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hey, as i said i suck if it comes to network things was just reading and thats the information i got out of my readings. what u said might be correct. cant rly say that xD ofc its a good option to always use a proxy or vpn in the vm. this should rly be save then as i know. but i highly doubt GGG is banning per router mac address since there would be too many bans for no reason. d12

hey cralle. check this one: http://www.exiled-bot.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=285 d12

had some problems with bot wandering outside the range of the items which should be looted. my solution is to set the skill max range to 500 and the safe range to 300. works quite fine.probably not too cool for ranged builds. d12

hey, i just made a tutorial about setting up a vm for "save" botting. maybe u guys can atke a look at it. captianwow u seem to know a bit about networks. so if u find some mistakes in my thread it would be cool to tell us. i just suck if it comes to networking d12

Hey botters, First of all: If anyone got suggestions or finds some mistakes in my thoughts you are welcome to tell me. I'll also answer to questions if necessary. But please read the whole thread before asking. So since there have been several bans already i decided to write a small tutorial how to setup the vm within vmware player so atleast the main account is save from getting banned. I'll also add performance optimations which might do a big deal or not. (but worth a shot anyways) From my tries Windows 7 32bit seems to work quite well. (2GB RAM, 32GB hard drive, 4 cpu cores) You might go with less cpu. I just dont care giving it a bit more since ill just run one vm since my graphics card cant handle more poe clients anyways I wont explain here how to setup a vm in vmware player since there are plenty of good tutorials out there. But ill try to help you guys make the botting more save against getting banned. (mostly preventing bans on the main account since this seems to be rly important to me) I was reading a bit about the different network connection types in vmware since this seems to be quite important in case of getting banned on several accounts or not. I'm not 100% sure but as it seems the default option (NAT network) isnt a good option to bot in a vm and use the main account on the "real" windows version at the same time. To change this option you can go to the settings of your vm and select the network adapter. In the network connection section u got the possibility to change between bridged, NAT and host-only. In our case we want to run the vm in bridged mode. This will basically make the vm look like a seperate physical computer from the internet. It will have a seperate IP and MAC address. This will use a seperate IP address in your network for any vm connected via bridged mode. So if you dont got enough IP addresses left this isnt a good idea or might be even not possible. But since most ppl out there got some kind of wlan routers this shouldnt be a problem. Since your vm will show up like a seperate physical computer in your network it might be possible to see for GGG that there are other computers playing poe in this network. But if they are not banning per router MAC address (which they wont do in my opinion due to obvious reasons) your main account should be save even if your bot account gets banned. A short explanation to those connection types can be found here: http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-2527 http://blog-rat.blogspot.de/2009/05/bridged-vs-host-only-vs-nat.html It is also a good idea to enable "replicate physical network conection state". (this will reconnect your vm to the internet if ur changing between networks) Thanks to Swarley here is a video which shows a few options to do within your windows vm which might improve performance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1ZK03c0Wfw For me it is still better to use the windows aero theme since there are graphic bugs when i dont use it and running the poe client. As i know those graphic bugs dont affect the bot in any way. But i didnt try this long and just changed back the theme to aero. I hope this will make your botting experience better. yours d12

thats why forums suck

hey, thx for the warning. and sry for u getting banned ;/ and everything is detectable... just depends on how careful GGG is. EDIT: did u alrdy get some items to ur main account? and u just got banned on ur bot account? d12

kk take ur time. fast and buggy is alot worse than slow but working properly xD d12

ye, working on more or less huge software projects on myself from time to time. know what u mean. its a pain d12 PS: any guesses when a "first try" pathfinding is coming?

hey, thx for the video link. didnt try it yet but should help alot what i have seen so far. d12

hey, guessed u would say that xD but nice to hear that ull do that sometime. d12

hey, das dev team is glaub spanisch oder sowas ind er art. und lernt lieber englisch ;P d12

hey, since im looting a shit load of scrolls of wisdom and portal scrolls all the time i would suggest a feature which makes it possible to decide wheter the bot loots scrolls or not. and maybe something similar for gems. like: quality gems only or support gems and quality only, .... didnt rly think of the gem thing yet since its hard to say. cause of other valuable gems like multi. feel free to give ur own suggestions. d12

hey zantetsu, thx for the link. but i got my problem fixed. the graphics arent perfect, bot good enough to bot the hyperV thingy might be interesting to someone else who wanted to use it. but as it seemed it isnt supporting 3d acc. (only what ppl told me. never used it since i didnt upgrade to w8 yet.) d12

i guess if u get caught the first time theyll just ban ur account. might be, that theyll see which other accounts u traded with or whatever. only guessing. no proove for this yet. d12

hey, about "staying alive is rly important". i didnt rly get the item drop penality yet. but if the character is +2 from the area level it gets some drop penality. wouldnt it be nice to have a "lure" option which lures alot of monsters if on about 90%exp and die? xD since most ppl will use the bot for farming anyways i guess. not as a main lvling char. d12

hey, was running into this issue aswell. for me it isnt waiting. its just doing the normal way. going higher and finally its reaching a "used" instance. ^ some kind of "waiting" ofc xD and it might be a nice improvement to catch the loading screen of areas. since if the loading screen is shown the bot is still doing its new area clicks. if the loading takes too long its getting to a higher mouse position but without any result. next time ur starting a new area ull join the same again... d12

hey, not sure if this is the correct section. but since its snti bot headed it might be. since staying 24/7 at the ledge farming might be a bit strange it would be nice to set different locations which get chosen randomly. so for example u set ledge and mudflats. so if the bot starts its choosing one and sets a number for how many runs in the choosen area. so lets say its choosing ledge and 12runs. then ledge gets cleaned 12 times and then the choosing starts again. without a multiple instance number it would be "too random" in my opinion xD noone is playing 24/7 and doing ledge and mudflats 50:50 thats just an idea. so give me a short feedback if u can waste a minute. d12

hey, i cant feel those lags. but i also got some problems since one of the last patches. like instance crashes (never had one before) and strange graphics were i cant see anything anymore xD (might be the vm aswell) d12

broken bridge is also quite nice d12

LOOOOOL i failed hard. the crashing problem solved since i forgot to install directX... sry for all those posts. my own dumbness. (just didnt think of installing it since most of the time it just gets installed kinda passive if a game needs it) game still flickering, but running xD d12 EDIT: if the bot is logging out cause of less hp. its closing the client accidently. somehow able to prevent this? EDIT2: if the bot automatically restarts the instance counter gets reset. so the bot will go through all instances again but doesnt start to run.

hey guys, installed a new vm with vmware. win7 32bit sp1. game is flickering a bit while gaming on intel hd 3000 grafics in 800x600 minimal grafics. strange: if i let it run with my nvidia 540m it seems to have alot less power than with the intel in the vm. but still: if i start the bot and the character logs in automatically to the city area the client crashes. seems to be a bot problem. but not sure. might just occure on bad grafics power pcs xD. since i guess the grafics performance in the vm isnt 100% from outside the vm. and an intel hd 3000 isnt rly powerful at all. also if i start the bot, it seems to use 1 core completly in idle mode (guess its the same when running). dont u you guys use some kind of thread yields to drop the cpu usage of the bot? (even a 1-10ms yield changes the cpu usage drastically) ^ just an idea. maybe you guys got a reason for not doing it xD hope someone comes up with an answer soon. got no ideas left what to do urs d12

strange. same for me, but client is crashing if i start the bot. always crashing after it finished loading the city area. just a question? where is the problem with the flickering if the bot is still running? xD d12 PS: if someone knows a solution to this problem pls tell us (setting up another windows vm atm to try again xD (aero design works. so the drivers itself are running in the vm alrdy))

@3raser didnt u say a few days ago that u were running bot and main account in vm and non vm parallel? when u were answering my first question in this thread. so why u got the crappy client problem aswell now? d12

@ zantetsu if hyper v doesnt support d3d u cant help it. try vm ware. but as it seems its not that easy aswell xD @ all trying virtual box atm. maybe its working better. got some d3d problems still, but ill post here if i got it running xD d12