I am loading the game but understand there are issues with the servers.
My tag is IkeWitt#1822.
I was Chronos #1770 in the beta; I assume it’s still the same.
Apparently the friends carried over from the beta, which is nice.
candidgamera#1678. Played a bit yesterday, but twice, ran into a bug that wouldn’t let me move from the spot I was on.
I’m not sure how the in-game trading system works quite yet. So, I have been saving up some decent loot if anyone want to trade.
When you’re in-game with someone else, right-click on their icon, and there will be a trade option. Or you can drop things on the ground and let them pick it up: It looks like, unlike loot, an item a player drops is visible to everyone.
it doesn’t look like you can create a mule account. is there a work-around for a ‘guild bank’?
Bird#1237
I feel like I want to play a bit solo before I jump into multiplayer, but I could check it out to see.
With another Doper in group, you could have them hold/trade the item to them while you switch over to your mule and that Doper can trade the item back to you. You would need the mule to also have more gold to buy space for his chest space as well, and although I have not done it, I am assuming you can trade gold to a trusted Doper as well. The Doper community does have an unspoken and implied rule that nobody would take the item and gold and keep it unless it was specifically agreed for that gold/item would be theirs to keep…so, with the rather large initial response here in this thread, we should be able to safely mule items and gold between each other, and maybe use this thread or create another thread to specify what we have in our own personal mules that could be given to each other.
Another question, concerning Hardcore (which I never done in the past)…
If your Hardcore character dies, you do lose your gear…
Do you lose everything else too?
Your gold?
Your inventory?
Your stash in your chest?
Your actual character and stats, never to be seen in your list of heros again?
Doesnt the chest in town get shared amongst all characters? No need for mules.
Hmmm…you’re probably right…didn’t try it in Beta, and I only had the time to run one toon Live.
Hmmm, I asked a mod to merge my thread into this one but no dice so far.
Anyway, here is my battletag:
Stormbringer#1751
I need friends dammit! It is depressing when I stare at the message “You have no friends.” 
it does. i was wondering if say we want a SDMB mule that we could access.
The stash and your gold are both shared across all characters on your account, so neither of those could be lost in hardcore. I don’t know about your personal inventory, though.
I’m OftWearsHats#1104. Preference for Wizard, but I also have a level 1 Witch Doctor named Oogabooga.
I don’t play at any particularly predictable times, although typically > 9p PT.
Battle net - ripopgome#1905
So far I’m a level 13 Witch Doctor.
I must say I’m not super excited to just repeat the normal quests in MP. Maybe there’ll be more to it than that eventually (or maybe I’m missing something right now, too.)
I didn’t click, but this morning my Diablo loader had a newsline about “global play”. In any case I’ll post my tag tonight, I’m in Europe as well.
Whenever my bloody thing gets done downloading, I’ll be BlackRabbit#1596
Kyrios#1953
Level 37 Demon Hunter in Act II Nightmare, but I’ll probably be starting some other characters this weekend as well, including at least one Hardcore if anyone wants to put a group together doing that.