Hi,
Any fool can learn from his mistakes. A smart person learns from the mistakes of others.
I strongly doubt your few paltry hours of playing the game will teach you anything that the combined efforts of dozens of people over a three year period failed to find. Especially since some of those people (Jarulf, Crystalion) pretty much took the whole executable apart and figured out how the game did everything.
There are two aspects of game knowledge: knowing how the game works and knowing how to play the game. Bumping your character up five points at a time here and there will accomplish neither. And learning that your character's data is stored in reverse big endian alternate skip zeros run length encoded format is not only useless, but the very desire to do that show that you are clueless as to how to analyze a game.
You want to learn all about D1? Read freshman Diablo. Skim Jarulf's guide, then refer to it often as you play. Go golden (in multi player) with a level 30 beyond naked mage. Ditto with a rogue using only short bows and a level sixish stone curse. Get a character, any character, up to forty. Play a few variants.
Don't waste your time pondering the code (where there is some information, but better minds than yours or mine have already mined it all) and especially don't waste your time with the saved files where there is *nothing* you can't get from Jarulf's easier and faster.
--Pete
Any fool can learn from his mistakes. A smart person learns from the mistakes of others.
I strongly doubt your few paltry hours of playing the game will teach you anything that the combined efforts of dozens of people over a three year period failed to find. Especially since some of those people (Jarulf, Crystalion) pretty much took the whole executable apart and figured out how the game did everything.
There are two aspects of game knowledge: knowing how the game works and knowing how to play the game. Bumping your character up five points at a time here and there will accomplish neither. And learning that your character's data is stored in reverse big endian alternate skip zeros run length encoded format is not only useless, but the very desire to do that show that you are clueless as to how to analyze a game.
You want to learn all about D1? Read freshman Diablo. Skim Jarulf's guide, then refer to it often as you play. Go golden (in multi player) with a level 30 beyond naked mage. Ditto with a rogue using only short bows and a level sixish stone curse. Get a character, any character, up to forty. Play a few variants.
Don't waste your time pondering the code (where there is some information, but better minds than yours or mine have already mined it all) and especially don't waste your time with the saved files where there is *nothing* you can't get from Jarulf's easier and faster.
--Pete
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