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On Wed, 26 Feb 1997 11:21:50 -0800, Russell Glasser
<rgla...@penning.lanl.gov> wrote:

>Looks like I may be the first one to post this...
>	I started up a battle.net game this morning and it wouldn't let 
>me on right away.  It said "Upgrading to new version of Diablo..."
>	After waiting a couple of minutes, it launched right back into 
>Diablo.  Curious, I started up a new game by myself.
>	Now, I backed up my characters regularly, but I never gave 
>myself illegal stats or gold, so I was curious to see what the Diablo 
>trainer would do.
>	I selected "save character."  Usually there are a bunch of slots 
>asking which character to save.  But instead of saying my name, 
>"Brutus," it was a bunch of garbage characters.  Just to check, I tried 
>to restore Brutus.DMP into a new character... NOTHING HAPPENED.  Sounds 
>like there is some sort of encryption going on here.
>	But the best is yet to come!  I logged onto battle.net and 
>joined a game.  Message: "A duplicated item has been detected."  Not 
>from me, but from some level 1 wimp bearing a godly plate of the ages. 
>The newbie couldn't wear it anyway, so I said, "Here, let me take a look 
>at that..." confiscated it and disposed of it.  Apparently Diablo only 
>displays a message telling you that cheated items exists, but does not 
>destroy them.  However, further duplication will now be impossible, or 

When that guy dies and tries to restart in town he will find his armor
gone as will anyone who has duped items on them. So was reported last
night on bnet.

>so it seems.  And I'm pleased to report that the ONE dubious item I 
>accepted from a very high level stranger (Storm Shield) did not report 
>itself as cheated.
>	I did not try town kill... that rarely worked for me anyway and 
>usually crashed the game.  But I logged on to three different games with 
>strangers and didn't get shot at once.  That's become a very rare 
>experience lately.

I volunteered to got into a game with a guy who had both tk and Hand
of god and he tried to kill me with both but niether worked.



>	I only wish I had a character with actual cheated stats so I 
>could see what happens to him.  Oh well, perhaps the infamous PegLegBoy 
>will post a snarling message and tell us what happened to all his level 
>15 spells.
>	I doubt this will be permanent... probably someone will find a 
>way around it.  But I hope that will not be for a very long time.
>	YAY BLIZZARD!  And death to dorks who think they are "hackers" 
>because they know how to use a hex editor.
>-- 
>"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
>persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.  Therefore all
>progress depends on the unreasonable man."
>                                -- George Bernard Shaw
>
>Russell can be heckled at
>        http://sdcc8.ucsd.edu/~rglasser

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