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* The biggest example of this is probably Transport Tycoon. The game simulates inflation by making everything more expensive the longer time goes on. The only problem with this is that if you just keep playing, a regular bus will eventually cost more than the GNP of any (or with enough time played EVERY) country on Earth. This especially causes trouble for the AI as they might, in extreme cases, found a company so late in the game that the starting funds are not enough to buy a single vehicle and they are forced into bankruptcy right after building their headquarters!

* ''{{Civilization}}'' has an odd variant of this trope. The 'prices' of buildings and units, in the form of hammers (required production to build it), stays constant, no matter which era you're in. Thus, erecting a building in a newly built town will take exactly the same number of turns in the stone age as it will in the modern era, after building cranes, construction equipment and unionised labour has been invented. At the same time, new buildings and units you unlock with better technology are prohibitively more expensive in terms of hammer cost, leading to odd situations where building a TV station (which is unlocked in the modern era) takes over eight times as long as a library, and training a unit of riflemen takes four times as long as training a unit of archers.

-> ''[[Game/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice Sam & Max]]: Bright Side Of the Moon''

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Named after [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Smith Adam Smith himself]], (the one from the 18th Century, ''not'' George Goodman, the current-day writer on finance who uses this pen name) who is usually considered to be the father of modern economics. Common in games that manage to avert WithThisHerring. See also CommandAndConquerEconomy. A hero with a HundredPercentHeroismRating might be able to get a discount, though.

* In ''OregonTrail II'', supplies get more expensive the farther out on the trail you go. This is probably {{justified|trope}}, though.

Named from [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Smith Adam Smith himself]], (the one from the 18th Century, ''not'' George Goodman, the current-day writer on finance who uses this pen name) who is usually considered to be the father of modern economics. Common in games that manage to avert WithThisHerring. See also CommandAndConquerEconomy. A hero with a HundredPercentHeroismRating might be able to get a discount, though.

* 5.57 ammo being the standard of trade is particularly amusing to anyone that has seen ballistic tests of this particular ammunition. It's great for getting past lighter body armor if you can maintain fire, but being a small shot with a fine point and thus the majority of it's advantage penetration + quantity of fire, most actual survivalists consider it a "maiming" round because due to high velocity for it's mass, it punches a small and predictable hole in unprotected(meaning, not armored) flesh, thus increasing disablement of hostile force while simultaneously decreasing deaths on both fronts... in the end, this is a wash as far as most individual infantry would concern themselves, as they are evaluated in regard to their personal death toll.

* The biggest example of this is probably Transport Tycoon. The game simulates inflation by making everything more expensive the longer time goes on. The only problem with this is that if you just keep playing, a regular bus will eventually cost more than the BNP of any (or with enough time played EVERY) country on Earth. This especially causes trouble for the AI as they might, in extreme cases, found a company so late in the game that the starting funds are not enough to buy a single vehicle and they are forced into bankruptcy right after building their headquarters!

Take, for example, inn prices. The farther out from the origin point one goes, the more expensive a night at the inn is. It does not matter if the Inn is in a capital city, or whether it's in a podunk village in the middle of nowhere. To understand the significance of why this is wrong, consider the following: which is going to be more expensive, given properties of approximately the same size and number of stars: a hotel room in Manhattan near Times Square, or one in Poughkeepsie?

* ''{{Earthbound}}'' seems to avert this trope for most of the game, as you ''start'' in an insignificant little village, and the price of lodging naturally increases as you approach the big city of Fourside and the resort towns of Summers and Scaraba. Additionally, shop prices never seem to change; the cup of coffee that costs $6 in Onett will be valued the same wherever you go. But then, near the end, you reach the Tenda Village and Adam Smith slaps you in the face: items of all sorts are hideously expensive (costing not money but a certain high-valued item that must be bought elsewhere), and the most expensive hotel stay in the game consists of a night on the bare floor of a dank cavern.

*In [[Etrian Odyssey II - Heroes of Lagaard}} on DS, the price to spend a night at the inn goes up with every level that your party increases, as does the price to revive a fallen member at the hospital.

*In [[Etrian Odyssey II - Heroes of Lagaard]] on DS, the price to spend a night at the inn goes up with every level that your party increases, as does the price to revive a fallen member at the hospital.

*In ''Etrian Odyssey II - Heroes of Lagaard'' on DS, the price to spend a night at the inn goes up with every level that your party increases, as does the price to revive a fallen member at the hospital.

*In ''Etrian Odyssey II - Heroes of Lagaard'' on DS, the price to spend a night at the inn goes up with every level that your party increases, as does the price to revive a member.

*In ''TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', Young Link needs to buy some beans, which you can plant in various places to create levitating plants in the future. When you buy the first one, the seller tells you that he's not moving any stock, so he sells it to you for 10 rupees. When you buy the tenth and final one, he tells you that his beans are selling like mad, and he'll let you have it for 100 rupees. Did I mention that ''Link is his only customer''?