just make game “free items” you now have players 8.
But playerx doesnt not increase just drop of items. It also greatly increase xp. If you implement it to online mode, players no longer need to play with others to level up fast either so you will have even worse situation where everyone will be solo. Is that your solution? I think its pretry bad one.
And time to kill, and how fast you die, its a fair trade
Ship has sailed. Live with it.
So glad that they do not listen to these questionable requests.
Who cares? Xp boost is so high solo while using players x, that it doesnt matter. Just yesterday i was leveling my sorc on nm and hell on players 3 or 5, piece of cake.
Ok maybe public games will have some players. Baalruns full of sad barbarians who cannot level fast solo.
Who cares about the xp it takes to 85?
Baal still bugged and his xp still is limited to /3
xp penalty thou
People who like to level up fast. Because thats something pretty much anyone wants. Especially on ladder.
So? So you will do him solo on p3 what is the issue here?
P8 for solo self found mode only. Nothing else. /close thread please.
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Let them do it so
I see no problem at all, leveling to 85 in d2 is far from rocket science
The xp from 85 to 99 is still caped and this is the one that really matters
But you are missing my point. Its something we should not let to happen as look at game on game list, its desolate place in hardcore. I sometimes join public games but if i would have players x command, its better to go solo. I dont like this.
They should be adding features so players will want to play together. Not adding features supporters solo play.
XP from baal does matter basicly only at lvl 97+. 99% player base doesnt care about leveling above 95 You can level up in area 85 location solo on more players up to that just fine. Its even faster then baalruns. I have done it myself in past on private real with mules in games.
Joining mp bc its better and not bc you want is bad design imo
I agree that solo should not be better than MP
Thats why i think devs should just remove /X scale from the game and make everything p1
Neither solo or MP should be encouraged, they should just be MP and solo, you play the fist bc you like people and the 2nd bc you better alone, nothing more
I think the game should have a rebalance for XP, lvl 99 should be possible doing anything, not faster, but equally possible
I think they should just adjust the no drops chance scaling. 70% no drops at players 1 can be changed to 50%.
I think they need to focus on implementing reasons for people to play together. Adding all those 85+ areas were a great idea because maybe now MF games will last longer than 90 seconds before everything worth farming is dead.
But in reality the problem with D2 in general is that people are so OP that most players dont NEED anyone else for anything. The only reason they even join a game in the first place is either easy/lazy XP or to go off on their own and MF. In that case its just a race to see who can clear the most the fastest. Nobody is really “playing together”, everyone is just using everyone else to get a boost anyways.
Then you have another reality, its not hard to buy and run multiple D2 accounts on a single computer. You can easily get /players3 and with a 2nd PC or turning down your settings probably /players5 on a single PC. It might seem insane to spend an extra $80 for two more accounts, but its not much when you consider that people spend $25 for a mount in games, and allllll the perks that come from having multiple accounts like being able to do larzuk rushes for sockets, being able to have extra storage and mules, being able to have a barb to buff your other toon, hell forge rushes for runes, etc…
At the end of the day though the real issue is that D2 is not really a competitive game except in peoples imaginations. We cant even see other peoples gear setups, let alone does it matter if Im doing 5k or 11k damage on my blizzard. Nobody cares and nobody will notice. Items and armor all look basically the same, so even if you have the best gear it looks the same as if you are wearing non-magical grey items. There are no DPS meters, no way to show off our accomplishments, nothing. There is a small PVP community but even then the PVP meta is usually very different from PVE so a lot of the end game stuff people are going for in PVE is not being used in PVP anyways.
Even ladder seemingly is just based off XP, meaning they who farm baal most without dying of boredom will win.
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Why do we need reasons to play with others beside playing with others?
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Its no problem to gear up man, there are plenty of guides out there, the drop rates are fine! 
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no thanks, we don’t want it.
get some friends and do runs together.
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Ya or join a 2-4 player game and run a lvl 85 area in act 1 or something. The drop rates are as they should be, they should only increase as you gain significant power to kill faster in 4-8 player games
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Agree with this. So many toxic players. Greed snatching/looting, attempts at scamming others, general chat toxicity, etc. Alot of us have no interest in playing with randos because lets face it, PEOPLE SUCK. This would be a great option for some of us.
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I think you SUCK or you would not be whining about drops and other players, just sayin
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Perfect example of what I was talking about. Well done!
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