Currency Configuration

[clintbellanger]

Right now the engine uses the term "gold" in many places. Obviously we prefer the engine to be genre-neutral. I think we should replace all the internal variable names from "gold" to "currency".

We'll also add several currency-based config options in a new engine/currency.txt

Things to put in this config file:

• The name of the currency. For fantasycore this will be "gold", but e.g. other games might use "silver" or "Yen" or "Credits".
• The default vendor buy price percentage. Default 20, which means the vendors will buy items for 20% of their base price. (NOTE: this may make more sense in a vendor config file)

Additionally, we want to remove the hardcoded gold loot animations and replace them with configurable options. Probably in engine/loot.txt

• The loot art for currency drops by range. Ideally, allow an arbitrary number of ranged and associated graphics. Currently we use one animation for 0-9 gold, another for 10-24, and another for 25+. See here:

https://github.com/clintbellanger/flare/blob/master/src/LootManager.cpp#L571

[makrohn]

I know we already do use reward_currency in npc dialogs.

I feel like engine/ is also starting to really proliferate. Instead of engine/currency.txt and the existing engine/loot.txt and engine/autopickup.txt, since all are "loot" related, can we get those into just engine/loot.txt?

[clintbellanger]

I'm fine with all that being in loot.txt