Bank

[Fresh Water Fighters]

I started my run with a cupple billion in my bank account.
I run 450 turns without withdrawing it.
I did not gain even $1.
Is this a bug or is instrest caculated as not get turns not spent them?
~FWF

[The Beatles]

Maybe it was over your savings limit -- in that case, you don't earn interest.

I just tried it out on the admin account, and savings do seem to work, so my bet's on that.

[Fresh Water Fighters]

You don't earn instreat when you are over the limit? That's no fun. In a real bank you still would.

[The Beatles]

HAH!

[edit] Sorry, had to rush in the morning. I meant to say that no bank would let your cash grow infinitely either. They'd start charging fees for something or other eventually. The nice little story about depositing a nickel in the bank, going into stasis, and emerging the richest man in existence 500 years later just ain't true -- you'd be miles above your head in debt. In fact you'd probably just go back to stasis.

[Ruddertail]

Something tells me Beatles doesn't think much of that idea...

But he's right. In a real bank, you wouldn't probably have limits, either. But this isn't a real bank, nor is FAF a real life simulater.

The reason you can't earn interest over the limits is that if you could, somebody on only a small amount of land could deposit, say, 50 Bil (A hawker could get that much) and earn massive interest on it, thus making it more a cash generater then a bank.

[Fresh Water Fighters]

How would you put that much in a bank?

[The Beatles]

It's not changing, that's final. The reason was probably what Rudder mentioned -- you could just use it passively to accrue insane amounts of wealth over time.