Admin Notice: Maximum value of a character

[Cannon]

Exact value = (2 to the power of 31) - 1

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[Mere_Mortal]

So far as I can tell, no character's ship and equipment should be worth more than a billion under any circumstance so another billion in cash is certainly feasible and that would still allow for commodities.

Exact value = (2 to the power of 31) - 1

Yep, and that is 7FFFFFFF, thus exceeding it would be a buffer overflow.

[hribek]

And that's 2 147 483 647 - surprisingly.

There is something players can do about this - keep one's character rank at 89 or less.

One of other useful hints: store your cash on fighter characters, not cap 8 battleships.

Also storing multiple cap8 upgrades on one ship can get you to the limit kinda soon, but the resale of equipment is 25% iirc - so no-one will probably get corrupt by cap8s alone, but combined with other things it's pretty easy.

Edit - @Mere_Mortal: Buffer overflow? What buffer are you talking about?

[Camtheman Of Freelancer4Ever]

I have 740 mil on a cap 8 juggernaut.

I didnt corrupt yet.

I wonder how much space i have left...

[Heraklion]

I have 740 mil on a cap 8 juggernaut.

I didnt corrupt yet.

I wonder how much space i have left...

If I understand completely, you can figure that out by doing

740 mil + ship/equipment resale value = total char value

next

2.1 billion - total char value = total space left

Can anyone confirm weither this is correct or wrong? thank you :P

I don't need to worry about this since i'm always broke anyway :crazy:

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[Sly]

Cash transfers lost and bad things will happen to your account.

Can we get some math clarification about what, how and when?

[agentmike]

so the EXACT value at which everything a given character owns must be less than 2,147,283,647 credits?

got it

and thanks cannon.

will this ever be changed?
:D

[Irra]

This will never affect me.. never been over 1bil in credits on one char.

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[Frey]

so if i understand, i could have cau8 + bs + 1 bil and everything is alright. I think its not hard to have 5 chars and store cache there. 1 trader, 1 bs, 3 fighters/bombers whatever so you can store about 9 billion cache. Not bad, why the hell i should have so much?:)i would rather give it to poor guys from liberty:D

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[DAnvilFan]

Couldn't one solve the issue by say, cutting all prices in half or more? It would effectively push the limit from 2 bil to 4. Granted the actual value would stay the same, it would give people a lot of buffer zone so that they wouldn't worry about accidentally reaching the 2.1 limit.