Yes indeed in order to spawn the Diablo Clone, you have to sell SoJs.<p>No one knows what the exact number of SoJs is, so a community was created and it used irc.dclone.org as the IRC server to manage all of this and collect data over time. This gave some historical data on how many SoJ&#x27;s were sold for a certain IP address before that server &quot;popped&quot; (the clone spawned)<p>Each Diablo game you create, has a unique IP address.<p>Let&#x27;s say you&#x27;re on a server with IP 123.123.123.XXX<p>When you sell SoJ&#x27;s, all servers that end with XXX will eventually spawn a Diablo Clone and receive the &quot;XYZ SoJs have been sold to merchants&quot; message.<p>People would gather on irc.dclone.org and pool together say 100-150 SoJs on the NON-LADDER mode. Items were cheaper on NON-LADDER, so the SoJ&#x27;s were sold on a NON-LADDER server, but, the people who organize the event, would in advance hog the predetermined servers that end with XXX on LADDER mode. That way, they&#x27;d get the annihilus charm the clone drops and it&#x27;d be worth more.<p>So in essence, you&#x27;re selling the SoJs on the NON-LADDER servers, but their effect propagates to the LADDER servers. Thus, your returns are much higher.<p>In order to find these servers, you&#x27;d use a similar AutoIt bot to basically create a game every 3 minutes and use some basic netstat commands to extract the IP address and once a game has the .XXX address you want, the bot will idle in it, until your group spawns the diablo clone.<p>A private diablo clone spawning event would typically go in the following order:<p>1. Get number of people to transfer SoJs to one account (buy-in is usually 10 SoJs&#x2F;person assuming ~10-12 people party)<p>2. At time T, the SoJs selling will begin<p>3. Announce the IP address XXX at (T - 5 hours), this will give you 5 hours to search for game servers with IP address XXX.<p>4. Start selling SoJs at time T<p>5. Clone Spawns, everyone kills the clone in the games they have found, and collects the annihilus charm.<p>When I was doing this regularly, an unidentified annihilus charm was worth $20-$30 on ebay, one with perfect or near perfect stats could go up to $100.