Confusion

[TelmeSarna]

I have now played Diablo II after not playing it for five years or so. I have never played it online before. People keep on "showing hostility" towards me... I am not sure why, but I feel like perhaps there are unwritten rules about playing online that I don't really know about.

[Orphan]

There's no real "unwritten rule", with regards to anything on battle.net. You'll probably find that there's alot of unpleasant people there, and it's generally better to ignore them. Don't let them control how you want to play the game. As long as you're not cheating, then there's nothing wrong :thumbsup:

[ShadyPhoenix]

Unwritten rule: People on B.net must be as snotty, rude, and arrogant as humanly possible while butchering the English language with as much skill as a Jewish meatman.

Don't mind them. There are lots of jerks on Battle.net, but there are some good people out there. Probably.

Of course, you could be entering duel games, where people hostile and kill each other for "fun," in which case they just assume you're wanting to duel.

[Noodle]

Consider Single Player. No annoying PKers, advertisers, bots, or lag, you can choose the player setting and release version you want (maybe a little rack running in 1.07?), and you can keep the same map game after game for magic finding. Plus, there are regular multiplay games with people with similar tastes. F'rinstance, when doing Baal runs with a group, the drops cycle through everyone, with people waiting their turn until they can take all the items in a drop. None of this squabbling for items. And they are often given out - the last series of Baal runs I was on, I gave an extra Herald of Zakarum to a player because he seemed like a nice guy. Check out the SPF - it's worth a few minutes even if you decide it's not for you.

- Noodle

[ShadyPhoenix]

Consider Single Player. No annoying PKers, advertisers, bots, or lag, you can choose the player setting and release version you want (maybe a little rack running in 1.07?), and you can keep the same map game after game for magic finding. Plus, there are regular multiplay games with people with similar tastes. F'rinstance, when doing Baal runs with a group, the drops cycle through everyone, with people waiting their turn until they can take all the items in a drop. None of this squabbling for items. And they are often given out - the last series of Baal runs I was on, I gave an extra Herald of Zakarum to a player because he seemed like a nice guy. Check out the SPF - it's worth a few minutes even if you decide it's not for you.

- Noodle
I recommend this as well. Even though I don't play SP (well, I do, but purposefully untwinked HC because I randomly feel saucy), doing it this way can be a lot of fun.

Of course, you can't make the better Runewords without a quick mod, you can't cube things as well, you don't have thousands of people to trade with... but it's personal preference, really. I'm probably switch to SP soon, anyway, just because I hate playing with the morons on Battle.net, but I really dislike starting untwinked unless I'm in the mood (see above).

[Evrae Altana]

Of course, you can't make the better Runewords without a quick mod, you can't cube things as well,All the B.Net cube recipes are available for the SP players to use, even the Ladder-only cube recipes.

[harpoeth]

Consider Single Player. No annoying PKers, advertisers, bots, or lag, you can choose the player setting and release version you want (maybe a little rack running in 1.07?), and you can keep the same map game after game for magic finding. Plus, there are regular multiplay games with people with similar tastes. F'rinstance, when doing Baal runs with a group, the drops cycle through everyone, with people waiting their turn until they can take all the items in a drop. None of this squabbling for items. And they are often given out - the last series of Baal runs I was on, I gave an extra Herald of Zakarum to a player because he seemed like a nice guy. Check out the SPF - it's worth a few minutes even if you decide it's not for you.

- Noodle

I have no need for battle.net but I like to play with friends. I thought that it was only possible to play together if you use battle.net. So how do you make/or join the multiplayer games ?

That could be very intersting for me, so to avoid battle.net. Thanks.

[Evrae Altana]

I have no need for battle.net but I like to play with friends. I thought that it was only possible to play together if you use battle.net. So how do you make/or join the multiplayer games ?You can play together with friends on SP by clicking "Other Multiplayer". Then you can either go host/join a TCP/IP game or log on to Open Battle.net and host your own private game.

[harpoeth]

You can play together with friends on SP by clicking "Other Multiplayer". Then you can either go host/join a TCP/IP game or log on to Open Battle.net and host your own private game.

Thanks for a quick reply.

I just tried to do what you said. I entered "open" and saw a list of games i could join. I joined and partied up with other players. The only difference i noticed was the red progress bar in the loading process. And also a lot fewer games to join. So i guessed it worked.

So what is the actual difference between this and joining battle.net the usual way, besides the fact that you can use the characters stored on your computer instead ?
Is it, that the game is now running on some persons personal PC (she/he is the host) instead of Battle.net servers ?
So by not passsword protecting the game you allow anyone to play on your computer, is that safe ?
(under the assumption that there are people in this world with bad intentions)