Bots, Duping, and New Economy

[MicroRNA-1507]

@hidoisan-1356

Many people seem to be very against the increase of rune drop rates. But if bots are reduced and duping is eliminated, I’d argue we would be losing out on one of the bigger aspects of what I consider D2: creating those awesome runewords, getting your build to come online (Hammerdin without teleport is a sad thing), and having top gear still be reasonably affordable through grinding and trading.

To add to this, the season length is being reduced. I strongly suspect that some D2 fans underestimate how duping/botting leads to an abundance of good items in the trade economy. I suspect that if Blizzard does well in reducing cheats than there will be stronger calls for increasing high rune drop rates.

@MicroRNA-1507

Assuming:
1 rune in 3 runs in a Zod droppable area
Each run is 2 minutes
Each Zod drop is 1 in 5171 among all runes

50% of players will not have a Zod drop after 358 hours ( = 9 weeks @ ~40 hours per week)

25% of players will not have a Zod drop after 716 hours ( = 18 weeks at ~40 hours per week)

10% of players will not have a Zod drop after 1,190 hours ( = 29 weeks at ~40 hours per week)

2% of players will not have a Zod drop after 2,023 hours ( = 51 weeks at ~40 hours per week)