07-02-2004, 07:37 PM
What are you asking exactly? Are you looking for clearification on how the game works, or looking for a conspiracy theory? Heh :P
A server side patch will not change a games source code, and if it did it would function the same in single player as in multiplayer. I do not have any real knowledge of actual code, but as far as I know diablo 2 has the program (which contains the source code) this is a list of commands it follows. It then looks in the mpq for the information for the commands, and puts it together into a happy little game. And if something is server side, then it looks for a file on blizz's server, rather than one on your computer (for whatever change needs to be made). So server side patches for MF are possible.
I beleive the general consensus is if there is a magic find difference online, it would have to be through a server side patch.
As complex as it may seem to us 'normal folk', implimenting a 'mf counter bugger dealie' is not very hard to do (but this does NOT mean it must exist . . . until there is proof this is all ridiculous hearsay).
If you are in search of answers, sorry to say that the only real way to find out is one heck of a lot of runs, under strict observation and notation.
-Munk
A server side patch will not change a games source code, and if it did it would function the same in single player as in multiplayer. I do not have any real knowledge of actual code, but as far as I know diablo 2 has the program (which contains the source code) this is a list of commands it follows. It then looks in the mpq for the information for the commands, and puts it together into a happy little game. And if something is server side, then it looks for a file on blizz's server, rather than one on your computer (for whatever change needs to be made). So server side patches for MF are possible.
I beleive the general consensus is if there is a magic find difference online, it would have to be through a server side patch.
As complex as it may seem to us 'normal folk', implimenting a 'mf counter bugger dealie' is not very hard to do (but this does NOT mean it must exist . . . until there is proof this is all ridiculous hearsay).
If you are in search of answers, sorry to say that the only real way to find out is one heck of a lot of runs, under strict observation and notation.
-Munk