The "Gem Activated"

[BKnight760]

Well, I'm not quite sure what the Gem in the worldeditor does, however according to

http://www.game-revolution.com/games/codes/pc/diablo2.htm

If you play Multiplayer on Battle.net Click the blue Crystal in the center of the screen and it will turn Purple. If you look at the text box it will say "Gem Activated" Then start a game or join one and you will find at least one Gem shrine and if you have a Gem in your inventory it upgrades it.

Maybe that will give someone some insight into what it does in the worldeditor...

 

[Swilo]

Diablo2 two games ALWAYS have at least one gem shrine, it's just a matter of whether you're in the area it spawned or not.
The chat gem HAS NO FUNCTION. It sends NO INFORMATION TO THE SERVER.

The gem in world edit likely does the same thing.

 

[NoNameRequired]

Hehehe I see Blizzard is not giving up with the gem prank.

 

[BKnight760]

::Laughing::

Yeah, Blizzard would be the game co to do something like that... Well, I bet it does something... something entirely useless, that is.

 

[Neo_HoJo]

alas, the worldedit gem does do something! a friend pointed it out to me, keep clicking on it and it'll belch out annoyed sounds from certain units, like "your prattle begins to annoy me"

As for the diablo 2 gem, I WANT SOMEONE TO ACTUALLY GO THROUGH THE SCRIPT AND FIND OUT WHAT IT DOES!! I have a feeling, though, that it goes with the players 8 trick.

 

[Swilo]

Umm...
Yeah, the world edit gem does spew out random speech every 12 or so clicks.
No, the D2 chat gem does nothing but change color and say de/activated.
YES THE /PLAYERS # command WORKS. BUT it's ONLY for SINGLE or OPEN b.net, NOT realms.

 

[Neo_HoJo]

I know it wouldn't work... but I'd still prefer someone to script check the Bnclient.dll file to see if the gem does anything, even if it does something as stupid as +.001 light radius... anyways I shouldn't be ranting about D2 on the Worldedit forum, but this is where this is posted,

sorry for the typing spew above

 

[Swilo]

You don't need to check any files to see if the gems does something, just simply monitor your packets sent to b.net.
It has been done several times, by several people. Nobody clicking the gem has ever had it send any data to b.net, nor have they seen any indication that it influences the game in any way.

 

[Neo_HoJo]

I've been buisy playing Diabo 2 a lot, and by this I mean heading up your own clan of 20+ people without outside help starting with a blank account buisy playing Diablo 2 a lot. The answer to what happens is in the official Battle.Net strategy guide, Arreat Summit. It has a minute random chance of performing a "perfect gem activation." This might have something cool to it, but Arreat Summit says nothing more than there is a random chance of performing a perfect gem activation. This might have some significance, but I can't find who to write to about this.

 

[PB_and_J]

Whenever the gem is acctivated and you delete a unit ( im pretty sure a doodas 2) il will ple its death animation (you can c this very easly if u delete heros)

Hope that helped ppl, It might have another use but i dont no

-peebz

 

[NoxMortus]

Can I ask why you replied to a 3 year old thread?

 

[PB_and_J]

well i was looking on the "last page" of threads and saw that theres was somthing about the gem. I looked at it and saw that i knew somthing that hadent been said. Is it against the rules 2 revive old post or somthin (im kinda new, only been here about a month of so)
cause if it is sry and i wont do it again.

 

[NoxMortus]

No it's not against the rules to do it, but I don't think the person who asked the question is still active, also theres much more recent threads about it, around 3 weeks ago.

 

[protossxpt]

Umm.. the diablo 2 gem does do something... although it might have changed in a recent patch, if you click the gem long enough it says "Moooo" and an other message i forgot. Basically, its a hint to the secret cow level...