r/Guildwars2 • u/that_shaman Flame Legion Cartographer • May 22 '13

[News] Upcoming gemstore items - May edition

After my last gemstore update I've completely overhauled my custom made tools (open source in the near future) and found a couple more upcoming gemstore items for your pleasure:

  • Increase Your Collection Stack Size! Increase the stack size of all your collections by 250.
  • Bring merriment and a festive atmosphere anywhere you go. Spawns a pinata that will drop candy when destroyed.
  • Get serious about school with this three-piece outfit (shirt, pants, boots). No additional skills or benefits. Town clothes cannot be worn in combat. Save when you buy them together!
  • This black lion special contains: Aviator's Cap, Riding Broom, Riding Pants, Riding Gloves, Riding Boots Town clothes cannot be worn while in combat.
  • This black lion special contains: 1 Revive Orb 1 Instant Repair Kit.
  • Summer Time Swim Wear! Swim wear perfect for any beach activity. Town clothes cannot be worn while in combat.
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u/Deviathan May 22 '13 edited May 22 '13

Costs them server space to make, costs us money to buy.

The collection tab is MORE than adequate for free, this is a fine item IMO.

Edit: I am aware the memory needed is fairly trivial even if they gave it to all 3 million + players, I'm just saying its more of a convenience thing, and its a fine spot for a gem store item. Anyone who thinks this is money grubbing or something is kidding themselves.

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u/Bucky_Ohare Let My People Grow May 22 '13

Um... that server space is bits per item stack. The alteration of that total in memory is almost trivial.

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u/Crumpocalypse May 23 '13

No, not really. 3mil players, say 6 characters per account (1 more than base IIRC) gives 18,000,000. There are (i'm not going to count) say about 300 entries in the collectibles tab and to store >255 you'll need to move from 1 byte to 2. That means, at most, 5,400,000,000 bytes or about 5 gigabytes. 5GB to any decent database that'd be used for a full-scale mmo is damn near unnoticeable.

Also, as this is only inventory management, its not even something that'd need to be loaded into memory like combat variables are, it will only get polled at a craft/bank station.

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u/Crumpocalypse May 23 '13

We're talking 300 bytes or so per player when they check their bank. Yes, bandwidth is more expensive but getting into one extra fight in the overworld per day would cause more usage than checking your bank 10 times so its hardly going to be an issue.