>I am getting some contradicting info here, so I thought I'd
>ask out of game. The players, or at least the two I have
>spoken with, in the Outlanders tell me that coin is useless,
>you shouldn't carry coins, etc. The Outlander helpfiles and
>the echos recently seem to suggest that they dislike "economy"
>in general.
>However, I am also led to believe that there is a
>trader within the cabal who sells useful things for coins.

Maybe you shouldn't believe everything you see in a log.

>And of course there is the matter of healers. I assume, like
>every cabal, the Outlanders have a healer in their cabal that
>heals for coin.

You know what they say about assumptions. A certain post on the
announcement board coinciding with the creation of Outlander should
shed more light on this.

>Is it supposed to be bad for Outlanders to carry coins?

This is best found out in character. I somehow doubt every 16 year
old farmer's son (or whatever else) knows much about the workings
of Outlander.

>Is this a roleplaying choice on the part of these players or an
>enforced rule?

It is a RP choice of each player.

>And if coins are considered still useful, what
>types of shops is it still okay to buy from? I would think
>the druid in the Holy Grove would be okay, just from a common
>sense standpoint. But there are many others which come to
>mind which sit in a gray area.

See above.

>I guess that's really my question. Coins, bad good? And
>shops, yes, no, and which ones.

That is the choice of the player. Make the character for yourself,
not for the cabal. Down with cookie-cutters.