Guild Wars 2

Curious why the max bubbles is 250 and not 255? #FF ftl?

LOL……I was thinking this same thing. Would have been like a nice nostalgic 255 Rupees

It would waste space in your inventory if you would be able to only get 1 and 0.02 of stack

I’d have to assume it’s because 250 is the max stack for almost everything else in Guild Wars 2.

Funny you bring that up because the reason 255 was an important number in Zelda is actually the same reason 250 is an important number in GW2. They just chopped off the last 5 for simplicity’s sake.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4986486/why-does-a-byte-only-have-0-to-255

Some things haven’t changed after all these years.

actually, max stick is 50 with purse.

Oops I mean 500 xD .

The last 5 bits could also be used to store data about what the byte contains.

Irena.1062:

Oops I mean 500 xD .

max stack is 250. upgarde makes you able to carry 2 stacks.

Zaxares.5419:

The last 5 bits could also be used to store data about what the byte contains.

Even assuming you meant the last 5 values, that’s not how it works. You need all 8 bits to represent 0-250. To effectively free a bit for another purpose you would have to start from the big endian bits, and with only one bit missing the range of possible values is reduced to 0-127.

Leablo.2651:

Zaxares.5419:

The last 5 bits could also be used to store data about what the byte contains.

Even assuming you meant the last 5 values, that’s not how it works. You need all 8 bits to represent 0-250. To effectively free a bit for another purpose you would have to start from the big endian bits, and with only one bit missing the range of possible values is reduced to 0-127.

And that would be why I didn’t become a programmer. XD