Question from road to the show
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Hi!! I have two questions….
1- why when you have 255 home runs it resets and starts over again?
2- why in “the road to the show” you get out of the roster after the first playoff round??
Please help!
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That's what the game is programed to with the 255 HRs and no they can't change it because they don't want people hitting that many in 1 season
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@juancora01_PSN said in Question from road to the show:
1- why when you have 255 home runs it resets and starts over again?
Look up 'Y2K'. Same reason.
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@juancora01_PSN said in Question from road to the show:
Hi!! I have two questions….
1- why when you have 255 home runs it resets and starts over again?
For some reason they are either storing or loading the home run total into a byte-size lice of memory, which only stores numbers up to 255 (because a byte “can only hold 256 numbers”, and 0 is included). If it gets bigger than that, it will not load/save any information bigger than than byte, and just cut it off.
So, pretend memory used the base-10 number system instead of base-2 and a byte could only store numbers up to 99 (100 numbers, but 0 is included). What happens when you are at 99 homeruns and hit 1 more? Well, it does all the math it’s suppose to: adds 1 to 99 and gets 100. But, it can only store up to two digits, so it stores the last two… 00. Next home run you hit, it loads your previous total which it now reads as zero, and then adds 1 to make 1 home run instead of 101.
Honestly… that’s a choice SDS made in their programming. In today’s world, one extra byte of memory/storage is nothing (meaning you could store all the way up to 65535 home runs before rolling over).
