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[Adeat]

A friend used the NPC to level while he was still guild taxed. This happened and now the guild's stuck on level 16. No complaints since the server will get wiped, but I thought that guild levels go up to level 50. How'd this happen?

Note that this was when the Valk gave EXP for individual levels.

[Miyuki]

Probably because you got the Exp from something that's not a monster. :T I remember the GMs warned about not to do it and whatnot when they were first handing out Emps.

[Adeat]

I was away when that happened. No big. I was just curious about it.

[Stalkerness]

From what (little) testing I did, it appears as though exp being added to guild exp/devotion uses a 24 bit signed integer (rolls over from 8m to -8m) something that rolls over (signed and larger than 16bit, smaller than 32bit)... So if the guild gains a chunk of exp larger than XXm, it rolls over and negative exp gets added, since the valk gives chunks of ~400m, guild gets a chunk of 200m which rolls over a few times.

If you want to get your guild out of negative exp and up to level 50, set 1% (2% might work too) tax, and grab an exp chunk from the valk, verify that you got a positive chunk, then grab a bunch more.

Keep in mind though, any one char's devotion uses a 32bit signed int which will also roll over (at 2.1b), but that roll over wont be a problem, and can be fixed with a kick+invite.