Silly queston to dev(s) about survival mode

[Tineard]

Is there an end? I thought that max wave was 10000, but it wasn't.
So maybe it's 15000 (when all enemies get to lvl 999), or maybe there isn't max wave, and those continue until some value overflows, like lvl gets to 2^32 or something? I'm just curious, if there is any way to "finish" survival mode, like you can do so in gemcraft, for example, or the limit is - only character's strength (which will not allow getting higher than ~7000 lvl enemies, because theywill have more armor than my highest AP+ATK)

I'm just asking if there is any reason, to spend 50h+ to get to wave 15000, other than my curiosity) Thanks in advance. Obviously, no player knows that, as no one tried to get even to 10000.

[Hong]

If I recall correctly, the hard cap last wave is indeed when values start to overflow as the game would probably crash. However, realistically, there is no way to progress further after you cap out in gear as the enemies continue to get stronger while your strength stay the same. If you did indeed get to that point, then you've successfully beat survival mode, which is quite admirable.

[Tineard]

Nah, I just got to wave 10005, my thoughts were, if mana stops at 999, maybe wave counter would stop at 9999.
In reality, max ATK+AP is 9031 - Alistair with Wand, but it's slow, and can't kill whole waves. So, more realistically, top ATK+AP is 6630 AOE from Kangarang. Top armor grows as 5/4*lvl, so lvl 7225 (wave 106875) is absolutely unkillable, and lvl 5304 (wave 78060) is unkillable by aoe. But in reality, ofc, the end would be much sooner. Since Cecilia (as the hardest boss) hp grow much faster - ~10000hp*lvl, and armor grows as ~21/20*lvl rate, I'm pretty sure that at some point she would be simply unkillable, and battle would rely too much on luck - whether she (or her copies) use her big attack or not. Hard to count when it can happen, but I'm pretty sure way before normal enemies start to be unkillable :) But probably it's somewhere in 30000-ish waves.

Anyway, thank you for the answer, now I don't have to spend another 50h to get 5000 more waves for nothing xD