World of Warcraft players reach gold limit cap

To be honest, I doubt any other players would reach this limit within a few years of playing the game.

I'm sure people probably fed him money, or something to that extent.

Play WoW to level 70, and you'll see how much gold that really is.

If reaching the gold limit cap was an Olympic event, I'd bet on the Chinese (farmers).

That would require actual math or a 64-bit integer. Adding a new variable is a prime way to introduce bugs, as all transaction code would have to be updated to consider the megaGold variable. What a PR nightmare if someone starts losing money because a transaction routine was overlooked.

100 coppers equals 1 silver, and 100 silvers equals 1 gold. Only one int is required, and to get the other values, you just divide by the proper multiple of 100 and keep the modulo. That keeps things neat and error-free (so long as your player isn't Scrooge McDuck).

Converting to a 64-bit value is the solution, but that might be a problem if they are using, say, a binary file format to store values. Maybe the code assumes all values are 32-bit and promoting a single variable would cause truncation or alignment issues. Data packing is a big deal when working with networked games.

But, hey, we gotta be efficient when it comes to player stats, otherwise we'd be wasting 16 bits of memory that could be used for more important things... like graphics!

It's a basic coding issue, though, unless they assign another variable type (can't Long get up to 32,676?)

well yah they could change the variable the client easily, but theyre likely using the same variable size in the server's database so the database table would have to be expanded to a new size, which would probably be bad to do with everyone logged in exchanging money

Why make it Signed? You can't go negative on gold.

I know. id say bad coding practices, but most likely lazy coders.
Typing "int" is faster than typing "unsigned int" even though you only have to do it once ;)

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