Marks shop

[Spiffy]

Kay guys, I'm gonna add a marks exchange thing in here soon.

I've added in the karma ---> marks code. You get one mark per post, 50 marks for a karma point. I did it like this because I noticed that people hardly ever give karma points out, so I thought it should be fairly high. Does anyone thing it should be lower? higher?

Also, what kinda things would you like in the shop? I'd like to keep this fairly cannon, so I don't particularly want a purple-eyed blue-haired rider on a three-headed four-winged eight-legged dragon who rides rainbows and poops sparkles. I was thinking more like extra flitter eggs of various ranks, HAD/HAF/HAW(+HAB??? I pity the person who's privy to their thoughts) and characters with especially distressing pasts (mostly rape and that kinda stuff). Something like the list here but obviously not an exact copy.

Also, does everyone think that for the conversion of Marks (what they're worth in the books themselves) into RP Marks (when we're using them here), 1:100 is a fair ratio? This just makes it easier on me, since most transactions on Pern are done with fractions of marks, and the karma hack code only works in whole numbers xD

EDIT: I did a bit of snooping around the internet just now and (somehow) worked out, through a combination of sites, that 1 mark is approximately $323.00 (£215.00) today. Not being funny, but if on Pern you can buy "a plain or a child's frock from the Weavercraft" or "sixteen small (1-pound) loaves of bread from the Bakercraft" for 1 mark, that's $20 (£13) for one loaf!

I think that's a bit extortionate, don't you?

[Jester]

I'm up for all the marks, though i don't know what you mean by book marks into RP marks. We can also have it so at the end of each month there is a gather so you can by certain things that you want for your character, like special things fancy stuff for them.

And holy cow on how much marks are! O.o

[Spiffy]

Sorry for the confusion, I hope my edit makes it clearer:

Also, does everyone think that for the conversion of Marks (what they're worth in the books themselves) into RP Marks (when we're using them here), 1:100 is a fair ratio? This just makes it easier on me, since most transactions on Pern are done with fractions of marks, and the karma hack code only works in whole numbers xD

[Dragon Song]

DS approves of this.

And apparently can say nothing of any use. Well, not much new there.

Maybe they're very rich people. Or maybe someone just can't count. DS would say she thinks it's the latter but then she would be a total hypocrite.

[Spiffy]

I knew a Mark was worth a lot, but I didn't expect quite that much xD

I'd hate to be poor on Pern >.<