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