Maximum unit cap....WHY...????

[Anickus]

Currently the maximum attainable unit cap is set at 4,294,967,295..!
WHY...???

Once we get rolling with making farms, or indium mines, etc... We Want to make lots of Money (Units).... Right..?

What's the point of getting large freighters and sending out countless frigate missions and selling items throughout the game, when ultimately, it's all for nothing at all.... once we get... here - to the cap. That's like driving 20+ miles down a road only for it to be a dead end!

PLEASE raise the cap... OR, extend our ability to buy additional items.... ship upgrades, or freighter additions.... bases... or businesses... trading outposts.... even planets....
SOMETHING!!!

Thanks! - Anickus

[Orion Invictus]

Because it's 2^32. Also, what's the point of just having more, forever, when there's nothing to spend it on?

[FoolishOwl]

You've got two broad design choices with games: open-ended, or closed. Closed, you can have a strong narrative conclusion, in which you're left wishing for more. Open-ended, you can play as long as you like, often much, much longer than with a closed game structure. The downside to longer playing time is, you'll probably stop when you get bored, and you're left with that feeling of boredom as your final impression.

Any game is going to have boundaries, of necessity. A well-designed game will have well-considered boundaries. NMS, by and large, is a game with fairly casual gameplay; the storyline quests mostly function as introductions to open-ended exploration and creative base-building. That's the end-game, and it goes on as long as you enjoy it.

[Dirak2012]

Buy tons of expensive stuff and then delete it.

[Xenomorph]

You can always come up with your own money sinks, like using the editor to change ship or freighter models for something like 500mil each time. That was my approach to getting out of the money cap so many times. Nowadays i don't really care about making money just for the sake of making money. Just live off the land, and quite enjoy it that way :)

[First Lensman]

I agree, The cap is meaningless, why even Elon Musk is worth more (100 billion +) and he hasn't even been in space yet!
Come on raise the cap.

[AmberAnvil]

Go through lots of Derelict Freighters. Great money-sink.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

Автор сообщения: First Lensman

I agree, The cap is meaningless, why even Elon Musk is worth more (100 billion +) and he hasn't even been in space yet!
Come on raise the cap.

As already said....there is nothing to spend it on....so why raise it?

Just go exchange a ship for a C class you like and upgrade it to S class 48/21. Problem solved. Alternative solution- just reduce your credits using the save game editor.

[skananote]

Автор сообщения: First Lensman

Come on raise the cap.

It is technically impossible. It is 32bit game, 4,294,967,295 is max you could have in the 32bit numbering... There is just no way to increase that w/o rebuilding the game...

[tkwoods]

Автор сообщения: Anickus

Currently the maximum attainable unit cap is set at 4,294,967,295..!
WHY...???

Once we get rolling with making farms, or indium mines, etc... We Want to make lots of Money (Units).... Right..?

What's the point of getting large freighters and sending out countless frigate missions and selling items throughout the game, when ultimately, it's all for nothing at all.... once we get... here - to the cap. That's like driving 20+ miles down a road only for it to be a dead end!

PLEASE raise the cap... OR, extend our ability to buy additional items.... ship upgrades, or freighter additions.... bases... or businesses... trading outposts.... even planets....
SOMETHING!!!

Thanks! - Anickus

So what are units worth if you don't spend them? Just piling up units without a reason other than piling up units is sort of pointless.

[knighttemplar1960]

Buy a bunch of wiring looms and hand them out in the Anomaly like its Halloween.

[anonbc2000]

"The number 4,294,967,295, equivalent to the hexadecimal value FFFF,FFFF16, is the maximum value for a 32-bit unsigned integer in computing."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4,294,967,295#In_computing

[Antaiir]

32 bit? Welcome to stone age then.

Na i'm just kidding... have a nice weekend. :-)

[jotada_63]

Money is not most importand in game, Not even in real life, Having fun in game and also in real life is importand

[Ǥɾᴧᴤʆᴧᵯᴧ]

ATLAS just cannot handle more than 32bit units - it's - BECAUSE - just because ;=)

[jotada_63]

Автор сообщения: Antaiir

32 bit? Welcome to stone age then.

Na i'm just kidding... have a nice weekend. :-)

There was no 32 bit in stoneage:P