Should there be a Gold cap?

[Susanne]

I just want to know what others think. I understand that there is a sort of gold cap insomuch as you can have up to just under one billion in stash.
AL does seem to mirror real life at times when it comes to trading, market, inflation.
Is having more than one billion gold necessary or is it harming the game?
I'm genuinely curious to know.

[Xuds]

It's only necessary for old/lb vanities everything else important (gameplay wise) 1b is enough for gear pets ect

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[PatD]

I just want to know what others think. I understand that there is a sort of gold cap insomuch as you can have up to just under one billion in stash.
AL does seem to mirror real life at times when it comes to trading, market, inflation.
Is having more than one billion gold necessary or is it harming the game?
I'm genuinely curious to know.

It is lot more complicated than many are thinking hehe :)

https://techcrunch.com/2015/08/05/how-to-build-a-smart-game-economy/
https://medium.com/strike-the-pixels/game-design-101-balancing-economy-5f3e5a7eecc5
https://www.reddit.com/r/truegaming/comments/rpci7/hoarding_behaviour_in_players_and_should_this_be/

1. Hoarding

Many players have a tendency to hoard currency or valuable items, believing that they will come in handy sometime in the future, but in reality, making rare use of them. So how do you make these players happy without giving them an unfair advantage in the game? Most developers choose to limit the number of items that a player can carry, but may offer a place (like a bank or a home), where excess items can be stored and retrieved.

So to answer your question Susanne, i don't think it "harm" the game, as long as some of the gold are moving it's all good i think

[PostNoob]

Until it is directly addressed with a proper gold sink for the wealthy then the game is more a Plutocracy than anything. The elixir and elite chest gold sinks are a joke. It's only harming low to mid range players, and is just a drop in the bucket. I dont think taking a drop here and there from people with billions could ever make any meaningful difference.

Small player base, small amount of op items, large wealth gap.. Yeah.. im sure there is nothing happening there. Take your wealth in items, not gold. Side note: Easter event is really good for spreading out wealth, but it reverses itself quite quickly due to reasons above..

[gobbels]

I mean to be honest, 1b sounds rich. but it wont get you anything
wont get you to lb this event, or even get you flawless jewels for damage/speed gears.

[Frekken]

I think u are proposing a gold loot cap. Same as in real life. There should not be a minimum payment set. There should be a maximum. Tax the rich lol

[asommers]

We've raised the gold cap by 10x several times over the game's life (10m, 100m, now 1b). Unfortunately, we've hit a technical limit and would have to change a lot to get a gold cap of 10b due to size limitations of how we're storing gold (32-bit integers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/32-bit_computing)) and it's just not worth the risk.

-ALS

[marblealaena]

We've raised the gold cap by 10x several times over the game's life (10m, 100m, now 1b). Unfortunately, we've hit a technical limit and would have to change a lot to get a gold cap of 10b due to size limitations of how we're storing gold (32-bit integers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/32-bit_computing)) and it's just not worth the risk.

-ALSI don't know... sometimes you got to take risks

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[johndoed2001]

I mean to be honest, 1b sounds rich. but it wont get you anything
wont get you to lb this event, or even get you flawless jewels for damage/speed gears.Wrong 1b will get you about 800 stacks of red eggs. Which is like 25m points. That's more than enough to get you in atleast the lower-middle leaderboard. But you are right that it won't get you those jewels

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[Burgher]

We've raised the gold cap by 10x several times over the game's life (10m, 100m, now 1b). Unfortunately, we've hit a technical limit and would have to change a lot to get a gold cap of 10b due to size limitations of how we're storing gold (32-bit integers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/32-bit_computing)) and it's just not worth the risk.

-ALS

Why does it have to be upped by 10x can’t you make it 1.5? Or 2

[redawaken1215]

yea raise it to 3b if you cant do 10

[Oakmaiden]

Go over the list of suggested (nongameplay) gold sinks and ummm implement them. Starting with a new magic mirror with skin tones, hair color, make-up, ect for a low fee 5k ish. I think you underestimate how many times a day or week some of the “ladies “ would use this. Pet level ticket for specific rarity (really who levels a pet for plat?), tickets could vary in level amounts. That Firebug lix from Stronghold is hardly worth plat these days, covert it to say 10k golds...

Just took another look at the Firebug lix, 15 plats for an hour. It’s barely visible compared to the plethora of shiny in towns. Make it 500 golds so the lil nubbies can shine for a whole Hour.

[Ent]

We've raised the gold cap by 10x several times over the game's life (10m, 100m, now 1b). Unfortunately, we've hit a technical limit and would have to change a lot to get a gold cap of 10b due to size limitations of how we're storing gold (32-bit integers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/32-bit_computing)) and it's just not worth the risk.

-ALS

Maybe you could make a stackable item that you can buy for like 100m in store or something and if u open it u get 100m? Where u cant open if u are at 900m+? Not sure if possible/practical.

[asommers]

There have been numerous threads on this topic and we are actively looking into what we can do here.

-ALS

[Xuds]

There have been numerous threads on this topic and we are actively looking into what we can do here.

-ALSI would like to suggest for example a 1b bar would turn into a 950m or 900m pile of gold when opened to help as a gold skin and maybe even cost gold/ingredients from zodias campaign to craft the bars

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