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The Exchange rounds prices higher than 16,777,216 EC

frtoasterfrtoaster Member Posts: 3,354 Arc User
edited September 2013 in Controls and User Interface
If you enter a price higher than 16,777,216 EC, the Exchange interface will round it when you post the item for sale. In the examples below, the original price I entered is on the left and the price to which it was rounded is on the right.

16,777,216 -> 16,777,216
16,777,217 -> 16,777,218
16,777,218 -> 16,777,218
16,777,219 -> 16,777,220
16,777,220 -> 16,777,220

This leads me to believe that Exchange prices are represented as 32-bit floating-point numbers. I don't know whether floats are used just for the UI or whether the prices are stored as floats as well.
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Comments

  • anazondaanazonda Member Posts: 8,399 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    Does it really matter...?

    The exchange as it is is a poorly coded element of the game at best. The filters are laughable and ineffective, searching only for exact words rather than variables using Regular Expressions and best-bet results.

    Apart from that, inflation makes anything in the last 3 numbers of any value a decimal (to me, anything that costs 100,000 EC is the equivalent of 100 points, 200,000 = 200 Points, 200,111 = 200 points).

    The exchange has needed a re-work of the code since day one, and this was even admitted by a dev at one point (saying something like "the exchange code is a mess... would probably be easier to just re-do the exchange, rather than fixing it).

    A minor issue like this really dosen't make that much of a difference.
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  • lucho80lucho80 Member Posts: 6,600 Bug Hunter
    edited September 2013
    Happened to me, but crying over chump change isn't worth it.
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