Solution to discontinued items

[Rsaccounttrader]

The money limit in fifa 11 is also 2.147B. Jagex could make bills, bonds, or checks. I think they will once the inflation becomes more realized.

 

[college_student]

Right now spirit shards are being used as an alternative currency, each one being worth 24-25gp. However, raising the maximum limit would only be a temporary solution.

Splitting the discontinued items would allow more to be put into the game while also making low enough in price to trade on the Grand Exchange.

 

[wr3ck3d]

Why not make a platinum coin or something, it would cost the max cash cap.

 

[UniversalSoldier]

Why not make a platinum coin or something, it would cost the max cash cap.

Because it will be like another high priced item, like the partyhat. You couldn't spend say like 10m or 100m from it to buy other stuff so it would be more of an item rather than currency because all you can do is trade it for GP.

 

[Picnore]

Because it will be like another high priced item, like the partyhat. You couldn't spend say like 10m or 100m from it to buy other stuff so it would be more of an item rather than currency because all you can do is trade it for GP.

Then instead of making coin be max coins, make it 1 plat coin = 100m or so? A firm price set and never goes up/down

 

[Veni]

Defeats the purpose of rares.

 

[Jimmy]

In that case, couldn't Jagex make the coins unsigned and double the max limit?

All primitive integer types in java are signed.

Sure

The above posters are right; it is a Java limitation.

But just to expand on what they said...
Java is run primarily by variables, which include booleans, bytes, chars, doubles, floats, ints, longs, and shorts. The bolded words (bytes, ints, longs, and shorts) are the variables that encompass all integer values (positive or negative numbers without a decimal value). Each of these four variable types has a Width in Bits, and a Range of values that it can be assigned to. These are as follows:
Byte : 8 Bit Width : -128 to 127
Short : 16 Bit Width : -32,768 to 32,767
Int : 32 Bit Width : -2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647
Long : 64 Bit Width : -9,223,372,036,854,775,808 to 9,223,372,036,854,775,807

As Dangerousd777 said, Runescape is run on a 32 Bit (width) Java platform. As you can see, the values that can by assigned to 32 Bit Integer variables (ints) can range from -2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647. Since you can't have negative RSGP, the amount of coins you can have ranges from 1 to 2,147,483,647.

I suspect that they will not change this because Runescape is meant to be available for all who have a computer. From what I understand, 32 Bit programs can run on 64 Bit systems, but not the other way around. Were Jagex to change the type of variables they use to Longs, they would have to make Runescape exclusively for 64 Bit systems.

You've misunderstood how primitive data types are handled; compiled code containing references to fields of all primitive types can be executed on any machine capable of supporting the JVM, so a 32-bit machine is capable of utilizing longs in java.

 

[iWoodKart]

Why dont they make it unsigned? i cant think of a reason they need the -ve numbers.
New max limit would be 0 to 2^32-1
or 0 to 4,294,967,295. Not that much greater tbh lol

 

[FibOfAllFibs]

You've misunderstood how primitive data types are handled; compiled code containing references to fields of all primitive types can be executed on any machine capable of supporting the JVM, so a 32-bit machine is capable of utilizing longs in java.

Oh. :embar:

Then why is it that companies always recommend downloading the proper bit-width for your system? For example, why there are 32bit and 64bit versions of Photoshop?

 

[dinnook]

I had always thought it would be a good idea to make all rares buy able at Diango. Make them a price to where not just anyone could buy them. Make them ALL available and ALL cost a flat rate of 100 Mill. This would make them available to get for everyone and in turn take rsgp out of the economy. Hopefully making the rsgp worth more.

 

[WhatsSoFunnyHUH]

imo splitting it would only make them richer...it may decrease the value at first..but eventually it all of them will still go up...and most phat owners dont sell their shit in ge.

 

[Zezecha]

Why not just increase the limitation?

They cant, 2,147,483,647 is the highest number possible in Java programs. Which RuneScape is a Java program.

 

[crosspaintball]

Then instead of making coin be max coins, make it 1 plat coin = 100m or so? A firm price set and never goes up/down

I see this as the best, easiest solution to the max cash issue.

Think of it like this, when you go from 9999k to 10000k the coin stack changes to green and it simply says 10M. Imagine if when you deposited enough coins to make it 1000m it went to a platinum coin (or something other than GP). Then lets say you had 900m and you added it to you bank where there was 500m already it would just become 1 platinum coin and 400m.

 

[ScammersAreDumb]

This idea would never work, because the RuneScape economy is not like the stock market. Let's put it this way, the actual number of an item in game has absolutely no effect on the price of the item. For instance, there could easily be more blue partyhats than any other color partyhat, except the only thing that actually matters is the perception people have of them. The actual number of blue phats is a moot point, the only thing that matters is that people think there are less blue phats than any other color, thus they're the most expensive.

The same would be true of this idea. Sure, Jagex could multiply every rare in the game, but the perception would still be exactly the same, thus changing nothing. People would try to buy them for less saying there are more of them, and perhaps some would sell them, but in the long term, it would do nothing but make the rich richer.

 

[PrayerKid]

the thing is that i dont get is, why does jagex only make it a 2b cash stack you can have? like why woudent they make it more and just change the color as it goes into the billions? im sure most runescapers would prefer than than having to upgrade or downgrade in order to have there stuff.....but idk just my opinion.

 

[PrayerKid]

I see this as the best, easiest solution to the max cash issue.

Think of it like this, when you go from 9999k to 10000k the coin stack changes to green and it simply says 10M. Imagine if when you deposited enough coins to make it 1000m it went to a platinum coin (or something other than GP). Then lets say you had 900m and you added it to you bank where there was 500m already it would just become 1 platinum coin and 400m.

i really like this idea, that way they wouldent have to mess with java much like making it above the 2b cash stack it would most likly be alot better. i think that would help the more rich side of runescape.

 

[i am teh pandah]

if they made runescape 64bit for more gp they would lose alot of players who only have 32bit pc's

 

[hfapplet]

I think that the OP has a great idea, effectly turning phats into 25% of there price allowing some normal members to finally own one...although they would no longer be so "rare"

 

[K0R4NTH1A]

Another thread posted by someone who can't afford a phat, on a solution to make the phat affordable to them. Cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuute.

 

[Timmyz pride]

I'm saying they dont need to do anything about it at all. who the fuck needs that much money anyways? like honestly , what the hell are you going to buy with that much money? you already got a partyhat quit being so greedy.