[Fireworks]

chipndale, on 26 December 2011 - 02:56 AM, said:

Hi guys, what speed tests do you recommend trying to determine a suitable speed for your location? I read somewhere that your settings should depend a lot on your internet speed and all? Any instructions?

I'm not sure about speed tests, but you can adjust your buy time speed by adjusting the prehaggle & OCR settings.
You see what your ____ms is, then lower your prehaggle & OCR, and see what the new ____ms this time is?

You can keep lowering till you get your desired speed.

[chipndale]

So what would be a safe buying time?

I'm using 5.0-8.0/0.5-0.8/0.8-1.0 and average buy time around 2900 ms. I'm missing about half the items though.

[Fireworks]

chipndale, on 26 December 2011 - 04:34 AM, said:

So what would be a safe buying time?

I'm using 5.0-8.0/0.5-0.8/0.8-1.0 and average buy time around 2900 ms. I'm missing about half the items though.

According to FAQ, safe buy time is around 1500-1800ms.

You can lower it further. Mine is set to 0.01-0.05 lol but my speed is ranges from 1400-3000ms.

[Kraftwerk]

I got a question about ABing in general... I've been playing for about 5 years legit, how risky is ABing on my main? I like to get trophies and everything on it but lately I'm being a little scared because I see everyone uses shells and stuff, is it because it is always a risk no matter what?

[Fireworks]

Kraftwerk, on 03 January 2012 - 03:24 PM, said:

I got a question about ABing in general... I've been playing for about 5 years legit, how risky is ABing on my main? I like to get trophies and everything on it but lately I'm being a little scared because I see everyone uses shells and stuff, is it because it is always a risk no matter what?

ABing on a main should be less risky than ABing on a shell and transferring NPs here and there. If you do it right (human buy times and rs duration), you shouldn't be frozen.

But yes, people use shells to protect their main. If you do Score Sending to get trophies, there will always be a risk no matter what even if you may have passed the review.

[ImmaBoss]

Just a question here, I am using a proxy for ABing and when I browse around on my ABing acount (not at the same time of course). Is it necessary? The rest of the people in my family play too and I don't want to get them frozen or something. Our acounts are on different emails. I want to know because I NEVER get anything when I use a proxy because my buy times are OVER 9000ms I was using a manual list, but after a week I only got 2 items.

[Xexist]

ImmaBoss, on 14 January 2012 - 02:55 PM, said:

Just a question here, I am using a proxy for ABing and when I browse around on my ABing acount (not at the same time of course). Is it necessary? The rest of the people in my family play too and I don't want to get them frozen or something. Our acounts are on different emails. I want to know because I NEVER get anything when I use a proxy because my buy times are OVER 9000ms I was using a manual list, but after a week I only got 2 items.

Frankly, noone is 100% safe. Even legit players get iced at TNT's whim. But for best protection, yeah, a proxy is needed. Your best bet is it pay for a faster one (assuming you are using a slow free one)

[ImmaBoss]

Xexist, on 14 January 2012 - 03:43 PM, said:

Frankly, noone is 100% safe. Even legit players get iced at TNT's whim. But for best protection, yeah, a proxy is needed. Your best bet is it pay for a faster one (assuming you are using a slow free one)

Ok. Would it be safe if I switch to a faster one? Like, TNT wouldn't get suspicious or anything?

[Rainie]

ImmaBoss, on 14 January 2012 - 02:55 PM, said:

Just a question here, I am using a proxy for ABing and when I browse around on my ABing acount (not at the same time of course). Is it necessary? The rest of the people in my family play too and I don't want to get them frozen or something. Our acounts are on different emails. I want to know because I NEVER get anything when I use a proxy because my buy times are OVER 9000ms I was using a manual list, but after a week I only got 2 items. public/style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif

(Just to clarify a little more)
If you don't want to get your other account(s)/your family's account(s) chain frozen along with your ABing account you should probably use a proxy.
TNT generally doesn't care if accounts have separate emails or anything, they mainly just see if the accounts are under the same IP address & have had interactions or not, and if they fall under those two categories, those accounts generally get chain frozen along with the illegit account :x ~

There are free proxies that are fairly quick, but they're for public use (so other people use them as well).

ImmaBoss, on 14 January 2012 - 06:35 PM, said:

Ok. Would it be safe if I switch to a faster one? Like, TNT wouldn't get suspicious or anything?

My tip would be to just try to at least stay in the same country range (don't use a proxy from China one day and then Australia or something like that)

[ImmaBoss]

Rainie, on 14 January 2012 - 06:45 PM, said:

(Just to clarify a little more)
If you don't want to get your other account(s)/your family's account(s) chain frozen along with your ABing account you should probably use a proxy.
TNT generally doesn't care if accounts have separate emails or anything, they mainly just see if the accounts are under the same IP address & have had interactions or not, and if they fall under those two categories, those accounts generally get chain frozen along with the illegit account :x ~

There are free proxies that are fairly quick, but they're for public use (so other people use them as well).



My tip would be to just try to at least stay in the same country range (don't use a proxy from China one day and then Australia or something like that)

Awesome. And yeah, if I did switch countries It would be really slow XD Thanks for the help, I really don't wanna get my family frozen with me if that ever comes along haha. I chose a new proxy, and am getting lower buy times around 2000ms I got 4 items the past hour! Thanks a ton.

[TrampleStutters]

Hey I started using this strategy about yesterday and I'm loving it, I actually prefer seeing all these green lines in my log At first I started with the default 45min per shop, but then I felt like if I was going to go to so many shops I feel like I should rotate much faster. So I put it at 5 minutes per shop, and I'm getting great results with over five items over 50k items bought in 4 hours, but now I'm getting paranoid that its working too well. Is this riskier? Like at this rate is this really much safer then my regular big number AB'ing?

[nymh]

Scot aka Texas Dolly

This post has been edited by nymh: 17 January 2012 - 07:33 AM

[Scot]

nymh, on 17 January 2012 - 07:30 AM, said:

Scot aka Texas Dolly

!!!!!!

I love you!!!

[punkrockbigmouth]

Get a room, you two.

[Scot]

It's a good thing no one ever reads this far

[KnitsFire]

Im frikin jealous! I've made round 2mill in the 7 months siince I started, and I thought it was decent. Now im ashamed. XD

[Mewant]

lol just read this entire thread! and yes some people read it all.

[MarvelGirl]

I just became advanced today, I love this topic. I am surprised I have never seen it before. Great information and very helpful.

*swoon* Scot your so awesome. *swoon*

[rzerox]

Nice Record you got there (:

[pdon69]

Those are some great charts you have there. As a researcher, I always love the inclusion of graphs and tables. Glad you made a good income.

[Scot]

pdon69, on 25 January 2012 - 02:10 PM, said:

Those are some great charts you have there. As a researcher, I always love the inclusion of graphs and tables. Glad you made a good income.

Heh. Peed on 69