interesting, given all the strange moneymaking behavior that has gone on
in MMORPGs in recent years. Apparently because of the use of signed
integers (I have no idea what that means), there is a 2^31 upper limit
on the amount of gold a character can have, and you can't accumulate
more than 2,147,483,648 gold pieces or coins or whatever. This has
interesting implications for inflation in the WoW economy, and just the
fact that somebody kept playing so long they stretched the limits of the
system has other, sadder implications.
Just for some perspective, this limit is still 2^21, or 2097152 times
greater than the Captain vs Amstelboy chess tournament limit which
concluded at 2^10, after the Captain failed to recover his initial wager
after ten rounds of double or nothing.
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