UI Request: Possibility to provide amount for loan repay

[peyn]

Hi,

This is my first post on the forum, so hello everyone!

First, I want to say I love what you're doing with and for the game. The fact that you spend your own time to keep this classic alive is incredible.
This is a game I've been playing since the very beginning of my history with PCs and it gives me a lot of fun till this very day. The multiplayer feature is just life changing.

Now, regarding my idea.
I think it would be very useful to be able to repay a certain amount of money.
CTRL + click allows to repay as much as possible, but there are situations when I would like to have some money left in my account, to not go red. This feature (maybe under SHIFT + click) would allow that. A window could be shown which would require user to enter an amount - less or equal to what is available in the account. However, no more than multiplies of 20k could be repaid (user can enter anything, but game repays multiple of 20k which is just lower than the amount entered).

Kind regards,
Mateusz

[Eddi]

unfortunately, we're a little short on modifier keys, shift+click is reserved for "cost estimate" in all places.

[Reflame]

I would like that as well. Sometimes I start with 100 million to build a huge network, but I deliberately set a high interest rate. And here I must click one hundred times each time after several minutes of expensive building...

Is there a reason why NOT use ctrl+shift+click or alt-click for this? (I suppose that there is...) How about double click or triple click?

Or: How about holding? If I hold mouse pressed over "Finances" icon or "Stations" icon in the top menu, it offers me to choose which opponent's information I want to see. So holding over "Borrow" could show a dialog with number.

Or how about a new button "Borrow or Repay" which would show such dialog?
Reflame.

[jfs]

Or how about re-thinking the loan management UI entirely? Have a box for entering/selecting the amount of loan to take or repay, which by default shows shows £10,000, and then buttons to do an action with that amount.

[odisseus]

Sometimes I start with 100 million to build a huge network, but I deliberately set a high interest rate. And here I must click one hundred times each time after several minutes of expensive building...

Why not just scale the loan increment with the inflation? Borrowing or repaying 10,000 pounds ceases to make any sense whatsoever when a single piece of road costs more than that.

[LaChupacabra]

unfortunately, we're a little short on modifier keys, shift+click is reserved for "cost estimate" in all places.

What about Alt (/Command?)+Click as also mentioned by Reflame? This modifier is hardly ever or never used.

With it, you could for example multiply an amount by 10 (Click = 10,000 / Alt+Click = 100,000)
Or open a context window to enter a specific amount, as it is in the JGRPP version

Or how about re-thinking the loan management UI entirely? Have a box for entering/selecting the amount of loan to take or repay, which by default shows shows £10,000, and then buttons to do an action with that amount.

Do you mean something like this?

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Why not just scale the loan increment with the inflation? Borrowing or repaying 10,000 pounds ceases to make any sense whatsoever when a single piece of road costs more than that.

This and more in one

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[Borg]

Why to bother with manually managing Loan? Just use Auto Loan GS :)
You can extrant one from my BorgEx GS I use from BSPI. Or, if enough people
will get interested, I can extract it myself and call it 'AutoLoan' GS.

Its simple and effective, Interest rate range: 2-10%
Maxiumum Loan: 5-25M

It does NOT support inflation tho.