07-18-2006, 07:15 AM
Quote:The bottom line is, it is impossible for a common dupes list to have any kind of reliability. There is just flat out no way that on public b.net you can discern the difference between the possibility of ~100 identical legit obs/zods, and the possibility that I find one nobody else has ever found, dupe it, and trade or use it on 2 or 3 separate characters. Almost nobody seems to really grock this, and that is a large reason why scanners are capable of doing more harm than good in the general case.
*grok
Howsabout this for a general rule of thumb: Do not use the scanner to determine the legitimacy of others until you can make such a judgment without it with (arbitrary number time!) 90% accuracy. By the time you are this competent with the game, you should be able to avoid false positives and such on your scanner. 'Course you don't really need it now...
Quote:Kp' date='Jul 17 2006, 08:59 PM' post='113969']
With regard to Merlinios' remark about bogus duplicates in inventory: that's a Diablo bug. It sends notifications when you equip/unequip gear, but never updates other players' view of your inventory. Thus, scanners tend to report a duplicate if you equip an item which was in your inventory when the scanner user entered the game. As an interesting side effect, this can also be used in reverse to conceal an item from a scanner. By having the item equipped when the scanner user joins, then moving it to your inventory, it vanishes from the scanner's view entirely.
Ah, thank you. I remember a lot of bugs from way back in the days of yore, but not necessarily their causes. You'll probably see a lot of bugs with faulty causes springing forth from me.
--me