Game Server Selection

[LordNevar]

Wasn't sure where to stick this so I'll stick it here. There's been alot of discussion and talk about this in other places, but hopefully the [vL] people's can help.  

When you make a game on D2 and it drops you on a certain server, "you think there is anyway to specify that server?"

(Ex: Say your clone hunting, and clones on .164, think there would be a way to choose to go on the server from within the client? Instead of it just being random? I have looked and looked, but with no prevail, this forum is my last chance of actually coming to a final conclusion on this topic to see if it can or cannot be done.

[j0k3r]

I have seen it at one point, don't remember what or where though.

[edit]Or when, it might have only been 1.09.[/edit]

[Adron]

What's "clone hunting" ?

[j0k3r]

I'm not sure what the hunting part of it is, never was a part of it, but 1.1 introduced a new "special boss" called the "diablo clone" or "uber diablo". He spawns randomly in games on different servers, in hell difficulty, and is "the strongest" in the game (he has the most hitpoints and resists anyways). When he dies he drops a unique small charm called an annihilus.

http://www.battle.net/diablo2exp/items/normal/ucharms.shtml
http://www.battle.net/diablo2exp/monsters/act5-uberdiablo.shtml

Note: The stone of jordan thing is bugged, it doesn't actually require any SOJs to be sold.

[Mitosis]

Ya and when it says "Diablo walks the earth", you go kill any SP (Super unique) monster and it will drop the anni charm. Ya the hunting part is a bot I think. It checks random servers and games and when it finds it, it tells you to join.

[j0k3r]

Ya and when it says "Diablo walks the earth", you go kill any SP (Super unique) monster and it will drop the anni charm.

No, the next super unique monster the game spawns will be Diablo Clone (ex. Diablo Clone instead of rakanishu, eldritch, shenk, anyone). Once you kill the Diablo Clone an annihilus drops.

[Naem]

I'm not sure what the hunting part of it is, never was a part of it, but 1.1 introduced a new "special boss" called the "diablo clone" or "uber diablo". He spawns randomly in games on different servers, in hell difficulty, and is "the strongest" in the game (he has the most hitpoints and resists anyways). When he dies he drops a unique small charm called an annihilus.

http://www.battle.net/diablo2exp/items/normal/ucharms.shtml
http://www.battle.net/diablo2exp/monsters/act5-uberdiablo.shtml

Note: The stone of jordan thing is bugged, it doesn't actually require any SOJs to be sold.

From what I understand, it does require SOJs to be sold. The tally is kept seperately on each game server (.169, .170, etc, not just the game you are in) and there is no static number of SOJs that must be sold before the Clone spawns.

[j0k3r]

Naem -- As I said, it is bugged, the counter just goes off. SOJs are very expensive again, so selling 1400 SOJs woul dbe ludacris just for this one charm, and alot of people have 10s and 20s of them.