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Posted: 2/8/2011 2:31:17 PM   (Edited: 2/8/2011 2:31:48 PM)

Hello :)
Been away for a while, trying to get online more again.

Tried the massive score tournament
http://www.beatthegeek.com/games/TowerDefence/tournamentResults.asp?tournid=2881

Got a score of 32 billion and one of 120 billion, both not registering. One session still shows up as playing, 3 other sessions show up with 0 score.

This is the 120 billion one;

http://i875.photobucket.com/albums/ab318/Victor_O/btg.jpg
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Posted: 2/8/2011 2:46:40 PM

How long did it stay at the 'Saving your score' screen? I think the game will time out after 1 minute of uploading your data.

In all honesty... I think we can consider the issue with the scores not saving fixed. Even if I were to allow scores of 120 billion, then someone would make a 'test map' and let the game run over night to get scores of 500 Trillion....

Realistically... no REAL game will have scores in the billions.... even the scores in the millions is a bit extreme (although all games with scores in the millions should save just fine).

So, to summarize, unless scores below 50 million aren't saving, I'm not going to attempt to fix this any more. 99% of scores are below 500,000.

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Posted: 2/8/2011 2:50:04 PM

Fair enough :)
Read around on the forum a bit more, and yup, you're right.
This particular map and maps like it are -to me- not a real tournament, just someone playing around with the settings.
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Posted: 2/8/2011 2:53:29 PM

Oh, and welcome back :)
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Posted: 2/8/2011 5:08:33 PM   (Edited: 2/8/2011 5:18:48 PM)

I wouldn't be surprised if the score cap was 2,147,483,648.

No, that's not a random number. Two to the 31st power is 2,147,483,648.

EDIT - After successfully saving a 2.141B score and failing to save a 2.18B score, I think it's safe to say that the score cap IS 2.147B.
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Posted: 2/8/2011 5:49:34 PM

Ya, I guess I could allow for even bigger numbers in the database.... But I think 2.1 billion is big enough :)
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Posted: 2/8/2011 5:57:31 PM

Ya, raceBandit was absolutely correct. I decided to change it. Now scores up to 18446744073709551615 can be saved. Lol :)
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Posted: 2/8/2011 6:05:45 PM

OH GEEZ LOL

I swear, if anybody ever reports a 19P score not saving, something is WRONG.

I don't even want to think of how long it would have to take or how good the computer would have to be.
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Posted: 2/8/2011 6:08:13 PM

Ack, i went and made it so the largest number the database can save for a score was 18,446,744,073,709,551,615.... and that broke things...lol

I'm going to leave it the way it was.

So, for the record, the largest score you can get in BTGTD and have it save is 2,147,483,647.... anthing bigger than that will not save. That is big enough for any "normal" map :)
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Posted: 2/9/2011 11:22:17 AM   (Edited: 2/9/2011 11:26:04 AM)

Ok, now we know what is the biggest score you can save, but not, how many creeps you can kill in a single game. So I start the never ending story again but the creeps gave no points. So we can see were the limit of this game is. ;}
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Posted: 2/14/2011 2:57:43 AM

Hi, I would like to add some not totally useful but possibly interesting info. to this. I am not a great player, and have never got a very high score or killed a very high number of creeps; but I have encountered the issue with the score screen showing me (approx. wording), 'among an unidentified number of geeks, (blah blah), NaNth place'. Which sounds like this problem, but no-one seems to have mentioned the unidentified number of geeks point; maybe trying to simply extend the score size is not going to resolve the problem, and you need to look at the number of geeks too.

I will say, when I am in a tournament and I am told that it's still running but full, I just use the page back/forward to get into another game of it, thus no doubt breaking the number of player limit.

I'm sorry, though, I didn't save the game link where I got the message.
 
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