It is a great mod, although I understand the mechanics of having a currency for trading in the game, I always imagined my character walking with a giant bag of coins at his side...
While people prefer gold instead of septims because they don't want to loot septims in dwemer ruins these coins are actually septims because of their visuals. Users may loot gold in dwemer ruins indeed but they will still loot coins with emperor face and Empire slogan. I personally don't understand how septims are not acceptable for people but such visuals are.
You can name this currency as crowns or credits or gamerictuses (wtf, this word doesn't exist at all) but they are still septims if not retextured to remove Empire-related details.
Would be pretty cool if someone made a mod that just straight up removed gold from places it shouldn't be. and if there is a lore-accurate replacement, then they should be replaced with some sort of different currency. For example, The dwemer had their own coins, which can be seen in Morrowind:
https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Dwemer_Coin
Not sure what they're made of, but maybe you could melt them down for dwemer ingots?
I suppose the soft way like converting every currency to septims automatically is rather acceptable in the case of replacement. There is a similar system in both Pillars of Eternity games, there is a ton of different coins turning into the base copper currency. This is fine imo, too deep immersion makes no sense as well.
Would be pretty cool if someone made a mod that just straight up removed gold from places it shouldn't be.
I'm grinning like a little s*** at this. Not in the first module I'm about to release, but when it reaches places and factions where Septims shouldn't be, Faction Specific Loot will be removing them.
I prefer Septims to gold, myself, so I've always told myself that they went with gold because of the civil war. It makes sense that merchants would resort to using a neutral term to continue trading with both sides of the conflict, and the average individual will always reort to using whatever verbage the merchants are using.
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You can name this currency as crowns or credits or gamerictuses (wtf, this word doesn't exist at all) but they are still septims if not retextured to remove Empire-related details.
Based.
https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Dwemer_Coin
Not sure what they're made of, but maybe you could melt them down for dwemer ingots?
The C.O.I.N. mod is perfect for me.
rename Gold to Septims => can't agree, prefer the contrary, rename Septims to Gold(coins). So I can't use it, too bad.