Hello all,
The translation sites does a poor job of letting me know what has really been said here, but here goes...
If there is a vote on which mod to play on CE Old, my vote would be for 7.51.
751 has always been my favorite version of CE and to me the version that is the most fun to play while still being very difficult (HC of course).
I like 7.16, but I miss the items, rune words and the uber levels that were in the later versions. I do not much care for the Newer versions though, especially the ones with the Cain quest.
We get a lot of disconnects, maybe because of the distance to the server, so we have never been able to finish the Cain quest, and without those items, the game is much harder, as our characters were not strong enough to quest the dungeons lower levels to find the ubers we needed.
Neither Sorky or I have ever found an uber since the Cain quest was put in. This makes for us not much incentive to play if we can't ever be equal to the players who can finish the Cain quest. This is only because of the many hours it takes to finish the quest. Also we found the Cain quest not to be much fun to play. We had to make an appointment in our schedule, to spend the many hours in game that is needed to finish the long quest. A quest we never had a chance to complete it because of our dsl dropping us from the game. It became like having to go to work and try to do an impossible job before going on and start playing the game.
While Sorky may not be able to play anymore(not sure), I still play almost exclusively D2 realm mods. It is only because of the email I received, RE: 7.16, that I came back from other D2 servers.
I think this is a great mod with a great community, but I have to many problems with the newer versions that I cannot resolve.
I am very discouraged with the newer versions with the Cain quest to start another doomed character.
I would be happy to delete my 7.16 characters and start a 7.51 character on Ce Old asap.
Btw, It has been nice to see a couple of old friends again.
Robbe