While I think this is a bit of a shame, you have actually answered your own question. For a twenty-player LAN game, you need exactly one WC2 CD to get the media from, which is 19 less than Blizzard implied in the license. Further, it clearly states on the box what the minimum system requirements are to use the CD, and they include Windows. If the Wine project was just about duping Windows kernel functionality and expecting the end user to copy all the cabs off of a Windows CD for decent fucntionality, I'm sure Microsoft would be unimpressed as well.
Cheers. BST though? first thing I did was search for "GMT" and got nothing. Of course it should have been listed in GMT in the first place, but let America have its silly little ways if it keeps it from crying I suppose.
Because I actually talk to people in-game, in the chat rooms and on the forums. And if you don't find it fun, go play another game: That excuse is abut as legitimate as using duped super-jewellry because you don't think [i]dying[/i] is very fun.
Because people like you (i.e. rushers who've never even *seen* large chunks of each tileset) are the ones who eventually get bored / lucky with their lot of endless runs for equipment and experience and then start selling things on eBay, spoiling the economy by maintaining dozens of mules worth of equipment for bartering and player-killing. You aren't even playing in the spirit of the game as-is. Blizzard rebalanced skills with each patch to make the game competitive for *everyone*, and cutting off avenues of easy riches is just another way of balancing.
Just IMAGINE if all of a sudden *every* rusher dropped dead and everyone had to find their way through each act alone, picking up equipment from the fallen in drips and drabs and trading their legit junk for other people's legit junk. The D2 fora would not consist of people asking what exact selection of one-in-three-million-boss-drops equipment they need for mathematically perfect cow-killing, for a start.
1) Maphack has nothing to do with PKing (not in my experience anyway), everything to do with getting maps (duh).
What a lot of drivel. Maphack's primary use is inventory-sniffing, that's why people get so attached to it. Rare are the BNet players who bother venturing into areas such as the Spider Forests where one actually NEEDS a map after they've gotten to the other side of them. The vast majority of players simply hang around open areas like Act 5 or do boss runs, and the only reason they use Maphack is so they can immediately quit if anyone with hacked / super equipment hostiles them.
And believe me, they are at least 1/2 of all players. You may not know it, because you're probably still stuck in normal or nightmare difficulty, but there's large numbers of people who play with maphack and thoroughly enjoy it. About 4/5ths of all Hell difficulty games are cow runs - and all those who do cow runs are power players, who will definitely be using maphack.
Yes, Maphack cuts down cow run time by ensuring it takes a fraction of the time for someone to get Wirt's leg and open the portal. Personally if I were a Blizzard employee I'd be rather pissed off at having spent so much time designing a game world just so that everybody over a certain level spent their entire time running around a secret level for experience.
I have no time for people who deliberately exploit flaws in the code for advantage. This includes people who dupe Burizas and sell them on eBay, but also those who do nothing but cow runs from level eight onwards and half a day later start running around open games at lv 85 killing players.
Incidentally, idiot mods should note that seeing as Battle.net is hosting several hundred thousand games at the moment it is unlikely to have Slashdotting troubles. Go mod a goatse up for kicks or something instead.
I've never used Maphack. Then again, I don't play until I reach level 99 or rely on trading for duplicated Uniques, like "1/2 of the people who still play Diablo 2".
Maphack may be benign but it's still a lame cheat. I've been PKed exactly once outside of a duel in several hundred hours of Realm play, so I don't buy that it's necessary. Good riddance to several hundred thousand maphacking Burizons if they leave because they actually have to guess what their companions are wearing.
Nope. Muling's both legal and harmless (okay, it harms the economy in that it reduces scarceness over time, but it doesn't result directly in the death of other characters like cloning greatswords does)....but you'd know that, had you read the article instead of frostpissing.
Oh right. In that case the Saturn and Xbox's crappy huge control pads are bonus points then?
Just because something is so retarded that people will actually pay good money to fix it (buy an Afterburner or a new pad) doesn't make it a good idea.
Factory Panic on the Game Gear didn't have a save feature and took longer to complete than you could run it without the adapter in. Grrrrrreat thinking.
Actually the N64 version of Starcraft is fantastic. Somehow they actually made the controls fairly useful. And more importantly, they let you select more than nine units at once, which actually makes the game *more* playable than the PC version on occasion.
Now Theme Park on the Mega Drive is another story.
Maybe they *did* get some random Russian to do all the text. Much like all those Texans with Kanji tattoos, you'll know if you see any tanks zooming by with BOYS BOTTOMS printed on the turret in Cyrillic...
You could do in with Shoot-Em-Up Construction Kit on the C64 in a couple of nights. That's with breaks for tea and childrens' TV as well. Oh, and that's seven-year-olds. Before children have their enthusiasm kicked out of them in secondary school, they can do literally anything.
No, you pointed at two people who have exhibited bullish tendencies. They didn't do so because they were jealous of the United States, they did so because European politics consists largely of penis fights. The last place any militaristic Frenchman draws inspiration from is the Bush administration. And thus you classically fail to understand that resentmant and resistance to the actions of a party does not imply jealousy.
Chirac doesn't act arrogantly and in his own interests because he's jealous that America can do so. He does it because he's French. End of argument.
External linking in the case of porn sites meaning "deep linking and pretending it's your content", and external linking in the case of slashdot and 2600 meaning "here's something on another site you might like". When having a debate, it helps to actually have a short term memory. Thank you.
So the reason that office workers would use the work's CD on their home machines instead of forking out hundreds of quid for their own... is because of software pirates?
I'm glad I've earned a few karma in the last day or so, because when I call you a fucking idiot for that pathetic conclusion I'm going to lose two of it.
The principle behind the metric system is using base ten and standard affixes. if you adhere to the principles of a system without using its labels, you are using the system in "everything but name", no?
Okay, you aren't using "decifeet", but I think the originally comment was meant a bit more light-heartedly than making a solid scientific assertion.
Actually I just needed a suitable weighty end-of-line noun, and "luddite" was weighty enough without being sweary:)
The traditional meaning of 'luddite' has been diluted in recent years though (especially with modern IT advances) and is often used simply to refer to those who oppose technological changes in favour of tradition, rather than those who would actually resort to attacking the machinery with their clogs. heh.
Our "tradition and heritage" resulted in a currency system which was frankly stupid and difficult. Luckily our heritage has also taught us that occasionally progress should be made in spite of tradition, rather than simply sticking to our backwards ways out of some misguided allegiance to the past.
That's true, but likely it was intended as a flame rather than a debating point. Anyway, who needs anyone else to make parodies when the offenders in question are doing such a good job of sending themselves up?
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While I think this is a bit of a shame, you have actually answered your own question. For a twenty-player LAN game, you need exactly one WC2 CD to get the media from, which is 19 less than Blizzard implied in the license. Further, it clearly states on the box what the minimum system requirements are to use the CD, and they include Windows. If the Wine project was just about duping Windows kernel functionality and expecting the end user to copy all the cabs off of a Windows CD for decent fucntionality, I'm sure Microsoft would be unimpressed as well.
- Chris
Informative, it gets! Informative!
- Chris
Cheers. BST though? first thing I did was search for "GMT" and got nothing. Of course it should have been listed in GMT in the first place, but let America have its silly little ways if it keeps it from crying I suppose.
- Chris
remember this comment well, for when you get the opportunity to meta-mod the parent post's crack-addict "Informative" rating into the Netherworld./b.
Because I actually talk to people in-game, in the chat rooms and on the forums. And if you don't find it fun, go play another game: That excuse is abut as legitimate as using duped super-jewellry because you don't think [i]dying[/i] is very fun.
- Chris
Because people like you (i.e. rushers who've never even *seen* large chunks of each tileset) are the ones who eventually get bored / lucky with their lot of endless runs for equipment and experience and then start selling things on eBay, spoiling the economy by maintaining dozens of mules worth of equipment for bartering and player-killing. You aren't even playing in the spirit of the game as-is. Blizzard rebalanced skills with each patch to make the game competitive for *everyone*, and cutting off avenues of easy riches is just another way of balancing.
Just IMAGINE if all of a sudden *every* rusher dropped dead and everyone had to find their way through each act alone, picking up equipment from the fallen in drips and drabs and trading their legit junk for other people's legit junk. The D2 fora would not consist of people asking what exact selection of one-in-three-million-boss-drops equipment they need for mathematically perfect cow-killing, for a start.
- Chris
1) Maphack has nothing to do with PKing (not in my experience anyway), everything to do with getting maps (duh).
What a lot of drivel. Maphack's primary use is inventory-sniffing, that's why people get so attached to it. Rare are the BNet players who bother venturing into areas such as the Spider Forests where one actually NEEDS a map after they've gotten to the other side of them. The vast majority of players simply hang around open areas like Act 5 or do boss runs, and the only reason they use Maphack is so they can immediately quit if anyone with hacked / super equipment hostiles them.
And believe me, they are at least 1/2 of all players. You may not know it, because you're probably still stuck in normal or nightmare difficulty, but there's large numbers of people who play with maphack and thoroughly enjoy it. About 4/5ths of all Hell difficulty games are cow runs - and all those who do cow runs are power players, who will definitely be using maphack.
Yes, Maphack cuts down cow run time by ensuring it takes a fraction of the time for someone to get Wirt's leg and open the portal. Personally if I were a Blizzard employee I'd be rather pissed off at having spent so much time designing a game world just so that everybody over a certain level spent their entire time running around a secret level for experience.
I have no time for people who deliberately exploit flaws in the code for advantage. This includes people who dupe Burizas and sell them on eBay, but also those who do nothing but cow runs from level eight onwards and half a day later start running around open games at lv 85 killing players.
- Chris
Incidentally, idiot mods should note that seeing as Battle.net is hosting several hundred thousand games at the moment it is unlikely to have Slashdotting troubles. Go mod a goatse up for kicks or something instead.
- Chris
I've never used Maphack. Then again, I don't play until I reach level 99 or rely on trading for duplicated Uniques, like "1/2 of the people who still play Diablo 2".
Maphack may be benign but it's still a lame cheat. I've been PKed exactly once outside of a duel in several hundred hours of Realm play, so I don't buy that it's necessary. Good riddance to several hundred thousand maphacking Burizons if they leave because they actually have to guess what their companions are wearing.
- Chris
Nope. Muling's both legal and harmless (okay, it harms the economy in that it reduces scarceness over time, but it doesn't result directly in the death of other characters like cloning greatswords does). ...but you'd know that, had you read the article instead of frostpissing.
- Chris
Oh right. In that case the Saturn and Xbox's crappy huge control pads are bonus points then?
Just because something is so retarded that people will actually pay good money to fix it (buy an Afterburner or a new pad) doesn't make it a good idea.
Factory Panic on the Game Gear didn't have a save feature and took longer to complete than you could run it without the adapter in. Grrrrrreat thinking.
- Chris
Actually the N64 version of Starcraft is fantastic. Somehow they actually made the controls fairly useful. And more importantly, they let you select more than nine units at once, which actually makes the game *more* playable than the PC version on occasion.
Now Theme Park on the Mega Drive is another story.
- Chris
Maybe they *did* get some random Russian to do all the text. Much like all those Texans with Kanji tattoos, you'll know if you see any tanks zooming by with BOYS BOTTOMS printed on the turret in Cyrillic...
- Chris
You could do in with Shoot-Em-Up Construction Kit on the C64 in a couple of nights. That's with breaks for tea and childrens' TV as well. Oh, and that's seven-year-olds. Before children have their enthusiasm kicked out of them in secondary school, they can do literally anything.
- Chris
No, you pointed at two people who have exhibited bullish tendencies. They didn't do so because they were jealous of the United States, they did so because European politics consists largely of penis fights. The last place any militaristic Frenchman draws inspiration from is the Bush administration. And thus you classically fail to understand that resentmant and resistance to the actions of a party does not imply jealousy.
Chirac doesn't act arrogantly and in his own interests because he's jealous that America can do so. He does it because he's French. End of argument.
- Chris
External linking in the case of porn sites meaning "deep linking and pretending it's your content", and external linking in the case of slashdot and 2600 meaning "here's something on another site you might like". When having a debate, it helps to actually have a short term memory. Thank you.
- Chris
Look in his title. WOOO!
- Chris
So the reason that office workers would use the work's CD on their home machines instead of forking out hundreds of quid for their own... is because of software pirates?
I'm glad I've earned a few karma in the last day or so, because when I call you a fucking idiot for that pathetic conclusion I'm going to lose two of it.
- Chris
I believe the line you were looking for is "you insensitive clod".
- Chris
2600.com weren't linking without permission of the linkee. But nice troll.
- Chris
Oh, that's a clever response. Because lots of people are envious of Jacques Chirac. What's that, you've completely lost track of the argument?
- Chris
The principle behind the metric system is using base ten and standard affixes. if you adhere to the principles of a system without using its labels, you are using the system in "everything but name", no?
Okay, you aren't using "decifeet", but I think the originally comment was meant a bit more light-heartedly than making a solid scientific assertion.
- Chris
Actually I just needed a suitable weighty end-of-line noun, and "luddite" was weighty enough without being sweary :)
The traditional meaning of 'luddite' has been diluted in recent years though (especially with modern IT advances) and is often used simply to refer to those who oppose technological changes in favour of tradition, rather than those who would actually resort to attacking the machinery with their clogs. heh.
- Chris
Our "tradition and heritage" resulted in a currency system which was frankly stupid and difficult. Luckily our heritage has also taught us that occasionally progress should be made in spite of tradition, rather than simply sticking to our backwards ways out of some misguided allegiance to the past.
train gauge measurements aside, that is.
- Chris
That's true, but likely it was intended as a flame rather than a debating point. Anyway, who needs anyone else to make parodies when the offenders in question are doing such a good job of sending themselves up?
- Chris