All I can say then if that is a true figure.?
Then the best a person could do is open several accounts on there PS3.
And have an seperate account for individual Items.
Account 1 GEARS
Account 2 PAINTS
Account 3 HORNS
Account 4 PARTS
Etc,etc, etc.
Sure, but like HOODFIELD said, the only real culprit is the paint chips, as there are less than 300 horns, and is unlikely anyone would even want hundreds of duplicate parts and gear.
So really, if anyone was concerned they could spread their paint chip collection between two accounts, or even spread all their items out between two accounts... or when you reach your limit, start deleting duplicate paintchips.
Which is why I thought you all would appreciate knowing about this Item Limit, so for those that may soon be approaching that 7,000 limit they could start planning ahead, and possibly transferring some of those items to a new or different account.
Others, for some odd reason seemed to think there was some doubtful or malicious reason behind me sharing what DriverSS and I discovered... go figure. Maybe they aren't used to people who like to help the community and not just themselves.
And if you have for example 100 gold chromes. Whats the point in that? You can at best only send 5 a day.
I can't say, maybe in case they wanted to paint a bunch of their cars gold and didn't want to wait each day to paint only 5. However, even if you had just 2 of every paint chip you would exceed the item limit.
The true hate of PDs work is the limit of what we can send rather than collect? IMHO. (In my honest Opinion)
Except that got so badly exploited when the game saves were allowed to be copied, you can't blame them for trying to limit the exploits. After all, how many would prefer unlimited sends... but no way of duping (exploiting) so that everything you send you lose? Not many I suspect.
Basically, any trading system PD or anyone else could come up with would never be perfect and there would always be people complaining about it no matter what.
I do agree though that the whole paint options in GT5 are seriously flawed and is my biggest criticism of GT5... which is a shame as the ability to finally paint our cars was a long time coming, but the idea that we must collect and provide paint chips to get our cars painted is ridiculous and has no relation to the real world.
Making it worse is that fact that they don't even identify what paint chips are stock paints for any specific model. All they will tell you is the manufacturer... which again is ridiculous! Adding insult to injury, they also only show you a small generic model as an example of what your car "might" look like if painted.
Where as in the real world it is now fairly standard for any decent paint shop to not only provide their customers with a list of all stock paint choices as well as offering thousands of alternative choices, but they also can provide detailed 3D images of your car showing you exactly what your car will look like when painted.
Don't get me wrong, I actually like some of the "collector" concepts applied by PD in GT5, like the museum cards, and had they just made the GT "Special Paints" (Chromes & Mattes) as colelctible paint chips, and made all the other paint chips available at any time in GT Auto, that would have been great.
Instead we have a very unnecessarily cumbersome paint chip system that is far less fun and interesting than it is annoying and time consuming.
(In my honest Opinion)
Maybe a picture of what is happening would help us to see the limit?
As I said before, the message makes no mention of what the limit is, but here is the message:
Paints am not wasting my time counting them. LOL
Now you know why it was a pain to count all of his paint chips up!
(you're welcome BTW)
In fact for those curious, here is the brake down of his paint chips:
Code:
[SIZE="4"]15 x 3 = 45
12 x 2 = 24
11 x 10 = 110
10 x 28 = 280
9 x 5 = 45
8 x 3 = 24
7 x 5 = 35
6 x 22 = 132
5 x 43 = 215
4 x 139 = 556
3 x 331 = 993
2 x 719 = 1438
1 x 1479 = 1479[/SIZE]
He has 2,789 unique paint chips (2nd column) and less than 75 of those did he have more than 5 duplicates (1st column). So it's certainly quite reasonable to see that anyone collecting paint chips can and will reach the current item limit eventually.
So the point being your NOT going to have to sacrifice collecting some thing over the other if its a 7000 limit.?
Just not going to have many doubles of the ITEMS.
That's exactly right. If you were to have only one of every single unique item currently available in the game you would still be under the limit. However, if you have a lot of duplicates then you might want to start keeping track of how close you are to reaching the 7,000 limit.
Thanks for the info, only very few will reach this limit but good thing to keep in mind.
Happy to help and it pays to at least be aware of these limits - limits that PD really should let people know about in the first place, and not simply through trial and error (message).
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