But of course, that is what used to happen all the time, and I'm sure there could be lots of fun tormenting newbies who are pleading for some generous person to pay off their debt....
I thought that you stay in the debtors prison and worked until you had made enough money to pay off your debts. Think how prisoners in jails work; and they end up earning a meager amount of money.
no no, not at all, a debtor's prison should have one (empty) shop in it, so that a player can sell items, but no more. Well maybe a pickaxe that can generate rocks to sell for a couple of silver each, and of course interest should be increasing on this debt the whole time.....
Sure, but still at very high rates, Maybe something like 20% a day, then for reasonably small amounts, it isn't the rate that is the killer, but the compounding of it.
Of course most of this requires changes to the python script for the bank more than anything else....