Increase Max commendations?

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I don’t know if there is a thread for this but I was thinking about the ‘max’ you can get on commendations. Even though you may hit max you might notice the counter stops at 32,767. I’ve read about all the ‘best ways’ to max certain commendations like the cowbell grenade for assists, the target locator in all its lameness and the glitch in WC. I’m not going to go into why I disagree with people who boost, how you play is up to you. But I was thinking the max stated above - has anyone thought about if it was increased? I find a ‘MAX’ concept to be silly. In firefight especially, I got a number of firefight commendations maxed, but it seems, I don’t know - a bit dumb for there to be a max. I mean 2 or 3 say 32,767 - why won’t it go up? It should record the total number no matter how high it gets.

I also notice in arcade firefight alot of people with max FF commendations will shoot afew guys then just sit there to get the perfectionist. Maybe if the ‘MAX’ was removed and some insane next level was added people wouldn’t go AFK nearly as often.

Something like after Onyx have a Platinum Commendation level, then Diamond. It says on Bungie heavy weapons in firefight is 8k to max, here it says its 7k. It’s the easiest to max, how about having the max at something like 100000? Give people a reason to keep playing with different weapons, or keep playing and not afking. As much I as I enjoy getting a super high kill count by the end, I would appreciate it even more if people did not boost just because everything but grounded and perfectionist is maxed.

Off topic - has anyone wished there to be a legendary arcade firefight option? infinite ammo, lives and super hard enemies. Only way to get this I know of is in custom firefight, Heroic is too easy. 20 minutes of Legendary firefight - that Perfectionist will be earned with pride.

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Fun fact: 32,768 is 2 raised to the power of 15. Notice that 32768 - 32767 = 1. Also notice that 16 is 2 raised to the power of 4, and 16 - 15 = 1.

Knowing anything about computers, you can quickly realize that the number 32,767 is the largest number that can be represented by 15 bits. Without digressing too much…

I suspect that when Bungie wrote the code for the stat tracking on their website, they gave each counter 15 bits of space to store statistics. They probably chose 15 because 7 was too small (maximum of 127) and 31 was too large.

Unfortunately, this also means that increasing the limit past 32767 would mean extending the number of bits that each statistic can use to store numbers. But logically, it wouldn’t be practical to extend the bits to 16 (17 is not an even power of 2). The next closest power of 2 would put the limit at 31 bits. This would allow the site to track a maximum number of 2147483648 kills/headshots/sprees/whatever.

Obviously, this would be excessive, and it would be a technical and logistical difficulty to implement it.

I hope I answered your question…?

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How about instead, they lower the ridiculously high ones.

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Interesting idea but I say no because then I might convince myself to go for diamond.

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I’m not good at math and no I don’t know code/programming. But thanks for the insight. I Like the idea of lowering certain ones, mainly Perfectionist and Grounded. Lol but imagine if Splash Damage was raised to 1 million Max. The assault rifle in firefight is the same to max as precision weps, Get Loud should have had something that high.