Well, after all these years, I'm playing again

[--Pete]

Hi,

Well I actually run solo on bnet so cheating isn't an issue for me, I mainly elected to go the bnet route for the more challenging and balanced gameplay.

I think you are missing the point here. The differences in D1 are between single player and multi player, not between playing solo locally or on bnet. The only reason to play on bnet is to play in a group. If you are going to play solo, you'll have exactly the same game if you play on your LAN, or by direct connect, or by modem as you would on bnet, with the exception of some of the lag (typically not too much of a problem even on bnet solo since D1 is a peer-to-peer machine).

So, unlike D2 where the only way to play the fully updated multi player game is to play on bnet, there is absolutely no reason to play D1 on bnet unless you want to play with a group.

--Pete