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I can put them together, or take your files and do it for you.

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We don't see much time travel because looping back around in time in a way that has serious effects is the sort of thing Legal (and the Flowers in general) really don't like people pulling. (and this is why currency lopping is against the rules)

The Time Gentry, obviously, can jump around in time however they'd like, but they know what they're doing and don't usually do anything that messes up HQ.

And agreed on the inflation thing not being useful, because you're either running around a badfic (in which case you might as well just start looting) or you're in a goodfic or canon, in which case you don't break the the economy with a flood of badfic cash because we don't do that either.

I agree with your concept of the Big Finance Spreadsheet too.

Also, I don't think the wiki was updated to say the Morning Glory is temporarily in charge.

So you can use HTML to set a hotkey for any link, e.g. <a href="next.html" accesskey="n"> for a Next button. This makes navigation of chapters super-easy! I'm going to implement this everywhere!

... This may take some time. I'm not sure how many files I can open in Notepad++ at once without crashing it or my laptop. >.>

~Neshomeh

This should not work. This really should not work.

But... this is exactly how the PPC should work.

Thank you. ^_^

~Neshomeh

Hap birf, mate!

Which I guess places me squarely in the middle in terms of PPC Boarder Age-Range.

/sends Good Vibes to everyone/

That was good. It felt a little off-balance, like it could have used more on what happened to the kids, but Tom and Carl are wonderful.

"So what happened?"

"My - argh - arm almost got - ow - cut off, doc!"

"Where?"

"Skyrim!"

"Elder Scrolls healing to 24C, large dose," the doctor said into her pager.

Amount a minute later, a nurse pushed in a cart full of cheese wheels.

"Here, eat these," the doctor said to the agent.

"The hell?" replied the agent. "What's that going to," he winced, "do? Put my SHPXING arm back."

"They're healing items. Just eat them, it'll fix it."

The agent grumbled, but started eating the cheese. After a few wheels, he sighed in relief. "Well it's not hurting as much anymore," he said.

"Good," the doctor said. "I'll have someone wait around while you finish those. It should patch that big slice right up."

I've always had the impression that time travel per se is strongly discouraged in the PPC. Actual travel within HQ's timeline has occurred on occasion, but not in an approved manner (and often by accident or in extremis).

Certainly, agents travel to all sorts of different times on missions - but even there, they're not supposed to hop back on themselves. You can skip forwards in a badfic, but I don't know that I've seen anyone rewind. (I guess this would let you use a time-jump to make money, but then you'd be sporking the badfic anyway, so it wouldn't make any problems over there.) And poking around in non-badfic canon worlds is discouraged, again.

My point is, I don't think there's too many options for currency looping, at least not within the rules; and HQ has enough of a surveillance culture going on that a suddenly-rich agent would probably be caught if they'd been monkeying about with time.

That does nothing for inflation, though. If you find a fic featuring hyperinflation, yeah, you could skim a few hundred thousand and take them into another fic with non-broken economics. But if you do that in a badfic, which then gets stabbed through the heart... so what?

Jumping tracks: Crashing Down Chapter 3 features Finance doing exactly the kind of conversions you're talking about. I like to imagine that their reference files look a lot like the Booze Standard spreadsheet: horrifyingly incomplete. You can't just convert from 'Remote Activator ($US)' to 'custom siege tower ($AM)' - you have to go through six different canons and a dozen items to get there, and if you take a different route, you get a different answer. It's more of an art than a science, and more of a jigsaw puzzle than either.

Now try explaining that to the Morning Glory, who doesn't even believe she's in charge of the department at all...

hS

As seen on the Rudi's Specials menu, and derived ultimately from this spreadsheet.

I feel sure there's more distinctive currencies that could be added to the list. The magnificent Shire Post Mint produces coins for Game of Thrones, Wheel of Time, Kingkiller Chronicles, Mistborn, and others; while I know they can be prone to embellishing on their source material (see: the entire Middle-earth catalogue), I suspect it's based on something.

hS