Diablo 2: Eastern Sun

[SPN]

Yeah, I like not knowing where I am going for lvl reasons.

[MrMeowMeow]

You guys are silly.
You cut through the areas that give low XP, then you can find your way to the high level areas that are XP goldmines!

[DOOM Anomaly]

Silly is just how I roll. Me and my pants.

[SPN]

I'm actually getting pretty bored now, all I've been doing for 3 days is lost farm runs to get strong enough to kill King Leoric.

[SPN]

Is it just me or can we not log on...

[DOOM Anomaly]

Must be down today.

Speaking of which, still up for an uber run?

[SPN]

It's been down for a few.

[DOOM Anomaly]

Beats me. I haven't played in a while.

[SPN]

It's killing me, I have nothing to do anymore. Figures once I have hours of free time on my hands it dies.

[MrMeowMeow]

I hadn't been keeping up to date on the Diablo 2 thread.

I would not suggest that GoonRealm has all been an elaborate scam, but something has gone arse-up. Many players have been denied their donation rewards, some of whom have been promised for over a month, and PayPal has seen fit to close Akaikami's account. Akaikami has not pulled an Internet vanishing act, nor has he disappeared under the wheels of a speeding locomotive; he is still reachable on AIM, though he now apparently refuses to talk to anybody asking where their promised respecifications are. He has not made an appearance in this thread for four weeks, not even to counter the allegations of Internet fraud (high crime!) against him, and I can't recall the last time he appeared on his realm.

Considering that, I would not get attached to my current characters. Though I would like to be wrong, I am expecting the realm to snap out of existence in the near future, with no warning or explanation.

If Akaikami does pull a runner, I would still want to play Eastern Sun. I have briefly extolled the virtues of TCP/IP over emulated Battle.net prior, so we could all play in that manner with very little effort. It would not easy to pick-up-and-play, compared to emulated Battle.net rooms, but the only external service we would rely on would be an IRC room to share games.

Truthfully, I would encourage everyone to switch to TCP/IP right now, even if there were no drama surrounding the server admin. The myriad Eastern Sun features not properly emulated on Battle.net are reason enough to switch. Decentralisation, local game saves and the ability to play your characters offline are just gravy. The best gravy.

Hey guys, I'm taking the server down. I don't have enough time to manage it anymore unfortunately.

However, here's access to everybody's character saves. Just add .d2s to the end of the character name of the file and pop it in your saves directory located in the main Diablo 2 directory.

It was fun, if Paypal didn't continually fuck me over I would've had more motivation to keep it going. I'm not sure if I'm going to ever host another game server, but that depends on what games are coming out.

All character saves: www.curtisbinder.com/charactersaves.rar

Goodbye for now goons

So, it looks like everyone is playing over TCP/IP or Hamachi, whatever. And it turns out that goonrealm wasn't able to properly do a lot of stuff like having mercs equip rings, your stash having multiple pages, shared items between your characters, free skill respecs and reseting attribute points.
If you'd like I can post the big tutorial they have for setting it all up

[SPN]

As long as I can keep playing I don't care where I play.

[DOOM Anomaly]

Well that's a bummer. But at least we know now.

Though on classic DII/LoD, single player characters share the same characters as the TCP/IP ones. I'm assuming it's the same for Eastern Sun so that's awesome. Since single player allows the user of /players, leveling will be even faster.

Although I can't get my Battle.net character to work in single player through the described method. Maybe I'm doing something wrong here.

[SPN]

If I have to start all over again I'm just gonna stop.

[MrMeowMeow]

Yeah, it's the same as vanilla D2 where single player characters are the same as tcp/ip characters.
The method posted that's the only thing said about restoring characters, so I dunno.

[DOOM Anomaly]

Well it's alright. I've been wanting to try out these cow balloons.

Having all the other features added into it that weren't in on Battle.net are great. There's like an unlimited stash.