Level Negative 1.5 billion!
By
Aggelakis,
Posted on: 2012-01-16 18:14 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Hey!
How come my partial levels never round up?!?
Hax!
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That was actually done via buffs. Take a look in your buff bar next time you do that mission. Ultimate Freem or whatever. Several awesomely named buffs. |
Originally Posted by Generic_Past
Remember the alpha slot mission where you're basically a god? Well, you can thank the 32 bit integers!
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Originally Posted by Dispari
I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.
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I'm pretty sure that no level below level 1 and above level 54 is even defined, so that when you get weird numbers like -1509808698, the game just sort of ignores it. Which is a good thing, because if those out of range levels aren't defined and the game actually did try to set you to that level, it would probably crash the server, or at least the instance or zone.
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Originally Posted by Aggelakis
That was actually done via buffs. Take a look in your buff bar next time you do that mission. Ultimate Freem or whatever. Several awesomely named buffs.
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Originally Posted by Aggelakis
That was actually done via buffs. Take a look in your buff bar next time you do that mission. Ultimate Freem or whatever. Several awesomely named buffs.
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That's about as funny as the shot someone posted early in the game's history with a screenshot of the 'info' popup for a level 768 SO, where the screen was telling him he couldn't use the enhancement until he reached level 765...
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Originally Posted by TwoHeadedBoy
That screenshot is priceless. I can't speak for anyone else, but I'm personally very glad that this happened to someone. That is all.
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"But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed, analyzed, and replaced with new weaknesses."
-- Bruce Leverett, Register Allocation in Optimizing Compilers
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Ease of programming, mostly. Saving individual bytes hasn't been a worthwhile effort for 20 years or so; using a smaller datatype is only worthwhile if you've got a *lot* of data of that type (eg. pixel color values).
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Originally Posted by Coyote_Seven
The real question is why are they using 32 bit signed integers to represent combat level?
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you can still do this too and valid level ranges for any TO, DO, SO, HO are all ~-2 billion to ~2 billion
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Originally Posted by srmalloy
That's about as funny as the shot someone posted early in the game's history with a screenshot of the 'info' popup for a level 768 SO, where the screen was telling him he couldn't use the enhancement until he reached level 765...
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Originally Posted by Katie V
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Also, regarding the OP, one of the best game screenshots evar.
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But I showed them, and nobody's laughing at me now!
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We don't know they don't. It may be that combat level is *stored* in a more compact datatype, but its the *printing* code that is written to recast everything into 32-bit integers for consistency purposes.
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Originally Posted by Coyote_Seven
The real question is why are they using 32 bit signed integers to represent combat level? Seems like overkill to me. I'd have used an 8 bit unsigned integer, but I guess in the end it doesn't really matter!
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If you're at -1.5 Billion Level and someone on your team kills a dude, you go through 1.5 Billion level up animations.
Congratulations!
Gratz!
Congrats!
gratz
congratulations
grats
Umm...
wha..
can you knock that off?
really, stop it.
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Actually, if you are at level -1.5 Billion, you need negative XP to level up. I think you get that by rezzing a enemy.
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Originally Posted by Zombie Man
If you're at -1.5 Billion Level and someone on your team kills a dude, you go through 1.5 Billion level up animations.
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Level cap being raised to 255 in Issue 294. |
Originally Posted by Coyote_Seven
I'd have used an 8 bit unsigned integer, but I guess in the end it doesn't really matter!
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Heh... oh yeah. That felt good.