Easter sun /Players 16

[FiskeJR]

I have a quick question.
I just installed Eastern Sun again after a few years, and back then i never had this problem, but my friend did. We never found the solution, so now i am hoping and begging that you know how to solve it ...

When i create a game, be that multiplayer or singleplayer, and i type in the /players command, i can never get it to go above "Players 8" even though in my D2MOD.INI file it says it should go to 16... 2 years back, i never had this problem it always worked...

Anyone of you guys know how to fix it?

Im running Win7 64BIT, and i installed D2 from my old CD's (the originals) and downloaded the newest patch from blizzards Homepage.

[Lucifer666]

It was changed to be max 8 around two years ago I think...

[FiskeJR]

That's odd, my D2INI clearly says:
[Utility]
PlayersXmin = 1
PlayersXmax = 16
Which means it should be able to do /Players 16

It even worked once on my installation, but only once... So i dont think it changed
I also downloaded ES from http://homepage3.nifty.com/miyoshino/es/es3top.htm which says in the features that D2Mod system Utility plugin to make /playersx command accept up to /players16.

[Lucifer666]

I remember that they changed it to p/8 max,but I forgot why...it is probably listed somewhere why and when exactly...

[gogodanny]

reason is that it never worked with MAC and metro and a few others were using a mac - this way PC players wouldn't have an advantage as with MAC the maximum was 8. They made it so that 8 now equals the 16 before.

[FiskeJR]

Still does not explain why it worked one time, and why it wont work now...
I even found my old ES directory and copied, but still doesent work...

Changed two years ago you say, the patch is from 2008, so that makes it 5...

[Lucifer666]

Told you I don't remember anymore...2...5...doesn't matter anymore...it was too long ago...

[Billybgame]

This was back in one of Tsuru's patches......and, as was said, players 8= the old players 16, and so on.

So, if you want 16, type /players 8

If you want 8, /players 4

Etc, etc. I always start at p1, and go to p3 after killing power rises..and getting my merc, then it's p5, onward, to increase drops, as that's the old p10.

Hope that all makes sense.

[Hans]

It was done a long time ago when Tournaments were very active and since Metro only had a Mac that could run the Mac OS so most of the tourneys had restrictions of players 8 and only the use of the standard merc items. Tsuru decided to make it run only players 8 and decided to make the settings from players 16 to players 8 and so forth. There was another reason Tsuru did this as well since monsters were overflowing in life and it was much easier to fix the issue if you only had 8 players settings to worry about.

merc items game to the Mac since a Mac modmoder found the entries that needed to be changed to enable it.

There are some glitches that sometimes you can get players 16 to come up and it is likely associated with one of the D2mods plugins that might still link to the old players 16 setting. I have had it happen a few times in the past.