10-09-2010, 10:18 AM
Sorry for not posting a follow-up to my initial post earlier, but I forgot about it. 
@Matthias: Of course people wouldn't like it if the ability to /bank and /withdraw everywhere is removed. But this system has long been an eyesore to me. As I explained in my previous post, this system makes it much too easy for players. You kill someone -> /bank. You drive to a property, stand in front of it -> /withdraw /buy. It takes a lot of excitement and danger out of the game, because you no longer run a risk of losing money. And as long as there are enough ATM's ingame, I don't see a problem in players having to drive for a minute again to reach a place to bank or withdraw their cash.
@Jay: I indeed wasn't around at that time I guess
I don't think we should limit the bank more than it already is. There's no real point in doing that, and people like it to have as much money as possible in their accounts. What we can do is run a query to set the limit of all bankaccounts to $100 million. Everything above that gets evaporated, meaning that people have to start all over again with the stricter rules, smaller property earnings etc. So it will be a lot harder to get to $1,000,000,000 again.
We could also limit the amount possible to bank for a short while, but I think eventually it would be best to make it 1 billion or more again.
I agree with you that it might be annoying and hard to understand for new players that they can only bank at one location. Only removing the on-the-fly banking possibilities would therefore also be fine for me. Maybe we could later think of some new feature to give to platinum accounts holders.
When we would limit the loans to a maximum of $10,000, it gets a lot harder to use for buying properties or abuse in any way, but still is a very nice feature to have when a player wants to sign up for a race but doesn't have any cash at that moment.
If it would be removed alltogether, I also wouldn't mind though.
@Matthias: Of course people wouldn't like it if the ability to /bank and /withdraw everywhere is removed. But this system has long been an eyesore to me. As I explained in my previous post, this system makes it much too easy for players. You kill someone -> /bank. You drive to a property, stand in front of it -> /withdraw /buy. It takes a lot of excitement and danger out of the game, because you no longer run a risk of losing money. And as long as there are enough ATM's ingame, I don't see a problem in players having to drive for a minute again to reach a place to bank or withdraw their cash.
@Jay: I indeed wasn't around at that time I guess
I don't think we should limit the bank more than it already is. There's no real point in doing that, and people like it to have as much money as possible in their accounts. What we can do is run a query to set the limit of all bankaccounts to $100 million. Everything above that gets evaporated, meaning that people have to start all over again with the stricter rules, smaller property earnings etc. So it will be a lot harder to get to $1,000,000,000 again.
We could also limit the amount possible to bank for a short while, but I think eventually it would be best to make it 1 billion or more again.
I agree with you that it might be annoying and hard to understand for new players that they can only bank at one location. Only removing the on-the-fly banking possibilities would therefore also be fine for me. Maybe we could later think of some new feature to give to platinum accounts holders.
When we would limit the loans to a maximum of $10,000, it gets a lot harder to use for buying properties or abuse in any way, but still is a very nice feature to have when a player wants to sign up for a race but doesn't have any cash at that moment.
If it would be removed alltogether, I also wouldn't mind though.
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