Sounds like they were operating as a kind of central bank using a gold standard and somebody ran away with part of the gold? If so then I at least vaguely under

Sounds like they were operating as a kind of central bank using a gold standard and somebody ran away with part of the gold? If so then I at least vaguely understand what happened. But it has to be crypto-woo that makes people think this is somehow a better thing to invest time and money in that just regular in-game money because as a way of investing money it makes 0 sense. Guess it'll be a fun wakeup call for people that securities backed by goods are very different from the actual goods.