Sudden discovery in A3
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Warrior
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written Thursday, May 12 2005 02:05
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while playing A3 i sold pachtar's plate mail to a guy in remerton. after returning to sell him some more stuffs, i found out that pachtar's plate mail was on sale with no price tags. when i clicked on it once, my cash balance went to -34047 ish. but, clicking it twice gave me a cash balance of 30000+ I wisely invested the money and got experience from Zang. well, people who wants to see this themselves should try it too. i AM not sure how this thing works, though. :P -------------------- he who puts his head inside a dragon's orifice is likely to get a lot of... Posts: 104 | Registered: Saturday, November 6 2004 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Thursday, May 12 2005 06:13
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The guy in Remerton (that isn't the name of a town in A3, though, is it?) must be an infinite reseller. Sell anything to him and you can buy it back many times. I guess the high price tag causes a glitch where it will let you buy it even if you can't afford it. Seems strange, but that's all I can think of. Then the integer variable limit (±32757) makes your total wealth do odd things as the numbers wrap around. It happens frequently in E3 at least. —Alorael, who doesn't see how that could result in a wealth of -34047, which is outside INT range. Maybe you misremember or maybe it's something else entirely. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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Off With Their Heads
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written Thursday, May 12 2005 06:18
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Possibly because the max gold is 15000 in A3, as I recall. That means that the negative values go far higher than the positive values. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Thursday, May 12 2005 17:26
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Possibly, but E3 caps at 30000 and discards any excess. I figured A3 was given a much larger buffer because of all the negative money fun. —Alorael, who is no expert with C++, which may not even be the language used to code A3. But there isn't any numeric variable smaller than an int and still large enough to hold a value of 15000, is there? Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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Off With Their Heads
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written Thursday, May 12 2005 17:29
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I don't think Jeff put in the gold cap because of any solid technical programming reason, though. I think he just set a number. I mean, it was 9000 in A1 and A2, I think. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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Warrior
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written Thursday, May 12 2005 19:27
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Its 15000 in Avernum 2 Posts: 169 | Registered: Wednesday, September 24 2003 07:00 |
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Shock Trooper
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written Friday, May 13 2005 05:55
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The 9000 in A1 is is correct, though. (I remember because it made training blademaster a long, slow process...) -------------------- "Insanity is okay, but stupidity is inexcusable." -Kenda Nicole Brand Jacob say, "Man who smoke pot, choke on handle." -Jacob Doran Posts: 202 | Registered: Thursday, October 4 2001 07:00 |
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Warrior
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written Saturday, May 14 2005 00:21
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sorry, the place is Bremerton. hey, I found out that adding to that money makes it go down to 15000. If I buy experience from zang, however, the value remains the same. the glitch however can also happen with the black halbeard. I eventually made up 6 more levels (thanx to zang)and also kitted all my teammates in Pachtar's plate mail ;) :D -------------------- he who puts his head inside a dragon's orifice is likely to get a lot of... Posts: 104 | Registered: Saturday, November 6 2004 08:00 |
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Shock Trooper
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written Saturday, May 28 2005 03:13
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Bugs which allow obvious game exploits should not be laughed about, they should be patched. =/ -------------------- A Sucaran Child is standing here. You say, "hello" The small child looks at Preserver Aldous wide-eyed and awed. Posts: 269 | Registered: Friday, July 19 2002 07:00 |
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Agent
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written Saturday, May 28 2005 04:40
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Patches are rare. -------------------- DONOR Fat Freddys Drop Shirow Miwa Posts: 1112 | Registered: Friday, July 19 2002 07:00 |
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Cartographer
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written Saturday, May 28 2005 04:41
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as per C/C++, 'int' is defined to be "up to the compiler author but at least 2^32". short is similar with a 2^16 minimum (+32767 to -32768 for signed short). many modern compilers just treat short as equal to int, though, and make both 2^32. 'long' is always 2^64. However, as Kelandon said, I don't think any of that is relevant to the gold limit. I think JV just pulled a number out of his... well, anyway. there you go. Posts: 206 | Registered: Thursday, April 18 2002 07:00 |