"Well, if using gold means that all the prices tend to go up just a tad every season, instead of downward, don't be in a rush to change your use of gold as money without a lot of careful debate first.  If everything else is the same, which it could very well not be, you might be doing better than Civilization in at least that one exact way."

"...though I'm not sure how you'd get that result out of mining a metal, whose value is implicitly going down a bit every year under that equilibrium, which should induce less mining of it, but, I am not expecting anyone in the classroom to know an answer to that... actually, I bet it has to do with Asmodeus's Church taking control of Cheliax, that probably brought in a moving-to-a-new-equilibrium-surge of new investments from outside the country and those were probably done in gold?  Anyways."

"Well, if using gold means that all the prices tend to go up just a tad every season, instead of downward, don't be in a rush to change your use of gold as money without a lot of careful debate first.  If everything else is the same, which it could very well not be, you might be doing better than Civilization in at least that one exact way."

"...though I'm not sure how you'd get that result out of mining a metal, whose value is implicitly going down a bit every year under that equilibrium, which should induce less mining of it, but, I am not expecting anyone in the classroom to know an answer to that... actually, I bet it has to do with Asmodeus's Church taking control of Cheliax, that probably brought in a moving-to-a-new-equilibrium-surge of new investments from outside the country and those were probably done in gold?"

"Anyways."

"Well, if using gold means that all the prices tend to go up just a tad every season, instead of downward, don't be in a rush to change your use of gold as money without a lot of careful debate first.  If everything else is the same, which it could very well not be, you might be doing better than Civilization in at least that one exact way."

"...though I'm not sure how you'd get that result out of mining a metal, whose value is implicitly going down a bit every year under that equilibrium, which should induce less mining of it.  But, I am not expecting anyone in the classroom to know an answer to that... actually, I bet it has to do with Asmodeus's Church taking control of Cheliax, that probably brought in a moving-to-a-new-equilibrium-surge of new investments from outside the country and those were probably done in gold?"

"Anyways."

"Well, if using gold means that all the prices tend to go up just a tad every season, instead of downward, don't be in a rush to change your use of gold as money without a lot of careful debate first.  If everything else is the same, which it could very well not be, you might be doing better than Civilization in at least that one exact way."

"...though I'm not sure how you'd get that result out of mining a metal, whose value is implicitly going down a bit every year under that equilibrium, which should induce less mining of it.  But, I am not expecting anyone in the classroom to know an answer to that... actually, I bet it has to do with Asmodeus's Church taking control of Cheliax, that probably brought in a moving-to-a-new-equilibrium-surge of new investments from outside the country and those were probably done in gold?  In which case maybe you'd need to get away from that gold business in another decade or prices might start going down again."

"Anyways."

"Well, if using gold means that all the prices tend to go up just a tad every season, instead of downward, don't be in a rush to change your use of gold as money without a lot of careful debate first.  If everything else is the same, which it could very well not be, you might be doing better than Civilization in at least that one exact way."

"...though I'm not sure how you'd get that result out of mining a metal, whose value is implicitly going down a bit every year under that equilibrium, which should induce less mining of it.  But, I am not expecting anyone in the classroom to know an answer to that... actually, I bet it has to do with Asmodeus's Church taking control of Cheliax, that probably brought in a moving-to-a-new-equilibrium-surge of new investments from outside the country and those were probably done in gold?  In which case maybe you'd need to get away from gold-based pricing in another decade, or prices might start going down again."

"Anyways."