« Dollars de la RNC » : différence entre les versions

Durant le [[Guerre de la Confrérie|conflit l'opposant à Lost Hills]], la RNC perdit une grande partie de sa réserve d'or après les incessants raids menés par la Confrérie, au point où il était impossible de frapper les pièces. Les citoyens, paniqués, se précipitèrent dans ce qui restait des réserves pour réclamer la valeur faciale de leur bien. La RNC étant incapable d’honorer ses dettes, la confiance en cette monnaie a fortement chuté. Pour se protéger d'un éventuel effondrement économique, la RNC abandonna l'étalon-or et établit une {{Wikipédia|monnaie fiduciaire}}, sans remise en espèce.<ref name="Sawyer1">"And this is discussed in-game: BoS raided NCR's gold reserves until NCR could no longer generate gold coinage nor back their paper money. They abandoned the gold standard and established fiat currency, which is why its value is inflated over both caps and (especially) Legion coinage. (...) People in eastern NCR and the Mojave Wasteland lost faith in the NCR government's a) ability to back the listed value of paper money and b) stability overall. If you're living in Bakersfield, staring at a piece of paper that says "redeemable for value in gold" and you have no faith in the government's ability or willingness to do that -- or if you see that the government has changed the currency to say that it is not able to be exchanged for a backed good -- you may very well listen to the strong consortium of local merchants offering to exchange that paper note for currency backed by water." --[[J.E. Sawyer]], [http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3439576&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=200#post403021522 src]</ref> Depuis, le manque de soutien du gouvernement et l'inflation inévitable découragèrent de nombreux citoyens à utiliser le dollars de la RNC.<ref name="sawyer2">"Traders from the Mojave travel the Short Loop into NCR, which means that they have to go through a few hundred miles of solid desert. Carrying enough water to travel from New Vegas to the Boneyard (or vice versa) would undercut cargo capacity significantly. Even the communities around the Mojave Wasteland (other than New Vegas itself) have water brought in and stored in local towers. Of course, the Colorado River is nearby as long as you don't mind walking through an active war zone." --[[J.E. Sawyer]], [http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3439576&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=199#post403012795 src]</ref> En réponse à ce découragement, un consortium de marchands du [[Centre]] ré-introduisit la capsule comme monnaie, étalonnée à partir de l'eau (c'est-à-dire que la capsule peut être échangée selon une certaine quantité d'eau étalon).<ref>"'''How does the Hub 'back' caps? Can you exchange a certain number of caps for a standard measure of water?''' Yes." [[J.E. Sawyer]], [http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3439576&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=200#post403056498 src]</ref><ref name="THEWAR">"It happened during the BoS-NCR war. I believe Alice McLafferty mentions it, but I'm not positive. She doesn't detail the events in this much detail, but here they are: The attacks caused NCR citizens (and others who held NCR currency) to panic, resulting in a rush to reclaim the listed face value of currency from NCR's gold reserves. Inability to do this at several locations (especially near the periphery of NCR territory where reserves were normally low) caused a loss of faith in NCR's ability to back their currency. Though NCR eventually stopped the BoS attacks, they decided to protect against future problems by switching to fiat currency. While this meant that BoS could no longer attack a) reserves or b) the source of production (all NCR bills are made in the Boneyard), some people felt more uneasy about their money not having any "real" (backed) value. This loss of confidence increased with NCR inflation, an ever-looming spectre of fiat currency. Because the Hub links NCR with the Mojave Wasteland and beyond, the merchants there grew frustrated with NCR's handling of the currency crisis. They conspired to re-introduce the bottle cap as a water-backed currency that could "bridge the gap" between NCR and Legion territory. In the time leading up to the re-introduction, they did the footwork to position themselves properly. If some old-timer had a chest full of caps, they didn't care (in fact, they thought that was great, since the old-timers would enthusiastically embrace the return of the cap), but they did seek to control or destroy production facilities and truly large volumes of caps (e.g. [[Typhon's treasure]]) whenever possible." --[[J.E. Sawyer]], [http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3439576&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=200#post403063793 src]</ref>