Pick up and serve yourself!?

[the Langolier]

As they stubbornly argued, i just showed them that that my ammy (wyrms of wizardry) isnt exactly the dragons of zodiac their scanners claims to be, or my thinking helm which they said was a demonspike helm, (yes there are helms, rings, ammys, and complete all body demonspike coats now......)

Wyrms of Wizardry? Try again. That doesn't exist in multiplayer. And BTW, scanners do indeed work. Each item in diablo has a unique code that contains all the information about it. This is how the game knows what the item you equip does, as well as detect duplicate items, etc. The theory of scanners is simple: they look into diablos memory and report back all the information of a character. They also usually check to make sure values are in valid ranges, and some compare the unique item code to a list of "commonly duped items" - which I don't think is accurate anyways.

Sometimes hacks can make items drop more frequently, or force better drops. Often times, however, these hacks generate faulty unique item codes, which report incorrect information to other users. It is not uncommon for these hacks to produce unique items with incorrect qlvls, so this might cause your thinking cap to show up.

In the end, scanners are not very accurate, and really turn out to be useless if you are trying to judge someones legitimacy (although I do have to say that whoever coded them must have been very extensive to provide checks for all the rules for item generation. If you have glanced Jaralf's guide you would know how confusing it can be). They follow their parameters perfectly, but the problem is that is would be virtually impossible to set up initial parameters that worked for EVERY specific case (player) out there. Happy posting.

--Lang