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Diffstat (limited to 'src/economy.cpp')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/economy.cpp | 23 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/economy.cpp b/src/economy.cpp index 25c26fd7e..a8aef3542 100644 --- a/src/economy.cpp +++ b/src/economy.cpp @@ -664,6 +664,23 @@ static void AddSingleInflation(Money *value, uint16 *frac, int32 amt) static void AddInflation() { + /* The cargo payment inflation differs from the normal inflation, so the + * relative amount of money you make with a transport decreases slowly over + * the 170 years. After a few hundred years we reach a level in which the + * games will become unplayable as the maximum income will be less than + * the minimum running cost. + * + * Furthermore there are a lot of inflation related overflows all over the + * place. Solving them is hardly possible because inflation will always + * reach the overflow threshold some day. So we'll just perform the + * inflation mechanism during the first 170 years (the amount of years that + * one had in the original TTD) and stop doing the inflation after that + * because it only causes problems that can't be solved nicely and the + * inflation doesn't add anything after that either; it even makes playing + * it impossible due to the diverging cost and income rates. + */ + if ((_cur_year - _patches.starting_year) >= (ORIGINAL_MAX_YEAR - ORIGINAL_BASE_YEAR)) return; + /* Approximation for (100 + infl_amount)% ** (1 / 12) - 100% * scaled by 65536 * 12 -> months per year @@ -675,10 +692,9 @@ static void AddInflation() AddSingleInflation((Money*)&_price + i, _price_frac + i, inf); } - _economy.max_loan_unround += BIGMULUS(_economy.max_loan_unround, inf, 16); + AddSingleInflation(&_economy.max_loan_unround, &_economy.max_loan_unround_fract, inf); - if (_economy.max_loan + 50000 <= _economy.max_loan_unround) - _economy.max_loan += 50000; + if (_economy.max_loan + 50000 <= _economy.max_loan_unround) _economy.max_loan += 50000; inf = _economy.infl_amount_pr * 54; for (CargoID i = 0; i < NUM_CARGO; i++) { @@ -1902,6 +1918,7 @@ static const SaveLoad _economy_desc[] = { SLE_CONDVAR(Economy, max_loan, SLE_INT64, 65, SL_MAX_VERSION), SLE_CONDVAR(Economy, max_loan_unround, SLE_FILE_I32 | SLE_VAR_I64, 0, 64), SLE_CONDVAR(Economy, max_loan_unround, SLE_INT64, 65, SL_MAX_VERSION), + SLE_CONDVAR(Economy, max_loan_unround_fract, SLE_UINT16, 70, SL_MAX_VERSION), SLE_VAR(Economy, fluct, SLE_FILE_I16 | SLE_VAR_I32), SLE_VAR(Economy, interest_rate, SLE_UINT8), SLE_VAR(Economy, infl_amount, SLE_UINT8), |