Attention people using the market for Inf storage!
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Adeon Hawkwood,
Posted on: 2011-07-20 20:37 in The Market and Inventions
Aww nuts! You just had to mention it don't you 
This is why I prefer to store inf as really low ball bids on expensive IOs
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Bingo. I'd be THRILLED if all of my stored influence suddenly turned into purchases. Well, as long as prices recovered from my lowball price, I guess, instead of continuing to go down.
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Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood
This is why I prefer to store inf as really low ball bids on expensive IOs
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Geesh someone who sells lvl 53 LOTG +Recharge would be the next bill gates if they sold them lol....
Im rich because you trust the previous 5 bids!!
My market signature is the highest bid!!!!
id laugh so hard. maybe they will up the cap to 20 or better.
I think Posi. is talking about the enhancement booster paragon reward. I counter speculate the devs. are going to let us make a currently slotted level 50 IO +5 somehow, but not let us take it out and it remain +5 to sell on the market. Otherwise everyone in the game could have access to a tier 9 Paragon Reward via the auction house.
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I don't know why I thought I was the only one who did this.
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Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood
This is why I prefer to store inf as really low ball bids on expensive IOs
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So far, I read it as doing the same boost as SOs/HOs - so, + or ++ rather than turning it into a level 51 or 52, and can't be sold on the market (without losing the boost).
Here's hoping I'm wrong so I can buy 51, 52, 53 IOs with my endless piles of fake money rather than with my smaller stash of real money. 
I'm curious what a purple single type (53%!) enhance becomes after a +
<noob-question>
Why would people want/need to store influence?
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Jagged Reged: 23/01/04
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Because we're ridiculously wealthy and have over the inf cap, 2,000,000,000 inf
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Originally Posted by Jagged
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Why would people want/need to store influence? </noob-question> |
Ooooh! I'm telling Paragon City IRS about that lot of you 
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Jagged Reged: 23/01/04
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Hey those are legitimate bids. As such until the transaction completes the inf is non-taxable under Paragon City Tax Code Section 193, Sub Section 5, Clause H.
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Originally Posted by Jagged
Ooooh! I'm telling Paragon City IRS about that lot of you
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Those bids may be non-taxable, but I have a feeling some of you flippers haven't been properly reporting your capital gains. Have you been tracking your cost basis?
Goodbye and thanks for all the fish.
I've moved on to Diablo 3, TopDoc-1304
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This is what I though too when I when I first scanned through Von Krieger's OP, but after re-reading, with intent to quote it in a response to another thread, I decided it was more like this:|
Originally Posted by Roderick
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*Note: This is not confirmed, but keep it in mind, just in case! |
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Originally Posted by Nihilii
So far, I read it as doing the same boost as SOs/HOs - so, + or ++ rather than turning it into a level 51 or 52, and can't be sold on the market (without losing the boost).
Here's hoping I'm wrong so I can buy 51, 52, 53 IOs with my endless piles of fake money rather than with my smaller stash of real money. |
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Like hell. All appropriate fees are paid every time something is bought/sold.|
Originally Posted by TopDoc
Those bids may be non-taxable, but I have a feeling some of you flippers haven't been properly reporting your capital gains. Have you been tracking your cost basis?
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The amount of influence that can be held on one character needs to be increased. 2 Billion is so easy to reach these days.
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It may be easy to reach, but it's still a ridiculously massive amount of pretend money.|
Originally Posted by Grae Knight
The amount of influence that can be held on one character needs to be increased. 2 Billion is so easy to reach these days.
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Also if I'm remembering right, 2 billion is effectively a hard limit due to the variable type used to store the value (I'm very, VERY not a programmer type, so my knowledge of the precise variable used is nonexistent).
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The above post may contain Cynicism, sarcasm and/or pessimism. If you object to the quantities contained, then tough.
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It is. |
Originally Posted by Canine
Also if I'm remembering right, 2 billion is effectively a hard limit due to the variable type used to store the value (I'm very, VERY not a programmer type, so my knowledge of the precise variable used is nonexistent).
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2^32 is the maximum size for an unsigned integer on a 32 bit OS (like Windows).
That number is around 4B, but they're using signed integers (ie. they can represent
both positive and negative values), so the actual practical range is ~ -2B to +2B.
As for the OP, I store my excess on other alts and/or as lowball bids on
actual Good Stuff, so if they do clean up 51-53 enhancement entries it
will have no impact on me.
To TopDoc: Taxes? What are those? My funds are kept in some rather
secretive accounts in offshore banks affiliated with the Rogue Isles...
Sure, there may be a little graft and greasing of palms here and there,
but the percentages are far better than those Do-Gooders in Paragon City
would be paying their government...
Cheers,
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there's a buyer who leaves the market dirty stinkin' IOed. - Obitus.
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I've not tried but why don't people store inf in emails? Is there a limit to what you can email?
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Jagged Reged: 23/01/04
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Easier said than done. They are likely storing the amount of inf in a long integer. The largest number that can be stored in a signed long integer is 2,147,483,647. They round this down to 2 billion to keep it simple. Can you imagine the out roar if people had to remember they were approaching their cap when they got near 2,147,483,647? Besides which, as a safety measure you don't want people to actually be able get to the "real" cap anyway, because if there is an error, it can lead to all sorts of problems. To a computer 2,147,483,647 + 1 equals NEGATIVE 2,147,483,647. |
Originally Posted by Grae Knight
The amount of influence that can be held on one character needs to be increased. 2 Billion is so easy to reach these days.
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Besides which, raising the inf cap is a bit like congress raising the debt limit--it's a temporary fix at best, and next year, we will be right back here having the same discussion asking why the cap is only 4 Billion.
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Originally Posted by Frosty_Femme
I said "ur" which is not a word. It's a sound dumb people make when you ask them to spell out "you are".
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1) The email limit is 1 inf less than 1 billion inf|
Originally Posted by Jagged
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I've not tried but why don't people store inf in emails? Is there a limit to what you can email? </noob-question> |
2) It goes 'poof' in 59 days...
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And emails have a nasty habit of vanishing occasionally when the global chat systems go down.
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At around 1 billion per email, you can only store 20 billion in emails. Plus as others have said, it goes away after 59 days, and there are still bugs in the system that make emails disappear.|
Originally Posted by Jagged
I've not tried but why don't people store inf in emails? Is there a limit to what you can email?
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Finally, every email holding Inf is one less you have for actual email use. I use email for sending rare recipes and salvage to myself. I have a character in a base loaded with Salvage racks that I use to craft most of my stuff. Mrs. TopDoc sends me stuff she doesn't want to bother crafting herself. I send Inf between characters all the time, based on what they needs for builds and marketeering and such.
Goodbye and thanks for all the fish.
I've moved on to Diablo 3, TopDoc-1304
*Note: This is not confirmed, but keep it in mind, just in case!
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