Seems alot of people have been paying too much attention to the wild rumours that run rampant through Battle.Net, or are unsure about what is actually correct. I figure I'll iron out some of the more commonplace facts for reference. Feel free to PM me with additions.

================================================

Realm Down aka C/I
Your connection has been temporarily restricted from this realm. Please try to log in at another time.
Explanation
This is a temporary realm-only IPBan. The main reason for this ban is creating/joining games too fast (explained later). It generally lasts @ 30-60 minutes but has been known to last much longer. This IPBan is not given for maphack or botting offenses, a full ban (explained later) is instigated in these circumstances.
Solution
There are numerous ways around this IPBan. The first (and most obvious) is to slow down your game creation rate. If that doesn't float your boat try the following-
:: For dial-up users, a simple reconnection ought to do.
:: Static IP users with a Network Connection should try opening the command prompt and typing "ipconfig /release" to clear their connection and then "ipconfig /renew" to be assigned a new IP.
:: Static IP users without a Network Connection should use WinSocks with a viable socks4/5 proxy. Tutorials on this are available everywhere. Try Google.

================================================

Creating/Joining 20 games in an hour will give you C/I
Explanation: This is a myth. While there is a good chance you will be banned for creating/joining that many games in an hour, that is not how the system works. In order to prevent bot adapation based on constant figures, blizzard has opted to use a fixed + random integer logic in order to provide a controlled yet slightly random games/time ratio.
Solution: See Realm Down aka C/I

================================================

How does banning work?
Explanation: If you are detected for use of a maphack, bot etc etc, you will be banned. This ban is not just realm-only, it is all Battle.net. If this is the first time your CD Key is banned, the ban will only last 30 days, however if you are banned a second time, it is permanent. Only your Classic CD Key will be banned not LOD. Your account that the 3rd party program was detected on will be closed indefinitely, however at this point in time only detected accounts will be banned, not others tied to the CD Key.

================================================

Using Meteor causes a 25/50% XP Loss to all party members
Explanation: This is rather silly. There WAS a bug @ 2 years ago that resulted in this effect, however it was quickly cleaned up and now, here, in the present, meteor is just as viable for obliterating critters for XP as any other attack.
Solution: Ask the person who complains about this what rock they have been living under for the past two years.

================================================

Standard of Heroes removes XP loss on death
Explanation: Myth. Standard of Heroes does absolutely nothing. One would think the lvl 90 req is something of a "Chat gem". Just there to cause conjecture.
Solution: Keep it. Throw it. Leave it. It's all aesthetic baby.

================================================

Glitching Baal Runs
Gist: Only works in an 8 Player game, only works in Hell. The lowest player (doesn't need to be, just for efficiency) leaves party after the first set of spawns (Colenzo and his warped ones). The player then rejoins party after the second set of spawns (Horadrim and skele's). The theory is that this will somehow glitch the experience so that when the player rejoins b.net treats the game as having 9 players and sets XP accordingly.

Reality: Look, I've tested this extensively between the levels of 80 and 96 and I can't see even a slight difference on the XP gained. This also goes against the theory that XP is capped after 5 players join (or not, see below). This may have been an exploit at some point in the recent past, but I don't believe it works now. Proof otherwise is welcome.

================================================

XP maxes at 5 players
Explanation: It has been a common theory that the increase in XP per player in game stops after 5.

Reality: This is incorrect. The XP WILL increase when the 6th/7th/8th player joins but the extra gain will cumulatively decrease after in fact the 4th. The difference between 7-8 Players is very minimal.

- From ZeRGz@Gamemunchers


Entire credit goes to Shift from BlizzSector.net

thanks great post

hmm..
good post. yet I know almost all of this already.
lol
^ ^

Yeah Great Information, though some people should know atleast half or more about it.

Thanks shift. These people nowadays with that meteor line are really pissing me off.

i have three more myths you should add. 1. does gemming the cow leg actually make better drops in cow lvl. 2. does repairing the hellforge hammer create better rune drops. 3. if your lower lvl will you hell hell forge rune drop be better?

those are three that i have heard of.

Nice even though i knew most of that.

hmm 1. maybe its not verified yet
2.no it doesn't i tried it i got the same drops
3.i don't know i'd say its not true

NOTE: i am banned so feel free to not trust me
they are from my guesses

I have heard that if you use a tome of town portals with 20 of them in instead of 3 or 4 the cows will be more difficult and the drops better.Is this true?

ywah i forogt that one. what about the rumor soh's are gonna do something in the new patch. i threw around 5 on my mule from tristing just in case since its not a big waste of space if it turns out they still dont do shit.

i HATE when ppl tell me that my meteor takes away XP its SO FREAKIN ANNOYING lol. if this thread had an easy url id tell alot of ppl to look at it and stfu!!!

cool. i knew some, and some clarifed vague ones

to answert the cow port question

They arent stronger just more cows. MORE COWS is all it does, which i can sya is more drops but better or worse i cant say.

Well even though I already knew most of this, it would be helpful to someone newer to the game that hears a lot of rumors. Very nice job, and thanks for taking the time to make something like this up. Maybe you could add in the cow glitch realities for some people too.

ive prooven myself that a lot of these are not true in the past by me and my friends tryin to see liek the xp glitch and stuff

i didnt know there was a cow glitch

Is the rumor true that you can get ip banned for over 2 weeks?

most i had was like all day it pisses me off and i knew most of this already but good post anyways

wut is the cow glitch/myth?

Hey what was you saying about the ipconfig//renew ??? what does that do and do i type that n d2 or where do i use the command at?

Additional Comment:
nvm i found it out on my own

Additional Comment:
still didnt work when i used winsocks