Mod suggestion : Rent instead of buy

[fabricnut]

Virgali
Maxis bragged that you could do this before the release of the core game.  Of course they also bragged about weather and a bunch of other stuff that never materialized.  They said you could own your own vacation house as well as your main house.

[Inge]

I tried replying to this a few hours ago but I pressed the wrong button and all was lost.

I shall make another shrub for $10,000 and look into making the interest rate a BCON value so it can be easily edited according to personal choice.   That will affect all shrubs from that file though - I don't think it's practical to have a menu and set each one separately.  So you'd  be able to have the $1000 shrubs at one rate and the 10,000 shrubs at another.  Of course you can also aways edit the OBJD to change the price, too.

[simmiecal]

I tried replying to this a few hours ago but I pressed the wrong button and all was lost.

I shall make another shrub for $10,000 and look into making the interest rate a BCON value so it can be easily edited according to personal choice.   That will affect all shrubs from that file though - I don't think it's practical to have a menu and set each one separately.  So you'd  be able to have the $1000 shrubs at one rate and the 10,000 shrubs at another.  Of course you can also aways edit the OBJD to change the price, too.

Woo hoo!

Thanks Inge!

[angelyne]

I don't think it's practical to have a menu and set each one separately.

If you can set the amount for each shrub, why would you have multiple shrubs?  You'd only have one per lot, or maybe a few more if you get yourself deeper or deeper into debt.  Or ideally you'd modify the amount for your initial shrub (like you would be re-mortgaging.)

Woo hoo!

Thanks Inge!

[Inge]

The point was it was meant to be something very simple - with nothing to go wrong.  Unfortunately it's already getting a bit more complicated because the billing has started playing up again and I am having to set the price up and down when you go in and out of live mode

Bear in mind that players will want to place some of these while they are initially building a lot, and under those circumstances the menu cannot be used.

[Inge]

The new plant is now available and I fixed both so you can edit the amount charged, and they turn into $0 price during live play, and revert to -$1000 etc when you go into buy mode!   At least now the bills don't get confused.  I think that's a Maxis bug, actually.

[qvcatullus]

A Maxis bug? Surely you jest!
Just thought I, too, would do my bit to irritate JM by thanking Inge. Benes for you!!!