Gradual Reduction in MF Effectiveness

[Jarulf]

Jarulf, while I completely agree with you that Blizzard would have to do more work to write and run a modified version of the server code that we have on our PC's on all Realms Servers (they would all have to run the same "mod" so to speak) Blizzard could for their own reasons add a level of difficulty to their configuration control of Diablo II-Server if they chose to.  It would boil down to being a sort of Mod, put on all of their Realms Servers.

I skiped the rest of your message since I think this part is enough for my reply. Anyway, yes, the can of course have a completely different system running on the realms. I know for a fact that it has not been the case before, mainly from asking the programmers (among other things) and if they DID want to have different code for realm and non realm (easy enough with compile switches and so on), why did they not remove for example ALL code and even complete functions (some exported dll functions) that are only ever used on the realms? They have not. And I also tend to believe the programmers. I can think of some added extra stuff to fight duplication of items and some other small cheat preventions that might have been added realm side only in late patches. I have no idea of 1.10 since I have barely looked at it and have not talked with anyone at Blizzard about it though.


To answer the thread in general:
I still stand by the fact that there is absolutley no sense, nor possibility that Blizzard would add something as "stupid" (yes, it is a stupid idea in my opinion, because it gives no enhanced game play effect nor add anything to the game) as a counter to slightly reduce the ammount of unique or set items in some specific, in part complicated to see, situations like killing the same monster many times in a row. There is simply no reason to do it at all, andif the effect is so small that people hardly notice it and even debate it and is unusre of it and want to do tons of runs to see a small pattern, then iteven have no effect.

And no, there is no such seeding at the start (there are tons of other seedings of course, and I have not looke that much at game initialization code to know it all, but I have, and any others, looked at the item generation code (both in the server part and the client part, which at least in old versions was a duplicate and thus not changable on realms only really) and there is NO such thing at all. NONE.