So when did everyone make 100 alts to camp every raid target at once?

[rsloans84]

gm bashing is illegial my ears cant handle it..

[Faerie Blossom]

Being the first to hit a raid NPC isn't hard, just tedious.

[Splorf22]

Personally I don't find this kind of quibbling over the precise definition of infinity to be very interesting, but if we are going to nitpick Nilbog can't even generate arbitrarily large amounts of platinum because he is limited by the memory/disk size of the machine.

[falkun]

Originally Posted by Splorf22 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Personally I don't find this kind of quibbling over the precise definition of infinity to be very interesting, but if we are going to nitpick Nilbog can't even generate arbitrarily large amounts of platinum because he is limited by the memory/disk size of the machine.

He's more limited by the data type (number of bits) for the platinum field (and gold/silver/bronze if you want to get technical) than he is by the memory/disk size. As long as you have memory to spare, you can dynamically assign bits to specific fields, but if you can only utilize a maximum number of bits, you can never have values higher than that artificial maximum. In this day and age, you almost always have memory to spare.

[Splorf22]

Originally Posted by falkun [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

He's more limited by the data type (number of bits) for the platinum field (and gold/silver/bronze if you want to get technical) than he is by the memory/disk size. As long as you have memory to spare, you can dynamically assign bits to specific fields, but if you can only utilize a maximum number of bits, you can never have values higher than that artificial maximum. In this day and age, you almost always have memory to spare.

Ah, but he can create multiple accounts!

[47shadesofgay]

Originally Posted by Splorf22 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Ah, but he can create multiple accounts!

I should have read this before my previous post.. but ya.. this ^.

[47shadesofgay]

Originally Posted by falkun [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

He's more limited by the data type (number of bits) for the platinum field (and gold/silver/bronze if you want to get technical) than he is by the memory/disk size. As long as you have memory to spare, you can dynamically assign bits to specific fields, but if you can only utilize a maximum number of bits, you can never have values higher than that artificial maximum. In this day and age, you almost always have memory to spare.

Why are you assuming this is all stored in the same row in the DB?
He could just create a new row (new character) and start over again. Why does he need 100 platinum all on one character as opposed to 10plat on 10 characters? This circumvents any data size issues.

[Splorf22]

Also I had a random idea for account swapping: what if we logged the IP address that every account had logged into. You can only change the password on the emu if the IP address has not changed for at least a month.

[Zeelot]

If Nilbog uses my time machine there are no limits on what is possible

[Kassel]

What do we want???

TIME MACHINES

When do we want them??

IT DOES NOT MATTER !!