Interface Induced Caps ("all nines"): These are caps of 9, 99, 999, 9999, and so on - the cap is imposed due to the limited space on a menu/status/inventory screen allocated for displaying it.Interestingly, this produced results visually indistinguishably from: Related were binary-coded decimal variables in earlier games, where each decimal digit is stored in exactly four bits BCD requires special corrections when doing arithmetic operations, but was much simpler to display and was thus used in many older games (where the programmer had to do all that fiddly stuff by hand) for score counters.Such caps are typically one less than an exact power of two, like 127, 255, 32,767, 65,535, which correspond to common formats for integers. That size determines the range of the variable. Computers generally store variables (a "variable" is any number that can change, such as HP or MP) in a given location of a fixed size. Hardware Imposed Cap: In computer games, caps are sometimes imposed by the hardware.For example, you might be limited to carrying 15 bombs so you can't plow through the entire game throwing bombs at everything. Designer Imposed Cap: A cap deliberately set by the designers, usually to keep play balanced or as an Anti-Hoarding measure.See Arbitrary Headcount Limit for more details on this. The maximum amount of units, either of a specific kind or all together, that you can have on the field at once in a Real Time or Turn-Based Strategy game. Many fighting games which count the number of hits in a combo will stop counting at some point, 99 being a popular limit. Among fans of Shmups, this is known as a "counter stop," or "kansuto" in Japanese. Reaching the maximum score in a given game was a point of honor among gamers. This is especially possible in games from the Atari 2600 generation, since they can go on without end if one is a good enough player. In older games that kept score, it's often possible to amass a score higher than the game can track. Usually has no effect on gameplay, unless the programmers royally screwed up (such as in the case of the Berry Glitch from early versions of Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire). The Paper Mario games, for example, stop counting your time at ninety-nine hours, fifty-nine minutes, fifty-nine seconds. In games or situations in which you are being timed, the time usually has some upper limit at which it stops counting. Combined with the Hyperspace Arsenal, this can create weird situations, such as the ability to carry 99 Potions and 99 Hi-Potions, but not 100 Potions and 0 Hi-Potions. The maximum amount of a single item you're allowed to carry. Levels themselves often have a cap as well, which may or may not come before reaching other stat caps. In some games, characters' stats cap only at unfeasibly high levels, but in others (notably the Fire Emblem series) the caps are reachable at normal levels and thus are a big deal.
The point at which a character's statistics can go no higher. This one is most likely to be set with game balance in mind, but usually only succeeds in making weaker multi-hit attacks better than single strong attacks. Even if the character is strong enough that his attacks would do more based on the game's damage calculation system, any damage past the cap is not dealt. Many RPGs cap the amount of damage that can be done by a single attack. This has a variety of uses in game design, but the gamer is concerned with caps in only a handful of instances: Once you've hit the cap for that particular element, any other factors which would exceed that limit are silently ignored, and may as well not have happened at all. The maximum quantity of something that a game allows.
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