[FIXED] Plantation : rent installment

[DezNutz]

A case that I just thought is the following, for which I will need to check. The daily payment, might work in this (false) way:

Initial Sum: 1,050,000
First Installment 50,000

Then, it might do 1,000,000/21 again, which will make the second installment 47,619

This will lead to the case that all acres will expire, but there will still be rent to be paid. I will have a check for this later, which seems to be the case. It currently works in favor of the player as it gives him lower installments per day so there is no rush to come with a new system, still we will need to.

If the system is found to be recalculating each day, it should recalculate according to the days left. So using the sums above If I pay say 500K manually on day 1, on day 2, the rent due should be 550,000/20.

[Most Lee Harmless]

My issue is this. Even if there is this phantom last installment : how can it equate to 1.3 million for 207 acres rent for one day? Dividing just the outstanding amount by the rent due per acre gave 32 days and this disregards the daily installments already deducted!

Plus as my posts indicste.. its not an extra day... the daily installment is still being deducted three days later and the outstandung amount is down to 29 days of rent on acres thst do not exist any more

[Most Lee Harmless]

I tried to give plantations a fair shake : I opened 3 new ones and reopened my original : I sunk 1000's of GB in.. never mind the 400 credits for permision. ( Thats 120mil on its own).
Now it cant even figure out the rent due.

Oh.. and now production has nose-dived 40% on my most developed plantation... no reason I can fathom. Kafka would be proud to have designed this.

This is not good PR.

[Shadowood]

What did your adviser say?

[Most Lee Harmless]

The same thing he said at the other 3 plantations where production hasnt dropped... never eat yellow snow.

[Most Lee Harmless]

I given up.. just letting the acres expire... it stoo much like playing 20 questions where the answers are riddles written in Sanskrit whilst being blindfolded... with a drunken monkey hitting you on yhe head with a wet kipper...

[Captain Jack]

I issued a fix. Tested it partially as well. It won't have a big difference than current functionality except that a major diffrence, payments will always end with the last acre expiration.

From there after, recalculation will continue but instead of recalculation per day, it will happen for every new addition. This is not a system as good as we have in loans/banks but it will still do its job better, for the paying player as it will allow some easier repayment (you get new 21 installments on the initial amount for every new acres deal).

Which ultimately I believe works best for what we have. Still, it won't eliminate the kind of discrepancies that Danik noted when he opened this topic. I will add the functionality into the changelog and it should also be copied later in Player Guides Plantations Manual and Wiki.

[Most Lee Harmless]

So how come I am being charged 1.3 million rent on 500 acres that have already had rent paid on them... and those acres expired days ago... and each day 60k plus is being taken for acres that dont exist and will be for another 30 days.. it dont add up CJ.. My fertile lands has now expired there. I have no acres at all.. zero production and almost a million in rent still being taken.
Why didnt that happen at my other plantations... two hd no rent owing when their acres expired... one looks like it might have 100k outstanding.
Its really dispiriting and makes me question my whole involvement in this game : it makes me feel like a mug.