What are some good names for space money other than credits?

In company towns owned by less moral corps, instead of proper currency you'd probably get paid in corporate funbux or raw commodities or something.

Marklar

ducats
doubledollars
dollarydoos

Australian dollars. The setting doesn't need Australia, or dollars.

>then physical goods and precious metals might come back into play just because digital currency is impossible, unreliable, or worthless.

Too unreliable from region to region.
Let's say we use gold (just for the sake of argument, yes other metals would probably be better if we looked into it).
What happens when Gold is rare on Earth but Planet X has 4 solid gold moons. Are you really expecting people to lug their weight in gold around to buy a sandwich because local inflation demands it? Or buy a ship capable of transporting 500lbs of gold, wasting fuel on every takeoff??

we'll probably use a multi-currency system similar to what we use now. Standard credit system will do most of your heavy lifting and serve you from region to region. But black market and under developed regions will heavily deal in barter and physical local currency for untraceable transactions. Barter will largely be food, medicine, and fuel.

yen

Space Cash!

Woolongs

Rites
noun, slang. Shortened form of Meteorites, used to refer to coins made of pressed meteoric metals.

>What are some good names for space money other than credits?

Starbucks.

That's actually why I used platinum as an example.
Most of our current knowledge predicts that platinum is significantly more common in our asteroid belt then gold is on Earth, and many asteroids have significant numbers of the shit and the conditions needed for it I guess are fairly common (in a cosmic sense) out there, more so then down here.

But that is indeed still a problem as you say because not all worlds will have an asteroid belt (in fact just due to size quite a few will not), and thus platinum will not always be minable in various planetary regions.

Flurbos

In my spess it really depends.

Some places don't use money all, just goods because money is a middle man to getting what you need.

But valuable metals, like gold are often used as the a currency that works in most places in the universe.

So yeah, gold.

chips

>Money Units or MU (pronounced Myou)
Using the μ as the symbol.

It's the Galactic Standard Currency Unit, an abstract measure of wealth that exists mainly in digital form, though paper banknotes are still printed by some governments. Usually shortened to "Galactic Standard" or just "Standard."

Debris

Carats

SUCC, or Standard Universal Currency Credit

1 corporation or several?

If using several make each company have it's own currency. Like they did in the depression era in the usa. People would pay out their employees with their own currency and then they basically had to spend it on site.

So players working a job for WeylandYutani would make a ₩¥ or whatever you want to call it. Only works on their planets. Bonus points in that it gives you huge control over the economy as well. Only works if you don't have a huge amount of corps. though or to many currencies bs

Platinum was also deemed worthless until the modern period (one of the big things D&D got wrong since 0E days). It's had a lot of fluctuation over the centuries.

beans

Brouzoufs

Currents-From the word currency, short term 'rents' or 'currs'

One I remember seeing on Veeky Forums that I really liked was SWAFF, which stood for slaves, water, air, food, and fuel.
Slaves removed from trade of course depending on the region and their laws/views on the subject when dealing with reputable businesses.

The way my GM always handles this, and which I really love, is that whenever his settings have something that fills the same niche as something the players know (transportation, money, whatever) he always tries to name it after something we all know already, but then make up a lot of fun bs about why it's called that.

So instead of
>You get 10 000 floznarbs. -What's a floznarb? Oh, it's money. -ok, so we get 10 000 money.

He'll go
>you get ten thousand moneyz"
And then when you ask him
>why the fuck the currency of a high-fantasy kingdom is called moneyz?
he'll go into a long rant about the background of the ancient kingdom that first used the standard silver coin, and how they all had the face of King Moni on them, and came to be called Monis, which over time got corrupted into Moneyz, because northerners always butcher pronounciation and they're the ones who conquered the continent.

So every time we start a game and he goes, "You see a Hors" everyone starts grinning and knows that, okay, it's going to be something that you ride, but it might not have anything to do with horses, maybe Hors is just the sound it makes, or the name of the color it has in the language of the people who breed them.

Bottom line is, nobody ever forgets what something is called, but it always helps with immersion anyway because we all enjoy hearing about how it fits in with the setting.

So next time you're worldbuilding, don't get hung up with having unique names for everything if it's just going to be the same old thing, the same old name for something that's fun to learn about is way better.

Debts

I like this idea

Didn't they dump a shipful of it into the ocean just that it couldn't be used to make cold coin forgeries?

>TFW the ghost of sir Terry Pratchett is posting on Veeky Forums

clearly the best name for space money is dollarydoos

>When your boss gives you the SUCC

>
This guy said it bretty well

In my Space Western Opera, the federally controlled planets all offer non-transferable currency in the form of time-cards.

The whole time = money schtich has really interested me for ages, so I just went ahead and wrote it into my setting. It works really well, conceptually, but boy am I having a difficult time making payments sound enticing for my players.

Energy Units (EU) or energy unit fractions for sci fi.

Gobliaks for fantasy.

>DollaryDoos, the combined currency brought into circulation in 3006, of the spanish-speaking Pan-American union, the Dollar, and that of their Alien allies, the Do-o Empire.

cublars

>eu

Space Bucks
Erz
Minerals
Fleurodum
Slaves

Underrated post

Joules

10/10 naughty boi

O/B/A/F/G/K/M Sunpower

Fold.

Old ass slang term for money, "folding money", and it sounds vaguely sci-fi

It's a trick question! There won't be space money because humans will Never colonise the galaxy.

It will be colonised by your betters: Perfect Immortal Machines.

>ctrl+f
>portions
>no results
>mfw

perfection is for tools

but thats not money thats food

>implying there's any significant difference

Mine are just called 'Chips', because all the most reliable banks are casinos.

It's not actually sci fi though, so its kind of cheating.

OP said space money referring to currency as in cash whereas they were given food as incentive to work cause they were living on a barren desert planet

And here I thought traditional games was an inherently creative hobby.

>not using space bucks
youtube.com/watch?v=FPZ4yah3ROU

so is that your way of admitting you're wrong?

Yes it is

If you can't imagine a scenario where space money could be called portions and/or backed by food supplies then I'm afraid you may have actual, literal, not the Veeky Forums insult but the actual condition, autism.

Black Matter per Magnacontainer.

pic related

just stop playing warframe. ...

Space oil.

Sha na na na get a job

Yeah sure portions could be a term for money but you/they used this pic referring to portions as in the force awakens which is food, not money.
>hurr autism

you just mad you've been bamboozled. But you tried

Grappels

...

After all, anything can be bought and sold for it.

again. Mad cause you're wrong

Cows.

Star Bucks

Also known as the Stellar Dollar.

dime
coin
dyna
chits
dosh
cents
zen or zenny
leaf or leaves
bsg (bee-si-g or bronze/silver/gold)
rock
paper
scissors (underground word for loose chage or full of coins)

any of these

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c'mon bro that just refers to yourself. Its all there in the chat baby.

Pepes, their value increases by rarity

Jabronis
Cyberyuan
Spacedollars
Electrosparkles
Datacash
Futurmoney

On one world my players ended up on in our Dark Heresy campaign the money was called "Floor-Its". It was originally the high-gothic word "Florins" but due to backwater world and 400 years of warp storm BigFuckOffius cutting them off from the rest of the imperium the language got a bit colorful.

Jewgoldz

Why is "dollars" a problem? You can make it clear they're space dollars, not US dollars.

Not him but I think he's right and you have literal autism

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I'm not either of those guys arguing, and I'm also not you. But having a CASH as a direct equivalence to food has no verisimilitude. It completely undoes the very real, distinct, and largely insurmountable differences between, necessities, commodities, and cash.

If the currency system was in any way directly linked to food, there would be no trade growth. You would have a subsistence economy with no means of speculating. Which is fine if you are making a space opera blockbuster for 8 year olds and manchilds who never grew up. But which gives little room to manoeuvre within a living world of an RPG.

nope
again this

>NU UH! NU UH! YOU ARE! YOU'RE WRONG! YOU! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Space Shekkels

Space credits

who's reeing user? I made my point and now instead of saying "well thats correct in that context" I'm getting "AUTISM AUTISM YOU TRIED YOU TRIED"

mils, bils, trils, or zils...
abbreviation for million, billion, trillion, zillion (galactic credits or whatever) - but they only abbreviated the prefix and not the unit.

Upvotes.

Debits.

I like the idea of a species of intergalactic space worms called The Djoog, who are also exceptional bankers and run the interplanetary financial systems. They issue, and hoard, a currency known as Djoog Gold.

Wing Wangs.

Made me smile

Flurbos

>good names
>other than credits
>implying credits isn't a terrible name that will get you hunted down by packs of rabid economists

If your setting has special starship fuel, call the space money "drops" and tie it to a fuel standard.