Statstring Chatting

Mesiah / haiseM · January 05, 2003, 12:58 PM

We all know how Diablo 1 lets you set your own statstring (sshr too i think), Well i was thinking, maybe if somebody was really bored, they could figure out a way to use the diablo statstring to chat with people in the void?

Seems pretty dumb, but hey, why the hell not?

Skywing · January 05, 2003, 01:12 PM

QuoteWe all know how Diablo 1 lets you set your own statstring (sshr too i think), Well i was thinking, maybe if somebody was really bored, they could figure out a way to use the diablo statstring to chat with people in the void?

Seems pretty dumb, but hey, why the hell not?

You're a few years late, sorry!

This idea was new back in 1999 :p

You can also use it to chat in Blizzard Tech Support and other moderated channels.

Mesiah / haiseM · January 05, 2003, 01:36 PM

damn, got the source? or the bot anywhere?

Spht · January 05, 2003, 02:02 PM

We'd just send new statstring that contained the message. When the client receives list event from user that is already in the channel, then display it as "Stat chat."

Mesiah / haiseM · January 05, 2003, 02:22 PM

how did you locate it? like what type of key did you put, and where did you put it, to make the client say "hey this guy has a message in his statstring!"?

Yoni · January 05, 2003, 04:24 PM

Stat update (0x0f event 0x09)

Mesiah / haiseM · January 05, 2003, 05:50 PM

thats the flags event tho, that can happen anywhere at anytime, maybe not so much in the void, but its possible in blizzard tech support im sure...

Yoni · January 06, 2003, 09:23 AM

So what?

Store each user's statstring, if the stats update event occurs and the statstring changes, treat it as statchat. Otherwise, don't.

Mesiah / haiseM · January 06, 2003, 09:51 AM

Interesting, why was it stopped? did it get too pointless?

iago · January 06, 2003, 09:54 AM

Hrmm.. I guess the same could be done with Profile string, but you would have to set a timer.

You could just set sex to "\nMessage" and be constantly checking for changes in other Sex fields.

(PS. Sex Fields would be a great name for a band!)

Mesiah / haiseM · January 06, 2003, 10:17 AM

lol dork :p

can you still create your own profile string in 0x27?

like \profchat
?

Spht · January 06, 2003, 10:21 AM

Quotelol dork :p

can you still create your own profile string in 0x27?

like \profchat
?

No. If you attempt to set a non-default key, your whole profile will be reset.

Mesiah / haiseM · January 06, 2003, 10:29 AM

thought so, damn

i guess the sex field would deam appropriate, but some people use it for encryption keys...

MiCrOz · January 06, 2003, 11:46 AM

I'm not sure if its possible what im saying, being new to all this stuff but, if you could do this "stat string chatting", couldnt u use a muted key and still chat?

MiCrOz · January 06, 2003, 11:51 AM

hmmm.....we could be onto something

Edit add:

We could make a bot that changed statstring with a certain character in the beginning of the messages, like other bots do for hex messages. This way, the bot would read all statstring updates, and if the statstring has the character in the front, it would display it as a message. Just an idea tho...

Statstring Chatting

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