[Opensim-users] Money Modules

[David Saunders]

Interesting idea to allow users to use different currencies. But, it become
 a headache for sellers, 'which one can should we choose' a unified
currency is need on a grid to sustain a economy, or eventually one currency
will rule over all.

Now on the back end,  tracking multiple currencies is not that hard to do
just a nightmare for the bottom line.
But still, changes have to made all over the place including in clients and
servers. The prices has to to be displayed with currency in each place.   I
seen other worlds(not based on SL) who done it and its a nightmare to
handle. But they usually use a conversion matrix for it, where  1DN$ =
12.3WooWoo = 50US$. And the client can pay any of the prices.  This is
popular with payed services where it base on cash and they sell tokens for
special things or general use.

Personally, I would trust a web browser more then a grid client to real
world currencies.

But, you can write a region module that can interface with a hud as mention
by another comment.  That would  cache the price of the  object for sell
and translate to different currencies.  It still be complicated, because
some currencies require you to go though a web based api with a browser
feed back to confirm the transaction before it can go though.

 One of the the reason we dropped our currency provider for our grid was
you had to confirm trans actions or set up a wallet with money in it.

Money, You cant play with it, For allot of people its real no matter how
fake it is.


On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 8:27 PM, David Lloyd <lloy0076 at adam.com.au> wrote:

>
> From what I can tell there can only be a *single* money module setup in
> OpenSim.ini and the various browsers, e.g. Singularity, the official SL
> browser, only allow the purchase of one type of money.
>
> Is this true?
>
> My use case might be:
>
>
>    - User (i.e. avatar) wants to buy “money” from Linden Exchange and say
>    Vorwox *without* having to leave the simulator client;
>    - User clicks on the *“*buy money” icon (or uses a key quick command)
>    and is presented with not just one quote but something that indicates - say
>    - that buying “100 money from the Lindex is $5USD and from Vorwox is $4USD”
>
>
> Then the user could choose to select which one to purchase from, probably
> decided by lowest price (at least that’s what I’d do :P).
>
>
> DSL
>
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