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Silts Realistic Gold Price (0.18 & 0.19)

To be hostest, since Tynan updated the gold price in B19, I don't use this mod anymore. Now the vanilla gold prices are fine in my opinion.

The only problem with this, is that if you plan to do a peacefull colony, you can't have any gold, because it increases your base' value so much, that even in lower difficulties, you'll get massacred by raids :/

O well thats a shame, I see what you mean too and thanks for sharing your work. :)

I tried to use real-world gold prices, but that would make not make that much sense. The commonality of Gold relative to Silver is much higher on RimWorld than on Earth, so it can't be that much more valuable as I stated in an earlier comment.
I also have to make the price static, I am currently unable to make any fluctuations. sry

Have you ever thought about if you could use real world prices as a base? your mod could update the price from something like metaquotes data and change in game, it would bring a living economy feeling, you could buy and sell and become a gold merchant and whenever some crazy dictator tests a new missile or something you would get that ripple through rimworld too lol that would be cool :)

I really like this mod it makes gold actually worth selling and also harder to get when you want it back. Good balance.

As I wrote in the title, it works for both versions. And it does not change the value of things out of gold. It is also 100% save compatible

Havent tried it yet as im working on wrapping up a b18 game before i move up. I was only checking out the mods to peak my interest. Does your mod only raise the price of raw gold or does it also raise the value of things made from the gold? It would mitigate the value of statues made from it if it didnt raise the value of things made from it.

Thanks for the feedback!
Have you played with this mod? I find that this is making gold really expensive, I doubt many would want gold to be even more valueable.
It also seems that I made it more valueable than it should be: Silver is 3.3 (2.3 in B19) times as common as gold (in nature) when multiplying the average cluster size with the commonality and the yield .

realisticly the price of gold and silver depends on planetary region. Real life example would be Europe and Asia for most of human history. Europe was more abundant in silver and Asia was more abundant in gold. Both were still rare but it made silver almost worthless in Europe and was used in jewelery for middle class while gold was for nobility, and vice versa in Asia. Taking that into account most maps on a rimworld seem to have more silver than gold which would make the price of gold higher than it currently is.