, Chroners, hobo nickels, Freddy Kruegerands, FunFunds, Wal-Mart gift certificates, Volcoinos, Coinspiracy, and Beach Bucks; additionally, Mr. Accessories divide into ten Uncle Bucks each. All of which have associated images, which may or may not be allowed by image fair use policies. Would it even be reasonable to list them all?
24.211.128.26 (talk) 21:15, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  KoL currencies 

message: :
The value of a favor/ob seems, reasonably enough, to be flexible.  From memory: "The sooner the firefighters get there, the heavier the obs."  I don't think there's any mention of a specific number of obs (other than one). —Tamfang (talk) 01:28, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  is it really a unit? 

message: Eurodollar.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.24.247.24 (talk) 15:30, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cyberpunk RPG 

message: When I saw that the "movies" section of the article had no symbol for Guardians of the Galaxy currency, I vaguely remembered seeing a U with one or two lines across it on a screen in the movie. Is there one? If so, can someone please add it? Thanks. 151.188.105.163 (talk) 13:46, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Guardians of the Galaxy unit symbol 

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Like fairy gold, or in some other way? —Tamfang (talk) 06:49, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  time and magic