09-30-2003, 09:59 AM
Quote:Ruvanal's techniques, given the accounts/computers of course, can be used to put eight characters into nightmare difficulty in a few man hours, and potentially not hugely more than that to repeat it to get them all into hell. The techniques are not necessarily difficult to understand or to execute. Ruvanal's position--if I may be so bold as to summarize it--is that since this *can* be done it inevitably *will* be done, to the detriment of "ordinary" players, who might prefer to not have a wrecked or EBay dominated economy for the new ladder. He and I, therefore, are in agreement that certain aspects of rushing probably should be reined in a bit for v1.10 release, prior to the start of the ladder.
Good summary of the point. The only thing that might be added is " within a couple of weeks of the ladder starting."
Quote:The times you cite are probably a bit optimistic, as v1.10 does make several things a little more time consuming than v1.09.They do not seem to be very optimistic from what I have seen beening done players already. From the looks of it, I would guess that DarkPhenomenon probably 'knows' already what you have termed the "Ruvanal's sleaze", just not by a term like that. ;) When I wrote that first post about it a while ago, the general opnion among many of the more knowledgable (but not the more expert like yourself Crystalion) was that the changes in rushing had put a definate end to the ability to rush; particualrly without having to level every character involved. I wnated to make sure that some saw that assumption was completely wrong.