Alright, listen up everyone! On the DiabloII: Lord of Destruction Mod known as "Eastern Sun", we will be starting up an adventuring run-through from Normal all the way to hell difficulty.
The basic idea of this activity is:
- Have 8 people from these forums to come together, and each create a different character so that our party has variation and different strategies in it
-Boost the teamwork of the people that join us in this quest of holy truth!
-To uhhh have fun?
My hopes in this:
1. Well being realistic, I realize that getting 8 of us on at the sametime in a semi-regular fashion for a long period of time will be incresdibly difficult - so I envision this dieing relatively quickly. But I'll remain optimistic, as this will be lots of fun. Maybe we can pull thiss off an hour every night or something? Or maybe everyother night?
2. That when we finish picking our roster, that we'll all be different and diversified, but still coherent and work well together! Coagulation, ftw!
3. To see 8 people actually come together and actually go through the majority of this difficult mod, especially at the very beginning!
Sign-Up Sheet:
1. Diablofans.com username?
2. Hamachi Server username?
3. Character?
4. Character Name?
5. Character's Role in the Party?
6. Your timezone?
Rules: (So Far, No finished)
1. Loyalty is a must. We udnerstand that everyone here has lives (despite beings freaks, but whatever), but this grand, holy mission of ours requires all 8 of us to stick through it all for as long as we can. In other words, don't just sign up and then go "Eh I give up".
2. Sign ups are first come first serve, please post here.
3. No one post the Hamachi name and/or passwrd on these forums at all, keep it private at all times. The Hamachi server we will be using for our party of 8 will remain private for our group. it'll help in the long run.
4. For no, no more than 1 of each type of character. The first 7 sign ups must all be of different characters unles you get special permission via moi.
Rules in Discussion:
Point 1: To make sure we have no asshats, lets not get moody with each other, do anything stupid and out of hand. We ALL stick together, and stay on the same level at all times. Try to keep offtopic talking out of the picture. I love talking as much as the next person, but the thing is, talking will waste time and time is a hard thing to synchronize between 8 people tha potentially live in different timezones.
Point 2: To keep the gameplay smooth, we ALL stay in the wilderness until every member says the "key" word, which will allow all of us to go to town to recoup and gather ourselves. Another major thing is the shared stash. I BEG OF YOU ALL, DO NOT touch the shared stash while ingame, or else when one person leaves, we ALL crash and lose our saved data. SO like seriously, try to have the content in your shared stash at zero (if i recall correctly, just having stuff in the SS increases chances of crashes), and don't even open up your shared stash. However, you are allowed to use the normal stash as well as the multiple pages within it.
Point 3: I think most of us live in the U.S.A. or Canada, and at that in the same timezone (GMT-5, aka EST). I know Daemaro is an hour behind us (GMT-6), but that shouldn't be too muc of an issue. This is why I want to know everyone's timezone. At the moment I've been thinking about having preset dates and times for our games, maybe weekend nights from 10:00pm to 12:00pm Saturdays (of curse depending if people are busy etc etc), and predetermined weekdays from 9:00pm to 10:00pm? The times I am sepaking of, though, is GMT-5 time, so please convert it to your own time compare. IF anyone of you don't think you'd be able to make it on regular times, PLEASE post here and update us on it.
Point 4: Balancing. This means that no one is to play these specefic characters outside of our world. ALl of us *should* be the same level at the sametime (of course there will be the issue of the expshrine and whatnot). So with shrines, I think we should take turns and whatnot, thisis defintely up for discussion with y'all though. Another issue with balancing, PLEASE don't think of your character as an individual, think of the team first, and how you're supposed to contribute to it to help us get further more quickly, safely and effeciently. So if you're a tank, be sure to spend points in health and strength, so you live longer. Whats the use of a tank and melee char if they die easily and let all the other minions through to attack us that can't actually defend ourselves? One last point for balancing, PLEASE do no NOT transfer items over. Use the items we find in our adventures. This will boost communication with each other, we can share items and whatnot. If people are wanting the same weapon, we'll discuss it in game as a group. Of course I bet y'all could sneak in items to your characters behind everyone's back and none of us would ever know, but there is no honor in that, plus it takes away the challenge from everything and makes it less fun for us all. As kidn of mentioned already, we are all different characters, we all have different needs. If you picked up an item you don't need with that character, or if a teammate could use it more than you, then for the sake of our team, give it to the other player. This is another issue with having an asshat on our team, if you have an item like discussed, don't ask for an item in return for a trade or something, we're a team, family, group, orgy, whatever. We may be 8 seperate characters, but we operate as one, a whole. As Stormy has wisely stated in her signature: "Give, expecting nothing thereof".
Point 5: The play amung us who has the lowest ping will be chosen to host the game via hamachi.
Current Sign-Up Sheets:
1.
Diablofans.com Username: Killer-Swift
Hamachi Username: Ullion
Character: Necromancer
Character name: Flip_Eradicator
Character's Role in Party: Not 100% yet, but likely AoE poison damage
Timezone: GMT-5 (Eastern Standard Timezone)
2.
Diablofans.com username: Stormcat
Hamachi Server username: Cherie-Stormcat
Character: Barbarian
Character Name: Lucien
Character's Role in the Party: Move or be bashed!
Timezone: GMT-5 (Eastern Standard Timezone)
3.
Diablofans.com username: Daemaro
Hamachi Server username: Daemaro
Character: Paladin
Character Name: Daemaro
Character's Role in the Party: Vengeance + Offensive Auras (Support)
Timezone: GMT-6 (Central Standard Timezone)
4.
Dfans Account Name: J/-\YK/-\Y
Hamachi Name: Jaykay
Character Name: Majix
Character Type: Sorceress
General Build: Nova/Time Stop (Fire or Ice)
General Role in the Team: Boss Breaker (Static)/Cold Support
Timezone: GMT-8 (Pacific STandard Timezone)
5.
Dfans Account Name:Magistrate
Hamachi Name: Magistrate (eventually)
Character Name: Probably something to do with a hamster
Character Type: Necromancer
General Build: Summoner
General Role in the Team: Summoner, Distraction, Shield, etc.
Time Zone: GMT-5 (Eastern Standard Time Zone)
6. Diablo Fans Name: Tsukiyomi
Hamachi Server Name: Moon Empire
Character Name: Panda
Character Type: Assassin
General Build: Preferbly Martial Arts (Will see the skill tree)
General Role in the Team: DPS/Crowd Control (Crushing Blow!)
Time Zone: GMT-8 (Pacific Standard Timezone)
7. Dfans Account name: Legilimens
Hamachi Name: Legilimens
Character Name: Penthesilea
Character: Amazon
General In-Part Role: Spear chucker. Eye candy.
Time Zone: GMT-5 (Eastern Standard Timezone)
8. 1. Diablofans.com username: Murderface
2. Hamachi Server username: Murderface
3. Character: Druid
4. Character Name: Aleister
5. Character's Role in the Party: Distraction
Time Zone: GMT-6 (Central Standard Timezone)
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One becomes strong when they are fighting to protect someone close to them... - Shiro Haku
I think we should start fresh without using items.
Otherwise my Assassin will have 8k health...
My sorc has 6k, and +40 sorc skill points.
That's no fun ^^
We are going to start fresh - at least that was how I understood it.
I am on Eastern time as well.
Thanks for lising me here Kyle.
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Smiling is infectious.
Give, expecting nothing thereof. ------------ BoD - Come have some fun! Folks will always come and go, so enjoy them while they're meant to be in your life.
Well, if my friend can bring his Expansion disc, then I'll be good. But I don't know if that will work for this week. I posted it in the official thread, but my friend (who I am staying with for a week) lent out his Expansion disc. So I'm... kind of screwed. D:
Okay so by the looks of it, we now have 8 of us signed up ready to do this. We have 1 of each character, and Maggie has not decided yet.
I have the first few rules there so far, but of course I'll defintely need t add to that. But I would like t go over some things with everyone first, get input with how ths should run. Because of course, input is equal to output, as we say in the basketball world.
So like some of you began discussing, we are indeed starting all fresh. All new characters, level 1, NO items from other characters will be transferred over.
Now this is where I'm going into more 'technical' rules, outlinng the gameplay. I want to keep this fun, to keep it fun we need to make sure everything runs smoothly (no asshats, crashes, etc.) to play relatively often and regularly, as well as balanced.
Point 1: To make sure we have no asshats, lets not get moody with each other, do anything stupid and out of hand. We ALL stick together, and stay on the same level at all times. Try to keep offtopic talking out of the picture. I love talking as much as the next person, but the thing is, talking will waste time and time is a hard thing to synchronize between 8 people tha potentially live in different timezones.
Point 2: To keep the gameplay smooth, we ALL stay in the wilderness until every member says the "key" word, which will allow all of us to go to town to recoup and gather ourselves. Another major thing is the shared stash. I BEG OF YOU ALL, DO NOT touch the shared stash while ingame, or else when one person leaves, we ALL crash and lose our saved data. SO like seriously, try to have the content in your shared stash at zero (if i recall correctly, just having stuff in the SS increases chances of crashes), and don't even open up your shared stash. However, you are allowed to use the normal stash as well as the multiple pages within it.
Point 3: I think most of us live in the U.S.A. or Canada, and at that in the same timezone (GMT-5, aka EST). I know Daemaro is an hour behind us (GMT-6), but that shouldn't be too muc of an issue. This is why I want to know everyone's timezone. At the moment I've been thinking about having preset dates and times for our games, maybe weekend nights from 10:00pm to 12:00pm Saturdays (of curse depending if people are busy etc etc), and predetermined weekdays from 9:00pm to 10:00pm? The times I am sepaking of, though, is GMT-5 time, so please convert it to your own time compare. IF anyone of you don't think you'd be able to make it on regular times, PLEASE post here and update us on it.
Point 4: Balancing. This means that no one is to play these specefic characters outside of our world. ALl of us *should* be the same level at the sametime (of course there will be the issue of the expshrine and whatnot). So with shrines, I think we should take turns and whatnot, thisis defintely up for discussion with y'all though. Another issue with balancing, PLEASE don't think of your character as an individual, think of the team first, and how you're supposed to contribute to it to help us get further more quickly, safely and effeciently. So if you're a tank, be sure to spend points in health and strength, so you live longer. Whats the use of a tank and melee char if they die easily and let all the other minions through to attack us that can't actually defend ourselves? One last point for balancing, PLEASE do no NOT transfer items over. Use the items we find in our adventures. This will boost communication with each other, we can share items and whatnot. If people are wanting the same weapon, we'll discuss it in game as a group. Of course I bet y'all could sneak in items to your characters behind everyone's back and none of us would ever know, but there is no honor in that, plus it takes away the challenge from everything and makes it less fun for us all.
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One becomes strong when they are fighting to protect someone close to them... - Shiro Haku
Okay, Kyle I'm going with a summoner build with a Necro- meatshields, distractions, meleers, casters, it's win win for me. And I'm the same time zone as you.
Thanks Maggie for the heads up. I'm gunna edit the first post creating a new slot in the sign up forms for timezones. If yu haven't notified me yet on it, please do so asap.
And Magnum, care to leave some input on my discussion?
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One becomes strong when they are fighting to protect someone close to them... - Shiro Haku
My input? I agree entirely. Well said. And also, I'd add that we should make sure that people don't keep items they don't need- a Sorce doesn't need to keep a wand for a Necro or anything, items should go to who can use them.
Well that was touched on in the "balancing" rule point I made. Ah I just reread, I thought I mentioned it but I guess it wasn't really discussed, thanks Maggie.
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One becomes strong when they are fighting to protect someone close to them... - Shiro Haku
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The basic idea of this activity is:
- Have 8 people from these forums to come together, and each create a different character so that our party has variation and different strategies in it
-Boost the teamwork of the people that join us in this quest of holy truth!
-To uhhh have fun?
My hopes in this:
1. Well being realistic, I realize that getting 8 of us on at the sametime in a semi-regular fashion for a long period of time will be incresdibly difficult - so I envision this dieing relatively quickly. But I'll remain optimistic, as this will be lots of fun. Maybe we can pull thiss off an hour every night or something? Or maybe everyother night?
2. That when we finish picking our roster, that we'll all be different and diversified, but still coherent and work well together! Coagulation, ftw!
3. To see 8 people actually come together and actually go through the majority of this difficult mod, especially at the very beginning!
Sign-Up Sheet:
1. Diablofans.com username?
2. Hamachi Server username?
3. Character?
4. Character Name?
5. Character's Role in the Party?
6. Your timezone?
Rules: (So Far, No finished)
1. Loyalty is a must. We udnerstand that everyone here has lives (despite beings freaks, but whatever), but this grand, holy mission of ours requires all 8 of us to stick through it all for as long as we can. In other words, don't just sign up and then go "Eh I give up".
2. Sign ups are first come first serve, please post here.
3. No one post the Hamachi name and/or passwrd on these forums at all, keep it private at all times. The Hamachi server we will be using for our party of 8 will remain private for our group. it'll help in the long run.
4. For no, no more than 1 of each type of character. The first 7 sign ups must all be of different characters unles you get special permission via moi.
Rules in Discussion:
Point 1: To make sure we have no asshats, lets not get moody with each other, do anything stupid and out of hand. We ALL stick together, and stay on the same level at all times. Try to keep offtopic talking out of the picture. I love talking as much as the next person, but the thing is, talking will waste time and time is a hard thing to synchronize between 8 people tha potentially live in different timezones.
Point 2: To keep the gameplay smooth, we ALL stay in the wilderness until every member says the "key" word, which will allow all of us to go to town to recoup and gather ourselves. Another major thing is the shared stash. I BEG OF YOU ALL, DO NOT touch the shared stash while ingame, or else when one person leaves, we ALL crash and lose our saved data. SO like seriously, try to have the content in your shared stash at zero (if i recall correctly, just having stuff in the SS increases chances of crashes), and don't even open up your shared stash. However, you are allowed to use the normal stash as well as the multiple pages within it.
Point 3: I think most of us live in the U.S.A. or Canada, and at that in the same timezone (GMT-5, aka EST). I know Daemaro is an hour behind us (GMT-6), but that shouldn't be too muc of an issue. This is why I want to know everyone's timezone. At the moment I've been thinking about having preset dates and times for our games, maybe weekend nights from 10:00pm to 12:00pm Saturdays (of curse depending if people are busy etc etc), and predetermined weekdays from 9:00pm to 10:00pm? The times I am sepaking of, though, is GMT-5 time, so please convert it to your own time compare. IF anyone of you don't think you'd be able to make it on regular times, PLEASE post here and update us on it.
Point 4: Balancing. This means that no one is to play these specefic characters outside of our world. ALl of us *should* be the same level at the sametime (of course there will be the issue of the expshrine and whatnot). So with shrines, I think we should take turns and whatnot, thisis defintely up for discussion with y'all though. Another issue with balancing, PLEASE don't think of your character as an individual, think of the team first, and how you're supposed to contribute to it to help us get further more quickly, safely and effeciently. So if you're a tank, be sure to spend points in health and strength, so you live longer. Whats the use of a tank and melee char if they die easily and let all the other minions through to attack us that can't actually defend ourselves? One last point for balancing, PLEASE do no NOT transfer items over. Use the items we find in our adventures. This will boost communication with each other, we can share items and whatnot. If people are wanting the same weapon, we'll discuss it in game as a group. Of course I bet y'all could sneak in items to your characters behind everyone's back and none of us would ever know, but there is no honor in that, plus it takes away the challenge from everything and makes it less fun for us all. As kidn of mentioned already, we are all different characters, we all have different needs. If you picked up an item you don't need with that character, or if a teammate could use it more than you, then for the sake of our team, give it to the other player. This is another issue with having an asshat on our team, if you have an item like discussed, don't ask for an item in return for a trade or something, we're a team, family, group, orgy, whatever. We may be 8 seperate characters, but we operate as one, a whole. As Stormy has wisely stated in her signature: "Give, expecting nothing thereof".
Point 5: The play amung us who has the lowest ping will be chosen to host the game via hamachi.
Current Sign-Up Sheets:
1.
Diablofans.com Username: Killer-Swift
Hamachi Username: Ullion
Character: Necromancer
Character name: Flip_Eradicator
Character's Role in Party: Not 100% yet, but likely AoE poison damage
Timezone: GMT-5 (Eastern Standard Timezone)
2.
Diablofans.com username: Stormcat
Hamachi Server username: Cherie-Stormcat
Character: Barbarian
Character Name: Lucien
Character's Role in the Party: Move or be bashed!
Timezone: GMT-5 (Eastern Standard Timezone)
3.
Diablofans.com username: Daemaro
Hamachi Server username: Daemaro
Character: Paladin
Character Name: Daemaro
Character's Role in the Party: Vengeance + Offensive Auras (Support)
Timezone: GMT-6 (Central Standard Timezone)
4.
Dfans Account Name: J/-\YK/-\Y
Hamachi Name: Jaykay
Character Name: Majix
Character Type: Sorceress
General Build: Nova/Time Stop (Fire or Ice)
General Role in the Team: Boss Breaker (Static)/Cold Support
Timezone: GMT-8 (Pacific STandard Timezone)
5.
Dfans Account Name:Magistrate
Hamachi Name: Magistrate (eventually)
Character Name: Probably something to do with a hamster
Character Type: Necromancer
General Build: Summoner
General Role in the Team: Summoner, Distraction, Shield, etc.
Time Zone: GMT-5 (Eastern Standard Time Zone)
6.
Diablo Fans Name: Tsukiyomi
Hamachi Server Name: Moon Empire
Character Name: Panda
Character Type: Assassin
General Build: Preferbly Martial Arts (Will see the skill tree)
General Role in the Team: DPS/Crowd Control (Crushing Blow!)
Time Zone: GMT-8 (Pacific Standard Timezone)
7.
Dfans Account name: Legilimens
Hamachi Name: Legilimens
Character Name: Penthesilea
Character: Amazon
General In-Part Role: Spear chucker. Eye candy.
Time Zone: GMT-5 (Eastern Standard Timezone)
8.
1. Diablofans.com username: Murderface
2. Hamachi Server username: Murderface
3. Character: Druid
4. Character Name: Aleister
5. Character's Role in the Party: Distraction
Time Zone: GMT-6 (Central Standard Timezone)
One becomes strong when they are fighting to protect someone close to them... - Shiro Haku
Hamachi Name: Magistrate (eventually)
Character Name: Probably something to do with a hamster
Character Type: Thinking
General Build: Thinking
General Role in the Team: Thinking...
Hamachi Server Name: Moon Empire
Character Name: Panda
Character Type: Assassin
General Build: Preferbly Martial Arts (Will see the skill tree)
General Role in the Team: DPS/Crowd Control (Crushing Blow!)
Time Zone: GMT -08:00 Pacific Time
Hamachi Name: Legilimens
Character Type: Amazon
Character Name: Penthesilea
Character's Role in the Party: Spear chucker. Eye candy.
"Losers always whine about their best, winners go home and Fvck the prom queen."
ONLY ONE SPOT LEFT!
Oh, and can everyone post what timezone they're in? It'll help with time management ><
One becomes strong when they are fighting to protect someone close to them... - Shiro Haku
Are we starting fresh w/out items from our shared stash or other chars? I think we should EDIT[start fresh. No help from other chars.]
"Losers always whine about their best, winners go home and Fvck the prom queen."
Otherwise my Assassin will have 8k health...
My sorc has 6k, and +40 sorc skill points.
That's no fun ^^
I am on Eastern time as well.
Thanks for lising me here Kyle.
Folks will always come and go, so enjoy them while they're meant to be in your life.
"Losers always whine about their best, winners go home and Fvck the prom queen."
2. Hamachi Server username:,,,,Murderface
3. Character: Druid,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Murderface
4. Character Name: Aleister ,,,,, Murderface
5. Character's Role in the Party: Distraction
Fuck you, I'm a dragon.
I have the first few rules there so far, but of course I'll defintely need t add to that. But I would like t go over some things with everyone first, get input with how ths should run. Because of course, input is equal to output, as we say in the basketball world.
So like some of you began discussing, we are indeed starting all fresh. All new characters, level 1, NO items from other characters will be transferred over.
Now this is where I'm going into more 'technical' rules, outlinng the gameplay. I want to keep this fun, to keep it fun we need to make sure everything runs smoothly (no asshats, crashes, etc.) to play relatively often and regularly, as well as balanced.
Point 1: To make sure we have no asshats, lets not get moody with each other, do anything stupid and out of hand. We ALL stick together, and stay on the same level at all times. Try to keep offtopic talking out of the picture. I love talking as much as the next person, but the thing is, talking will waste time and time is a hard thing to synchronize between 8 people tha potentially live in different timezones.
Point 2: To keep the gameplay smooth, we ALL stay in the wilderness until every member says the "key" word, which will allow all of us to go to town to recoup and gather ourselves. Another major thing is the shared stash. I BEG OF YOU ALL, DO NOT touch the shared stash while ingame, or else when one person leaves, we ALL crash and lose our saved data. SO like seriously, try to have the content in your shared stash at zero (if i recall correctly, just having stuff in the SS increases chances of crashes), and don't even open up your shared stash. However, you are allowed to use the normal stash as well as the multiple pages within it.
Point 3: I think most of us live in the U.S.A. or Canada, and at that in the same timezone (GMT-5, aka EST). I know Daemaro is an hour behind us (GMT-6), but that shouldn't be too muc of an issue. This is why I want to know everyone's timezone. At the moment I've been thinking about having preset dates and times for our games, maybe weekend nights from 10:00pm to 12:00pm Saturdays (of curse depending if people are busy etc etc), and predetermined weekdays from 9:00pm to 10:00pm? The times I am sepaking of, though, is GMT-5 time, so please convert it to your own time compare. IF anyone of you don't think you'd be able to make it on regular times, PLEASE post here and update us on it.
Point 4: Balancing. This means that no one is to play these specefic characters outside of our world. ALl of us *should* be the same level at the sametime (of course there will be the issue of the expshrine and whatnot). So with shrines, I think we should take turns and whatnot, thisis defintely up for discussion with y'all though. Another issue with balancing, PLEASE don't think of your character as an individual, think of the team first, and how you're supposed to contribute to it to help us get further more quickly, safely and effeciently. So if you're a tank, be sure to spend points in health and strength, so you live longer. Whats the use of a tank and melee char if they die easily and let all the other minions through to attack us that can't actually defend ourselves? One last point for balancing, PLEASE do no NOT transfer items over. Use the items we find in our adventures. This will boost communication with each other, we can share items and whatnot. If people are wanting the same weapon, we'll discuss it in game as a group. Of course I bet y'all could sneak in items to your characters behind everyone's back and none of us would ever know, but there is no honor in that, plus it takes away the challenge from everything and makes it less fun for us all.
One becomes strong when they are fighting to protect someone close to them... - Shiro Haku
And Magnum, care to leave some input on my discussion?
One becomes strong when they are fighting to protect someone close to them... - Shiro Haku
Fuck you, I'm a dragon.
Also, I need JayKay's and Murderface's timezones for the first post.
As for when we start, maybe next week or so, when everything is organized and ready. =/
One becomes strong when they are fighting to protect someone close to them... - Shiro Haku
Fuck you, I'm a dragon.
One becomes strong when they are fighting to protect someone close to them... - Shiro Haku