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Message ID: 9619
Date: Thu Nov 4 20:53:13 GMT 1999
Author: Beatdrop Battledrum
Subject: Re: Item Decay and Loot Once


>Unlike UO, there's a limit to how many items each character
>can have. You have your personal inventory, bank inventory,
>worn items, and that's it. Assuming you have all your
>inventory full of 10 slot backpacks and chock full of items,
>that's 160 items per character. Call it 180 to account for
>worn items. Assume all 8 character slots are used in this
>manner. That's 1440 items per player. Assume 5000 players
>per server all doing this, and that's 7.2 million items as a
>close-to-worst-case scenario. If each item has 1k of data
>associated with it, that's roughly 7 GB. My PC's hard drive
>is bigger than that.

Deja Vu! Do we need to go over this again? I thought we beat the space thing into the ground already. LOL



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~Beatdrop Battledrum <Platinum Sphere>
Child of Erollisi Marr
Karana Server
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