Official : name our currency

[Spiffor]

Here is the poll regarding the name of our currency.

The Ministry of the Economy suggests :

- A bronze coin will be called "Apo" (plural "Apos"), and will be roughly worth a banana.
- An iron coin will be called "Dankos" (Plural "Dankos"), and will be worth 10 Apos.
- A gold coin will be called "Lyton" (plural "Lytons"), and will be worth 100 Dankos, i.e 1,000 Apos.

Question is : Do you accept the following names for our currency ?
Answer : Yes / No

The debate was held here : http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...threadid=58590

The poll will expire in 3 days

[GhengisFarb™]

Please, fellow citizens of Apolytonia, do not be led like the so-called sheep of foriegn lands. Why should our currency be named after a tea? Let us find SOMETHING relating to OUR culture to pattern the currency after.

Even the Banana has refused to lend it's name to this poll!

There are many possibilities from OUR culture: Eaglot, Junga, Bana, Nana, Banana Note, or Uber to name a few.

BE PROUD OF APOLOTONIA! VOTE NO TO TEA!

[Epistax]

Lyton != Lipton

[GhengisFarb™]

Originally posted by Epistax
Lyton != Lipton

Close enough!

[UnOrthOdOx]

I would have preferred our coins made of banana, to preserve our current Economic system. Leaves, Trunk, and Fruit. Not copper, iron and gold...

Name's are fine, though.

(edit) or how 'bout stem, peel, fruit....

[GhengisFarb™]

Originally posted by UnOrthOdOx
I would have preferred our coins made of banana, to preserve our current Economic system. Leaves, Trunk, and Fruit. Not copper, iron and gold...

Name's are fine, though.

(edit) or how 'bout stem, peel, fruit....

There were other suggestions, but only the tea was allowed on the poll............

[GePap]

Choose the Lyton, people! Think of all the currency names you know- almost all are 1 or 2 sylable names: Rupee, Frank, Mark, Euro, Dollar, Krone, Peso, Yen, Ruble, Lira, so forth.

There are very few 3 sylable names, like Peseta, Bolivar, Balboa, do we want somehting as uncatchy and difficualt to both say quickly and abbriviate like 'copper banana'?

We use the banana too much- its beginning to be a sign of lacking creativity!

Free us from redundant names, pay homage to our ancient founders and our great nation and name it the Lyton!

Long live Apolytonia !

[UnOrthOdOx]

I am not arguing the NAMES, basing on gold and copper is original?!?!? Why not MAKE them from the banana?

[sween32]

You are one crazy man, Ghengis. Banana la Revolución!

Personally, I'd call it a Guapo....

[civman2000]

NO! Banana should be the currency!
Levels:
Banana (symbol b, as in 5b)
Bunch (=10b) (symbol B, as in 23B, 2b which is the same as 23.2B)
Tree (=100B) (symbol T, as in 2T, 75B, 1b, which is the same as 2.751T)

[GePap]

OrthOdOx:

I think the poll is mainly about the names, so if youu are fine with it, just vote yes.
I have to continue to oppose this continued tie of our currency with bananas, whats the point if everything will ba banana based?! It gets boring people!

I like the Lyton, its a simple name. The thing is that the only other suggested names have been "Banana" or "Banana Dollar", and Guapo. I don't mid Guapo, if sween wishes to elaborate, but honestly:

ENOUGH WITH THE DAMN BANANA THING! EVERYTHING IN OUR FAIR STATE DOESN'T HAVE TO BE BASED ON IT! ITS ALREADY OUR gOd, SO GIVE IT A REST!

Vote Lyton!

[Shiber]

Fine words GePap! Down with Banana!

/me gets struck by lightning

Ok ok, people get hit by lightning all the time, it's natural.

/me gets struck by lightning again, his hair protruding in
all directions and smoke is coming out of his ear

Uhh, well, people have been hit by lightning twice before. It's still natural.

/me gets struck by lightning for a third time, starts
dancing frantically and shooting electricity all around him like a fireworks display

Gwwhhaaahabugwhaaaa...

/me falls down, smoke still coming out of his body

rose...bud...

[GhengisFarb™]

This is a direct result of that crazed lunatic trying to force EVERYONE to worship that foreign "god" the One!

Our financial system is in peril, our Minister of the Economy has been brainwashed! Fear not Apolytonians, if we defeat this foreign tea abomination we WILL be able to eat tomorrow, and many years to come. But if we allow foreign "gods" and resources to control our currency and minds, might we not starve in the future?

Think of the children, think of the kittens!

Come Apolytonians! Vote NO!

[Spiffor]

Even if I'm not as vocal as Gepap, I also think it gets boring : banana this, banana that, banana thingy. Hell, it looks like Apolytonia exhausted all its creativeness thinking the banana, and nothing else now comes out from our minds.

For instance, a "Guapo" is a good idea, and I'd have put it in the poll if it had been told in the debate thread. But everything related to the banana gets boring. It's getting too much used, and is not fun anymore IMO.

If you don't like the suggested names (in-game, we'll only talk in Lytons, because it's the kind of coins we have in our treasury), I understand, and you can vote no.
If you have other ideas, please post them in the debate thread, so that a new project can arise if this one fails. But please no more banana. It's getting utterly boring.

[Spiffor]

Now, why you should vote for the suggested project

- It's the most complete project today.
- It's a comprehensive and simple project, which will work perfectly with our optional "economy game" (see Captain's thread for details)
- The names are consistent with our Apolyton identity, without being too obvious.
- "Lyton" is a catchy name , and it's the one we'll use almost all the time (except in the economy game)
- The system is convenient, because common people won't be confused : they'll get one banana simply for 1 Apo, i.e one coin.
- We have to name our currency after all. I'd like to remind we have one for more than 200 years now...

[Shiber]

You've all gone bananas.
/me is struck by lightning again.
ENOUGH ALREADY!!

[GhengisFarb™]

Now why you shouldn't vote to WEAKEN Apolytonia:

Originally posted by Spiffor
- It's the most complete project today.

It is the LEAST complete, there have been NO prototypes OR test circulations. The Banana of Marque, while not necessarily a proposal for an Official Currency has already spread to TWO other forums OUTSIDE the Democracy Game and threatens to become the International and InterApolyton standard currency.

- It's a comprehensive and simple project, which will work perfectly with our optional "economy game" (see Captain's thread for details)

So does EVERYTHING else.

- "Lyton" is a catchy name , and it's the one we'll use almost all the time (except in the economy game)

"Lypton" is NOT a catchy name and has a foreign ominous sound to it, smacking of evil.

- The system is convenient, because common people won't be confused :

The Lipton system is NOT convenient, as no one has ever heard of a "Lipton Banana".

- We have to name our currency after all. I'd like to remind we have one for more than 200 years now...

And it should be allowed to evolve and adapt, not be jumped from an alley and murdered in the gutter by this Lyton Conspiracy.

[Spiffor]

I'd like to make a statement against obscurantism :
"Lyton" hasn't anything to do with "Lipton", or whatever barbaric names our zealots can come up with.
At the contrary, it's a name which goes along with our very Apolyton culture, and is unique to us.
Unlike bananas, which are known by the French, the Americans, and even the Persians (our benevolent Banana gave prosperity even to some inferior people, showing its greatness and glory).

Don't listen to the babbling of an old zealot who cannot understand wordly things like money ! Don't allow us to be economically backwards ! Vote Lyton now !
(or, more constructively, if you have any idea that you think is really better, please just say it in the debate thread. Thanks in advance)

[Donal Graeme]

As Future Minister of the Economy, I feel that having a good name for our currency is important. Thus, as long as no one comes up with a better name, I will vote yes.

[Spiffor]

I wonder who votes no. So far, there is a tie, and we've only seen Skywalker and GhengisFarb being explicitely opposed to the suggested names.
If you voted no, please tell so, and tell why : should this suggestion not pass, it ill help making a better one in the future.
Thanks

[Spiffor]

Also, I'd like to point out that GHengis' designs are not going to be ignorred, should Yes win. We're talking about the names of our currency here, and not the design.
I'm seriously pondering using his Bronze banana coin for the Apo coin (because of the parity : 1 Apo = 1 banana). Also, his "Eaglot" coin would be a fine drawing for the Apolytonian Iron coin. I'meagerly waiting for another quality work for the Gold coin

[rush]

Originally posted by civman2000
NO! Banana should be the currency!
Levels:
Banana (symbol b, as in 5b)
Bunch (=10b) (symbol B, as in 23B, 2b which is the same as 23.2B)
Tree (=100B) (symbol T, as in 2T, 75B, 1b, which is the same as 2.751T)

I like this ... It's "Banana Dollars" and is creative.

The vote is now a 12-12 tie. Wow ! Vote for NO.

[sween32]

So, let me get this straight. You are a jungle civilization, and your God is the Banana. First off, the word Lyton does not seem to be a phrase many jungle civs would learn to even pronounce, nor are currencies named after the country they are from. Second, no Godfearing people would pass around their God as currency.

Now, say you you use Gaupo, it could be pronounced "kwahpo". In order to name your currency, you have to think about what kind of cultures and pronounciations your people have. Or, you can take your first leader or an important founder, and put a spin on their name to make it sound more like a currency.

[Captain]

Banana is overused.

Continuing along those lines shows marked lack of creativity.

It also sounds stupid. Currency named after bananas seems transient and worthless. With banana names, I'd immediately trade it for pesos - or even Francs despite the fact we're about to crush that currency's country

[rendelnep]

well if bananas are overused why not use mangoes instead?

[HAND]

Originally posted by GhengisFarb


Close enough!

lol

[Schee]

What ??? 16-21 ???

People votes no and they don't even propose something better ! (apart from Guapo (reminds me "guano") and Bananas)

There are too much bananas in our country

I wonder if I won't set up a commando charged to destroy all bananas plantations in Apolytonia to liberate it from the growing influence of the cultivators...

[edit] in case you're wondering, I voted yes [/edit]

[GhengisFarb™]

Originally posted by Schee
What ??? 16-21 ???

People votes no and they don't even propose something better ! (apart from Guapo (reminds me "guano") and Bananas)

Did you read any of the postings? People have proposed several other suggestions including Eaglot (the second post in the thread), and that's just on this thread. There are more suggestions in the original thread.

[Schee]

Sorry, in the post where "Eaglot" is mentionned, I especially saw Bana, Nana, Banana note, Uber and I didn't think there could be a good thing in it... but anyway Eaglot isn't very imaginative

[GodKing]

Voted no because it is using the 10 decimal instead of something more original and easier to use, for example the one I proposed on the discussion thread.

I have no real preferences on the name of the units however.