whathuh,Oct 25 2004, 12:02 AM Wrote:I never asked for the legitimacy (personally, I think its fine, as explained in various other posts) of my dad's cheating habit, I only used it as the source of where I found the Ilvl finder in response to MEAT's post. If you will reread all my posts after Griselda's, you might notice that my questions were answered, and I indirectly stated so.
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By posting his reasons (and yours) for using Maphack you have invited comment upon the legitimacy of the useage. In fact this entire thread is about whether it is ethical for you to use a third party program in conjunction with Diablo 2.
Now weighing in with my opinion. If your Dad can't compete in hell than its time to go back to Normal and Nightmare. Hell difficulty is meant to be hell in both single player and multi-player. This is by design to be the most challenging part of the game. By relying upon a cheat your father is lessening that challenge and might as well be playing Nightmare. Besides its not like there are story arcs in Hell difficulty that do not exist in Normal or Nightmare.
As far as your use of Maphack to determine the item level of an item to me it feels like you're wanting to take the easy way out instead of figuring the item's level out yourself based on the area level. But I'm staunchly anti-maphack. :)