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Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:12 pm
by Mith
completely off topic, but hey, i ve been off topic all the time
1000 plat is like nothing, except that carrying a lot of plat is a pain. i usually dont carry a single coin.
I would very very much like a credit card system into CF. I guess that idea needs no explanation
you can buy a credit card for - say - 1 mln plat. The card then allows you to buy for 900k plat (hence you pay 100k plat for the use of the card)
maybe also create cards for 100k plat and maybe even 10k plat (with the same ratio's)
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:18 pm
by cavesomething
The proper way to do that is to tie into the bank system, so that the player's account can be charged the correct amount, plus a percentage.
Ideally then you would also get credit limits and interest payments (and jailed for being too far in debt for too long....)
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:30 pm
by Mith
cavesomething wrote:(and jailed for being too far in debt for too long....)
and you stay in jail until you pay, dont you?
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:40 pm
by cavesomething
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....
Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 5:14 am
by bort
There should be a way to make money to pay off the debt...
Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 9:35 am
by cavesomething
in many real-life debtors prisons there wasn't, I don't see why CF should be any different....
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 1:36 am
by bort
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.
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 2:39 am
by cavesomething
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.....
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 3:11 am
by bort
Makes perfect sense. But interest should not increase rapidly. It should increase over time, like a few (real world) days.
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 1:39 pm
by cavesomething
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....