What happens when you hit the Inf cap?
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Adeon Hawkwood,
Posted on: 2011-04-22 17:10 in The Market and Inventions
It won't let you claim it if it would take you over 2 billion. So email yourself some influence. Email the right amount and you'll hit exactly 2 billion.
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Actually if you use the "Get All Influence" button it will let you withdraw items putting you over the cap, with the excess being lost. I have done this a few times.
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Originally Posted by Werner
It won't let you claim it if it would take you over 2 billion. So email yourself some influence. Email the right amount and you'll hit exactly 2 billion.
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The patch on Test right now is supposed to fix that, Adeon. If you're claiming one slot at a time, Werner's response is correct though.
If you get inf by killing stuff, completing missions, opening presents, or collecting badges, anything over 2 billion is lost, but still counts towards badge credit.
@Roderick
Thanks! I'll just email some Inf to another of my characters when the time comes to hit the cap. Probably send over some more so I can still earn Inf by beating up thugs, too. After I get the screenshot, of course.
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I try not to keep too much inf in hand on my active characters. It's reassuring to know that there's a limit to how much I can typo away when I'm making a bid :-)
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Originally Posted by McNum
Thanks! I'll just email some Inf to another of my characters when the time comes to hit the cap. Probably send over some more so I can still earn Inf by beating up thugs, too.
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Altitis means never having to worry about having another character around to glee-mail some inf too. Being unable to claim my sales proceeds because it would put me over the 2 billion cap is my favorite error message in the game.
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Good point. I'm not sure how to actually test it though.
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Originally Posted by Roderick
The patch on Test right now is supposed to fix that, Adeon.
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Transfer a few billionaire characters to Test (or one, several times). Make sure one of them has a few copies of an obscure item, and sell it back and forth between them until you end up in a situation where the fix would come into effect.
@Roderick
Hi again all you ebil marketeers!
Early this year, I posted a thank you since your advice helped me get my favorite FF Defender IO'd out (at a profit, no less), and I've since been marketeering on and off a bit, trying to get to the Inf cap in a casual way. My luck is as i usually is and I've seen no purple drops, despite playing for Incarnate parts now. You'd think I'd have seen ONE, but rand() hates me. My patience and market skills make up for that, though... I love logging in and collecting a nine digit payoff, even if I wish that would happen a bit more often.
Anyway, as I was selling my last Miracle +Recovery IO today, something hit me: I'm two or tree of those away from my goal. But what happens if I can't collect the full price of a sale due to the cap? Like I'd be at 1.9 billion, but sell something for more than 100 million? Do I waste the Inf, or does it just fail? What do you guys do to get that 2,000,000,000 Inf screenshot with the monocle?
It's a silly little question, I know, but you guys have been helpful before AND I'm now an Inf billionaire thanks to your advice, so one last question on the home stretch to EBIL.
Aegis Rose, Forcefield/Energy Defender - Freedom
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