maximum treasure amount?

[old_school]

Ha!! Last Wed, 09/16/2016 I found 32,767 from a Cave troll drop no less.
I had already moved from south to north of where I'm standing to kill the Cave troll, therefore, the floor behind me, to the south was empty. When the troll died, Adamantite dropped south of me. It would have been nice earlier in the game, but it helped out none the less...
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[PowerWyrm]

This really sounds like a bug, probably an integer underflow (trying to generate negative gold?)

[Pete Mack]

No, it is not a bug. Gold is u16b not s16b. There is a tiny chance of getting a maximum drop

[Nick]

OK, I've decided this is probably not a bug. Calculation is:

Dungeon level is L
Average drop is A = (18 * L)/10 + 18
Pick a random value V where A - L - 10 <= V <= A + L + 10
Repeat
  1 in a 100 times, if we haven't hit the maximum, multiply by 10
until it fails
If no selling, multiply by the smaller of 5 and L
Reduce to the max if necessary

In the Cave Troll example below, L is 46, so A is 101 (near enough), and we are picking V between 45 and 157. So if it passes the 1 in 100 check twice, it's between 4500 and 15700, and you still get to multiply by 5 for no selling, which puts you over the maximum provided the original value was 70+. It's a 1 in 10000-ish event, but if you play enough you'll see those.

As for seeing exactly 32000 - round numbers are more likely for large values because you're multiplying by 5 and some 10s.

[Derakon]

Originally Posted by Nick

OK, I've decided this is probably not a bug. Calculation is:

  1 in a 100 times, if we haven't hit the maximum, multiply by 10

.

Wow, yeah, okay. I thought the supercharge was a mere doubling, but if it's a factor of 10 increase, then hitting the cap becomes an awful lot more common.

What d'you say to making cash drops be unsigned so the cap is higher?