Default Interest Rates

[jaybird]

I've really been enjoying this product. I've noticed recently though that all scenarios are starting with 1% interest rate. Is this a feature or a bug? I'd like for the scenarios to have the default interest rate.

[Wuzzy]

Do you know the default interest rate of the official RCT1 scenarios?

[jaybird]

No, my game used to play the default rates, but now it doesn't.

For example, if I pull up an old save of Dynamite Dunes, there is a 10% interest rate, but if I start a new game there, it's 1%

[Wuzzy]

This sounds like a bug then.

[jensj12]

The correct interest rate in RCT1 is 1.33%, which is not possible in RCT2. See #12466.

Edited July 26, 2020 by jensj12

[jaybird]

I don't believe the 1.33% can be correct from the original game. I remember many scenarios having 10% interest.

[Gymnasiast]

You should upload an SC4 or SV4 file that actually has 10% interest, then. I determined the 1.33% by checking the interest payments that RCT1 deducts with those from RCT2, and all I tried had this interest rate. There is also no indication on the TID a loan interest variable exists for SV4 files.

I am not sure how you would "remember" that in the first place, seeing as RCT1 does not even display the interest rate, making it hard to determine without carefully checking interest payments and comparing them to the loan amount.

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For example, if I pull up an old save of Dynamite Dunes, there is a 10% interest rate, but if I start a new game there, it's 1%

Can you upload that save, then? And how do you know it's 10%? Did you check in RCT1?

Edited July 27, 2020 by Gymnasiast

[jaybird]

Well, I suppose that my memory is merging RCT and RCT2 in my head. After all it has been almost 2 decades. 

When I was referring to an old save, I meant an old openRCT save. They were 10% for me, but that was a while back.

Sorry for the confusion.