If you are looking at your PED balance, how do you see it?
1: As ingame gold coins
2: As US Dollars
3: I convert to own currency
4: No vote
This poll has been set up with great curiousity, thanks for voting!
I see peds as peds, however I sort of draft it to my own currency 
I see it as PED’s as well, like 1.5k peds for some fancy shoes is ok,
150 USD for ingame clothes is not :scratch2:
The whole concept of money tend to fade a bit for me when it’s converted to points/coins
I voted “No Vote”. I look at it as both in game coins and as USD. It all depends on what I am looking at it for. If Im at the tt buying ammo or mining supplies its just PED. When I am looking at a higher priced item of more than several hundred PED then I tend to start looking at it as USD. Thats just my approach to the game as I cant see spending too much on a “game” much less a big gamble like buying a high end mining amp or other such item. I definitely look at (L) guns and finders that are geared toward my levels now as USD as they are getting more expensive as I progress. They get hard to justify in my mind.
I tend to convert it my $ in my head from USD, but often I just see PED as I don’t plan on ever withdrawing.
However when I first read the title I was thinking that after most of my hunts, serious or not, I’d prefer to look at it through the bottom of a beer bottle
Gold?? What planet are you from?? :laugh: Actually I see it as PED… Usually because $5.00 - $10.00 USD sounds a bit lame…
I voted gold coins, but i see this point as well… In reality, it’s more like both…
I tend to play with a monthly entertainment budget in mind…if i just deposited and am losing alot, then the dollar figure tends to stick out…
if i’m doing ok, and able to keep pace with my budget, then i’m more easily able to treat the ped as play money…
my larger purchases are usually paid for with paints and textures i’ve set aside as a “savings”… so by that time, it’s definitely play money…
I voted ‘no vote’ because I see it as a number of concept, representing time and activities one can do with this item that seems to mean a lot to other people.
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I’m thinking that considering PEDs as real money (USD or any other currency) causes a majority of those whining posts. It should be obvious that depositing money actually means buying some leisure time in some way. It’s like renting a DVD. It costs something, you have fun and entertainment for about two hours, but the money is gone.
If somebody deposits money that he/she would actually need IRL, that’s a bad thing to do. Likewise, the outcome of eagerly trying to profit is a decent number of headaches and nightmares.
A HoF or ATH of course may be something different, especially if the number turns out to be large. It depends on ones personality and RL situation as what “large” would mean. Under those circumstances I’d immediately try to come up with how much it would be in Euros.
Unless somebody thinks about withdrawing PEDs, PEDs should remain PEDs.