Brevan wrote:
I think the current population is relatively low (I often see about 5-10 games up, and I think that implies 5-10 players since often folks load in extra chars into their games).
- All monster spell damage is based on their mLvl, controlled by a single formula in the Attack skill line of skills.txt. This makes it very fast to tweak monster damage. A nice benefit of this is that a Solo version of the mod can be quickly produced if it just means a nerf to monster damage.
Lee wrote:
There are ways to make the game challenging without drastically changing everything, and making everything ridiculously too hard. Forcing people to play in parties in such a small community is also pointless at this point.
Kramuti wrote:
There was a lot of input for most of the 1.3s, yet some were still unhappy throughout. We also got widescreen during this...something which blizz tried and failed to do well.
I have been playing HU for many years, though unfortunately, never on the realms simply because I cannot devote the same amount of time to games as I used to. As such, I'll play in spurts - a couple weeks at a time, every few months. E.g., I hadn't played D2 since the spring, yet in the past ~3 weeks I started a PhoenixSin and am about to face Norm Meph, to give you an idea of my pace.
Also for that reason, I'm still playing Solo Edition 1.21 along with PlugY. But I'm excited for (and sad to be missing) so many of the awesome changes in recent patches. I don't wish to derail the point of this thread (and by the way, a sincere "Thank you" to Terry for starting us on this journey) but I would appreciate clarification on a few points quoted above:
1. Would it be possible to edit the Skills.txt Attack formula in 1.6, or 1.7, to create said Solo edition as a client-side edit? Or are there other compile-time dependencies?
2. Widescreen support came along in 1.3? Is that native to the mod, or using something such as MultiRes?
3. I checked the 1.6 full filetree post (
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=14003) and it says you must use 1024x768 in order for PlugY to work, which nullifies #2, I suppose. But 1024x768 is still better than 800x600
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4. Are save files compatible between 1.21 and 1.6/1.7, or would this be a fresh start even for Solo?
Many thanks!
-BaTz