Rumors abound with the new system of the EC rewarding acorns instead of power. While this will certainly make all the neighborhood squirrles exceedingly joyful, it's left the players a bit bewildered.

I offer the following conjecture:

Acorns are most likely a new form of currency, but one that is untradeable.

Power, being tradeable, is essentially the same thing as gold. When you won an EC for 4 power, you won between 36 and 40 gold.

Acorns will most likely allow you to join a tournament, but you'll have to reap the nutty reward by earning every single acorn all by your squirrely self.

The EC used to give away 7 power, and it used to cost 50 power to join a Domain or KC. If the EC now gives away 400 acorns, one must assume that the new join fee will be 2857 acorns. This could be rounded down to 2850 but will most likely be rounded up to a gigantic 3k.

Either Acorns will have such a use -or- Jed has taken to Ford Prefect's love of a currency that no one accepts (credit for this reference goes Ugly_Pug). If you don't know what is being referred to here, go take 4 hours read all 5 books of the Hitchiker's Guide trilogy..or read this except.

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Altren wrote:

I agree with Keyser, and that's what I'm planning to implement actually.

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I like your suggestion Key, but that means that Power has become completley worthless in TFW. It's main purpose is to enter tournaments (handled by both gold and acorns in theory) or be exchanged for currency (when in fact it can no longer be won).

That leaves my main question : what IS power worth in TFW now? Is is a dead currency, a waste of gold, or a mother lode for people who have it?

PS: Here's the link to the original thread with the whole acorns issue:
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2149&p=12063#p12063

Acorns weren't my suggestion. I'm only hypothesizing until Jed decides to shed light on our dark situation.

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Altren wrote:

I agree with Keyser, and that's what I'm planning to implement actually.

|| The Rise of the DCC | Plasmatium Netherious | Tastes Like Chicken | The Astridian Conspiracy ||

Guild -> | Platypus Rising|

Assumption based on the info I posses:

Power stays as a way to enter domains and so forth.
Acorns (and this is wild guess) will be used to get (phantom) cards somehow. (Or to enter an elite squirrel squad )

jed is finally (hooray!!) adding more tourneys, some with Power as Payout, some with Acorns.

Uh... I heard he's phasing out power as there's no way to gain more power outside of the market or trades and those will eventually disappear as the power is used.

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Damn, I am going to miss power....