Oct 30
Let stores operate in credit + currency
I feel we could do a lot more with offering contracts if our stores could deal with a set currency + our own personal credit, that way we could basically offer store credit for players who do not have cash (e.g. the early game especially). It should only be our personal credit, but it would let us offer a bit more variety in how people get to pay for things without having to take a hard-line stance of using currency or credit.
This would ease the transition from credit to proper currency and saves us duplicating our storefronts to offer a credit store adjacent to the normal one.
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Thanks for your suggestion! Unfortunately adding the ability for a store to run on more than one currency would require intensive code work and create technical debt and UI / UX problems that we consider to not be in balance with the benefit offered for that tax, given this problem can easily be solved by simply using two different stores set to different currencies with access to the same stockpiles. As such we unfortunately have no plans to introduce this to Eco, sorry!