Daily Interest

[doomcooki]

"The bank will not pay interest on accounts equal or greater than 1000000 to retain solvency"


When did this start???

[SaucyWench]

When people started camping.

Some people hit the 2 billion odd cap. It was getting stupid. The code has been there for ages.

If the haberdasher was not installed I would have made it 22,000

[doomcooki]

mannn... wouldn't it have been in a MoTD or something? Now I feel like I wasted some 50+ suicides/resurrections/days because I wasn't aware of it.

I had 300 million spent on my hat and was suiciding to build up so I could upgrade (cuz you have to put down at least another 10% or whatever) and now I either have to give up, or take insanely forever to build my gold up 10,000 by 10.000... just to get to the point where I can buy the next size... ughhhhh

How are those of us with large hat sizes going to be able to reasonably upgrade our hats should they ever have a function?

[Talisman]

Do ye think hats would be given a function when some of you have outrageously large hats? I would be more inclined to think that on the odd chance that some day hats ARE given a function, there would be some resizing occuring at the same time...but that's just my opinion...

[doomcooki]

I wouldn't care about resizing... if anything then at least I'd be in a position to be able to upgrade.

But what's your deal if someone has a larger hat? Juat means they sacrificed other things (ie TIME) to get that larger hat. I would probably have had a couple more dragon kills by now, but hey, that was the strategy I was working with. Just like some people use their dragon points for hit points, or forest fights etc etc.

It's all in the name of strategy - why criticize someone cuz they have a larger hat than you and sought to increase it? Do you complain about those who have 50 forest fights but forget they didn't spend on anything else? I feel my question was valid and that I wish I had known about the interest cap in the interest that I would have strategized differently eh?

[Talisman]

I think you need to relax a bit. I wasn't criticizing, and I wasn't complaining. I was merely observing that features normally aren't introduced if they will instantly provide some people (those with large hats) with a big advantage over others (those without large hats)

The strategy you choose is your decision; there has never been any suggestion that hats would have a function...so you opted to base your strategy on a 'what if'.

In reality, hats have no function apart from a place to put your gold; when hats was written, I recall Red saying that they would not have a function and that there were no plans for hats to ever have a function.

Now, if you REALLY have a problem with your strategy (incidently, most strategies are intended to strengthen your player as opposed to make the player look better), being affected by the introduction of interest rates, I will direct your attention to the big "BETA, THINGS CHANGE" notice on the server's main page. I'll also point out that many other changes have occurred in the past which affect people's strategies as well.

You asked a question - that's good. You're getting replies to your question. That's good too. If you don't like the replies you're getting, I'm sorry...but they're the only ones you're going to get...

[doomcooki]

I am full well aware that the hats have no function but thank you.

Further, I am full well aware we are in BETA version

However, my original point which still stands was, changes made that may affect game play are almost always announced in the MoTD, and the interest issue was not.

[Talisman]

You said it yourself..."almost always"...

Now, I'm not a member of staff and I have no more input on how changes are implemented here than does any other player...but I would normally think that changes which greatly affect fighting, for example, would be announced, but minor changes such as a cap on interest isn't really worthy of an announcement.

If each and every change to the code were announced, the truly important ones would be ignored by the people who need it the most.

Personally, I think the current cap is too generous. There really isn't a need for players to even have 2 million in gold in this game, in my humble opinion.

[doomcooki]

I never said each and every code that is changed should be reported. But if it affects gameplay, it usually is - no matter how insignificant you or anyone else may think it is.

No, there isn't a "need" to have 2 million gold per se, but that is your opinion, again, based on your strategy. There is, however, the "useless" function that allows you to use it to buy aforementioned hats. If the function is there, then theorectically if one chooses to upgrade their hat, then yeah, there may be a "need" for whomever chooses. Thus my assertion that if we cannot keep accumulating gold via interest earnings, it would have been nice to know. Either that, or it would be nice to see some alternative to the "10% upgrade" rule.

Please stop nitpicking apart my questions and acting like a staff member. You said it, you are not one. I am entitled to ask my question why xyz would not have been announced, why not give SOMEONE ELSE a chance to answer?

[Darcia]

I agree with Talisman that 1 million is more than a generous cap. And when they changed the interest cap to that, I don't believe it was MoTD worthy. That is my own personal opinion, and everyone has one. The only things you need money for are buffs, mounts, to place bounties, weapons, and armor. The Haberdashery was designed to spend your extra gold coins on something, rather than losing them eventually. The staff already spreads their time thin on coding as it is. They are so busy at the time, that any great ideas won't be able to be coded for a year or more. Since Kendaer is only able to fix bugs, etc.. at this moment, because he is jam packed with work.

So basically you, doomcooki, are criticizing the effort the coders have put into this part of the game. Since you made such an emphasis on time, then maybe you will understand that if they make changes to the server, they are necessary. If this game were not balanced, the fun from it would quickly desolve. There could have been a more polite way for you to have spoken to Talisman, but you chose not to.