Level Title

[rabid_fox]

Finally, a political party promising more rape and less rape.

[Darkmoon]

I don't think llearch is even a fifth of the way to the max title... It will really be some time...

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

A little more than that, D.

Still, it will be a while before anyone takes the title.

[Mao]

Eh, why bother?  With the right tinkering by the right folks a level title can be anything.

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

Indeed.

[Tapewolf]

I'll take a wild guess and say it's 65535 or thereabouts.

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

That's a very wild guess, Tape. Have you been paying attention to the rollover points for the earlier levels?

You should. You'd find it enlightening.

[Tapewolf]

That's a very wild guess, Tape. Have you been paying attention to the rollover points for the earlier levels?  You should. You'd find it enlightening.

No, I haven't.  However, 65535 is the most you'll get if you use a 16-bit unsigned field in the table containing the post count titles (gods forbid).  It is also a bit more than five times your post count, as per your banter with Darkmoon above.

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

It's a mysql db. It'll be using signed longs in the int field.

That's a guess, mind, but I can go look it up if you like....

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

... Seems to cope ok with bumping the number up above 65k.

[Jairus]

... and now I'm wondering what will happen when you hit the upper post limit. Would your post count just stop climbing, or does it turn over?

[Tapewolf]

... and now I'm wondering what will happen when you hit the upper post limit. Would your post count just stop climbing, or does it turn over?

If they're using a signed 32-bit field as llearch implies, you'd have to make 2 billion posts (terabytes of data!) after which it would overflow to -2 billion.

**EDIT**
That would be around 2'147'483'647 and -2'147'483'648 respectively.

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

I have no idea. I would expect it to roll over, or break; one or the other.

However, since it uses (now that I've checked) "mediumint(8) unsigned" for that field, you'd have to reach 16,777,215 posts to find out.

If you can validly reach that many posts, without spamming, you deserve to find out, I think.

(note that Int is, as Tapewolf says, 2,147,483,647 posts; however, they're using unsigned, and not a full int.)

[Jairus]

I have no idea. I would expect it to roll over, or break; one or the other.

However, since it uses (now that I've checked) "mediumint( unsigned" for that field, you'd have to reach 16777215 posts to find out.

If you can validly reach that many posts, without spamming, you deserve to find out, I think.

Considering that the forum currently only has about 200,000 valid posts all total (and that probably includes the arena, which doesn't count towards post count), we've got a way to go before we even get that high as a group.

[Tapewolf]

Considering that the forum currently only has about 200,000 valid posts all total (and that probably includes the arena, which doesn't count towards post count), we've got a way to go before we even get that high as a group.

Unless I've slipped a digit or something, at my current rate of posting it will take me around 4060 years to get there.

[Jairus]

Considering that the forum currently only has about 200,000 valid posts all total (and that probably includes the arena, which doesn't count towards post count), we've got a way to go before we even get that high as a group.

Unless I've slipped a digit or something, at my current rate of posting it will take me around 4060 years to get there.

About 2,872 years for me, unless I did the math wrong. Which is always a distinct possibility.

[Ted Schiller]

If I may point out, I'm a  Pirate Mohel Telemarketer.  My cutlads don't cut that much. 

With regards,
Ted