Please remove gil cap

[Falling]

Raising a 1billion gil cap even though a character can store 1bil more in a company chest and 1bil on each retainer? Why?

Definition of wealth is how much you have - this isnt just gil. I made my billions with MB manipulation. I buy massive hoards of saturated items, sit on them, and hopefully resell at higher demand. I imagine most with billions do the same thing.

Keep it invested. 1bil gil is worthless - its not making you money sitting in your bottom right screen. You must invest it to have value. With 999 sitem stacks and a saddlebag now? All the easier to invest - stockpile mats/materia for updates, even try buying discontinued items - elemental materia just made that list. A few billion is a great amount of money, but by no means are you maxed out on wealth.

[Shalice_Icefrost]

Raising a 1billion gil cap even though a character can store 1bil more in a company chest and 1bil on each retainer? Why?

Definition of wealth is how much you have - this isnt just gil. I made my billions with MB manipulation. I buy massive hoards of saturated items, sit on them, and hopefully resell at higher demand. I imagine most with billions do the same thing.

Keep it invested. 1bil gil is worthless - its not making you money sitting in your bottom right screen. You must invest it to have value. With 999 sitem stacks and a saddlebag now? All the easier to invest - stockpile mats/materia for updates, even try buying discontinued items - elemental materia just made that list. A few billion is a great amount of money, but by no means are you maxed out on wealth.

You dont seem to understand. I have around 13b right now.
Regarding the rest of your post, no item in this game holds any gil value for too long. Not even houses. I know exactly how the system works, I could "invest" 3 billions of that in buying whatever you think is worth something from the MB, and I would still have no space to save the actual gil. Every piece of materia, allagan piece, minion and mount, expensive glamour included. Discontinued mats? sure, I already have tons of them saved just in case.

[mariannef]

Technically, it would be a huge challenge (with some risks)

Firstly, change the code (server and all clients) to handle a much larger number (assuming it's passed around as a 32 bit integer, then the max is 2.14 billion), going beyond that means using a 64 bit integer.

Then the underlying database has to be taken offline, a new 64 bit variable created there, all the data migrated (which, depending on the database software, could mean a total dump and reload).

Then when that's been completed, change the code to load and store it from the server software, pass it to the client from that now 64 bit server variable and finally spin everything back up again.

So you're talking about every character and every retainer on every server needing data migrated from one variable(or column in RDBMS terms) to another one, with the risk that a coding slip-up or 'hiccup' would result in overflow setting a sign bit somewhere and turning someone's gill into a negative few billion.

[Wintersandman]

So you're talking about every character and every retainer on every server needing data migrated from one variable(or column in RDBMS terms) to another one, with the risk that a coding slip-up or 'hiccup' would result in overflow setting a sign bit somewhere and turning someone's gill into a negative few billion.

Which is why any good programmer, IT person would have a backup of the known good version.