[crossfire] [patch] Large-denomination coins

[Mark Wedel]

Lalo Martins wrote:
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> Just submitted a patch to the tracker.
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> It adds two high-denomination coins: jade (after
> Chinese history and many Chinese-themed RPGs such as
> Exalted) and amberium (a Zelazny reference, although
> this material doesn't exist on his books). One jade
> coin = 100 plat; one amb = 100 jade.
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> Incidentally, thanks to implementation details of
> shop.c, this raises the largest possible item value by
> a factor of 10000 - it used to be 2^32 plat, now it's
> 2^32 amb.

  Don't know if this is still a concern/issue.  But at one time, there was a 
strong inclination not to do this - instead, the players were supposed to buy 
gems, etc for easy transportation.