Influence cap?

I'm trying to gather all the influence I have on Freedom to put on one toon.I can't seem to get any more than 2 billion, Is this normal for a lvl 3 toon or does it scale up as I lvl?

Thanks

the current infamy/influence cap is 2 billion, and is static from lvl 1.

Ok , Thanks for the quick reply and for you're help.

Nope, it's a hard cap. You can't carry more than 2B on your person.

However, you can bid on nonexistent goods in the market interface. Examples: Level 53 recipes, Market Teleporter inspirations. Your market bids will follow you to the other server, and you can cancel the bids to retrieve the money.

If you use the above method, take the following precautions.

• Make sure you don't already have money on hand when you cancel a bid if the total would cause you to overflow 2B inf on hand.
• Do not create a bid stack that's value exceeds 2B inf. You cannot get part of the stack, so if you try to retrieve it, you get it all, and anything over 2B is lost even if you have zero on hand
• Make sure you are bidding on something that doesn't exist. If you aren't sure and don't have another place to ask that you trust, post a question in the market forum.

That's a worthy goal. :3

I just ran into this myself. Sold a purple for 250M and lost about 220M because of the cap. Lesson learned.

Must be nice....I doubt I'll ever see the cap unless I get lucky enough to have one of the high dollar PvP recipes drop. No real reason, I'm just not particularly obsessed with accumulating money (and I spend it too fast)

Yeah it's funny how resource caps work in games like these. For instance I'd imagine at least 99.9% of the players of this game will never hit the 2 billion INF cap, yet those 0.1% who do probably all wish the cap was either like 100 billion or non-existent.

Sadly I expect that since this "problem" affects so few people I doubt it'll ever be changed at this point.

99.9% would mean only about 130 people who get to wear the Inf cap. From doing my currency exchange, and helping turn inf into prestige, I have the names of at least 20. From seeing the various threads on the Market forums, I could probably find another 40.

Seems unlikely that I'd know half of the bi-billionaires in the game. Hell, when the market started it turned out that two people I knew were billionaires (they'd built it up to turn into Prestige, then decided the rate sucked.)

Maybe there are a lot more of us than we thought?

A techie tidbit for the day: 2 billion is the upper limit for a signed 32-bit number. If that is why the limit exists it would require changing the data type in every part of the game where influence is referenced. Might explain why it hasn't changed.

If they're really using signed math, it's probably signed to allow it to be easily mixed with negative values without having to explicitly cast the values to make sure it does the right thing.

Really, though, for people who are bumping into the cap, raising it to 4B from 2B isn't really that effective. Based on how much high-value items sell for, it needs more like a factor of 10 or 100 increase to be something almost no one will bump into again.

I tend to not give a darn about influence unless there's something specific I want to buy, at which point I start selling crafted common IOs for a neat 200K-400K profit per IO (I have every recipe memorized) and doing lots and lots of TFs to buy expensive recipes with merits, for 500K-750K per merit (LOTG 7.5s, Miracle +Rec, etc). I can easily get a billion inf in less than a month that way. The only reason I never hit the cap is that I buy whatever I want (Panacea sets, the last time; bought the last one, a Panacea: Heal for a billion last week, the bid is still listed in Wentworths) and then go back to playing regularly without caring much for influence.