05-08-2006, 12:29 AM
I don't really care if it is cheating or not, it's up to you to decide if you use it or not.
About duping (stash main cheating possibility) :
There are already many ways of duping items, and even if I make it a little easier, I still consider the stash beeing more comfortable than using mule characters.
Anyway, I'm ready to add functionnality to help prevent dupping. I already check if the items you want to take back is already on your character (in inventory or equipped). I could add a check when you deposit an item (don't allow if item is already in stash).
I also had the following ideas (none beeing perfect) :
*Have a stash per character, and a CRC value based on character stored in stash to prevent giving old stash to more recent character. [But I think that sharing items is an important part of this plug-in]
*Have a counter (or CRC value for beeing less readible, but it's the same idea) attached to the stash file, and store it in some registry. This way I could detect if the stash loaded isn't the lastest saved. [But what happens if you reinstall Diablo and want to use old save files ? You will loose your stash]
Anyway my final thought is the following : if you abuse the stash system (dupe books/elixirs, give powerful items to new characters, ...), you will loose fun. Diablo isn't a competition, it's only entertaining (opposed to Starcraft or so).
About duping (stash main cheating possibility) :
There are already many ways of duping items, and even if I make it a little easier, I still consider the stash beeing more comfortable than using mule characters.
Anyway, I'm ready to add functionnality to help prevent dupping. I already check if the items you want to take back is already on your character (in inventory or equipped). I could add a check when you deposit an item (don't allow if item is already in stash).
I also had the following ideas (none beeing perfect) :
*Have a stash per character, and a CRC value based on character stored in stash to prevent giving old stash to more recent character. [But I think that sharing items is an important part of this plug-in]
*Have a counter (or CRC value for beeing less readible, but it's the same idea) attached to the stash file, and store it in some registry. This way I could detect if the stash loaded isn't the lastest saved. [But what happens if you reinstall Diablo and want to use old save files ? You will loose your stash]
Anyway my final thought is the following : if you abuse the stash system (dupe books/elixirs, give powerful items to new characters, ...), you will loose fun. Diablo isn't a competition, it's only entertaining (opposed to Starcraft or so).
Quote:* Although I think it would be nice to be able to choose which way to sort the items for each player's preference; ie. alphabeticly, chronologicly...Both options will be added in a next version.
*I would also enjoy having a seperate menu option to browse uniques for those of us who want to build a unique archive of our own.