Thoughts about VM's and socks.

[pimpampum]

After this last day ban, I've started to wonder the utility of Virtual machines and p r o x i e s when botting d3. It would be great if some experienced people in these matters would teach me and other completely uneducated folks about them.

So far I've read at least 15 threads regarding them, in both Honorbuddy and Demonbuddy forums. But honestly there seems to be 50% people who think they are completely useless and another 50% of people who find them necessary.

What are your thoughts on them? They obviously use up a lot of resources, are pretty difficult to setup for the non-advanced user, and cost money (if you want to use official ones, which is recomended by bossland himself).

Also that Socks / sockets thing is kind of a p r o x y service that allows you to set different external IP's for every VM, even though they share the same router, or I just understood it all wrong? It also costs additional money?

Please post if you have useful info about them, saying "they are good" or "they suck" is not helpful at all if you can't give us more details why!

 

[ad3ddd]

It is pretty much correct, yeah. VMs do use up a lot of resources. You don't need to use official software, however, there is no difference. It is not hard at all to set it up, but it takes time. Prior to the banwave that occurred ~5 months ago, me and many other ppl used to do that, without using proxies, just to fake a different hardware id and client id of the game. Back then, it turned out none of that matters, as many ppl (including myself) got chars banned.
Now, Socks Proxies do work like you think they do , you connect to a socks pr oxy and the VM uses the socks p roxy address as its own ip address. It seems like a blessing, right? Well, that isn't quite the case.. Firs off, non public proxies cost money. Then, there are different connection issues to different proxies, meaning your toons could experience lags. This is all an enormous effort to accomplish something, that is most likely absolutely unnecessary and in most cases unrelated to the flagging techniques blizzard uses.

That is strictly my opinion on the matter, tho, i encourage anyone who has had a better, or different experience with VMs to share it and elaborate.

 

[carguy]

As ad3ddd said, it's a waste of time and energy. There is no proof, in fact there is tons of proof proving against this logic that separate ips and vms are a waste.

 

[Cocaine]

I prefer goldtoe socks.

 

[tyheezy]

From my personal experience just with proxies, all that fancy stuff is a waste. I purchased private proxies from IPVanish. Using my laptop as my botting rig just 1 bot. Traded everything gathered during the day to my RL friend through his own computer. Trying to make it look as legit as I can. He than sold me back to my main for what he gave me (middle man), with me using my personal PC. Got banned on Saturday both accounts and his was untouched. So even with different hardware ID and ***** IP blizzard still got me. Although it took them awhile to do it. So take this piece of info into consideration, I don't know what method they have, but for sure they'll get you. Now I'm upgrading my rig to run as many bots possible 24/7.