It’s clear that online players often play in party to decrease “no drop” chance while farming. But there is a big problem when these “farmers” come and destroy public games of other players.
Lately I created a game with the name “Act 3 Start Hell” and I wanted to play slowly and accomplish all the quests with the players like me. But instead of this I saw numerous Sorc’s that were coming to my game for MFing. They devastated LK, killed High Council and Meph, hence literally broke my game.
So I would like to ask Blizzard to make Players “X” command available in online games so these crazy 24/7 farmers could leave other players in peace.
Do you think that all farmers are lvl 90+? I used to play slowly and my char is 75 lvl when starting Hell. So I am not sure that it will be the solution.
Idk what is “seal popping” but another thing that I don’t like that the game is not enough difficult in Hell and "Players “X” could also make it more challenging.
Yes please implement /players x for online games. I for example love to trade but also love to play mostly solo and right now, there is no way to combine both efficiently. Obviously you cant have parties of multiple people setting the players count to 1 just to rush or something, but maybe let players set the players count only when they are alone in a game, this might give us a good trial run. Also, I think a great implementation (for online and offline!) could be setting the players setting when creating a game and not be ablt to change it during the game. Killing Baal waves/chaos on P1 and then go to P7 for the Baal/Dia kill feels like cheating to me.
Great way to remove whatever little incentive is left for partying up and get into co-op and to end online play for good.
Anyone asking for an online /players X is simply forgetting or not understanding this feature was added to solve a problem in offline SP that simply doesn’t exist in the online servers. It allows offline play to scale up since the game loot tables were designed for the larger markets of online play. It also allows offline SP to have their characters progress faster, like they can in online play.
The solution to the problem of not having enough players to join your games cannot be playing solo at /players 7. That’s what offline is there for.
i kinda get the feel that most ppl want /player x command is so that can avoid sharing the loot with other ppl, sure it sucks to see a legendary trasher getting grapped right before your eyes or the set death mask that you just know was a tal’rasha, i like the free for all loot, but if we want to keep the multiplayer alive, then /player x aint the way to go, then i rather we get ploot instead, because in the moment /player x get implanted, then MP is dead for good, unless you trade or do pvp or being boosted
The command will not solve anything and will in fact only make it worse. The online /players x command is the wet dream of any loot boot, who drive trading and item selling sites.
On the other hand the idea that you can just avoid trading by playing at /players 7 is ridiculous. Offline solo players have been using the command for 20 years, since patch 1.09 released in 2001. And single-player trading forums remain to this day a large communities on the sites that host them.
the comment could be implemented if you dont get more exp, only drops. then it would not kill the baalrun experience. ppl now only play together if they want to leech, split mf or if they think they will always get the drop (hammerdin first row etc.)
playing together IS already dead and always was.
an alternative to support group play would be personal loot.
i would appreciate one or both of this improvements, but they need to come along with some balance changes.
How tf /pX will eliminate bots? The only reason you are asking for /pX online is to get gg loot with less effort - you don’t want to look for const party, you don’t want to trade, you don’t want/have time to grind. That’s it.
you know im a no change guy, but px would make those runes accessible to a lot more ppl so the “market value” of those shops would plummet, which is good for everyone.
I would always support giving the stick to cash shops. Also having px would be good for testing some builds as you cannot reliable have p8 games to check out different zones.
Also i would like for blizz to make builds like spearzon, clawsin foh pala, hydrasorc, be at least viable if not competitive with existing meta builds, also that means buffing those and NOT nerf the other ones. Also i would not mind making the mercs from other acts on par with A2 mercs.
Oh we aren’t forgetting it. We just don’t want to deal with other players, bots and the whole bot farmed/duped/selling-site ruined eco. I want to farm my own items with my friends and trade just with them.
My options to create Infinity, Enigma etc:
1: farm, farm, farm, farm, farm and wait and wait and wait and sell and buy and sell and buy, do key runs, create tokens and in all of that - pray for drop that may not happen in years.
2: Go and buy some runes for hard cash
If I would have playersX then maybe [MAYBE] I could find some high runes faster, before I get so much frustrated to kick D2R just like I did with D2 [because well, honestly, finding these items/runes are the only reason to play, buing them for $ is just stupid]. Because there is no option to play with friends like in old Diablo2, offline character is just nonsense, then this version of Diablo is sooo much different. People keep talking how they don’t want Blizzard to change the game, but this version is already changed by making non-ladder character offline and online, what is really strange. It will not affect people playing together, 'cause synergy is better in having 7 players more in combat than having players8 command. I don’t know why You are against this option, there is no ladder and believe me, when ladder will come You will be angry seeing people having all best gear in just few weeks. Theeen people will start asking question why is that and “how on earth”…
I think that all trading related people are against these changes because it can drop runes value. But when I see when somebody offers for example Ber rune with more then 10 pcs. available I can’t believe in that they were obtained in legal way.
but finding a party and farming together leads to much lesser loot for all especially for caster chars in the second row.
even if you share everything, you ll get much lesser loot than alone.
only reason to find a party is split mf, what works with 3 players. if you do this with up to 5 players it becomes more and more a great pain in the ass.