jnrose Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 Hello, Has the credit cap for subscribers been raised? I believe the cap was set at 4.3 billion right? Swtor TV posted a video on youtube a few days ago displaying he had over 100 billion. ??? Thanks, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zerileth Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 (edited) I'm not gonna look too hard, but I'm not finding anything that high on the Internet. He probably only had 100m.... Edited October 14, 2018 by Zerileth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WayOfTheWarriorx Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 Hello, Has the credit cap for subscribers been raised? I believe the cap was set at 4.3 billion right? Swtor TV posted a video on youtube a few days ago displaying he had over 100 billion. ??? Thanks, If you need to worry about a 4.3 billion credit cap you desperately need to go outside. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Totemdancer Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 If you need to worry about a 4.3 billion credit cap you desperately need to go outside. Even that is too high. Who needs 4.3 billion? No wonder inflation has been rampant the last 2 years. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jnrose Posted October 14, 2018 Author Share Posted October 14, 2018 If you need to worry about a 4.3 billion credit cap you desperately need to go outside. Hahahahhah I do alright, I only come out of my coffin after 6:00pm! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jnrose Posted October 14, 2018 Author Share Posted October 14, 2018 Even that is too high. Who needs 4.3 billion? No wonder inflation has been rampant the last 2 years. I need an unlimited amount of credits......Unlimited POWER!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ylliarus Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 Hello, Has the credit cap for subscribers been raised? I believe the cap was set at 4.3 billion right? Swtor TV posted a video on youtube a few days ago displaying he had over 100 billion. ??? Thanks, I think that is the credit cap for the Legacy Storage thingy. Because the credit cap on a single character is still the same I believe. I have stopped watching SWTOR TV's vids though, but I am fairly certain that the cap on the Legacy Storage bank is much much higher than a player's. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WayOfTheWarriorx Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 (edited) I need an unlimited amount of credits......Unlimited POWER!!!!!! Well you might be the only one who could actually afford buying the crafted 258 gear off the GtN come 5.10! Edited October 14, 2018 by WayOfTheWarriorx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JattaGin Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 I was wondering about that video, too. In general, why would anyone even want 4.3 billion credits? I never understood the point of hoarding virtual credits in a real game - unless there would be a way to change that to real life moolah somehow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elessara Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 Honestly? Who cares why someone wants that many credits. And someone having that many credits isn't what's affecting inflation. What's influencing inflation is the fact that the game economy is one where credits are infinite and always entering the world at a much higher rate than they're leaving it. I mean seriously, who is anyone else to judge what someone does with their virtual currency in a game? It doesn't matter if someone thinks no one "needs" 4.3 billion credits - it's not their business. Someone wants 4.3 billion credits or 100 million credits or 1000 credits? As long as they're not buying it from 3rd party sellers or scammers and they're actually earning it from doing non-exploit in game activities then they should go for it. And no, I don't have 4.3 billion or anywhere near it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlameYOL Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 Pretty sure we don't have a credit cap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andryah Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 I think that is the credit cap for the Legacy Storage thingy. Because the credit cap on a single character is still the same I believe. I have stopped watching SWTOR TV's vids though, but I am fairly certain that the cap on the Legacy Storage bank is much much higher than a player's. I believe this is a correct statement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andryah Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 (edited) Pretty sure we don't have a credit cap. There is still a cap for an individual character, though there is some debate about if it is still ~4.3B or if they raised when they also introduced Legacy Bank. The client does have an alert though if you bump up against a cap, from what others have stated over the years. I could test this... but why bother.. with Legacy Bank in place now. Legacy Bank, as I recall was at least 100B though. Historically, pre Legacy Bank ... I spread my credits around... putting no more then 1 or 2 billion on any one character. Why? In case I ever had a character get stuck... I did not want to be dependent on getting the character unstuck before I had access to the characters credits. I still keep a couple billion credits out of Legacy Bank, and stored on multiple characters. Why? Risk mitigation.....in case they do something in a patch that temporarily breaks access to Legacy Bank. Edited October 14, 2018 by Andryah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andryah Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 (edited) If you need to worry about a 4.3 billion credit cap you desperately need to go outside. Not really. Players with this kind of wealth has one or more wealth generation methods they work. Once you plan for what you need.. and then work your plan.... you just keep working it each day even if you do not need the credits. My pace is ~20M a day now days... and that is for 20 minutes of daily time spent servicing my wealth plan and the stream that comes from it. In essence.. my return in credits for time spent is ~ 1M credits per minute of time spend on my credit stream management. Various players have various methods for wealth accumulation, and different actual needs in terms of wealth... but the smart ones have a plan, work the plan, and never have to complain about the price of anything in game, or complain about being poor in general. And I don't just hoard my wealth.. I spread it around. Sometimes I spend to help the guild. Sometimes I spend to help guild mates. Sometimes I spend to help complete strangers in game. Sometimes I see someone in the forum that I like and trust and I will spend to help them out with something they are trying to acquire. It is people who literally grind for credits running missions and encounters that would fit your declaration here, in my view. Edited October 14, 2018 by Andryah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlameYOL Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 There is still a cap for an individual character, though there is some debate about if it is still ~4.3B or if they raised when they also introduced Legacy Bank. The client does have an alert though if you bump up against a cap, from what others have stated over the years. I could test this... but why bother.. with Legacy Bank in place now. Legacy Bank, as I recall was at least 100B though. Historically, pre Legacy Bank ... I spread my credits around... putting no more then 1 or 2 billion on any one character. Why? In case I ever had a character get stuck... I did not want to be dependent on getting the character unstuck before I had access to the characters credits. I still keep a couple billion credits out of Legacy Bank, and stored on multiple characters. Why? Risk mitigation.....in case they do something in a patch that temporarily breaks access to Legacy Bank. Ah, I wasn't aware. Never reached anywhere near the cap. Smart move on your part, I tend to mostly keep on the legacy bank or on my main and move around as needed, I don't play alts much so it's rare for me to need huge quantities, although they usually have at least enough for repair bills. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadDutchman Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 The "credit cap" for characters is just the numerical limit of an unsigned integer (4,294,967,295 to be precise). To the best of my knowledge this hasn't changed. (I usually sit around 20-25 million, so not exactly important for me) Also to the best of my knowledge no one has hit the limit on legacy storage, which was probably implemented with a 64 bit unsigned representation (up to 18,446,744,073,709,551,615) We would need inflation far beyond the imagination of even the doomsayers to reach that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrellma Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 Even that is too high. Who needs 4.3 billion? No wonder inflation has been rampant the last 2 years. Well, a lot of it has to do with BioWare removing most of the credit sinks in the game. Back at launch, not only were there fewer sources of credits, but if you didn't have ~800,000 (a paltry sum by today's standards) by the time you hit 50 (to cover things like entry level gear, skills, and so on), you were going to be in for a bad time. Since then, not only have they made it much easier to get credits, they have reduced the costs of travel, skill training, repairs, item modification, and so on. The amount of credits that any one player has does not, and has never had anything to do with inflation. The issue is that there is almost nothing to drain extra credits out of the economy. Even GTN sales of Cartel goods only serve to transfer credits from one player to another, they don't remove many from circulation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALaggyGrunt Posted October 15, 2018 Share Posted October 15, 2018 Pretty sure we don't have a credit cap. Credits are stored in a 32-bit unsigned integer. The maximum value that data type can store is about 4.3B. Storing something bigger requires a bigger data type, which requires either making the server and client software 64-bit, or a custom data type/structure that makes credit calculations a bit more cumbersome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadDutchman Posted October 15, 2018 Share Posted October 15, 2018 Credits are stored in a 32-bit unsigned integer. The maximum value that data type can store is about 4.3B. Storing something bigger requires a bigger data type, which requires either making the server and client software 64-bit, or a custom data type/structure that makes credit calculations a bit more cumbersome. Common misconception. 64-bit software has nothing really to do with the size of data you can store, it simply determines the available address space. They can (and do, in the case of legacy storage, see above post) store that in data types significantly larger without resorting to anything custom (assuming they are using C++ with a sensible database) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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