Possible Item Generation in closed?

[Metalhead Steve]

Sending packets is probably the only real way of getting a permed "dupe" look you may have a point but there is high risk and the fact that you might landing up lagging the server from multiple kills of a boss(eg:baal) so quickly.

Looking at the state of the Battle.net servers and the number of virtual item stores really makes alot of sense. When EVERYONE was duping there was a massive amount of lag, an amount that even if the stores had all the CD-Keys they could get and loaders running on as many computers as they could get could not be matched. Take away the general public and by my estimate there are about 75-125 Diablo 2 virtual item stores. Assuming that 100 stores each had 16 bots doing this would mean that if they did this 24/7 1600 accounts would be creating this type of lag.

I'm sure that each realm on Battle.net does not have 1600 servers so a few of these are going to be on the same IP, causing lag for that whole server. This makes some sense to me as to why some days on Battle.net we experience more lag spikes than others.

As for profitability to the stores, I am sure that if they do it this way they lose money in the beginning at least. They would have to have a monumental amount of CD-Keys at their disposal, and be able to turn a profit from selling items after compensating for the CD-Keys. This may be something of luck for them.

I am sure they do not lose to much money though if they send the Hell Baal kill packet over and over again they are sure to get some badass drops. The other problem is that they have to transfer the items they find doing it this way to an account that will not be banned. Which if you had 16 bots sending the packet would mean 32 bots all working together.

You also have to take into account that if they are sending this packet to create items that inventories would probably get full EXTREMELY quickly so the pick-up bots may be written to make new random account names and char names and log these with passwords for the owner. I'm sure this could fill a store's inventory quickly though.

I am starting to confuse myself lol, I'm done.