Anyone have Moomba's Trainer?

[Thecla]

Well, malach, I'm afraid even as far as Diablo goes, your post is about 7 years late to this topic. It's long been determined that there is no way to draw a completely definitive line between legit play and cheating, but the strictly enforced ethos here is in favor of absolutely legit play, according to a strict moral standard in preference to an impossible-to-define and arbitrary legal standard. So these debates are rather pointless. Really, given a properly informed understanding of the game, it's a matter of intention more than legalities.

For what it's worth, here are my answers to your questions, which barely scratch the surface.

1. Is it cheating to use items such as trainers or editors to upgrade a character to a point where he/she can play with other members of a party; e.g., enter Hell/Hell?

Yes, of course.

2. If everyone in the game knew that an individual was using such practices and were willing to accept it, would it still be cheating?

Of course it would be.

3. If all players in the multiplayer environment knew that these practices might be taking place, is it cheating to use them secretly?

Are you serious?

4 .Is the individual who has the time and the inclination to make a thousand runs through the first four levels in order to upgrade his Thinking Cap to a durability of twenty one, any less of a cheater than the player, who, with less time, hacks his TC to durability twenty one?

Shrine runs=legit; hacks=cheating (duh!)

5. If one player professes to be friendly, is it cheating if he PK’s another player, or even worse, leads the second player into a trap where he is MK’d?

No, PK/MK is not the same thing as cheating (some people have certainly argued in the other direction, but IMO they're just wrong).

What about single player?

Yes you can cheat in the single player game, for 'bad' or 'good' reasons, but who cares? For sure, I don't so long as your character never ever interacts with the multiplayer community.

Are new lurkers are considered “guilty until proven innocent” or did I miss something obvious?

Give me a break. New lurkers, or old lurkers, who post asking for trainers are with very good reason indeed considered “guilty until proven innocent” -- actually they're considered "guilty and proven guilty" so jfb actually got off very easily.

Diablo was a great game, but public games suffered a rapid descent into absurdity because of hacks and cheats (Diablo II didn't fare much better) -- no better explanation of the vehement hatred of cheats (and the people who ask for them) from anyone who loved the game (like the people here).