I agree with the "can't happen" people on this one. Diablo doesn't accept your character data from the network connection, so even if some moron does set your character to a really messed up state, he has to convince the game that you yourself did it. Since you are a good non-cheater and not running any routines that have modified this section of memory, there is no way this can happen. All he does is modify how his client sees your character (until your client updates his, like when you die or change armor ;-) ). As far as character data is concerned, all a person can do is make the game run the way they want it to on their own system, they can't force it down anyone else's throat. Now information about your character that IS received, like attack damage, can be modified and sent via modified clients and therefore you get autokill, etc. This is why townkill doesn't work anymore. Blizzard put an exception to attack spells that says you cannot be harmed in town. Just because Joe_Trainer_User has modified his client to ignore that rule doesn't mean your client ignores that rule, and such the client knows that when you have been "attacked" by 100000 damage in town, it knows that it must be an illegal operation and doesn't do anything to you except report that some idiot is trying to perform illegal operations on you =)
And I can't remember a time when you DIDN'T play private games with people you knew to get away from cheating, and I started playing back in early 1998. This is hardly a new situation.
And I can't remember a time when you DIDN'T play private games with people you knew to get away from cheating, and I started playing back in early 1998. This is hardly a new situation.