A few questions about hallmark

[Evan]

1. the weight is the balance of the account, not the percent of the balance, right?

2. What if the balance of the account is changed? If some money is transfered in or out, does the hallmark need to be regenerated? especially when the balance becomes less than the weight.

3. Since a part of the balance can be used as weight, does the weight of the hallmark affect the balance used in mining/forging?

4. A hallmark ties an account/balance to an IP address, does this mean that it will make login from other IPs with the account invalid?

[abctc]

1. the weight is a relative portion of the account's balance. The weight is needed only if you use the same account on several your nodes.
For example: the account's balance is 1000 NXT
hallmark for your node #1 made with weight=1  (25% of total weights)
hallmark for your node #2 made with weight=3  (75% of total weights)
sum of all weights = 1+3 = 4
So effective hallmark's value for node #1 will be 0.25*1000 = 250 NXT,
and effective hallmark's value for node #2 will be 0.75*1000 = 750 NXT

2. say you spent 200 NXT from your 1000 NXT, then
effective hallmark's value for node #1 will be 0.25*800 = 200 NXT,
effective hallmark's value for node #2 will be 0.75*800 = 600 NXT

3. No, forging is a completely different process.

4. No, login from other IPs is a completely different story.

[Evan]

1. the weight is a relative portion of the account's balance. The weight is needed only if you use the same account on several your nodes.
For example: the account's balance is 1000 NXT
hallmark for your node #1 made with weight=1  (25% of total weights)
hallmark for your node #2 made with weight=3  (75% of total weights)
sum of all weights = 1+3 = 4
So effective hallmark's value for node #1 will be 0.25*1000 = 250 NXT,
and effective hallmark's value for node #2 will be 0.75*1000 = 750 NXT

2. say you spent 200 NXT from your 1000 NXT, then
effective hallmark's value for node #1 will be 0.25*800 = 200 NXT,
effective hallmark's value for node #1 will be 0.75*800 = 600 NXT

3. No, forging is a completely different process.

4. No, login from other IPs is a completely different story.

very clear explanation, thank you very much.