Fridgecritter 2X Diablo 2 random loot

Cvinion · #1 02-29-2008, 05:00 AM

Great addition Fridge, Let's see how it works out. Very excited about getting my druid up some levlels and seeing how things go.

Fridgecritter · #2 02-29-2008, 05:59 AM

It seems to be working very well... I also added a little "extra" to bosses so they will drop some pretty good stuff along with their normal drops. After I'm done figuring out a few more bugs that people have submitted, I think it will be finished.

Having said that, does anyone have any interesting ideas for the server, keeping in mind that I don't want to stray too much from semi-custom?

All I have done so far is add some level appropriate drops, and up the exp rate, so I don't want to change the gameplay aspect very drastically in a way that makes the game totally different than live.

Maybe some added quests, or something... I don't know. PVP doesn't seem to be a viable choice since there are too many bugs that need to be worked out of the PVP system. Am I wrong about that? I read a few posts about PVP being broken, so I didn't even venture into that realm. Also, with a sparsely populated server, All it would be is PVE with the occasional naked kill because the player bagged their gear.

Cvinion · #3 02-29-2008, 07:55 AM

The drops and XP increase are amazing, I think the best route to go for a small population server is adding in Hot zones which i believe you may impliment, or have at least tried. Along with these hotzones i think another great idea would be smaller group related GM events, even running one per few days wouldn't be that hard, and with a helpful guide it would be easy as cake.

I'm not talking about throwing in epic quests, but just a small event here and there appropriatly scaled for level would be wonderful. Even adding small things such as an event where a small group of level ~50's would have to run into the Luggald caves in Dulak, Kill Captian Varns and receive small rewards that are slightly above the average of what is dropped.

Just some suggestions, I think the server is nearing an actual plateau where players can come, level and enjoy the game the way it was meant to be

Cvinion · #4 02-29-2008, 07:55 AM

Also as of 2:50pm EST the server is currently down, just a small FYI if you are reading this thread still.

Fridgecritter · #5 02-29-2008, 09:02 AM

The Random loot items are put back in with the new rule settings, and The drops should now be level appropriate. It should make things a little more fun that way.

I know a couple of people are having trouble with zoneservers going down and up repeatedly, and I don't know what the problem is. I have not made any system changes, and it was doing fine for the last few days. No idea.

miotch · #6 03-03-2008, 01:55 AM

Alot of folks are having the same problem. It seems, when you zone, your stuff goes poof. and you are then naked.. The first time this happened to me, i simply zoned again and that fixed the problem. But after being struck naked again after zoning, i tried zoning, camping out relogging etc.. Nothing worked..

When you camp out to char select it does show your char with all items / equip. Just does not seem to compute when you log in..

Fridgecritter · #7 03-04-2008, 08:12 AM

I reverted a few different tables back a few hours in the database and it solved this issue, or seemed to. I haven't had this problem since.

The server is not in the list for now because I am upgrading the hardware due to the population. I underestimated the popularity of a random drop server. It will be back up shortly with 4 GIGs of RAM.

I will be making a lot of zones static, and hopefully this will solve a lot of the zoning into abyss problems where players need to be #kicked then #movechar nexus in order to get back online because the nexus map is smaller, and loads faster.