They could add a plat-only bank to your toon.

The plat cap serves them though, since it helps take plat out of the economy, thereby managing inflation ... except they went and added an entire AS economy, which more or less turned plat into toilet paper.

noamineo wrote on Sep 12^th, 2017 at 3:28pm:

God, you're obtuse. 

I previously said SSG could raise the cap wanted to.  This seems to be what you're stuck on for some stupid reason.  SSG *could* do it if they wanted.  Whether that is difficult or easy is a different story.  Obviously, if it required 3 months of man-hours and a complete recode of the entire back end player currency system, they would not want to do that. 

Assuming that was the case, there are still multiple other options for accomplishing the desired goal of giving a guild leader enough plat to recreate their guild.  Not sure why you can't get that through your head.

Yes, we all get that character money is tracked by copper.  Nobody but you gives a shit.  The rest of us know there are ways around granting a player more plat than the 4.3 million cap.  You're not seeing the forest for the trees, as usual.

As you seem to already be aware, the plat vault in the shared bank doesn't work like the character money.  Assuming the wiki is correct, it's current cap is 5.5 million which means it is either tracking plat as plat or the value is coded as a large int or floating point variable.  Which also means that it renders your "they can't give players more than 4.3 million plat" objection gay and retarded, even if you are literally correct.

I'll break it down into simple steps for you.  Please follow along carefully.

1) SSG creates a script that parses a guild's airship model and purchased amenitites, then calculates the value of those in plat and astral shards.
2) SSG announces that server XXXXXXX is going to be shut down in 2 months and includes instructions for current guild leaders to transfer the guild.
3) Guild leader submits a server transfer request for his toon and guild.
4) Script calculates the value of said guild, transfers the guild leader's toon to the new server and increases his existing plat vault and astral shard balance by the appropriate amount.
5) Guild leader logs into the new server, purchases the correct airship and amenities using the additional plat and shards.  If the amount of plat required to get the airship back to where it was on the old server exceeds the per toon plat cap, they upgrade until they run out, then they withdraw more from the plat vault as needed until done.

noamineo wrote on Sep 12^th, 2017 at 9:02pm:

Frank, why the 2nd account?

Your mom was keeping me up through this whole conversation.

noamineo wrote on Sep 12^th, 2017 at 9:02pm:

I like you, but this thread ain't doing you any favours.

What is it you think the problem is?  Be technical.  That will elicit a technical response.  I don't think there's anybody here who's taken one fucking programming class or made a career out of this shit who thinks that bumping plat up to a hundred billion trillion per character would take more than an afternoon for an intern.

The taint is gone via ducks. Mother approved. I ate my wheaties

wait no I meant ducks

WonderfulFoppyBint wrote on Sep 13^th, 2017 at 12:30am:

Sometimes I can't tell if you're an alcoholic, or you're 8, and an alcoholic.

Asheras wrote on Sep 12^th, 2017 at 1:06pm:


Yep, my wifes favorite character was her haggle bard.  When they introduced the haggle nerf she stopped playing.

WonderfulFoppyBint wrote on Sep 13^th, 2017 at 12:03am:


this gets more disturbing the more times you read it ...... I may not sleep tonight 

FranOhmsford wrote on Sep 13^th, 2017 at 8:47am:


Not sure why you would keep Cannith standing as the smallest of the non-wayfinder servers but force merge two servers with larger populations.  Besides that you have a lot of characters on it, so there is personal bias. 

A more logical plan would be this:

1 - Orien
2 - Sarlona
3 -G-land
4 - Khyber
5 - Argo
6- Thelanis
7- Cannith
8 - Wayfinder

Merge: 1+8, 2+7, 3+6, and 4+5.  That would result in 4 servers with semi-equal populations.  If you do this, give them all new names like they did in the original merge.  Call them:

Ebberon, Xendrik, Faerun, and Toril, or something.  (why have only Ebberon names now?  We have plenty of FR content). 

But mergers are problematic because you have to deal with inactive characters and guilds.  So I'd still prefer the voluntary transfer option (at least to start).

The soft merge, via transfer, into a soft close later (based on where people go) makes more sense.  Offer the free transfers off of 5-8 to 1-4.  Then, take a look at the population levels after 90 days and soft close servers with the lowest populations.  (I.E. they remain running, but you can't create new characters there.  If you log in, your only option is to transfer to one of the 4 most active servers for free.  That way they never have to deal with moving all those ancient inactive accounts.  If a player returns from a long break, the first thing they do is transfer to a new server and start playing.  If transfers can be done in minutes, it won't be a problem.).