Is there a limit of "days" in GT3?

[evanl85]

I can't believe this thread is still going, lol.

 

[Tedehur]

You shouldn't underestimate people's capacity to give a proper answer to the most stupid questions.
Especially frenchmen

 

[87chevy]

ah, french, well that's explains a lot!

 

[_kamikazefly_]

french......whos french....OY DONT DIS THE FRENCHIES OK, THEY MAKE THE BEST CROISSANTS, BESTBAGUETTS, BEST WINE....oh and im half french miself....so thats that.

blimey i never knew about all that day stuff, reely surprised me, im no mathimatician, but reel interesting.

 

[Tedehur]

I still haven't found the day limit.
I tried with 99,999 and I played until day 100,004 without any system crash. I tried again with 999,999 and again I played until 1,000,001. I don't see the word 'Day' anymore but there is still no crash.
I'll try again tonight with 9,999,999.

 

[Eagle]

I thought you pretty comprehensively answered this question, why are you trying to prove it?

I'm half French too.

 

[Tedehur]

Mere curiosity.
I didn't care until the question was asked, now I need to know the exact figure. Maybe because I'm two halfs french
I'll post the result in case anybody also cares. But ok, I promise I won't post anything else related to this until I have the exact figure.
Perhaps I should consider replacing my sig by "the truth is out there" and my logname by Mulder.

 

[Pupik]

As a side note, GT2 (on a 16-bit console) allowed 65535 days, or (2 ^ 16) - 1.

I put that code into the GS, and raced a 2-lap race, to see what happened after the race was over. The next "day" shown was Day 131071... 2 * (2 ^16) - 1. After the following race, it was now Day 131072....wierd!

Since I can't change the day in GT3, I'm not sure exactly what would happen.

But 2billion days? Had the Earth cooled that long ago?

 

[_kamikazefly_]

um....sorry if this has already been asked, but how do you guys do the 9,9999 days thing???

 

[Tedehur]

Got it.
There is a maximum day number, but there is actually no real limit.
I set the number of days close to what we assumed was the maximum, that is 2,147,483,646. I did a dozen of runs on license IA2 (btw, I got an amazing time of 15'518, which kicks me up to 30th rank on GT3times ; perhaps because that has always been my favorite license to try this day increase stuff )
The number first increased by 1 to reach the theoretical maximum of 2^31-1, then the next day was actually - 2,147,483,648 (which is - 2^31), and it kept increasing day after day.
Of course the 3 first digits of the number are not displayed on the screen, but I checked this in MK's.

So in case you fancy racing for 5,8 million game-years, your day counter will keep on clocking until 5,8 million game-years later you're back at day zero. By that time you'll be famous as the man with the two biggest thumbs of earth

@ kamikazefly : X-port or Sharkport users can use a little but excellent program made by a guy called MK, that allowed to do such crazy things like manually changing your money, you day counter, or even your cars. See in the hybrids section of the forum.

@ everybody : thread is answered to me. I hope I won't bother you again with one of these alien answers.

 

[_kamikazefly_]

cheers. where do you get x-port from???

 

[Famine]

That's been asked so often that a search may be in order.

If you're in Europe though, go to www.Play.com

 

[*ToyotaMR2*]

Hey Famine, you seem pretty smart. I was wondering, how old are you?

 

[Eagle]

He's a grumpy mid 30 year old with a bad job and too much time on his hands as a result of it

 

[Small_Fryz]

so how much car distance can you get? this question hasnt been answered

 

[Eagle]

I think it has actually - the same 2.147 billion (rounded) that applies to other stuff.

 

[Famine]

Originally posted by Eagle
He's a grumpy mid 30 year old with a bad job and too much time on his hands as a result of it

I'm a cheery 26-year old with a great (and easy) job and too much time on my hands as a result of it.

 

[Tedehur]

Originally posted by Famine
I'm a cheery 26-year old with a great (and easy) job and too much time on my hands as a result of it.

Eagle or ToyoyaMR2 could have known this by checking your profile.
Indeed 'lab monkey' is an easy job with a lot of free time. I wouldn't call it 'great' though

 

[_kamikazefly_]

hahaahah. sorry for the stupid question earlier. anyway, whats the maximum mileage any of you guys done in any car???

 

[Tedehur]

I think this has already been asked in some other thread. I'm around 14,800 km (9,200 miles) on my main game.

 

[spike10h]

When somebody make's 2,147,483,648 post, will GTP lock up and crash????

 

[Eagle]

We can only hope...

I was kidding about Famine, that was pretty obvious.

 

[Tedehur]

Originally posted by spike10h
When somebody make's 2,147,483,648 post, will GTP lock up and crash????

You can try it out. I doubt Neon would like this however, and I'm pretty sure you'll be banned before you reach 2^8 successive posts, killed before you reach 2^16.

 

[Eagle]

There's another problem.

With flow control, that's:

64424509440 seconds.
1073741824 minutes.
~17895697 hours.
~745654 days.

So uh yeah, you'd be pretty dead before you made it.

 

[_kamikazefly_]

I think this has already been asked in some other thread. I'm around 14,800 km (9,200 miles) on my main game.

hmmm. so how many days would that be. im tryin to calculate something, so ive beena asking a few people.

 

[Tedehur]

hmmm. so how many days would that be.

Around 880 days so far, but I've been practising a lot on the licenses and they increase the day counter much more than the mileage.