Hey folks!
Back in the golden age, I was a member of eCH (European Clone Hunters). Now with mIRC and all the members gone (Illum, Poozaq, Soulbringer .. where are you?), I decided its time for us to make Diablo walk, preferably before US, just for the sake of it :D
With D2R, no access to non-ladder stock, and high price legit sojs, the plain is the following:
- Whoever tested on US already, they are sharing nothing, so its our time to test IP and server connections. I will sell a few sojs tonight (of my own ofc) to test IP relations. With a couple of friends, we will check if there is any cross-counter or connected IP's.
- After this, I will need help from you guys to hunt for a specific IP, we will stress test how many games will a certain IP handle. Everyone can take part. You will be given a method to check game IP -> you will create a game and MF there or idle, your choice -> we need to see how many games until the IP will be full or lagged out. This will happen tonight.
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This PWE will be 125 slots, happening tomorrow evening (2021.10.07.), if all goes well and servers are stable.
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PRICE: 1 soj of your ownIf the method works, we can make this a regular thing :) Gonna have to see how big of a pain will be to organise..
So here is the full plan:
- Get 125 EU players with 1 soj each
- Get a
JSP mediatorto hold all the sojs
- Mediator will pick the IP, 15 minutes before the event, via the following rules. Mediator will create 10 games on EU, and note the IP's. The most common IP will be chosen as hot IP. In case all 10 games come up with different IP, medi will create games until a match is found from the note of IP's. This is needed to pick the server with the less stress possible.
- IP's will be handed out to buyers 15 mins prior to walk. This is crucial to cut IP leaks to a minimum, but enough time to find a game for yourself.
- SOJs will be sold by mediator only: There will be 1 Soj sale prior walk to ping time games and to see that all works as intended. Rest of the SOJ's will be sold until Diablo walks. 75-125 as before, I hope :)
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What happens to excess Sojs? If lets say, Diablo walks at 100 soj's, we have 25 extra. Plan is to sell them for fg, and equally split the fg between everyone who joined this PWE.You may ask, why am I doing this? Whats the catch or how am I gonna get FG rich? Tbh im just too old to care for game wealth :P This is for fun! And to beat USA ofc!
Any of this could be tweaked if anyone has a better solution for one of the tasks! Feel free to contribute!Let me know if you are interested! Will try to get a medi who has the time to help with this.
First I will need help with testing IP stress, Ill post details later tonight.
For everyone who is interested: prepare 1 physical SOFTCORE EU SOJ to get in on this event! You cant join with FG! Relations to Classic and HC will not be tested by me!Update 1:
We figured out a way to print game IP's:
- Hit your WIN key and just type in powershell
- Search should auto highlight the powershell App.
- Rightclick run as admin (this is a must, or it wont work)
- paste this string and hit enter:
netstat -anob | Select-String -Pattern D2R.exe -Context 1,0 | findstr :443 | findstr ESTABLISHED | findstr /v 37.244.28.80 | findstr /v 24.105.29.76The two excluded IP's are EU service IPs. Most likely this command wont work for US. Havent tested on US.Update 2 @0:45 CET oct 6:
Id need 10-20 people on discord to help me test SOJ msg.
You have to be in an EU Hell game in:
- SC
- HC
- Classic SC
- Classic HC
Need about 15 mins of your time on a discord to share info and post results there.
Please PM ME asap to join TEST Discord. And dont worry, the disc serv wil be terminated after the test, so no need to join for no reason :) Please only come if you can help with this.https://i.ibb.co/ZHRNprj/Screenshot359.jpg