Player settings in multiplayer

I know that "/players X" works in single player (offline) but is there a reason that it doesn't in online mode? I've been solo grinding and it's getting really really really slow in the 90s to farm on effectively "/players 1".

Is there some way to "split farm" in multiplayer games (e.g. I farm

Chaos Sanctuary while someone farms

Baal or keys?).

It also doesn't help that the lobby names are essentially encrypted to me with things like "fohchaos134", "cow523", or "d2honorbaal74"... like what do these codes mean?

The most I can decipher are lobbies named "xxx 4 yyy" as trades (as well as the WTS, WTB, LF, lobbies). Why is there description limitation of like 20 letters? It feels like D2:**resurrected** is basically a

Zombie with 1999 back-end code.

Iria wrote: 2 weeks ago

I know that "/players X" works in single player (offline) but is there a reason that it doesn't in online mode? I've been solo grinding and it's getting really really really slow in the 90s to farm on effectively "/players 1".

I never worked online in LoD either, it was always an offline thing (it worked in TCP/IP multiplayer in LoD, but never on B.Net). I don't think they will ever change it as it disincentivizes group play. Some people get around this restriction by having multiple accounts (multiboxing) to essentially run p3/p5 (or even more) on their own.

Iria wrote: 2 weeks ago

Is there some way to "split farm" in multiplayer games (e.g. I farm

Chaos Sanctuary while someone farms

Baal or keys?).

Yes, some people do this. The concept is often referred to as "split MF" or "split farming". It means that you join the same game and run different areas - you play multiplayer but solo. You can search specifically for games with the word "split" or "mf" in the name. If you join a game and someone is already running the area you want to, you should either pick another area or join a different host (the host typically creates a series of similarly named games, just with different numbers at the end).

Game names can be like "I TZ U SPLIT" (the host runs the current TZ alone, and anyone who joins farm somewhere else), "I TZ U MF" (same), "I CS U MF" (the host runs CS,

Chaos Sanctuary, alone and anyone who joins farm somewhere else), "I BAAL U MF" (the host runs WSK alone, anyone who joins farm somewhere else). You can use the same nomenclature for any area or type of farm, just need to be short and concise. If you make your own series of runs be prepared that some people might join and either not understand the concept or pretend not to until told to farm somewhere else. It happens. But you're also likely to get the same group of people coming back each new game, though it might be hard to maintain a group larger than 3 or 5 over a long series of games.

Iria wrote: 2 weeks ago

It also doesn't help that the lobby names are essentially encrypted to me with things like "fohchaos134", "cow523", or "d2honorbaal74"... like what do these codes mean?

You just kind of need to learn the abbreviations/acronyms. Game names only allow 15 characters and you need at least 2 or 3 for the series number at the end, so you're severly limited in what you can put in there.

Split = see above
MF = magic finding (can just as well just refer to farming in general in this case)
TZ = Terrorized Zones
CS =

Chaos Sanctuary
Chaos =

Chaos Sanctuary
AS =

Arcane Sanctuary
WSK = Worldstone Keep, the final area of the game where you find

Baal at the end

Baal = self explanatory
Cow =

Secret Cow Level
Trist =

Tristram
Tomb =

Tal Rasha's Tomb
d2honor = An RMT (real money trading) website that run open bot hosted games
Tele =

Teleport, usually combined like "telebaal", "itelebaal", "utelebaal", "u-tele-i-bo" to indicate who is expected to

Teleport to the target
Walk = Usually means the host is unable to

Teleport so the idea is that everyone walks/runs on foot to the target location together
BO =

Battle Orders, a barbarian skill
FoH =

Fist of the Heavens, a paladin skill, used to differentiate the game name from other runs of the same type (like Chaos)

The number at the end is the run number in the same series of games. A host typically reserves 2 or 3 digits for the run number. The first game they host ends with 01, the next one ends with 02, and so on, however long they keep going.

"fohchaos134" would be the host's 134th straight

Chaos Sanctuary run (assuming they started at "fohchaos001").
"cow523" would be the host's 523rd straight

Secret Cow Level run (assuming they started at "cow001").
"d2honorbaal74" would be d2honor RMT site's bot hosted

Baal run #74.

If the game name doesn't say "split" or "I <do x> U <do y>", then it's meant to be joint farming, though you may still have people join and run solo in a completely different area.

ShadowHeart wrote: 2 weeks ago

[..]
FoH =

Fist of the Heavens, a paladin skill, but I'm not sure why someone would put it in the game name to be perfectly honest
[..]

Because solely naming your runs by the zone tends to create instant conflict with other people's runs, messing the counts/game creation up for everyone.
Can't all be Chaos01 after all.

fohchaos is just another alternative to javachaos, speedchaos, telechaos, gochaos, billybobandpeggiesuechaos, ...

Schnorki wrote: 2 weeks ago

ShadowHeart wrote: 2 weeks ago

[..]
FoH =

Fist of the Heavens, a paladin skill, but I'm not sure why someone would put it in the game name to be perfectly honest
[..]

Because solely naming your runs by the zone tends to create instant conflict with other people's runs, messing the counts/game creation up for everyone.
Can't all be Chaos01 after all.

fohchaos is just another alternative to javachaos, speedchaos, telechaos, gochaos, billybobandpeggiesuechaos, ...

Ah, fair, good point!

I edited my post with that info (also added some more acronyms/abbreviations).

Also.... billybobandpeggiesuechaos...

ShadowHeart wrote: 2 weeks ago

Also.... billybobandpeggiesuechaos...

I was about to say that about the Chaos game name too, but you were quicker