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How long do you run your bots per day?

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slysiggle

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How long do you run your bot(s) per day, and how long do you keep them offline between botting sessions (if at all)?

Have any of your bots ever been banned?
 
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I've been running a 5x dungeon farming team 24/7 for the last 21 days on fresh $5 accounts. No bans yet. My game time is up in 9 days...

Uptime has been 99% (aside from server down time) and with about 5% interaction.

Made almost 2M gold so far stashed away in a variety of guild banks, alt accounts, and mules accounts. Not bad for the first time botting.
 
Centrifuge said:
I've been running a 5x dungeon farming team 24/7 for the last 21 days on fresh $5 accounts. No bans yet. My game time is up in 9 days...

Uptime has been 99% (aside from server down time) and with about 5% interaction.

Made almost 2M gold so far stashed away in a variety of guild banks, alt accounts, and mules accounts. Not bad for the first time botting.
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Is instance farming 100% AFK (you just passively get gold) or do you have to manually AH a lot of stuff?
 
slysiggle said:
Is instance farming 100% AFK (you just passively get gold) or do you have to manually AH a lot of stuff?
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They sometimes get stuck - but that is what LogMeOut and HBRelog are for :)

It can take some work to get setup though - Azyul has great dungeon script to get you started. His profiles work well enough, but I'd sit down figure them out and tune them to be faster / better / more efficient for what your focus is. If you shave off 2-3 minutes off a dungeon run, that increases your GPH. Though the most important thing is reliability - a stuck bot and flaky profile makes 0 gold.

When I first started, I saved all the cloth/recipes/epics in the guild bank...but after filling 5 guild banks with 7 tabs each I realized I had enough cloth to make 10k bags...
Too much stuff for even the AH to handle - plus doing a bunch of auctions makes it way to obvious and you get reported.
So now I just vendor all of it - makes things simpler.

Go into it knowing you'll get banned anyway within 1-2 weeks, just insure you have a backup plan for when you do get banned (so you don't lose the gold) and don't risk your main accounts.
 
I use my bot every single day since release of MoP, but all I really do is using a rotation with the botbase enyo..
 
if i find something in-game i can't automate, i dont do that thing again.

and yeah, everyone gets banned. its just a matter of time. count on it, prepare for it, it will happen.
 
What's sad is if you get reported by another botter. This is something I will never understand.
 
I only really bot while I'm at the PC but that's normally around 8-14 hrs a day, although I'll leave a bot running unattended for a couple of hours if I'm confident it's a solid, non-stuck profile or if I have LogMeOut set with some stringent settings to protect me. Max 3 accts normally, doing a wide variety of things.

I was paranoid as hell for the 1st 6th months and only used rotations on my "main" acct, but now I bot just as hard on that, I've got duplicates of all the classes I care about on a "safe" acct on the same battlenet now anyway, so if I get banned I should just be able to reactivate that.

I'm starting to suspect that one of the reasons I've never had a sniff of a ban is because most of the accts are very old (used to multibox), but that's just speculation. Apart from that, also never had a single accusatory whisper or comment from another player, but I do try to "bot smart".

I don't tend to do any one thing for more than 3hrs before switching to another char.
 
Yeah, if you view accounts as expendable (IE won't last more than the 1 month included gametime) you can bot 24/7 because it usually takes that long for Blizzard to get around to banning you. If you want to keep a botting account around for a while, play it like it's a real account, so do max 10 hours/day and try to throw in some manual play and/or switch up what you are botting (so do gathering for 2 hours, 1 hour break, grind dungeons for 2 hours, break, etc). As has been said before, don't bot on an account you care about.
 
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