What's kerbal money called?

[Whirligig Girl]

How about "stable", because it is? lol

I wonder, what backs it? Mystery Goo? lol

Yeah, it definitely can't be anything based on Pesos because Pesos are not even a teeeeeeny tiiiiiny bit stable.

[Hellbrand]

Why not Spesos Like Space-ohs!!

[FlyingPete]

Space-Os sound more like something Kerbals eat for breakfast

[The Jedi Master]

I call them Kerbits. It has a little K syndrome, but not as much as Kollars, Kesos, etc.

[percyPrune]

I thought Squad were being very clever by making the symbol a 'root' sign, signifying "money is the root of all evil"?

[Guest Fyre Flare]

I call them Kerbal Marks. Just to keep It simple.

[michaelsteele3]

Some people call them spesos, as a play on "pesos" because Squad is in Mexico City and "space." Pretty good, but I just use funds.

Well, they speak backwards spanish (At least, that's what the wiki says )

So maybe sosep? That's sounds familiar...

[Ghostexx7]

Well, they speak backwards spanish (At least, that's what the wiki says )

So maybe sosep? That's sounds familiar...

you made me search all the KSP official videos again.

[Dire_Squid]

I always called their money "Funds" and kept it at that.

Steve Kerman: How much for a Kot Dog?

Sherman Kerman: 5 Funds.

Steve Kerman: I'll take it... what about green mustard?

Sherman Kerman: That costs extra Funds.

Steve Kerman: Awwwwww.

[FlyingPete]

Since the entire Kerbal culture seems to revolve around going to space, the currency could be named after astronomical bodies. There could be some number of Minmuses (Minmi?) to a Mun, several Muns to a Kerbin etc.

[JKerman]

Virtual Funds (VF)

[MisterKerman]

Always called them roots because of the symbol that represents your amount of funds.

 

Also this was necro'd from 4 years ago.

[Deddly]

3 hours ago, MisterKerman said:

Also this was necro'd from 4 years ago.

Don't think the currency name has changed since 0.24, so it's cool.

 

And I call them "funds", since that's what they are actually called. But I do enjoy it when people colloquially refer to them as "Kerbucks" etc.

[Curveball Anders]

I still prefer Kesos

[SkyKaptn]

Krowns no doubt

[JoeNapalm]

I just assumed they were "Kerbucks"...

-Jn-

[swjr-swis]

Maybe 'Billcoins' is appropriate, in honour of the (not-so-anonymous?) kerbal geek that redirected every spare cycle of the KSC mainframe into blockchain code to fund the space program.

[Deddly]

6 minutes ago, swjr-swis said:

...'Billcoins'...

This is by far the best suggestion ever.

[JoeNapalm]

2 hours ago, swjr-swis said:

Maybe 'Billcoins' is appropriate, in honour of the (not-so-anonymous?) kerbal geek that redirected every spare cycle of the KSC mainframe into blockchain code to fund the space program.

Wouldn't that just be "bills"?

 

-Jn-

[Zaphod12]

Maybe Krubles or Kollars... (Depends if Kerbals are communist or capitalist)

Edited July 11, 2018 by Zaphod12

[FinalFan]

Spesos and bills (short for billcoins) are fantastic suggestions.  

I myself, on the occasions when I think about it, imagine them to be credits ... but measured in kilocredits.  

[swjr-swis]

9 minutes ago, JoeNapalm said:

Wouldn't that just be "bills"?

It could've been, but it ended up being a highly contested choice between "Bills" and "Coins", and they put it to a vote, splitting the KSC right through the middle on the issue:

• Half of them (everyone in the Administration Building, Mission Control, R&D, and the Runway personnel) felt Bills was the obvious choice - rectangular and flat, administratively neat, efficient storing.
• The other half (Launchpad personnel, Tracking Station, VAB, SPH and Tower) felt that it absolutely needed to be Coins - stackable, rounded, more payload, and flippable to decide who gets to test the next contraption.

The vote ended in a deadlock, so to keep the peace it was decided to join the two in the name.

[Athen]

I always thought they were Kerbucks.

[Kerbinchaser]

"funds" is no fun. I like kredits or kerb-kash. 

[RealKerbal3x]

1 hour ago, Athen said:

I always thought they were Kerbucks.

Yup, the official name is Funds but I think of them as kerbucks.