Theres a planet with unlimited space for res! Swish.

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AIDG CONVERGENCE. WAS PART OF THE MUPPETSTORM.

I bet 5 of my best cookie makers that the Professor has it.

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00:01:23 | Griffin Vengance has been defeated by Shadow Stalker.

Proof that nagging really does work!

If it were that simple... ;P. There are exactly 24 bits to store information about each resource. Since compression and lossy storage is unacceptable, each bit pattern needs to encode a discrete interger number. Since resources don't go negative, we can use the entire range for positive (unsigned) integers. As there are 2^24 (16777216) unique bit patterns, 16777216 numbers can be represented, ranging from 0 to 16,777,215. As a result, no more than 16,777,215 units of any one resource can be stored on a planet, without increasing the number of bits used to store the number (which for various reasons would have to be increased by a byte, bringing it to 4,294,967,296 possible numbers stored.)

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Spelled: I I R I (not irii, irri, or iri).

Force of nature.

oooo lets increase it i like the sound of having 4,294,967,296 troops on my hw

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no you don't

yes i do *imagines the amount of defense a x20 planet would have with 4,294,967,296 of troops and energy

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4,294,967,295, you're forgetting the 0 ;P. Also, the soft limit would be strengthened to prevent interest from going too high (prolly... ;P). And it would be a pain to do, and would make a big mess of current gameplay ;P.

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SkyLords Head Programmer

Spelled: I I R I (not irii, irri, or iri).

Force of nature.

no!!! raise the soft limit to 1 billion

then everyone can mass hws into uncapturable interest generating behemoths with more turrets than you can shake a stick at

on a side note, even 10 billion sticks would be enought to stop 40 thousand turret shots

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Pie Eating, Spam Making Member of CiDG

I am back, come and get me.

42,949,600 per resource per day *drools at the thought of the interest 4,294,967,295 would make*

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AIDG CONVERGENCE. WAS PART OF THE MUPPETSTORM.