Mar 6
Introduce a Settlement Credit feature
Currently, the vanilla economy does not function without server-created currencies, but those are against the design philosophy of the game.There is an obvious middle ground here that would simultaneously allow functioning economies and a bigger draw towards settlements, while leaving the core design of player-created currencies intact: Settlement Credits.The concept is simple: Add an automatically created 'Credit', just like personal credits, for each settlement when it is founded. Each settlement already has a treasury. It would simply always have infinite of its credit, just like a player. Nothing else is needed to make this function. It is simply a new tool. How players use this settlement credit is entirely up to them.Experience from multiple vanilla server runs has shown that this is exactly what players need for a server to function well, and adding this will completely overhaul the vanilla experience.
Pending
I agree. The most successful towns are usually the ones where everyone is able to "get behind" one player's credit early on. Making an automatic town currency just makes that much easier. My only fear would be that it disincentivizes the eventual minting of a true currency. Why go through the effort of producing a mint (especially if you are located far from the jungle and getting gold is difficult) when the settlement credit already does the job for free?