05.07.2008, 01:57
I started working on fluctuating property prices for the next version (2.5.7).
I was wondering what opinions were on such a system. Instead of being given a constant payment, your payments will be based on the amount of people in your property and how long they stay there (meaning players may want to start events and such in their properties?).
On the other hand you'll have the risk of losing money, the larger properties will have a larger running cost but will have a larger multiplier to (hopefully) cancel that out. The payment will be calculated something like this: Payment = Running Cost + ( Points X Multiplier )
The points will be given out each second, for every player in your property... I think the biggest problem will be finding a nice multiplier so people do not get ridiculous amounts of cash (I personally think too much cash makes the game less interesting).
edit:
Sale prices of businesses will maybe go up and down depending on how you run them, so if you run your business like crap then nobody will want to buy it meaning it will sell for less (putting you at a loss).
I was wondering what opinions were on such a system. Instead of being given a constant payment, your payments will be based on the amount of people in your property and how long they stay there (meaning players may want to start events and such in their properties?).
On the other hand you'll have the risk of losing money, the larger properties will have a larger running cost but will have a larger multiplier to (hopefully) cancel that out. The payment will be calculated something like this: Payment = Running Cost + ( Points X Multiplier )
The points will be given out each second, for every player in your property... I think the biggest problem will be finding a nice multiplier so people do not get ridiculous amounts of cash (I personally think too much cash makes the game less interesting).
edit:
Sale prices of businesses will maybe go up and down depending on how you run them, so if you run your business like crap then nobody will want to buy it meaning it will sell for less (putting you at a loss).