04-09-2006, 02:51 PM
Hureg,Apr 8 2006, 11:36 PM Wrote:sure, happened to me once before - lvl 1** (definately over 100) joined game (it was a bot or something i'm pretty sure) and corrupted my save file within a minute - ie. making the character unusable once i exited the game. In chat after i was a lvl 0 if i recall correctly, couldn't join games or host games as if i was thrown behind a firewall and then when i tried to access the character again, in the character selection screen it would bring up the "select your class for new character" screen. Save was stuffed.
And just how can he modify a file that's not even on his machine? For someone to break into your computer and modify the file, he'd have to do something that's illegal. No trainer program will do that. So, possibilities:
(1) You ran into a black hat (and how many of them play grungy old games?)
(2) Someone figured out how to corrupt other players' save files without needing to access files on the target machine.
(3) Your save file was corrupted by something else.
I've heard this sort of story lots of times, and I've never heard it verified by someone who can explain precisely what happened. So, it just sounds like scare tactics to me. That said, creating character backups is a good idea for lots of reasons -- and the lag monster is no small motivator.
-Lemmy