money from nowhere?

[siria]

Not sure if this is a glitch or if I'm just missing something really obvious, but I seem to be getting money that has no origin. I had some money sitting out, ended up with a net loss in defensive battles, and came back to find out that I had more money. I'll just paste the details from the clan chat:

Siria Malbek
2 hours ago
I'm aware
The problem is that it doesn't add up (I'm presuming that 100 coppers=1 silver, so maybe that's the problem.)

For example, I logged on this morning to check my account and wrote down how much money I had sitting out: 8 silvers and 7 coppers.

Since that time, I have lost 486 coppers in defensive battles, and gained 1 silver and 20 coppers. Isn't that still a net loss of 366 coppers?

And yet, I now have 9 silvers and 14 coppers sitting out. Shouldn't I have less money than before? What am I missing here?

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The defensive battles I refer to all took place in about 4 to 5 hours. I know I took all the defensive battles into account because the oldest one in the log was from the night before (and those wins were already accounted for). The money I had in the bank did not change in this time.

Something similar happened last night, where I came back a few hours later and had more money sitting out than I should have based on defensive wins, but I didn't write down the exact amounts.

Also did not have anything in the market which might have sold.

Am I just missing something really obvious? If I am, please be gentle, because I will be feeling dumb enough as it is

[Tim]

It could be that your clan is awesome. Were you in Tar Valon during these times (or another town the WT controls if there is one)? Any member of the clan controling a city gets a small fraction of the money in the town back (from shop purchases) ever hour, so the mystery gold could have come from there.

[Jenlyn]

Oh wow, I had no idea! Well, we're gonna be a lot more aggressive in taking over towns, then!

[Tim]

Yeah, this is why I (or someone) needs to set down and update the wiki. I announce all the changes as I make them (this one was done in v1), but I do a really poor job of keeping all the game mechanics in a logical and easy to find area. It all make sense in my head and people that have been keeping up with me should know most of it, but the documentation is admittedly a shambles. Maybe I will have to step back and do it before I get too much into v3. We'll see.

In the mean time, feel free to come to me with any questions and I'll do my best to answer them.

[alSeen]

as long as its not whitebridge jenlyn

[siria]

Oh, awesome I was in Tar Valon at the time, so I'm sure that explains it

[hellsangels]

Jan 23, 2009 16:24:12 GMT -6 Tim said:

I do a really poor job of keeping all the game mechanics in a logical and easy to find area.

At least you admit it instead of just telling me to go and read something on a random thread and expecting me to know that!

[Tintomara]

Well, the wiki did mention a fincancial gain for this, but I've fleshed it out a little now, hope that makes it clearer