Hello everyone!

A new bot will be up and running within the next few days. We are excited about this and will be running one of the new races.

I have taken over running the bot for Markee so I will attempt to keep the blog updated with whats going on that day for the bot and such.

I will be running up my favorite class a warlock. Free mount FTW. Not to mention they are just a all around fun class to bot with.

P.S In the future Im hoping to make the profiles and key file used available.

Thanx
Rabid

New bot in the works

We've been offline just showing the best of images for a while. I got to busy to keep a bot up and running. So I had one of my staff start running the bot. He was pretty good. But he quit and that left it all up to me again. So it didn't happen. For those of you that don't know. I own multiple companies and of course the real business stuff has to come first. Botting is a hell of a lot more fun. I just don't have the time for it. So I went looking for another person to hire for this job and found someone who will school all of us!

He's working on developing the next bot right now. I don't have a date yet as to when we will start broadcasting. But I wanted to let you know the next one is in the works. We are keeping it quiet at the moment who it is. He'll announce himself when we are a few days away from starting the broadcast. We posted in the Glider forums for people that were interested in this position. It was amazing. We had over 150 people apply. So we were able to get the perfect person for this job.

While you are waiting for the bot to be live again feel free to check out one of my other blogs. It's about one of the other companies I own and you may find it be an interesting read. Or it may bore you to death. lol http://portlandlimo.blogspot.com

Cheers

Almost 60

I hate it when I forget to post some days. We just get so busy with customers sometimes at the office that the day goes by and I realize I never made a post. :( I've been working the Ogres in "The Vice" for the past several days. They give an average of about 3.5 silver each and they give lots of rune cloth. On my server it seems to go for around 3 gold per stack. Another shard I work I'm lucky to get 1.2 gold each stack. Goes to show how the economies of servers can be different. I've made good money this weekend. 260 gold. I posted 38 stacks of rune cloth today on auction at a good price. If that all sells then tomorrow will be a good cash day as well.

I think I'll do my last 1.3 levels here in the Vice still. No one has been here so it's been easy gliding. I've been able to get 300 or more kills per session. I think I should be able to hit 60 by tomorrow night. There is maintenance tomorrow morning. So I won't be able to get much done for half the day. But I'm gonna try.

After that I'll try fishing. I think it may be broke in glider at the moment. But if ii's not I'll see how long it takes to go from 0-300. Also I'm going to be building bunch of new glides, I want to make 30 to 50 new level 60 farming glides. I think out of that many we should be able to come up with some really good ones.

I have about 1 month of prepaid time left on this account. Instead of opening a new one left just se what we can get done at 60 and see if we do anything stupid that gets us busted. :) I'm not expecting that but my first bot to get banned was banned because the glide he ran was bad. I've learned from that. But I'm sure there are some other things I can learn as well and sometimes I end up learning the hard way.




Bot 5 Day 38
Levels gained yesterday: 4.07
Current Level: 58.17
Gold earned yesterday: 260 Gold
Total Gold: 1094 Gold

Glider classes

We held a class for our staff yesterday on Glider. It ended up being pretty cool. Within an hour I had some of them making their first glides. They had been just using the glides I have created. But after getting one of our bots banned I decided that we should go over some best practices One of the things that is the reason we get that one bot banned is that he spent a lot of time in the location he was in. So I decided that one thing we should change is the fact that we should only spend a certain duration in one area. Then move on to the next area. I think that there is nothing worse than seeing the same guy day in and day out at the same location. That in it's self I think is a good indication that someone is a bot.

So now we are working on at least 10 unique locations for each level we are gliding. For level 60 I'm working on 50 to 100 unique locations.. That may sound like a lot but if you are using them to form gold then we need to track the ones that pay the best. So we are going to have to try a lot of different things. The obvious answer may be that we go to the places where others report they can make a lot of coin. But part of the issue is that you don't want to be gliding in an area where there are a bunch of other people working it hard trying to make coin as well.

So when I hit 60 I two goals with this guy. The first is that I want to try fishing and see how long it will take to go 0 to 300. Then also to see if there is any profit in it compared to running a glide killing stuff. I'll also try a new glide every day. We'll figure out a way to see how much income we can generate that day from the area. I'll include in my reports what's working well and what is not.

Also. On another note. You may have noticed we did not run the map for a few weeks. We came out with a new version of KAM. It seemed it was working well for all of my systems but the one I'm using to broadcast. I'm running dual monitors on this system. You only see one of the broadcast. The other one is used for my broadcast tool. I was getting these weird errors saying I was out of video memory. I have a 128mb video card so I thought that was strange. But in fact it turned out to be true. I had to reduce the size of the WoW window to get it to launch the map. Once I did that it fired right up. Then I was able to resize back to normal. I think it was stupid that it was something that simple.

I use a Dell 5150 with an ATI x300 128mb card in the system. I didn't want to go high end for this system. I just wanted to be able to run the game and the broadcast tool. It's done fine for that. So anyway I went to go buy the best video card I could. I have an extra Dell 20" wide screen and I figured I would put it onto this bot system replacing the 17" that is currently on it. I went out to buy the best video card I could find. I looked at the ATI X1900XT and the Nvidia GForce 7900. Both at 512mb. Both of them ion the high $400 range. I figured what the hell. I'm looking at this monitor all day. I may as well make it a pleasure to look at. I ran into a snag though. The Nvidia requires a 400w power supply and the ATI requires a 450w power supply. The Dell 5150 only has a 350w power supply. So I was screwed. I did buy a new card but an ATI x1300 was the best I could buy because of the power requirement issue. It's a 256mb card. It only cost me $79 bucks. So that was good.

This weekend I'll get the new card installed and add the 20 wide screen monitor. We'll see if it makes for some good eye candy. :)


Bot 5 Day 36
Levels gained yesterday: 1.16
Current Level: 54.10
Gold earned yesterday: 116 Gold
Total Gold: 834 Gold

Don't you hate it when you get banned?

No. The bot we are showing did not get banned. But one of my other bots did. He had over 800 hours played time on him. lol I made a new glide and was running him on it. In retrospect the glide was flawed. The path I had him running on made him look like a bot if anyone watched him for more than 5 minutes. So it was my mistake. It just goes to show that you should not make your bot do things that make him look like a bot.

So this is why I was offline for a few days. I wanted to make a few changes to my stuff here before going online again to make sure that it was only the one that got banned and if blizzard was looking for the others that they would not find them. :)

The stats are looking really good. It's because I did not report Friday. then the Friday night glide worked really well and he went for about 10 hours on his own without any problems. I also got some really good loot. :) That made for good profit on the auction house.


Bot 5 Day 34
Levels gained yesterday: 2.17
Current Level: 54.10
Gold earned yesterday: 164 Gold
Total Gold: 718 Gold

Turtle Soup?

Nothing really exciting about doing turtles again today. But I did want to get the stats posted. :)


Bot 5 Day 33
Levels gained yesterday: .15
Current Level: 51.13
Gold earned yesterday: 22 Gold
Total Gold: 554 Gold

Big miss

Patch 1.12 came out yesterday. Glider as of this morning is still not fully running. I forced it into test mode today to make it run anyway. Mercury says there is a lot of new code that still needs to be gone through and he needs more time. I don't blame him at all. He's keeping it down so that Gliders don't shoot themselves in the foot. Me. I carry a gun and it's usually pointed at my foot. :) I don't mind the risk but I don't recommend it for anyone.

So there was no update for yesterday because the bot just didn't run. Today I'm running it. but I can see I'm going to have some issues. The biggest issue may have to do with the AH. Auctioneer is down with the new patch and I rely on that heavily for selling stuff and knowing what to price it at. So I'll have to shoot from the hip for a few days on that and see how it goes.

Turtles did good for me the other day. I'm headed back down there today.


Bot 5 Day 32
Levels gained yesterday: .13
Current Level: 50.18
Gold earned yesterday: 75 Gold
Total Gold: 532 Gold

Forgotten Friday. :)

Well I guess I forgot to make an entry on Friday. I do remember that the day was good. But I don't remember the details. So you get two days of stats below.

Today we are testing a new version of KAM. So far it's crashing on this system. So it's not up at the moment. I have 4 other systems it's working perfectly on but not this one. Later today we should have another revision of it to try and we will fire it up and see how it goes.

Today now that I'm level 50 I'm going to go ahead and work turtles while I'm here today. then when I'm out for the day I'll switch to something that does not require any manual shucking. :)



Bot 5 Day 31
Levels gained yesterday: 1.04
Current Level: 50.05
Gold earned yesterday: 26 Gold
Total Gold: 457 Gold

Just say no to Cat form.

Well I ran it for another day. In cat form he does not last as long gliding overnight. He's much weaker. I did expect that but figured that the stealth would make up for some of that. It does not seem to have an advantage though. So I'll be moving back to bear form.

One comment for the Glider developers on this. It's nice to be able to select on the fly the cat or bear form. But all of your buttons need to be reset to change fully. Currently Shift+5 is what is used. What about assigning Shift+4 or something for the cat form. that way you can change for just a little bit if you find that cat form is going to be the best solution for where you are at.

With that said though about Glider. I'm very impressed with the latest version. It has been very stable. I've had zero crashes from it and I used to crash daily. Good job!




Bot 5 Day 29
Levels gained yesterday: .11
Current Level: 49.01
Gold earned yesterday: 35 Gold
Total Gold: 431 Gold

Cat = Pathetic?

So far my experience with playing in cat form is not working out very well. You can see my numbers from overnight really sucked. I'm not going to call it a failure just from one night though. I'll run it again today and see how he does.


Bot 5 Day 28
Levels gained yesterday: .07
Current Level: 48.10
Gold earned yesterday: 16 Gold
Total Gold: 396 Gold

Cat / Bear form

I decided to change my druid to the cat form setup today and try it out. So far he is doing ok. But I do notice I make about 30% less XP per hour. It's because he moves much slower. In his stealth mode he moves very slow. The advantage of this setup though is that if you are in a hoard area you have less visibility to them and you are less likely to get ganked. But I'm not sure it's worth the reduction in XP. I'll try it for a few days and we'll see how things go.


Bot 5 Day 27
Levels gained yesterday: .16
Current Level: 48.03
Gold earned yesterday: 7 Gold
Total Gold: 380 Gold

92 gold earned yesterday

The gold is starting to come in at a good pace. I'm pleased with how that is starting to work out. Part of that is because where I'm working right now I'm getting lots of thick Leather and it seems to be going for about 2.36 gold per stack. I'm coming up with about 15 stacks a day of that right now. With the new Ninja Skin option in glider I'm sure that is helping.
:)


Bot 5 Day 26
Levels gained yesterday: 1.06
Current Level: 47.07
Gold earned yesterday: 92 Gold
Total Gold: 373 Gold

Weekend moonlighting

With being out of the office so much for the last week I decided to get some stuff done at the office. while i was here I ran the bot and did pretty good. I started making some really tight glides in the highlands. In this area you can get XP of 15k an hour without to much work. You can make your glides so that you are only seeing one or two creature types and so that they are very close together in level range. Easy money and easy gliding.


Bot 5 Day 25
Levels gained yesterday: 3.17
Current Level: 46.01
Gold earned yesterday: 144 Gold
Total Gold: 281 Gold

Making the bacon!

48 gold made yesterday. Not to bad. :) I've started getting into some areas where I can get epic items. Hopefully I can score one of those every few days.

Have any of you tried instance gliding? I've been thinking about trying it. Clyde the Glide was telling me about one he made that was 100% manual and was a very tight path. It could be profitable if you can keep your guy
from getting stuck on things. Maybe I'll give this a try. :)

Bot 5 Day 24
Levels gained yesterday: 1.08
Current Level: 42.18
Gold earned yesterday: 48 Gold
Total Gold: 137 Gold

Out sick

Sorry I was out sick for a week. I even ended up in the hospital for one night. Not fun. What really sucked is that I have a cell connection that is up to 2 megabit. So I can get a lot of stuff done with my laptop. But that of course requires that you can get signal. I think that where I was at was shielded. I could go out side and get 4 bars. But inside it was zero.

So We are back up and running today.


Bot 5 Day 23
Levels gained yesterday: 1.06
Current Level: 41.10
Gold earned yesterday: 29 Gold
Total Gold: 89 Gold

No mount

I made some ok gains today. We didn't run it overnight. I decided I'm not going to buy a mount at this point. Maybe once I hit 60 I will. I see no real advantage to getting one now. I made out really good on the loot from yesterday. 1 blue item and over 10 good greens. I got myself caught up on all of my skills that needed to be purchased. It cost me almost 15 gold to do so.

Now that I'm 40. I'm starting to get into some areas where you can get epic items. I really wish there was an option to pick up items that are bind on pickup. Maybe I'll have to get an extra add on to do that for me.

While I was looking to see if Glider had an option to accept the bind on pickup I did notice a new option. "Ninja Skin". Since I do skinning I turned this on. It's easy money and for the most part if someone makes a kill they will skin it right away if they have the ability. If they don't it's extra income for me. :)


Bot 5 Day 22
Levels gained yesterday: 1.04
Current Level: 40.4
Gold earned yesterday: ** Gold
Total Gold: 60 Gold

To mount or not to mount?

With a Druid you have travel form. It gives me a 40% increase in speed. It's very handy. With that faster form of travel do I really need a mount? I'm not sure I need to waste the money on one.

On to other things. Have any of you tried botting fishing? Like hard core? Once I hit 60 I'm going to do a stint in fishing. I'll see how long it takes me to hit the max skill. Also I'll take a look to see if it's really worth your time. Can you make money at it? I'll find out.


Bot 5 Day 21
Levels gained yesterday: **
Current Level: 39
Gold earned yesterday: ** Gold
Total Gold: 60 Gold

In the money now.

He didn't get a lot of XP yesterday. But he did manage to make 17 gold. All I need to do is buy 2 more of the 16 slot bags and then he can focus on skills and start building up his gold.

BTW: On a little bit different note. For those of you wondering about how safe and secure the bot is. As you may know there is a bit of a time delay on us showing the bot. But this is because Blizzard is one of our biggest watchers of this site and they just look up his name and server and ban him if we show this stuff right away. But anyway. Yesterday it was announced that 59,000 farmer accounts were banned. Yet this account here is still up and running. :) It just goes to show that they are not banning anyone for using WoW Glider or Kick Ass Map. Just mentioning that because I know a lot of you have hesitations on using them because of this. I'm not saying they will never look for it. They most likely will at some point. but it has a very good track record currently.


Bot 5 Day 17
Levels gained yesterday: 1.06
Current Level: 36.05
Gold earned yesterday: 17 Gold
Total Gold: 17 Gold

Gold is like Water

I just keep spending everything I've got. I just can't help myself. lol I feel like I can't keep up. It's strange. I have two bots running right now. Both are about the same levels. There is this one and then I have another that is a paladin. What would it be that the Paladin has 150 gold in the bank, 4 large backs and all of his skills paid for? I ask this because I have yet to pay for all of my skills on my Druid and I don't have all of my 16 slot packs yet.

One difference is that the Druid is on a very new server and the Paladin is on a server that has been around for quite a bit longer. Maybe the values of items on the Paladins shard are more. It's something to think about.

I missed my blog post yesterday. I was a grump yesterday with server issues on one of my sites. It had to be fixed right then even if i did not want to deal with it. So even though the bot ran for most of the day I didn't make any post.


Bot 5 Day 16
Levels gained yesterday: 3.18
Current Level: 34.19
Gold earned yesterday: 0 Gold
Total Gold: 0 Gold

Running

Many of you may not have thought about this. But Glider is a great travel agent. One great feature is the ability to have glider run you from one location to another. Just have glider record your path from point A to point B. Set it to ignore attackers and also set it to be a one way trip. I created glides to run my character to most every gryphon master. It's so easy now when I need to get to a new area.

I also use it to get to gliding locations that are way off the beaten path. I used them a lot because one of the ways I keep from being noticed is to glide in areas that no one else wants to take the time to run to.

Today I'll fight turtles for bit in the Hillsbrad foothills. This is a really easy area to make some good XP. the turtles are for the most part level 30. They are not aggressive. The only downside is the clams. But if you are not running this overnight they are easy to manage.


Bot 5 Day 14
Levels gained yesterday: 3
Current Level: 31.1
Gold earned yesterday: 12 Gold
Total Gold: 17 Gold