And yet another question....

And yet another question that I'd like to get others opinions on.

2 Billion Influence cap = LAME

Discuss?

with the cost of items on the market, it doesnt feel like a lot

honestly it doesnt really matter too much to me because most of my toons rarely see 1 billion (the highest i ever had was about 1.3 billion), and as soon as i get enough i usually spend it on IOs and stuff (trying to purple out like 15 toons is VERY expensive and takes forever to make that much)

i know originally the reason that the limit was 2 billion was due to just the size of the memory needed for the variable, when the game was made the largest size variable could be about 2.3 billion, but they cut it off at 2 billion to avoid issues and provide a round number, although i dont know if they even plan to increase it (since tech has gotten better in the last 6 years)

There's really nothing to discuss, with how much money floats around this game now days a 2 bil cap is utterly ridiculous. I don't run a lot of characters now days and usually delete old ones so I have to make mule toons that just sit at Wents with money. It's very annoying.

The cap definitely needs to be raised... inflation and wentworths has really made 2billion seem very low. Like most I rarely see 1 billion but can say after PERC that most of you do need the cap raised!!!

Its a technical restriction.

I personally think it's a godsend for us mortals. Yes yes I know you epeen marketeers and uberfarmers need an easier way to stash your horde but really you own everything already anyways. Raising the influence cap only puts greater distance between the masses and the elite.

i think a comprimise would be to have a global bank account in which one could have access to all hero influence or villain infamy while on a particiular account. The cap would stay at 2 billion that could be carried on a toon at any one time. and perhaps a cool accolade power would be a portable atm (much like the portable workbench) once a character earns the Leader badge (500 million inf) which gives you access to your global bank account for 5 minutes and recharges every 30 minutes.

This is a win for everyone as logging in multiple accounts to transfer or pool influence to large purchases deters many from bidding on WW items. so mortals like me would be more likely to purchase bigger ticket items from WWs/BMs making you eliteists even richer. When you make influence easier to access it is more readliy spent. That is a proven fact of capitolism.

so to summarize Keep the cap Globalize influence/infamy, everyone wins.

and heck since there is already an engine in place to split rewards (level pacting and XP debt) they could even place a setting that directly deposits funds earned from kills/farming/TFs into the global bank or split it between the toon and the global account. man i am on fire

Yep, the 2 billion infamy / influence cap is actually a programming limitation. It's something that the programming language can't go beyond.

If i may quote Wu-Tang investments, "Diversify your bonds, *******"

and we all know Wu-Tang clan aint nuthin to **** with...

If you've got inf burning a hole in your pocket, overpay for stuff in the market. You're not using it anyway, so why not let someone else have something nice?

I'll hold on to some of that for you.


For a small fee.

100%


100 sound smaller compared to 2,000,000,000, right?

To elaborate on this technical issue some have mentioned.

Currently the inf amounts are stored in a 32-bit signed integer, which can hold anywhere from -2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,648 (2^31 bits plus one "flip bit" to show positive or negative). The could theoretically drop the ability to deal with negative numbers and push it to hold 0 to 4,294,967,296 (2^32) and not have to increase the storage size, but its hard to say what kind of technical implications this would have in other areas.

If they were to increase the inf amount to a 64-bit integer, it could hold -9,223,372,036,854,775,808 to 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 or 0 to 18,446,744,073,709,551,615, but this poses a problem with storage (as well as the problems involved in changing the system to use this size of a number).

In layman's terms, it would require them to double the storage space required for the inf amount, as well as the extra server processing power that is required to do 64-bit integer math. Not to mention the programming work required may be a ridiculous amount depending on how many systems would have to be changed in order to deal with these new numbers.

Having recently had to find ways around the influence cap, I agree that it's lame, but I think players with 2+ billion inf on a single character are probably the extreme minority. I'd like to see it raised, but I don't expect to see that happen.

You can still store way more than 2bil on a toon. Go to went's, find a lvl 53 IO (all over the place) and bid 2billion. Then do that however many times you need to. If you don't want to waste a slot, just do this on a toon that you don't ebil marketeer on. It's still not as good as having the inf cap raised (which will never happen) but it allows you to store 34bil on a single toon instead of 2bil.

I think there are some badges that give you more slots so you could go beyond that but I am not sure how many attainable slots there are and the work required to get them.

If you STILL need a way to store more cash monies on a single toon, I think you would have much better luck asking for more slots in WW.


EDIT: For those who need clarification, lvl 53 IOs exist on the market but are never dropped so there is no chance of your bid ever being filled.

Thats my point. There are ways around the 2B cap, but they require additional steps and really only work from a single server perspective. The devs know the players will find ways around things like that, but from a swapping across servers, this is an acceptable limitation.

Yes you can arrange an elaborate swapping of IOs and money on the side across servers, but the devs figure it would be too much hastle.

The main reason behind my HS call was the ducking out that its a technical limitation. It's not. Not even close.