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I made new bot accounts and ran 5 of them in VMware, all with a different vpn. 8 hours later, all banned. GGG seems to have the ability to detect this bot's activity. Continuously grinding the same level, not applying skill points, not taking breaks...etc. Sure it could be the freebie vpn that is red flagged, or 1000 other reasons. Does anyone have a guide to not getting banned? Like aside from the obvious "dont run it 24/7"?

Couldn't agree more. http://www.exiled-bot.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=814 Nice to see the big boss is on top of this!

You're missing the point. If the bot could do this it would be more humanistic and avoid bans. Also, if your bots are getting banned repeatedly, rushing them is simply too time consuming to make it worth the time spend.

It would be great if the bot could complete quests and progress through the game. Their are bots for D3 that can do this, as well as id/equip better gear. Also if the bot could assign skill points, that would be great. We'd need a copy of the skill tree in the bot gui, where we could load in preset builds or fill in the dots. I realize these are some major features, and bring them up for conversation.

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I had 5 vms running, all with a different IP via vpn. 3/5 banned after running for 8 hours, first day. I now have almost 15 accounts banned. Some of my friends who are only running 1 bot for a few hours a day have also been banned. Here are some conclusion / clarifications: They don't look at currency transfers. If you're main account got banned, it was because of sharing an IP with your bot accounts. If they tracked currency, nobody would get their account back from support. Especially not me You can toss the currency over D2 style, if you really think that is smarter than using trade, a channel which legit players use. How many legit players are throwing currency on the ground? Anyway, they DONT look at currency. Running multiple bots on the same IP CAN make it easier for them to catch you, but the bot's behavior is really the problem. When I had 5 bots on 1 IP, they got all of them at once. 5 bots on 5 different IPs, they got 3/5 same day. Over-leveling MAY be an issue as well. If the bot could do quests and progress, like many D3 bots, it would appear most humanistic. I agree with many people in this forum. The bot needs to stop hammering the login and use portal scrolls. If no scroll, run back to wp. The bot also needs to be configurable to "humanize" it's running, providing options for timed breaks, timed mini (piss) breaks, and run quests.

Lost all 10 accounts this morning...its been fun everyone. Hope you all have better luck!

Hey Boss, I'm not sure how exactly this could integrate, but if I can get this thing working well we will certainly talk. The issue with integrating this with the bot is that, when the bot is running, you can't really interrupt it. Also, this tool will support multiple bots, making it difficult to integrate into the GUI, which supports 1 bot. Not sure yet, but I'm guessing this will be a web-hosted application. My approach will use the link above (thanks okostibi), and attempt to parse the feed appropriately to a database, then render it out nicely. I'm open to the idea of handing this off when complete, to be hosted at exiled-bot. The link above (okostibi) returns JSON - GREAT!

http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/499892 ^^ this works well, and pulls the inventory data to a sqlite3 database. Simple query outputs this : Armourer's Scrap 29/40 Armourer's Scrap 22/40 Blacksmith's Whetstone 11/20 Blacksmith's Whetstone 9/20 Chaos Orb 2/10 Chaos Orb 2/10 Chromatic Orb 6/20 Chromatic Orb 4/20 Gemcutter's Prism 1/20 Glassblower's Bauble 4/20 Glassblower's Bauble 2/20 Being the front-end developer I am, I could use a bit of help with the php/sql part. E.g. I'd like to remove the "/20" from the stacks, so they can be calculated for totals. Also, the source at the link above could use a little work. It could be streamlined to only view character inventory items. User account sessions vs the current hard coded poe credentials, etc. Basically stripping it down / cleanup for our cause. If someone will work with me on this back-end stuff, here is what I plan to do. Build out the user interface using jqueryui Integrate notifications for big item drops charting / graphs Theme all item/orb items with images Android / iOS unofficial release (apk/app) PM me if you'd like to get involved. -cheers

^^ Thanks for the link, it's working. Now I need to merge the sqlite databases and build a front-end. I like this solution A LOT better than my screenshot service (obviously).

Can anyone recommend a program for image recognition? I'd like to count the orbs and report totals.

I made this work, and am able to check my bots inventory via screenshots. I can see all my inventories on 1 page, and it is auto-refreshing about every minute. I dedicated a VM to host the image capture service. On the VM: Install Firefox and Multifox extension (this allows you to login to all your account in separate browser windows) LOG THEM IN! Install SnagIT (screen capture that supports FTP) Lets say you have 3 bots, create 3 capture profiles in SnagIT. Each should be the same, but with a different hotkey to start it, and a different file name e.g. bot-1.jpg, bot-2.jpg. Configure "sharing" to use FTP to "ftp.yourserver.com, choose a remote path e.g /public_html/bot_images Now test your captures, making sure you end up with 3 unique files on your remote server. Click Firefox window 1, capture. Then do the next 2 Firefox windows the same way. You should end up with bot-1.jpg, bot-2.jpg, and bot-3.jpg on the remote server. To capture the correct image (character's loot), you needed to make some mouse clicks manually. Let's automate it. I used Workspace Macro Pro (keyboard/mouse automation). In SnagIT, I set my captures hotkeys to alt-1, alt-2, alt-3, and so on... I start recording a new macro I click on my first Firefox window via the taskbar, hit f5 to reload the page, click my character's face, wait..., alt-1 to capture image and send Now I click on my second Firefox tab, hit f5..........alt-2 to capture and send Repeat this process for each bot. At the end, I hit ctrl-alt S to save my macro. I fired up my macro and made sure it was repeating and successfully updating the images - bam! working! Now build a simple (or even complex) html page to display the images. There you have it- an image capture service running in your VM and a page to display the images. (for anyone looking to display the inventory area only, and not the whole character screen, read more) I used iframes and negative margins to clip my captures to only display the inventory area of the character. The index.html contains an iframe set to 585px width, 252px height, scrolling="no". The src should be bot-1.html. Repeat this for each bot changing the bot-1.html to bot-2.html and so on. Now to create bot-1.html: this page should contain the Build bot-2.html, bot-3.html the same way In the of each of these image pages, add this css to clip the image (im my case): style="margin-top:-625px;margin-left:-555px; Now your index.html should show the inventories only, letting you peek at all your loot at the same time. I can't wait to wrap this up into an android webview app. I know this is a pain in the ass, but once running its fairly maintenance free. Just Suspend/Pause your VM to avoid having to re-position items for the mouse/keyboard automation. CHEERS!

I was making a joke, about actually having to click on something Idea: Could the "Start" button be in focus when the GUI launches? So all I'd have to do is hit Enter.... That could be easily scripted, and is possibly a very quick/easy solution for our developer friends.

2 buttons in the UI using clipboard for settings would be very helpful for bot updates. -cheers

With pathfinding the bot can easily get stuck in A1. I switched it up to A3 and haven't had any problems getting stuck. For me, this is a small issue for new bots, that haven't got to A3 yet. Maybe down the road reimplement the timer...