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A limit on how much gold you can have in WoW — and who I think found this out

Published by Neko on January 22, 2008 in Games. 0 Comments

I’m not a hard-core WoW player. In fact, there are pieces of macaroni that play harder than I do. I’m lucky if I see 100 gold ever in a character’s life span — which totals to about 1 month if I add all the play time up and assume that 20% of that time is me staring at the screen drooling.

Back on point: So money (the digital kind) still has significant worth. I can’t imagine how people get 500, 1000, 5000 gold because I just can’t do it. No attention span, no ability to sit on a game that long (not that there is anything wrong with that.)

As an aside, I learned about a unique kind of Chinese slave labor (of sorts). The CBC reported a while back about Chinese gold farmers. Poor people in China work for companies where they work very long hours harvesting gold for brokers who resell it to people in the “real” world. [More info at end of this post.]

Back on point again:  Someone had to figure out that WoW has a maximum limit for the amount of gold. If you do computer programming, which I used to do a lot and now don’t do quite so much, you know that computers save numbers in finite spaces in memory. Phone numbers in the US are 7-10 numbers long and they are because that is about the extent in which we can reliably remember numbers. (Hell, I know people who can’t remember their 4-digit suffix when everyone in town has the same prefix!)  Anyway, computers work the same way, except it is a hard limit. Humans can learn to save more. Computer, if you try to make them remember more in a space for a phone number go DUH! HAT ON FOOT and that is that. You just lose the numbers

Considering that, it is no surprise that WoW can have a maximum number of copper. In this case, 2^31 (two to the thirty-first power, or 2,147,483,648 copper; this equals just over 21,474 gold). 100 Copper = 1 silver, 1000 silver = 1 gold.

Boing Boing via Slashdot: World of Warcraft limits your wealth to 2^31 copper

CBC Radio show ‘Search Engine’ (Canada): Gold Farming for more information on Gold farming in China

Sparter.com for offers of World of Warcraft gold in US$*

*The author of this article and members of this site do not condone activities which are illegal or break the Terms of Service for World of Warcraft. Links are provided for informational purposes only.

Shrine of the Fallen Warrior and the Charge of the Illustrator.

Published by maileigh on December 23, 2007 in Games. 0 Comments

I used to pride myself on my ability to draw, I still do. But after I found myself standing, in-game, on a rather anonymous hill in The Barrens on the continent of Kalimdor; stareing at this rather unusual erection dedicated to a fallen avatar. It was the Spirit Healer (with wings of course) that attracted my attention at first, but after spending time around it and reading the initials inscribed in it “MK”, and the name given to the Spirit Healer “Koiter”, I became quite curious.

I began to look into information involving this word Koiter and World of Warcraft.

It was then when I found this:

http://www.sonsofthestorm.com/memorial_twincruiser.html

I read the entire thing and began crying. Being an Illustrator it hit rather close to home for me.

World of Warcraft

Published by maileigh on December 13, 2007 in Games. 0 Comments

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/index.xml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_of_Warcraft

Almost everyone who has either meandered over to the electronic store shelves, paid a visit to a local video game shop, or has a kid who is or who knows internet-savvy friends has at least heard of this game. (heck you don’t even have to be a kid… but you know how that stereotype goes)  World of Warcraft is, if not one of, the most popular Massive Multi-Player Online Role-Playing Games on the market!

And I would like to know all about your adventures, character, guilds, or even just funny/cool/interesting stories you’ve had or heard about involving World or Warcraft, or “WoW”, as many people abbreviate it down to.

As for myself; you can easily find me controlling an avatar named “Maileigh” (currently) on the following servers: Arathor, Thunderhorn, Zul’jin.

“Kiokulemira” on  the Dragonbligt  server.

And “Jine” also on Thunderhorn server.

… or was that name “Jian”?