Not looking forward to this...

[BobGnarly]

I understand about the "I feel nerfed" angle to this problem, but something needs to happen, and just like the blog itself says, there aren't a ton of options here (at least obvious ones). If we just let this inflation continue, pretty soon it will be hard to read and process the stats on items, or real-time events on the screen. Imagine that BG with multiple 1,293,398,218 figures flying all over the place.

[Zub]

I understand about the "I feel nerfed" angle to this problem, but something needs to happen, and just like the blog itself says, there aren't a ton of options here (at least obvious ones). If we just let this inflation continue, pretty soon it will be hard to read and process the stats on items, or real-time events on the screen. Imagine that BG with multiple 1,293,398,218 figures flying all over the place.

Not to mention the increased hw and memory requirements for the servers and databases with millions of doubles or longs instead of integers

[Multibocks]

Not to mention the increased hw and memory requirements for the servers and databases with millions of doubles or longs instead of integers

Easily fixed with their mega damage scenario.