Sim money

[gespenst, FIN (admin)]

I have recently been thinking of starting the use of sim money to add some realisticness. First I'd like to hear how do your, who already have sim money, systems work. What's the best way to start, a certain amount of money straight in the beginning? Am I right that sim money is pretty popular amongst Germans?

What currency do you use? Finnish sim money is mostly marked as v€, "virtuaalieuro" = virtual euro.

What about the differences between currencies? Is it ok to think that 1,000 sim euros is the same as 1,000 sim dollars, or are people more accurate about that?

Gosh, a lot of questions.

[Thestral]

It's very common in Sweden, used when buying/selling horses, breeding to other peoples stallions etc, and marked as real money, i.e. kr or SEK. You can see an example of it here.
Personally I prefer to use a currency converter (this one, for example) instead of just saying that 100€ = $100.

When I first started Utsikten I think I began with ~50 000 SEK, but saw it as a loan (from a non-existing bank ;>) and paid it back as soon as possible.

[Ce'Nedra]

Same goes for me as for Kmlnt, and most other swedish stables

I started with no money tho, but at that point when I first created the stable I didnt have any horses of my own either. I only offered boarding and competed/educated other peoples sim-horses. And later used that money aswell as price money to start my own breeding. Back in those days you used to earn a lot of sim-money out of competitions tho, not sure it would work today!

[gespenst, FIN (admin)]

Thanks for replying! I don't think starting from zero will work in Finland since we very seldom get money as prizes. Loan could work, or I could imagine a bequest from a grandgrandparent or smthng like that

We had a real sim bank in Finland with own accounts etc, but it doesn't exist anymore, and I never even saw it :/

[Leila (GER)]

In german it's quite common to have sim money. Problem is, that most people just loose money by buying horses and breed with other stables' stallions. Money comes in for selling horses and offer stallions for other and as price for shows.

Most people have tons of money because there are shows where you get 1000,- for winnig Dressage Lv E which is nearly lowest in Germany.
Starting every day you can buy a horse in three days or so by winning at show events. It got better in the last two years I think.

[Leonie [GER]]

Like Leila said it's normal at german sim stables, to work with money, but the problem with thousands of euros and very rare expenditures is quite actual. At my stable I have monthly a amount for each horse to pay - let me say it's 600-700 € per horse.
It's no problem to 'survive' with this amounts, because my stable lives of the competitions and their prices, so it's a little bit more real, when there are amounts, too.
But I agree with Leila, it becomes better in Germany with the prices and expenditures.

[gespenst, FIN (admin)]

Thanks for you two also! Let's see what I come up with (;

[nanni (AT)]

Usually, for things like breeding fees which have a certain price, I calcualte the price from euros to, e.g., dollars.
The prices of my shows are always in the currency of the stable, because as Leila said there are stables where you can win 1000 in the lowest level and there are some where you can win 50 in the same level. In real life you can't make any profit in these levels so for me, it doens't really matter HOW unrealistic the prices may be.
To my mind it belongs to the stable owner, to cut the prices if they are to high; for myself and the members of our stable, there are such restrictions that cut totally unrealistic prices that were won on competitions.

The currency at my stable is also called virtual euro. I have forgotten where I startet but after the "currency reform" I had about 60 euros on my account (;D) and it goes up and down, but when I have more then a few tousend, I get bored because I can't really deal with such great amounds of money... and I also like the challenge, not like many other Germans that have such a lot of money, that nothing happens when they have no income - how boring ;D.

[gespenst, FIN (admin)]

Sounds interesting to have challege in it, the problem is that Finnish horses are very seldom sold with sim money, most are practically free, so should I imagine that the horse would cost a certain amount of money then, even if it really cost nothing? (;

[nanni (AT)]

Well it depends on what other costs you have and how much the horse is worth, I guess. If you have less monay and got a nice horse for free, why not? But if it's a champion I think paying something makes it more real.