I wish you could melt gold ingots into statues. Or the world's worst armor and weapons. (Heck, they have "glass" armor... )

Speaking of that, Diamond Armor... :drool:
Herpaderpacan'tcutme.

Main reason? It's a game and a constructed world. The designers built it this way, because they wanted it like that.

Secondary reasons:
1) They have magic and other similar things. This means that some of the needs that pushed invention in our world don't exist there.

2) The world's been in a downturn (civil wars, exploding provinces, etc). Heading into a dark age, etc.

3) Yes, they're afraid of technology - or at least not huge fans of it. The Dwemer loved this "technology" thing. And they're all dead. This makes tech not seem like all that great an idea.

Gold mace.

I suppose they are stuck in the Dark Ages. Although you would think a place where there actually is magic and it is somewhat socially acceptable, they would be less afraid of change.
Or perhaps they just focus on using magic to improve their lives. Like harry potter. They don't need electricity, they have magic.

Hi, I'm a professional numismatist so coins are my specialty... :dance: :snoring: :snoring: :snoring: (rest of forum)

It may be interesting for you to know that in the ancient and medieval world gold was a very rare and valuable metal. A single gold 'aureus', one gold piece, was a week's wages for a Roman centurion, and the Roman army was well paid.

Most fantasy genre games have insane monetary systems. Basically gold pieces are used as the staple currency. In the viking world (the influence on Skyrim) they didn't even make gold coins. The only source of gold at that time was in trade from the Islamic and Byzantine empires. One silver piece, a 'silver penny' was the standard wage for a day's labour.

:goodjob:

I liked New Vegas' currency system.

I spent all my bottle caps on things that mattered, and threw all my NCR dollars and Legion coins at casino bankers for poker chips.

Wait... maybe there's no real point to it then... besides role playing, but who role plays in role playing games?


derp.

they should use "cap" like they do in fallout, then it wouldnt bother you because cap sounds trash... relatively.

I wonder what currency the dominion uses

Nordic testicles. Duh.

Thy have magic.

No need for tech advancement whjen you can just go "[censored] you, science"

this is on my list of things i want in the game, right above potato chips.

I just realised you don't need any magical skill in Skyrim to be able to transmute iron to silver to gold, so how can they still use gold as a currency

I really miss the Dwemer Coins