[Allie]

what if if i have 1 giga?
SPLIT THE GIGA

1/2, round up.
therefore, 1/2 is .5, rounded up is 1.
1=1

[NeoKiller]

so if i make 1 billion accounts and give every of them 1 giga, i'll keep all my gigas

[123bomb123]

so if i make 1 billion accounts and give every of them 1 giga, i'll keep all my gigas

Plus 2.5 trillion gigas. 5k for making an account but then it's halved.

[Nucleaon]

/doesn't mind

[Jeffalo13]

Maybe it's too radical, but I still think keeping only 10% of the gigas would be better.  Prices would then just need a zero taken off the end, rather than needing to be halved.  However, people might freak out when they see such a decrease - which begs the question: would they freak out any more if gigas were decreased by 90% instead of 50%?

Also, are the giga outputs from items/finishing a match going to be cut in half?  Sector definitely should have a decrease equal to that of the gigas in the game, else this inflation will just occur again.

[Jeffalo13]

I like the idea except what will happen to those people who have like under 90mil or under 100m??

What about them?  90mil turns to 45mil at 50% decrease, and 90mil turns to 9mil at 90% decrease (1/10 of the gigas).

[Iridion]

protip halve the gigas then eliminate what generates the inflaction so you dont have to edit gigas for the third time

[RAUDOG]

erm is it me or does no one notice the major flaw to halving everything.

i.e. player 1 has 2m
player 2 has 200m

both halved.

player 1 lose only 1m
while player 2 loses 100m

this is apparently fair hmm

Yessir, because player 1 has a value of 2M, and his value is halved. The value of 1M is now worth what 2M used to be worth. Meanwhile, player 2 has a value of 200M, and his value is halved. The value of 100M is now worth what 200M used to be worth. It just appears a lot more because you're comparing the losses instead of net value -- 2M is a lot less than 200M, and thus due to basic math of multiplication and division, halving it will render a bigger number for 200M. However, if you halve 100 players with 2M, you'll reach the same 200M half, and you'll see that the same amount is being removed, just at a higher scale.

Don't agree with this at all, it's as if your taking what we all had earned through time.
Is this Robin Hood now ?

[Jeffalo13]

^You don't understand.  The value of your gigas stays the same.  The only thing that changes is the amount of gigas in the game.  If you have 100x more gigas now, you will still have 100x more gigas than them after this update.  This is not Robin Hood at all; the only thing that changes are the amounts of gigas, not the ratio.

[Pokeh]

i have 1 mil
allie sells rare gun for 2 mil

after update: i have 500k, allies gun is worth 1 mil

2/1=2, 1/.5=2

the ratio of items is still the same dude

[hawk5005]

Actually Ice is both right and wrong.
He's right because, let's say Ice has 1billion gigas and I have 14mil, after the gigas wipe, he will "lose" half of his gigas, meaning 500mil, while I lose only 7mil. His half isn't equals to mine.
If I want to get back to my "original" amount, I'll have to earn 7mil gigas, which is pretty easy. However, Ice will have to earn 500mil gigas, which isn't easy.
By the time he'll get back to his original amount of gigas, I'd have earned about 30 times my amount.
He's wrong because Robin Hood took the money from the rich and gave it to the poor, while after the wipe, everyone's gigas will be halved.
The ratio between me and Ice will be significantly lower after the update.

[loewe98]

Stil , it feels bad to go from 700 mil to 350 mil...
We worked for that...
:>

[NeoKiller]

Actually Ice is both right and wrong.
He's right because, let's say Ice has 1billion gigas and I have 14mil, after the gigas wipe, he will "lose" half of his gigas, meaning 500mil, while I lose only 7mil. His half isn't equals to mine.
If I want to get back to my "original" amount, I'll have to earn 7mil gigas, which is pretty easy. However, Ice will have to earn 500mil gigas, which isn't easy.
By the time he'll get back to his original amount of gigas, I'd have earned about 30 times my amount.
He's wrong because Robin Hood took the money from the rich and gave it to the poor, while after the wipe, everyone's gigas will be halved.
The ratio between me and Ice will be significantly lower after the update.

And this is why I disapprove with the idea.
Well said grim.  

You can't just ignore the giga inflation problem for years and then suddenly when you realized it come up with the idea to remove 50% of the gigas off the game.
I think it would be better to slowly remove the gigas over a longer time period.
For example, remove 0,5% of the gigas ingame each 3 days or something until 50% of the gigas are gone.
Removing 50% of the gigas ingame from 1 minute to the other seems kind of drastically to me.

[mo9]

didn't think about it the way grim and neo did.
yeah i'll mind of you do it now

[Jeffalo13]

Actually Ice is both right and wrong.
He's right because, let's say Ice has 1billion gigas and I have 14mil, after the gigas wipe, he will "lose" half of his gigas, meaning 500mil, while I lose only 7mil. His half isn't equals to mine.
If I want to get back to my "original" amount, I'll have to earn 7mil gigas, which is pretty easy. However, Ice will have to earn 500mil gigas, which isn't easy.
By the time he'll get back to his original amount of gigas, I'd have earned about 30 times my amount.
He's wrong because Robin Hood took the money from the rich and gave it to the poor, while after the wipe, everyone's gigas will be halved.
The ratio between me and Ice will be significantly lower after the update.

1,000,000,000/14,000,000 = 71.4285714286

500,000,000/7,000,000 = 71.4285714286

Same ratio

Gigas earned from sector woud also be halved.  I see what you're saying, but the only reason it really would affect anyone is if they want to say they have 1bil gigas.  If they love the feeling of saying that, then no worries, they'll be able to now say I have 500mil gigas and it will carry just as much meaning.