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[Hysteria]

That is sort of what I was getting at with the first part of my response. There is no fixed rate that I'm aware off. It might even be worth thinking of the area your character finds him or herself and try and adjust accordingly.

I know, for example, that in ancient Egypt gold was more common that silver by a fair margin. You could trade huge amounts of gold for only a small amount of silver. If we extrapolate that to Althanas you might find Fallien (as the closest thing to Egypt we have,) has a much more even transfer of silver to gold than say Corone. Likewise Alerar might view gold as less or more valuable due to the huge dwarven mines. Perhaps mithril might be considered valuable and gold a mere trinket relatively.

I agree with the second part of your post. There is a big difference between the meta-currency value and how our characters would view gold.

[Drumheller]

Well my initial thoughts were that given the way northern Salvar is described, I was thinking of having the silver to gold ratio somewhat close, given the high probability of untapped vains of both precious metals, but that unlike Mongolia gold would have the slightly higher value.

[Irate Pirate]

This probably won't help you out too much, Drum, but I'll post it here to tease everyone else.

For anybody who was having a hard time viewing the whole image because it was larger than the post (I can't be the only one) there's 2 solutions.

First:

1)Right click the image

2) Select "Copy Image Url"

3) Paste the url into a new tab

Second:

1) Right click the image

2) Click inspect element.

3) In your browsers console add the following property to the <img> tag. style="width:100%".

[Rayse Valentino]

Or... right click -> view image...

Not that I agree with that map anyway. Rough estimate? Sure. Proportions? Way off.

[Cards of Fate]

I find it hard to argue the proportions of what seems to be an official map.

[Zook Murnig]

He's right, the proportions are messed up.

[Irate Pirate]

Isn't that map horribly out of date Zook?

[Zook Murnig]

Yes, and that's why I'm not saying anything else is wrong, but the proportions are seriously messed up. In the new version, every region (aside from Scara Brae) is approximately the same size. Also, the map I posted is, to my knowledge, the most recent official map before the one Dirks posted (which is at least a year or two old itself).

[Hysteria]

The map isn't supposed to be re-creating the old one, it's a new map. There was a lot of conversation about how the last map was wrong as well.

[Cards of Fate]

Im just saying, when the content admin posts a map "teasing" us, chances are it's the map stoph and Lye have been working on forever. IE canon or a newly instated canon that gives no bothers anout previous proportions.