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Kevin Bane
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Apparently there is a limit to the amount of gold you can own in World of Warcraft. Personally the most gold I've ever had I dumped into my 300 riding skill and Netherwing Dragon mount. However if you were to play the game as an economic simulation as the German player "Tyram" has done, you too could be deemed one of the richest players in Warcraft.
"Tyram" has 214,748 gold, 36 silver and 46 copper. According to SK-Gaming '...he reveals that his earnings has been made only by trading troughout the last three years. The cap has also been confirmed by a game master, although the SK leader Andreas "bds" Thorstensson had a little bit more details on this random number:
"Why is this random figure the gold cap? Because they most likely store the data in a 32 bit signed integer, which has a maximum size of 2147483647. So the actual cap could potentially be 214748 gold, 36 silver and 47 copper, or they use that last byte for something else."'
Too bad for Tyram there won't be housing in the Wrath of the Lich King expansion, that would give him something to spend his gold on.
What would you do with over 200,000 gold in World of Warcraft?
Published by Kevin Bane on January 19, 2008 08:12 AM
