maximum treasure amount?

[mrfy]

I've seen this twice now in my several years of Angband dungeoning: "You have found 32767 gold pieces worth of adamantite."

I'm assuming that 32767 is the maximum amount of treasure you can find at a time? That would make sense if the value is represented by a 16 bit integer.

What are the odds of finding this amount of treasure?

[PowerWyrm]

Originally Posted by mrfy

I've seen this twice now in my several years of Angband dungeoning: "You have found 32767 gold pieces worth of adamantite."

I'm assuming that 32767 is the maximum amount of treasure you can find at a time? That would make sense if the value is represented by a 16 bit integer.

What are the odds of finding this amount of treasure?

Probably not that low if you find a hydra pit and kill them all in the same corner.

[hein]

Originally Posted by PowerWyrm

Probably not that low if you find a hydra pit and kill them all in the same corner.

Ive seen this two times too - I´m pretty sure one of them was a drop from a baby dragon, and the other one just some random treasure on the floor - I think this might be an odd bug(?)

[takkaria]

Originally Posted by hein

Ive seen this two times too - I´m pretty sure one of them was a drop from a baby dragon, and the other one just some random treasure on the floor - I think this might be an odd bug(?)

It's intentional! In obj-make.c, make_gold():

    /* Cap gold at max short (or alternatively make pvals s32b) */
    if (value > SHRT_MAX)
        value = SHRT_MAX;

This is because the value stored in the savefile is a 16 bit value and is unchanged probably since Moria... it could safely be changed, I think.

[Derakon]

Originally Posted by takkaria

It's intentional!

It's intentional to cap max drop size at 32767, but is it intentional to generate piles that size? Without being in a situation like a hydra pit where multiple piles get combined, that is.

I'm pretty sure gold drops can get "supercharged" potentially without limit, allowing unusually large gold drops from ordinary enemies, but unless the supercharging is really strongly exponential, you'd expect to see drop sizes in the 5k+, 10k+, and 20k+ range. Which you don't, really -- you just see normal-sized gold drops, and the exceptionally rare 32767 drop. I've seen exactly one of those, that I can recall, though I don't remember the context.

[Carnivean]

I suspect that the adamantite multiplier boosts it to that level. I've gotten it a few times, and I'd be fairly sure it's adamantite each time.

[takkaria]

Originally Posted by Derakon

It's intentional to cap max drop size at 32767, but is it intentional to generate piles that size? Without being in a situation like a hydra pit where multiple piles get combined, that is.

I'm pretty sure gold drops can get "supercharged" potentially without limit, allowing unusually large gold drops from ordinary enemies, but unless the supercharging is really strongly exponential, you'd expect to see drop sizes in the 5k+, 10k+, and 20k+ range. Which you don't, really -- you just see normal-sized gold drops, and the exceptionally rare 32767 drop. I've seen exactly one of those, that I can recall, though I don't remember the context.

Hm, yeah, I see your point. The supercharging has a 1% chance of happening (and if it happens, it has another 1% chance of happening etc) and it should limit itself so it never reaches MAX_SHORT. So I have no idea what's going on here.

[MattB]

I'm pretty sure I've had exactly 32000 quite a few times. How does that work?
(Or am I going stark raving mad??)

[Derakon]

Originally Posted by Carnivean

I suspect that the adamantite multiplier boosts it to that level. I've gotten it a few times, and I'd be fairly sure it's adamantite each time.

If I recall correctly, the quantity of money determines the material used, not the other way around. In other words, the game decides to generate 583 money, then looks up the various ranges and determines that it should use "rubies" as the descriptor, say.

[Nick]

Originally Posted by Derakon

If I recall correctly, the quantity of money determines the material used, not the other way around. In other words, the game decides to generate 583 money, then looks up the various ranges and determines that it should use "rubies" as the descriptor, say.

Yeah, that's right. I'll file this as a bug.