maybe, no clue, though they should be able to handle the volume case
us.battle.net forums and such going down as well makes me think network, they were extremely slow for about 20 minutes before going totally offline (compared to 200-300ms load times all day)
It's a complex problem, an insanely complex one I'm sure (we don't handle as much load as they do and we're "up there")...I'd be interested to see what issues/bottlenecks they have
they have a few reasons for the online mode, none of which can't be worked around...not that I'm arguing it's trivial (mostly the opposite once you made the server-side decision early) but the online this is not strictly necessary and it's costing them in load at the moment.
The economy is too central to the way D3 works, and if you saw what dupers did to D2, you'd understand the reason for the internet connection required 100%.
@RavenDreamer More that once you make the decision to commit to the 'primary experience' being online play, even if solo, adding an 'offline mode' just introduces confusion, wastes developer resources, etc.
@LessPop_MoreFizz A lot of hacks were able to be used because a lot of things were also on client side and not server side. Things like map-hacks or programs that could cause people to drop items were made available.
@LessPop_MoreFizz Practically all the cheats hacks and dupes were done from a couple of exploits on client side. And there was a TON of hacks, cheats, and dupes, lol.
@Foxtrot Imagine someone hacking in a shooter game and making it so they don't ever die and always have aimbot. Now instead of just effecting a single game, imagine they infest EVERY game. That is basically how bad D2 got lol.
what's the issue with the offline mode with single player and cheating, beyond the item drops (which is solvable, even if it means no selling them in AH)?
@Foxtrot haha. It was great, but it eventually got overloaded by a whole load of derpy. And yea, bots were pretty commonplace. Bots that would run and kill bosses for players, or bots that would just spam players lol
@Foxtrot They tried. They tried a lot. Went through several measures to try to stop it, they did stop it to an extent. But it was a little too late, they let it go for far too long. I mean it was still a good game, but the economy and community was pretty effed up at times.
I dont understand the purpose of botting... Why buy a game if you want to do that? ( Besides wanting to be #1 on the leader board or making money -if AH exists, or selling characters is possible)
@RavenDreamer Chars were stored client-side. Meaning the data was offline, on the client computers. People would alter said data. Then use the result online. Pretty straightforward.
@RavenDreamer I am bad at technical details, but the short version is things like using net cat to insert snippets of single player events into a multiplayer game.
@LessPop_MoreFizz A lot of the duping involved the a lag-based dupe method... there was a time when almost all high runes (Vex, Ohm, Lo, Sur, Ber, Jah, Cham, and Zod), as well as the majority of Ists and a large percentage of Ums and Mals, that are available for trade were all dupes. Nearly all Stones of Jordan, Crowns of Ages, and Tyrael's Mights were dupes as well...
@LessPop_MoreFizz I won't say only but a lot of it is certainly fixed by that. There are probably other workarounds, but an always online experience is certainly the easiest way to do it.
Which is why "We can't have an offline mode because security" makes no sense. You can't hack offline characters into online characters because you don't have online characters to hack into.
@RavenDreamer Exactly. They would have to have a separate offline mode whose characters cannot be used in the online mode. They didn't want to do that.
@RavenDreamer The reason it worked in D2 is because certain server information was stored server side and there were ways to circumvent some of the programming that would allow characters that were normally in single player mode to be forced onto the multiplayer servers.
I'm playing with my boyfriend, and he recommended one of us go Smithing and the other go Jewelcrafting, however I still haven't found the jewelcrafting guy yet and have a decent amount of money, so have been considering putting some money into smithing anyways for when hes not around.
Are you ca...
I know that it's possible to sell gold, items, and consumables on the various Auction Houses within Diablo 3.
Is it also possible to sell actual characters, for instance, if someone wanted to avoid the arduous leveling process?
@RavenDreamer - I don't mind required internet so much as required battle.net entire infrastructure, which is obviously having issues and interfering at the moment
it's certainly a valid argument for others (when I travel for example)...every additional dependency is a negative and we have an unknown number of them at the moment
@RavenDreamer I agree that having it not have an offline mode is a bit silly though. They should have just taken extra efforts to thwart the cheaters. Just took the easy way out though.
It's the on the same timer as Diablo 2.
To wit:
Regular items and gold disappear after exactly 10 minutes.
Magic items will disappear after 20 minutes.
Rare, Set, Crafted, and Unique items will disappear after lying on the
ground for 30 minutes.
Crafting materials are linked to difficulty, so if you want to farm subtle essence, you have to play on Normal. The catch is, all magic items are equivalent when it comes to salvaging - level is irrelevant. The essence you get from A level 25 magic snake is just as good as when it's on a plane ol...
my first baby is due in a few days, so there's not much play time left...this outage really blows (seeing as I get little time to play with all the SO dev anyway)
@RavenDreamer Yeah, it's 'planned' just like the Dance Studio. I'll believe it when it's more than an offhand tweet in response to one person. Blizzard a tendency to acknowledge that they 'want' to do all kinds of things.
@NickT NA releases for the most part seem to be on Tuesday. I've yet to find a clear source for why that is, but if you stop by a Gamestop in NA and ask pretty much any of the employees that has been there a while, they can confirm.
@Fluttershy Which is why I was trying to get a game of Catan going. It seems like some of the regulars (FAE, spugs and ianpugs) already played and went to bed because I saw their game going a little while back.
So, you've logged into D3 and started a game. Your character is running around the world and bashing in/melting skulls.
How much of this is being synchronized with Blizzard's server farms? How much is the client trusted? Is there any P2P going on when you're playing with people?
@RavenDreamer Terrible question. I want to say out of our scope, but that's moreso because I don't think there's an authoritative answer on what isn't run client-side.
@RavenDreamer I know the idea is similar, but the specifics are marginally different. I don't disagree with the closure. I already said it was a terrible question.
Can anyone provide me a few tips on how to survive in eIndia(in the erepublik mmorpg, no one is helping) and by tips, i mean the basic things like don't spend gold, bazookas, don't buy from market etc...so, do not make it lengthy, thank you very much for your help!
Regards
well... @skovacs1 : This may sound like a messed setup, but I am planning to convert the 3 prong to 2 prong to go to an extension cable to go to a power strip. The power strip DOES have ground
I heard that Diablo 3 closed beta players will be getting a Feat of Strength called "One of the Chosen" and a sigil that they can display on their banner.
I understand the sigil part, but I couldn't gather what exactly the Feat of Strength was. What does it do and can I use it for something usef...
@Foxtrot "intended to protect against insulation failure of the connected device" - so your device with the grounded connection out won't be grounded and therefore won't have the above protection against insulation failure. It's unlikely that it will cause an issue, but depending on the device and usage, you should know that there is a slight risk.
If I swap gear mid-combat (perhaps with a hot-key) to switch from heavy DPS to increase % chance of obtaining a blue item, is there any penalty for doing this?
Will I receive a less a % chance if I switch mid-combat than I would if I switch prior to engaging in combat? (Such as: Is there a sma...
Can anyone provide me a few tips on how to survive in eIndia(in the erepublik mmorpg, no one is helping) and by tips, i mean the basic things like don't spend gold, bazookas, don't buy from market etc...so, do not make it lengthy, thank you very much for your help!
Regards
So I have played through the crypts a few times and I have run across two events so far, an endless wave of skeletons that you have to survive and recovering bones for a ghost. Are there any other events here? These two seemed to come with their own achievements which is why I am wondering.
@skovacs1 No, I mean like... It was past midnight in the game, so flares were necessary. Once I figured out how to use flares, I managed to get some bearings and get killed a half mile from my spawn point. lol
TF2 is pretty solid - Free. Lots of players. The Call of Duty series is quite popular - particularly Modern Warfare 3 (or 2). Gears of War series is legendary and has a great story, but the Lambent are zombie-like (lava zombie sort of thing. Not really the same thing, but they are reanimated dead).
Presumably, magic find is going to end up netting you a lot of gold (via eventually giving higher chances for rare+ items). However, focusing on increasing gold drops seems like the immediate win for a early game character (let's say for the first playthrough).
What are the pros/cons of investi...
If I farm King Leoric over and over again, will I get the same drop rates every time? Or is there some kind of reductions on the drops after the first time?
In the Auction House I did not find a way to search for a rare item by name - neither on the public auction search nor on the create auction page.
Is such a search somehow possible? It would be pretty useful to determine a good price for an item. Or should I just salvage/vendor the leveling ye...
Especially with the huge load the Diablo III servers have currently during late afternoon/evening one usually does not want to disconnect as getting back in the game can take quite some time.
However, to auction items, I apparently have to leave the game. Is there a way to access the auction ho...
Here is my setup: This is an ASUS, just a basic cheap computer.
Processor AMD Athlon(tm) II X2 220 Processor, 2800 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)
System Type x64-based PC
OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB
Adapter Description ATI Radeon 3000...
When I am playing Support on Botlane vs Caitlyn ( + her Support ) and she keeps putting her Traps in the Brush, how do I react to that? Should I rather try to take them out in a save second ( by walking over them ) or better just leave them there?
I mean, at the moment I rather clean the brush wh...
I'm mostly curious about how they'll prioritize their actions. Will they just attack the first target they see, attack the target their summoner is, attack targets attacking them, attack targets attacking their summoner, or something along those lines? Do certain pets prioritize certain actions o...
I thought this was extremely obvious, but I was so wrong. I looked for the town portal icon on the toolbar at the bottom, but it's not there? I checked again, no definitely not there! I checked key bindings. The T is supposed to portal me. Pressed it and nothing happened. This led me to think tha...
I was playing Dragon Age:Origins when i came across a trap, however i was unable to interact with it (other than set it off) and as i was in combat at the time, i waited until i had killed all the dark-spawn in the area, however i was still unable to get my rouge character to disable, or even int...
I see a lot of skills (runes) with effects on critical damage and it seems you can potentially have builds based around this alone.
What are the chances I have to do critical damage?
How can I see what my critical chance is?
Does every direct damaging skill have a chance to do critical
damage?
I recently got a page of "The Black Rock Ledger". It cannot be sold and except reading its text it does not seem to have any other purpose (except wasting stash/inventory space).
Should I keep this item? Will it be usable for something later?
I know that the intelligence stat increases elemental resistance. So casters seem to have a nice advantage there.
But what about the other classes? My friend is playing a Monk and while he has good defense, elemental attacks really kill him fast (late Normal, early Nightmare difficulty).
So th...
So I have found that these pages are needed for progressing crafting to grandmaster and illustrious. I have also been able to discover that in nightmare difficulty you get the pages, in hell you get the tomes and then in inferno you get the Tome of Secrets.
What I am looking for is areas where I...
Inscription is the newest profession in World of Warcraft.With Inscription you can make glyphs to use or sell for wow gold and give yourself some sweet shoulder enchants.What's the cheapest way to level inscription in world of warcraft?
I am just starting a Monk build in Diablo 3, and notice that a dual-wielding setup or a weapon/shield combo is far more favorable than using a Daibo, due to the ability to equip more prefixes and faster attack speed.
Are there any reasons to use a Daibo instead, besides the Spirit regeneration b...
Everyone knows the awesome "Stats changed if equipped" tooltip when hovering an item in your inventory.
It is possible to enable such a comparison tooltip for items usable by your follower to see if it's an upgrade for him/her?
When giving my follower a ring with + Magic Find or + Kill XP, will I benefit from it, too?
I assume MF does affect me since a follower cannot loot anything but for XP I'm pretty unsure since followers do have their own XP bar.
Is it possible to set a timer for a running application and save that data somewhere global?
I am doing some volunteer work in an internet cafe where kids are the main users and we would like to get them to do tux math for 10 minutes which they don't do because of the many distractions on the i...
@Wipqozn Seems to fall under @Oak's #6 group of tags, and we still don't really have a lot of consensus and input on that post yet. I fear we won't for a while, with D3 and all.
When giving my follower a ring with + Magic Find or + Kill XP, will I benefit from it, too?
I assume MF does affect me since a follower cannot loot anything but for XP I'm pretty unsure since followers do have their own XP bar.
Followers do not inherently affect monster HP/difficulty, experience (XP) share, or item/gold drops. They're designed to make single-player easier, and there is no statistical disadvantage for using them. They contribute 20% of their added Magic Find, Gold Find, and XP bonuses.1 2 3 4 And, like D...
It's the on the same timer as Diablo 2.
To wit:
Regular items and gold disappear after exactly 10 minutes.
Magic items will disappear after 20 minutes.
Rare, Set, Crafted, and Unique items will disappear after lying on the
ground for 30 minutes.
Here is my setup: This is an ASUS, just a basic cheap computer.
Processor AMD Athlon(tm) II X2 220 Processor, 2800 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)
System Type x64-based PC
OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB
Adapter Description ATI Radeon 3000...
Is it possible to set a timer for a running application and save that data somewhere global?
I am doing some volunteer work in an internet cafe where kids are the main users and we would like to get them to do tux math for 10 minutes which they don't do because of the many distractions on the i...
Specifically, why 80 and not 79, 81 or 100? What is the origin of this particular value?
