On the same chart, the income for a king in peacetime was 30,000 gp.Jay_H wrote:Oh yeah, that's the plan. Starting gold sums would be based on single digits -- the human enemies in Privateer's Hold would probably have between 5 and 10 gold on them. Iron equipment would sell between 1 (boots, dagger) and 6 gold (daikatana, cuirass) per piece. Rank 1 Fighter's Guild quests would offer like 40 gold. A horse would cost... maybe 300? Houses would start at several thousands, and large houses would cost several tens of thousands. And the value scaling in vanilla would have to be drastically reduced; Daedric can no longer be 128x the price of Steel. Gems would cost around 400, so they would be exorbitant by comparison only. (And unless you have a brilliant Mercantile and Personality, you probably won't be able to sell it for above 100...). I'm just bringing numbers off the top of my head, so I don't expect them to be balanced yet.
This introduces the need for rank-exclusive guild quests, which is another idea I've had.
On a side note, if you divide the indicated wealth by level for PCs at 20th level in three and a half, you get a number around 40,000 gp. PCs are rarely involved in peaceful pursuits...
At level one in said RPG, you get an adjusted about [10, 20] gp per roughly-equivalent enemy killed. The rates for hiring someone in the equipment section are pretty much accurate. With an average professional skill at being a mercenary in the same game, you'd get about 1 gp/day, barring combat. Can't recall how accurate, but it sounds right to what I remember of what I've looked up.
So if you want realistic, you might want to add sp and cp; the rates for those generally hovered around 20 sp to gp and 12 cp to sp (and 240 cp to gp). Doing some math on an Int64 and you don't need separate values. And it'd be a good idea, I think, to store large values like that in an Int64 anyway, because why not?
And remember that buying full plate armour and a heavy war horse was the equivalent of buying a tank...And the plate armour would be most of the price. So while a ship would be expensive; you're looking at 500 gp+, not tens of thousands.