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Bots in Gaming

Anonymous Sun 23 Jun 2013 23:37:12 No.34797884 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>34812492 >>34813185 >>34821663 >>34826671

Here's a great DEFCON presentation on subverting the WoW API -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnmoI2dRwX4

Avoiding the debate over whether bots are harming gaming - let's talk about the programming behind them.

I consider MMO playing Bots to be really impressive programming feats, I wouldn't mind making a bot that can play ANY kind of game by itself (check out this bot that uses TETRIS to draw images using algorithms http://youtu.be/PJkHwulsac4) -

SO:

Has anyone USED a bot before, and if so in what game?

Has anyone MADE a script that can play games automatically before?

And finally - what's your opinion on bots? Are they cool, or a travesty of misplaced talent and effort?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Jun 2013 07:49:55 No.34808183 Report

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>>34807757
>He makes about $2000 a month doing this thanks to his custom made d2 dupe.

Jesus Christ

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Jun 2013 08:28:33 No.34808919 Report

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Bump

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Jun 2013 09:10:57 No.34809738 Report

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bump

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Jun 2013 12:39:41 No.34812428 Report

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sure, i'll bump this

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Jun 2013 12:47:19 No.34812492 Report

Quoted By: >>34812507

>>34797884
>Has anyone USED a bot before, and if so in what game?
ragnarok (openkore) and wow (honorbuddy), the first one was more fun to develop since it was more modificable, the second was too simple.

>Has anyone MADE a script that can play games automatically before?
further than autohotkey scripts with pixel search and so, no.

>And finally - what's your opinion on bots? Are they cool, or a travesty of misplaced talent and effort?

I like doing scripts so my computer do what I dont want to

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Jun 2013 12:48:47 No.34812507 Report

Quoted By: >>34812517

>>34812492
that's modificably understandiable.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Jun 2013 12:49:53 No.34812517 Report

Quoted By: >>34812595

>>34812507
you mean my english is bad? can you point my mistakes? I'm triying to improve

thanks

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Jun 2013 12:58:06 No.34812595 Report

Quoted By: >>34812643

>>34812517
Firstly, you don't develop OpenKore, you configure it, because the files you are editing are called configuration files.

Secondly, modificable is an obsolete form of modifiable, so use the second one.

Lastly, your computer is singular so the verb should be 'does' instead of 'do'. Replace the word 'what' with 'things' because you want us to know what your computer does, so it does 'things' you don't want to do.

bye

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Jun 2013 13:03:36 No.34812643 Report

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>>34812595
thanks again mate, that was really constructive

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Jun 2013 13:05:02 No.34812658 Report

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>>34805895
>- control keyboard and mouse (then you can't do anything else on the computer, and can't run more than one bot)
you can either run it in a virtual machine, or add a function that starts the bot when your computer is idle.
As soon as I leave my computer for more than 30s, it starts a few scripts.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Jun 2013 13:52:44 No.34813185 Report

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>>34797884
Used to bot on Runescape. Had a website up and running and ran bots on my PC for kids. Earned well over three grand over 8 months. Was fantastic, too bad the game's absolute shit now.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Jun 2013 14:17:44 No.34813446 Report

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I see no reason to ban bots because people will use them anyway. A great example is the browsergame Kingdom of Loathing (give it a shot, its really funny even if you only play the tutorial).
Not only does it have a huge collection of user-written greasemonkey scripts, ranging from simple chat filters to entirely automated speedruns, it also introduced an ingame-macro language allowing you to do all the usual things like loops and conditions to produce macros like this
<pre class="prettyprint">sub violence
attack
if hppercentbelow 90
call heal
endif
endsub

sub heal
while mpbelow 80
use magical mystery, magical mystery
endwhile
skill lasagna b
endsub

call violence
repeat
</pre>
(source) http://forums.kingdomofloathing.com/vb/showthread.php?s=8d50b3a0937b03fc842965b5d255169a&t=181641

I did write some bots, mostly for flash games to learn programming.
My first, in Java, was playing a guitar-hero-style game but my hardware couldnt keep up back then so it would lag behind after about 30 seconds
Another one, in AutoHotKey, waas playing an idle game. I let it run over night and it made more progress than i did in one week
And the simplest one beat a geme by holding down LeftArrow and mashing Space ^^

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Jun 2013 15:32:15 No.34814260 Report

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I would be pretty excited if /g/ wanted to start making a project for ROTMG. That shit is written is java. Shouldn't be too hard I'm guessing

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Jun 2013 15:57:11 No.34814539 Report

Quoted By: >>34814545

Any OGame players here?

I want to write a bot for it.

Anyone interested in helping is welcome to do so, contact me on [email protected]<script type="text/javascript">
/* <![CDATA[ */
(function(){try{var s,a,i,j,r,c,l,b=document.getElementsByTagName("script");l=b[b.length-1].previousSibling;a=l.getAttribute('data-cfemail');if(a){s='';r=parseInt(a.substr(0,2),16);for(j=2;a.length-j;j+=2){c=parseInt(a.substr(j,2),16)^r;s+=String.fromCharCode(c);}s=document.createTextNode(s);l.parentNode.replaceChild(s,l);}}catch(e){}})();
/* ]]> */
</script> (troll email).

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Jun 2013 15:57:45 No.34814545 Report

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>>34814539
Oh yeah and the language will probably be Python.

(s-sorry ;_;)

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Jun 2013 17:51:48 No.34816198 Report

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bump

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Jun 2013 17:56:33 No.34816269 Report

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wow, this thread is still here awesome

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Jun 2013 18:06:02 No.34816400 Report

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Still waiting for reverse's opinion on the matter...

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Jun 2013 18:53:09 No.34817138 Report

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>>34802510
CPP

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Jun 2013 19:31:37 No.34817850 Report

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boomp

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Jun 2013 19:58:19 No.34818311 Report

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bump

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 24 Jun 2013 20:10:57 No.34818576 Report

Quoted By: >>34818709 >>34818767

>>34801451
Are you Reckful?!

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Anonymous Mon 24 Jun 2013 20:16:47 No.34818709 Report

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>>34818576

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Jun 2013 20:18:41 No.34818747 Report

Quoted By: >>34819041

>>34801982

if you buy a 600 dollar ps3 and refund it back to walmart, you only leave with a free ps3 and not a free 600 dollars.. math is hard.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Jun 2013 20:19:25 No.34818767 Report

Quoted By: >>34820191

>>34818576

reckful plays horde not faggot alliance

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Jun 2013 20:33:03 No.34819041 Report

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>>34818747
>Returning a weighted box and keeping the ps3
Reading comprehension is hard

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Jun 2013 20:33:55 No.34819057 Report

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>>34819041
nevermind im a high ass idiot
carry on

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Jun 2013 21:26:09 No.34820191 Report

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>>34818767

that cunt botting guild used to be alliance

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Jun 2013 21:44:18 No.34820597 Report

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bumpity

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Jun 2013 22:16:42 No.34821295 Report

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bumpity 2x

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Jun 2013 22:33:32 No.34821627 Report

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>>34799891
that was awesome and crazy

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 24 Jun 2013 22:35:01 No.34821663 Report

Quoted By: >>34822977

>>34797884
>DEFCON presentation

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 24 Jun 2013 23:37:42 No.34822977 Report

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>>34821663

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Jun 2013 23:39:54 No.34823022 Report

Quoted By: >>34823104

So would I make more money botting World of Warcraft or Diablo 3?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Jun 2013 23:43:54 No.34823104 Report

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>>34823022
Auction botting in D3 seems right.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 25 Jun 2013 01:20:40 No.34825257 Report

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Bump because.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 25 Jun 2013 01:25:21 No.34825366 Report

Quoted By: >>34826156

If anyone is aware of any decent alternatives to GatherBuddy (honorbuddy) please let me know.

Thanks.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 25 Jun 2013 01:54:54 No.34826156 Report

Quoted By: >>34826199

>>34825366

I thought Honorbuddy was the best?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 25 Jun 2013 01:56:28 No.34826199 Report

Quoted By: >>34826275

>>34826156
Have you not read this thread at all? It was the best. It has been detected and will result in a ban with in one week of use if not quicker. Gatherbuddy is dead.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 25 Jun 2013 01:59:32 No.34826275 Report

Quoted By: >>34826362

>>34826199
>transfer stuff you've gained through honorbuddy through mules
RIP Honorbuddy, I'm amazed this thread is still alive.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 25 Jun 2013 02:03:51 No.34826362 Report

Quoted By: >>34826393

>>34826275
Nigger. I've been running botfarms for years. Gatherbuddy. Is. Dead. The farmer accounts themselves are getting banned with in hours.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 25 Jun 2013 02:05:12 No.34826393 Report

Quoted By: >>34826470

>>34826362
What do you do now then m8?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 25 Jun 2013 02:09:02 No.34826470 Report

Quoted By: >>34826519 >>34826721

>>34826393
Nothing? There is no money to be made in botting WoW any more. It's dead.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 25 Jun 2013 02:11:15 No.34826519 Report

Quoted By: >>34826690

>>34826470

What about Diablo?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 25 Jun 2013 02:16:39 No.34826671 Report

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>>34797884
>Has anyone USED a bot before, and if so in what game?
yes, I've used BlackD Proxy and Elfbot in Tibia
later on I made my own bot, nowadays it's mostly just my friends who use it to gain levels or farm cash

although I'd imagine writing bots for Tibia is easier than something like WoW

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 25 Jun 2013 02:17:29 No.34826690 Report

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>>34826519
The money to be made in diablo is via RMAH sniping/camping. Not botting.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 25 Jun 2013 02:18:38 No.34826721 Report

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>>34826470
>all has to be about making money
I just wanna powerlevel and quit playing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 25 Jun 2013 03:18:09 No.34828003 Report

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>>34804397
there is a good, free bot for L2. L2Tower

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 25 Jun 2013 04:03:37 No.34828796 Report

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bot bump

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 25 Jun 2013 04:04:12 No.34828810 Report

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i wrote this bot that crunches sha256 a few years ago it paid off handsomely

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