Loan Inflation

[mpettitt]

AI companies start after the player. Sometimes a long time after the player. But they still only get a £100000 loan to start with.
How about tying the loan to inflation, so an AI starting in 2000 gets enough money to buy the equivalent amount of stuff as one starting in 1950. In fact, this could also apply to human players using later start dates...

[dominik81]

The maximum loan is adjusted as years pass by. Therefore a later starting AI will be able to borrow more money.

[Korenn]

but not enough...

an AI starting in 2030 where the inflation has been adding for 80 years can't buy a maglev engine when he finished the track building...

[Wolf01]

but not enough...

an AI starting in 2030 where the inflation has been adding for 80 years can't buy a maglev engine when he finished the track building...

the same in real world, in OTTD tracks and roads cost the same in 1950 and in 2050, in real world i saw the price of the ice-cream (example!) icreased from 30€cent to 1.10€ in about 8 years (i know that € is from 2001 but is to simplify the counts)

so, the cost of all things of OTTD should be increased of 10% every 5 years and in consequence the loan should be extended of 10% or more every 5 years