[3.62 stable] strange trading economy... or magic beans

[ethan]

[Wintermute]

A juniper bow is worth about 34 torches vs a full bag of peas being worth about 58 torches.

[JP_Finn]

Also, if none of your items are close for the trade value, they’ll suggest the lowest value item, even if it were twice the worth.

[Brygun]

<Insert Aliens guy with poof hair pic>

"Barter"


Seriously though... the idea of stable fixed prices is a more modern thing. Even into the early days of North American colonization one farmer might be asked to pay 4 eggs for something and someone else 8 eggs for the same thing. There are tales that the Quakers, who regularly meet together, discovered this and pushed for standard prices to be posted and adhered too.