[CF-Devel] Womanly value code in crossfire

Mon Sep 13 06:42:47 CDT 2004

Ah I understand now. The item that I had worth 1mill
is a 1000kg gold block with an inherent value of 1mill
(you can buy it at the bank in the citydeclouds if you
have bought a vault there). I do have sell gold block
tables at each of the FWB diamond exchange locations
so selling isn't so much a problem.

Thank's for the information :)

--- Mark Wedel <

     mwedel at sonic.net

     > wrote:

>

      Mitch Obrian wrote:

     >

      > There is a limit for very expensive items in

     >

      crossfire

     >

      > that is problematic. For a 1 million value item I

     >

      get

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      > this:

     >

      > 

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      > It is made of: gold.

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      > It weighs 1000.000 kg.

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      > You would get 902 platinum coins, 3 gold coins and

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      6

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      > silver coins for it.

     >

      > 

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      > There is apparently a cap on the value somewhere

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      other

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      > than the signed int. Can it be removed? Or a

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      message

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      > like this given instead (for high value items):

     >

      > 

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      > "the item is worth $$$$ but it would be difficult

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      to

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      > sell for more than $$$$"

     >

     >

        There isn't a cap - rather, if the item is worth a

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      lot, the sell price 

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      calculation is done different.  I know there was

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      recent (few months back) about 

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      changing this because there were some bugs - I can't

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      remember the new/final 

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      calculation.  The old method at least was something

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      like

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        if value > 10000 value=10000 + sqrt(value)

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        Note this different method is only used when

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      selling items.  When buying 

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      items, the value of the item is used, with various

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      adjustements for charisma, 

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      bargaining, etc.

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        It's unclear to me why this is a problem - there

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      is already too much money in 

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      the game, so it strikes me that having limits is a

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      good thing.  I don't know the 

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      original justification for why that was put in - my

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      guess might be to make sure 

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      that programmatically generated items don't become

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      worth insane amounts of money 

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      (that +3 gold darkblade of lythander worth

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      10,000,000 or something).

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        I'm also reluctant to even put in that line 'worth

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      xyz, but you could probably 

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      only get abc' for it.  Arguably, items are worth

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      what you can sell it for - to 

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      me, such a line just makes things confusing (players

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      asking where they can sell 

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      it for xyz, since such a message certainly suggests

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      you should be able to sell 

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      it for that much someplace).

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        Note that currently, there are a lot of items that

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      probably run into this cap 

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      - most of the true artifacts probably exceed it.  So

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      removing it won't just 

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      effect your item, it would effect money, and thus

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      probalby lead to a lot more 

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      money in the game.

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     >

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