At about level 150 I received a quest for an item.  Obtaining it, it basically triples the gold you receive, dramatically improves your magic, and multiplies all the damage you do by 2.5!  Talk about tempting….

But at the end of the day your ethics are your own – and with luck I’ll find one in the next 100 levels of playing!

Overflow is when the number of bits used to represent information is less than is needed.  For integers , overflow makes really big numbers look negative.  Further, as the you add to these numbers, the negative numbers get smaller in magnitude – so they approach zero.

My gold piece total is negative, and as I sell items it gets closer to zero. Overflowing at a bit over a billion means Wild Tangent probably built the game using 32 bit integers.  Assuming that the experience counter was also built using a 32 bit integer, it also should have problems at above a billion.  However, may have taken the code apart to write a message to the leaderboard telling it that they scored the 2 billion high score.