Cash limit

[kill dank]

I think they should lower the max cash limit. Make it like 25m so everyone can play fair.

3000th post so I had to have something intelligent to say.

 

[kmjt]

so do people just put excess cash into items or onto mule accounts?

People would most likely invest in rares at that point.

 

[Obzen Sky]

Jagex most likely will not take the time to raise the max cash stack because not many people have the potential to hit it.

 

[FibOfAllFibs]

Old Forums Fury is correct. Runescape runs in 32 bit Java, and the limit for calculation with integers in that system is (2^31)-1.

If you type that in a calculator, you will realize that that equals 2,147,483,647 - a number we know as max cash.

I doubt Jagex would make the effort to switch to 64 bit just so that we have can have more cash in one stack.

Determinate is right; it is a Java limitation.

But just to expand on what he 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 Determinate 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.

 

[Norco Milk]

I think jagex are going to make "Cash Bags"..

Search forums for it.. Mods said yes

 

[Royal Noobi]

They should make cash bags that can hold a limitless amount of cash. When you click on the bag it will withdraw a max cash pile (or as much as you had in there). If you know what i mean. This IS possible on a 32bit as i've seen it in private servers.

 

[Quadro]

I'm not sure if I'm correct but I think A long integer can hold a few trillion

 

[FibOfAllFibs]

I'm not sure if I'm correct but I think A long integer can hold a few trillion

Over 9 Centillion, actually (if that is the proper term for the "-illion" after quadrillion).

 

[rsplayer95]

I doubt they will be adding, or changing anything. So few people out of the 100-200k people that play rs actually have or had a max cashpile. To add to that they already have shards that remain at a constant 25gp price, and rares which usually go up.

 

[Psywar1]

Over 9 Centillion, actually (if that is the proper term for the "-illion" after quadrillion).

*Quintillion

Centillion would be the 100th one in the "illion" series (ie: 10^303), whereas quintillion is the 5th (10^18).

On topic: as everyone else said I don't think they'll be changing it. It isn't too much of an issue as with shards, GE gp stacks, etc, you can store a good deal of money. Not that many people have over 2.147 billion anyway (as a percentage).

 

[Tha Traina]

ironic how i know all of this from moparscape and rsps'

 

[FibOfAllFibs]

*Quintillion

Centillion would be the 100th one in the "illion" series (ie: 10^303), whereas quintillion is the 5th (10^18).

On topic: as everyone else said I don't think they'll be changing it. It isn't too much of an issue as with shards, GE gp stacks, etc, you can store a good deal of money. Not that many people have over 2.147 billion anyway (as a percentage).

Oh. Yeah, I meant Quintillion

ironic how i know all of this from moparscape and rsps'

That is simply because you can't spawn more than 2.147 Billion of any item in a Runescape Private Server, since they are run on the same Java platform as Runescape itself.