02-19-2004, 03:26 AM
The realm game is the same as the TCP/IP game and the single player game. From a development point of view, that's perfectly fine and would fall under "good practices". Why make diverging code trees; that would only be more code to support.
What I was getting at was the true server part of the game. The actual core game part runs in single player, then the client (graphics, sound, inputs etc) interacts with it. On the realm, the client interacts with the game part over a TCP/IP connection, established by way of battle.net. That's all well and good. But, that's where our certainty of what truly is going on stops. We, not you or I, truly know if there is another server side module that runs in the background that is communicating via some sort of IPC to the "server". The game code is the same as single player, but somewhere along the line, drop statistics are being skewed by another server process.
As far as drop results go, I am not making anything up. Nor am I suffering from what rriggs refers to as "Gambler's Falacy". The results are real. The more runs you do, the worse your drop gets (with regard to the number of uniques and set items dropping). If there is no extra process that affects game drops (maybe there isn't, because the same phenomena happens in SP), then it's in the code somewhere. Blizzard has stated, already, that the first kill gives you better loot that the next kill. Who's to say that it doesn't keep getting worse and worse. I know that there are special TC's for "Baal 1st Kill" and "Meph 1st kill", so those are special cases. But, maybe the character files stored on the server have that special counter variable? Maybe the "extra" process holds it? It could just be a floating point number that is multiplied against the amount of MF the character has to reduce it. Who knows what and where it is, if it exists at all.
The point is, there is something going on. I'm not willing to dismiss it just yet because it actually happens.
Think about all those people that get abducted by aliens. I sure don't believe that they were abducted by aliens of all things, but where the hell did they go off to for 4 days? Maybe someone took them and raped them for a few days, and their subconscious made up a story that made it easier to deal with. That doesn't matter -- what does matter is that this person was gone for 4 days and their corn-hole hurts a damn hell of a lot.
MEAT and Vash corroborate my "run" results. Just because whereagles claims to have made up this "hoax", it doesn't mean that it's not an actual phenomenon.
What would be nice is if we had definitive proof one way or the other. If indeed there was a mechanism stopping runners from getting or doing anything productive, well, it would be in Blizzard's best interest to keep quiet about it, that is, if they really cared about people getting items the "easy" way...
What I was getting at was the true server part of the game. The actual core game part runs in single player, then the client (graphics, sound, inputs etc) interacts with it. On the realm, the client interacts with the game part over a TCP/IP connection, established by way of battle.net. That's all well and good. But, that's where our certainty of what truly is going on stops. We, not you or I, truly know if there is another server side module that runs in the background that is communicating via some sort of IPC to the "server". The game code is the same as single player, but somewhere along the line, drop statistics are being skewed by another server process.
As far as drop results go, I am not making anything up. Nor am I suffering from what rriggs refers to as "Gambler's Falacy". The results are real. The more runs you do, the worse your drop gets (with regard to the number of uniques and set items dropping). If there is no extra process that affects game drops (maybe there isn't, because the same phenomena happens in SP), then it's in the code somewhere. Blizzard has stated, already, that the first kill gives you better loot that the next kill. Who's to say that it doesn't keep getting worse and worse. I know that there are special TC's for "Baal 1st Kill" and "Meph 1st kill", so those are special cases. But, maybe the character files stored on the server have that special counter variable? Maybe the "extra" process holds it? It could just be a floating point number that is multiplied against the amount of MF the character has to reduce it. Who knows what and where it is, if it exists at all.
The point is, there is something going on. I'm not willing to dismiss it just yet because it actually happens.
Think about all those people that get abducted by aliens. I sure don't believe that they were abducted by aliens of all things, but where the hell did they go off to for 4 days? Maybe someone took them and raped them for a few days, and their subconscious made up a story that made it easier to deal with. That doesn't matter -- what does matter is that this person was gone for 4 days and their corn-hole hurts a damn hell of a lot.
MEAT and Vash corroborate my "run" results. Just because whereagles claims to have made up this "hoax", it doesn't mean that it's not an actual phenomenon.
What would be nice is if we had definitive proof one way or the other. If indeed there was a mechanism stopping runners from getting or doing anything productive, well, it would be in Blizzard's best interest to keep quiet about it, that is, if they really cared about people getting items the "easy" way...
"Yay! We did it!"
"Who are you?"
"Um, uh... just ... a guy." *flee*
"Who are you?"
"Um, uh... just ... a guy." *flee*