Has anyone here thought about or tried to create a gold farm?

[jameschang112]

I've read stories here of people running 10-20 bots successfully. What's stopping you from doing this on 100 bots? Any particular obstacle hinder your work?

 

[Nicotroll]

100*$15 = $1500 USD per month.

 

[jameschang112]

100*$15 = $1500 USD per month.

Oh definitely the cost for the keys can be expensive. I can get them for $10, so that knocks it down a little. Add to that the cost of electricity, rent, multiple connections, and any salary (if you hire people) can bring the cost up....but in the end if the revenue is higher than costs...why not?

 

[ludawg]

It is a lot of work creating/managing emails, leveling up, setting up the correct profiles, and monitoring them. I personally think the risk of bans goes up significantly the more account you have due to all the bread crumbs you leave behind with 100 bots. Selling off the gold is another thing as you will need multiple buyers with that much gold. Another problem may be the tax man as Paypal will report your income if you make over $20k. Self-employment income is like 14% and that will dip into your margins along with acquiring new accounts, HB keys etc.

 

[jameschang112]

It is a lot of work creating/managing emails, leveling up, setting up the correct profiles, and monitoring them. I personally think the risk of bans goes up significantly the more account you have due to all the bread crumbs you leave behind with 100 bots. Selling off the gold is another thing as you will need multiple buyers with that much gold. Another problem may be the tax man as Paypal will report your income if you make over $20k. Self-employment income is like 14% and that will dip into your margins along with acquiring new accounts, HB keys etc.

I did not know that Paypal reports income if you make over 20k....thank you. Do you know if Skrill does the same thing?

 

[BrPlxGimmeGold]

All day I be online with 12 wow's simultaneos 12~16 hours day, and its not sucessfull..deletes comes every month.

 

[Staffix]

costs;
5 bucks pr. account + electricity.

income;
10k pr account pr day, 0.42 dollars pr k - so 4.2 dollars a day, after the first 24 hours it's pure profit

It's almost no work creating emails, using the right set of tools to do it with..
i always test profiles through before i run bots on them, so i know which profiles works for me and which ones that doesn't.
ofc. the risk goes up, so does the profit margin.. just use a VPS on 5 of the accounts and run the other 5 off ur pc.

 

[MadDog]

costs;
5 bucks pr. account + electricity.

income;
10k pr account pr day, 0.42 dollars pr k - so 4.2 dollars a day, after the first 24 hours it's pure profit

It's almost no work creating emails, using the right set of tools to do it with..
i always test profiles through before i run bots on them, so i know which profiles works for me and which ones that doesn't.
ofc. the risk goes up, so does the profit margin.. just use a VPS on 5 of the accounts and run the other 5 off ur pc.

$5 per accounts? not anymore..

 

[Taneo]

Get paid in bitcoin.

 

[Rogue Demon]

It is a lot of work creating/managing emails, leveling up, setting up the correct profiles, and monitoring them. I personally think the risk of bans goes up significantly the more account you have due to all the bread crumbs you leave behind with 100 bots. Selling off the gold is another thing as you will need multiple buyers with that much gold. Another problem may be the tax man as Paypal will report your income if you make over $20k. Self-employment income is like 14% and that will dip into your margins along with acquiring new accounts, HB keys etc.

Can't you list your expenses on your tax returns and get deductions.

 

[Soullinker]

It takes a lot of planning to do so and a lot of lengths to make it.
Some of the things you will need:
1) VP.N's for every 5 bots are so, or separate ISP's. Blizz does not black list IP's but they do IP ban all accounts on the IP. So multiple IP's are a must. Unless you fancy losing 100 bots at once. For me even 10 is a lot to lose. Plus the more accounts you have running on 1 machine/ip the bigger your footprint. When i tried 10 accounts on 1 machine/ip i got shut down rather fast.

2) Multiple computers, laptops are favorable here because desktops take far too much space and i think the electricity bill will be larger. Think about 20 laptops and the cost for those. I wager 300-500 bucks each for 5 HB and 5 WoW's.

3) Multiple payment methods. Blizzard does not accept a lot of transactions from the same card/PP. If you try to buy 10 acc from blizz store(4 euro thing) you will get transactions error. Multiple PP will cover your tracks about the income you get. I am from shitty east-europe country and there were times i managed to pull 3xthe lowest salary. Still in US or better country they may have a system and find about that faster. In the end its not that many debit card's just 10 each with PP account.

4) The hardest part is making it all work. As you know there are stucks and general fuck ups, be while leveling or while farming the gold. Well there should be no fuck ups. Zero-NONE. Questing is out of the question, because from 1-85 there at least 2-3 places where you regularly get stuck, its annoying to find you bot stuck somewhere wasting all night, getting reported or what not. Well multiply that by 100. So dungeon leveling is the way, but it has its quirks too.

Then after leveling you have gear buying and gearing up, for whatever you are gonna do and profession leveling too, oh joy. And while you can make a Professionbuddy profile to level the profession you want you would need to buy the gear on your own from the AH. And i doubt you can make a profile for that because well the item you are looking for may not exist on the AH.

And you better learn how profiles work and how to edit them and bend them to your will. But its not that hard honestly.
And what are you gonna farm? If not in instance you may get reported by ppl, if in instance, server side detection says ''HI!'' or it may not say ''HI!''. So you better have your own private and very special spot that no one knows about oh at the thing you may be farming for must be in demand. Oh and that spot must be profitable too.
Honestly you will need to able to level to 85/90 with the press of a button. And to be able to go to farming with equal ease. Because just 10 minutes a day spend on all 100 bots is 16 hours every day.
5) Shit happens! Things out of your control do happen-DC's, crashes, and what not. And then some bots may fuck up So every day before bed you log on your personal computer in your room on Team Viewer and check all those wonderful laptops and with a quick glance see if everything is okey.
6) For the love of god find some basement/celler whatever and cramp those laptops in there, the heat they produce and noise will drive you mad.

P.S. Cant be bother to proof read, time to make pancakes.

 

[Rogue Demon]

It takes a lot of planning to do so and a lot of lengths to make it.
Some of the things you will need:
1) VP.N's for every 5 bots are so, or separate ISP's. Blizz does not black list IP's but they do IP ban all accounts on the IP. So multiple IP's are a must. Unless you fancy losing 100 bots at once. For me even 10 is a lot to lose. Plus the more accounts you have running on 1 machine/ip the bigger your footprint. When i tried 10 accounts on 1 machine/ip i got shut down rather fast.

2) Multiple computers, laptops are favorable here because desktops take far too much space and i think the electricity bill will be larger. Think about 20 laptops and the cost for those. I wager 300-500 bucks each for 5 HB and 5 WoW's.

3) Multiple payment methods. Blizzard does not accept a lot of transactions from the same card/PP. If you try to buy 10 acc from blizz store(4 euro thing) you will get transactions error. Multiple PP will cover your tracks about the income you get. I am from shitty east-europe country and there were times i managed to pull 3xthe lowest salary. Still in US or better country they may have a system and find about that faster. In the end its not that many debit card's just 10 each with PP account.

4) The hardest part is making it all work. As you know there are stucks and general fuck ups, be while leveling or while farming the gold. Well there should be no fuck ups. Zero-NONE. Questing is out of the question, because from 1-85 there at least 2-3 places where you regularly get stuck, its annoying to find you bot stuck somewhere wasting all night, getting reported or what not. Well multiply that by 100. So dungeon leveling is the way, but it has its quirks too.

Then after leveling you have gear buying and gearing up, for whatever you are gonna do and profession leveling too, oh joy. And while you can make a Professionbuddy profile to level the profession you want you would need to buy the gear on your own from the AH. And i doubt you can make a profile for that because well the item you are looking for may not exist on the AH.

And you better learn how profiles work and how to edit them and bend them to your will. But its not that hard honestly.
And what are you gonna farm? If not in instance you may get reported by ppl, if in instance, server side detection says ''HI!'' or it may not say ''HI!''. So you better have your own private and very special spot that no one knows about oh at the thing you may be farming for must be in demand. Oh and that spot must be profitable too.
Honestly you will need to able to level to 85/90 with the press of a button. And to be able to go to farming with equal ease. Because just 10 minutes a day spend on all 100 bots is 16 hours every day.
5) Shit happens! Things out of your control do happen-DC's, crashes, and what not. And then some bots may fuck up So every day before bed you log on your personal computer in your room on Team Viewer and check all those wonderful laptops and with a quick glance see if everything is okey.
6) For the love of god find some basement/celler whatever and cramp those laptops in there, the heat they produce and noise will drive you mad.

P.S. Cant be bother to proof read, time to make pancakes.

if they ip ban you, how come my entire botting stable hasn't been wiped out yet. i had several bots banned at the same time but never my entire stable.

 

[Staffix]

$5 per accounts? not anymore..

Haha, it still works if you're using the right link/method.

 

[Lokeboy]

I would bet my money on army of pickpocket rogues and dungeon grinders, something that does not require interaction with AH and gives gold right away. Maybe not the best for GPH but slow and steady IMO.

 

[Soullinker]

if they ip ban you, how come my entire botting stable hasn't been wiped out yet. i had several bots banned at the same time but never my entire stable.

You got a lazy GM, most of the time yes they ban the accounts that are active at that time. And leave some offline strangler. Some of the times they ban everything that was recently run from that IP. If this did not happen you haven't been botting long enough or with enough accounts or greedy enough.
Have 20 accounts running in 12 hours shifts, when the 10 get banned i guarantee you that the other 10 will bite the dust too.

 

[brainAbuddy]

I have runed 20 accounts on the most. It was almost a partime job on that time me uldum profile wasn't 100% afk so they where stuck once every 2 hours and had allot of private buyers and on demand buyers. it was really fun to do but 100 accounts it is possible if you have the money to invest in the accounts and hardware and the software (100 accounts on the same IP isn't really a good idea) and I didn't need to think about the energy cost because we have solar panel and we create way more then we use

 

[Rogue Demon]

Haha, it still works if you're using the right link/method.

what is the right link/method?

 

[Frayman]

I beat my little brother to watch my bot ..its cheaper that way unless mom finds out