Market Merger: Inf Cap worries.

Okay, I've been disbursing inf amongst my alts just in case. But in some cases, this is going to be VERY problematic.

What about people who have +2 billion (OVER 2 billion) in bids/items for sale, etc out there?

I haven't seen anything mentioned about this yet (or just missed it if it were).

Will there be an (at least) temporary repeal of the inf cap?
Or are a lot of people going to get boinked out of several billion inf?

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a few players are going to get boinked out of a lot of inf.

based on what the devs said any inf you've placed as bids SHOULD remain in the slot until you claim it. That being said I'd suggest withdrawing it and mailing it to an alt just in case.

Also, if they were to raise the influence cap they would not do it just temporarily because it would take a lot of coding.

The reason that 2 billion is the cap is due to the way they have the number variable setup in the code and to raise it beyond that would most likely take a reworking of many places of code.

gee... didn't i mention this about 4 months ago... when the new market ui was going in? i think i did. then i just mentioned it about a month ago again when we learned the markets were goingto be merged...

i'd take anything of high value off the markets to. just to be safe.

I'd expect everything to work exactly as it's been stated so far - bids and sales just go into "storage," if you will, and you can retrieve them later. To me at least that sounds like inf totaling over 2 billion won't mysteriously vanish.

Wow this is some serious crap

I'm leaving everything where it is just to see what happens.

I have so many juicy set IOs stashed away in base storage for the unprecedented consumer frenzy GR's going to unleash I'll probably need to make more inf mules anyway.

Let's see just how good the devs are! =P

there's this thing called email. I'm not sure how much I can store there, but I intend to do so.

Boinked?

Whatever the rules I have begun spreading my infamy out among all the servers so that every alt has between 750M and 1.5B on them cause I don't trust the devs ability to make sure I don't lose all those piles of 2B infamy which are clumped on my mules atm. Honestly I've never had so much money on Triumph and Liberty so its a new experience.

You know, maybe I should have been more worried about this issue back when I17 went live. Is it just my imagination or did those non-existent Market teleport inspirations vanish when the new UI arrived?

You can send 2B per email...of course the receiving toon has to be totally empty to accept such a mail. I'd say you'd always need to keep at least 1 slot open to send whatever the receiving toon has but could safely send 2B per slot otherwise....so 38B in 19 email.

In addition you can have 12 toons per server as storage mules. Lets assume that you're an altaholic and have 6 toons you actually play per server and a home server full with 12 played toons. That still leaves you with another 60 "mules" to store 2B apiece on for another 120B.



Throw in the fact you can have a personal SG/VG base and store actual valuable items in racks of 100 IO's each. So assuming you decide to have 10 racks (1000 IOs) in your base and fill them with IOs worth an avg of 20M each (easy with a few purples and lotg's mixed in. There's another 20B stored in illiquid form.....if you stock mainly high end stuff with an average price of 200M each (still quite easy if you're that loaded) -- and you can store 200B in a single base thats not even maxed out.

If you have more than that you can afford to use inf to start more solo VGs for storage with mules until all your stuff is stored.

Trust me there is little or no fear of people losing their fortunes if they put a little effort towards maintaining them.