infamy/influence cap

how about raising the cap on infamy/influence, since it is capped at 2 billion, reason ---we have several purple sets that cost over 1 billion and when you are trying to fully purple out a character you would have to keep asking for help to transferr or logg in another account, my suggestion is to raise cap to 10 billion,i know it may sound like alot but to the die-hard gamers most would understand i hope, what do you all think???

The 2 billion cap on inf* is most likely a technical limitation related to the way the value is processed by the game in the character data - most likely it is stored as a 32-bit signed integer, the maximum value of which is about 2.147 billion.

i suggest spending the influence as you have enough to afford the IOs, you would never hit the cap that way problem solved. and honestly i don't know why you wouldn't do it that way, if you can only afford two, you get the first of 5 crazy bonuses they offer. sounds better than waiting for 2 billion to buy a whole set and repeat. And even then, maybe the bonus will enhance your kill speed, increasing influence rate more. just a suggestion. =]

The cap is actually exactly two billion. But yeah, like others I'm all for actually -lowering- the cap. Inflation has gotten high enough, and it can be difficult enough to IO out new toons. It really doesn't need to get any higher. So, if it isn't going to get lowered at all, I'm definitely hoping it won't get raised.

Additionally, raising the cap would make purchasing influence/infamy easier - players could buy more of it at a given time, since they'd be able to hold more of it.

I definitely don't want the cap raised.

The 2 billion cap on INF was probably a value that was considered more than adequate 5+ years ago when the game first started long before we even had a market. The fact that data of that size could be stored in a single 32-bit signed integer is a programming convenience, but I would not call the use of something like that a "technical limitation". Data structures can be created to store numbers much larger than that even in 32-bit environments. Software is not "keeping" this value set at 2 billion.

But having said that I actually think keeping this value at 2 billion would be the best thing for this game.

First of all it's an easy choice because nothing is modified and no additional risk of bugs is introduced. Second it provides a practical hard cap on how much things can cost in this game. Nothing can ever be bought or sold that would ever cost more than 2 billion INF. Frankly I don't think any one single thing should ever cost anywhere near that much regardless. Finally it prevents people from hording more than 2 billion which would motivate the few people who get that much INF to spend/sink it into the game's economy in constructive ways. The -only- thing that allowing people to have more than 2 billion INF would do is encourage price inflation to grow.

Finally as Demobot mentioned I suspect the supply of purples is going to increase after I16 anyway.
The sidekicking/difficulty changes should lead to more farming of missions that would drop purples.
More supply equals cheaper prices...

Ae has increased the price of purples, because no-one farms normal missions or even plays normal missions anymore.

The inf/Imf a farm AE run gives out is far greater than a normal farm in PI for example.

Due to AE being all liuts or all bosses, normal missions offer varied inf rewards no where near as high as AE.

In I16 with more people dropping purps there will be more on the market lowering the price as has been said, but the statement saying that inf rates will stay the same is false, purple farms drop alot less cash and dont give tickets which also boost players earning per run.

For example

AE run boss farm 12k per liut or 17k per boss, 1500 tickets. Around 12 mill a run usually on the big city map, 1500k of tickets can drop very nice drops on bronze usually around 10mills worth of drops for 1500

Purp farm hero or vill the average per kill is like 5k if that, plus if your very lucky a purp, it's aroundand maybe rare salvage if your lucky, that's about 6 mill per run o the big freaks map city map like AE

So AE drops on average around 20mill or more.

Purp farm drops max 10mill unless you drop a purp which happens every 3-4 runs.

I16 will drop the cash income but boost purp numbers.

All average figures from my own exsperiance etc.

And what happens to they guy/gal that has 1.5 bill inf lucky enough to get a pvp io that has sold for 1 bill inf it cant be taken of the market without an inf swap or you lose half a billion inf.

As far as few people capping at the 2 bill mark I think over half if not 3/4 of our sg member has hit the mark on one toon.

Right now the market is so lucrative that you can eeasily make a bill to 2 bill a day just playing the market.

The cap needs raised! It is to low given the climate of the market.

Issue 16 may lower over all inf because of the ability to turn in game email off or only allow friends or sg to email so there goes the rtm spam which should mean less rtm inf introduced back into the game. There are builds right now that market brice into the 20 bill range a 2 bill cap is nothing but a hassle.

Prices on the market wont go down till they take exp away from AE and that really needs done.

I dont see the lack of bridges effecting pl at all will make it easier not harder. After all you can join a team take sg tp to RWZ and get teleported to AE and start pling at lvl 1 in I16

You want the game saved or fixed raise the cap and take exp out of AE

I'd rather see them lower the cap so purples would be at a more reasonable price but thats just me...

I think it is very unlikely lowering the cap would reduce prices, much more likely (imho) would be RTM selling the rare/most wanted IOs instead of influence.

Personally I'm all for lowering the inf cap or for instating price caps on hard-to-get objects because that would make me filthy rich.