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i used to have that in my profile. when my bf and i were sharing accounts. i removed it after reading that article, doesn't stop me from sharing though =/

Unless they saw that you were playing 24 hours a day, I doubt they would ever freeze you for sharing accounts. Even if they saw multiple IP addresses being used, they really can't assume that that indicates more than one person using an account.

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XXXX says 'I'm so happy that you are my owner!'

Showed an UC picture of him. Ugh. I wish he was UC.

Seriously? Clothes is one of my absolute favourite places to AB. I probably get more NP from clothes than anywhere else; even stamps.

Err, my bad. I meant the Super Happy Icy land of chia pops and shit, not clothes. I know clothes is typically pretty active, but the few times I tried ABing there, I found that my rather liberal times were still too slow, and I missed 9/10 things. Wasn't worth it.

edit: My bad again. Just reread the OP, and saw he was in the igloo. XP

Totally read that as "lump of Scot"

Seriously though, yeah, Scot's kinda puts that to shame. Also, I'm shocked that anyone actually ABs in that shop. I know Scot listed it in the Super System thread, but man, I've always found that place to be deeeeeeead.

Hey guys, I've been thinking about this topic for a while and I've come to the conclusion that ABing is not safe, unless I'm somehow misinterpreting how AB'ing works or TNT is completely stupid.

I am under the impression that AB'ing works like this:
Abrosia waits for a certain amount of time (between 2 fixed amounts) and refreshes until a desirable item is found.
Abrosia then waits some more, clicks on the item, waits even more, and finally purchases the item.
It switches to a different store after 300 refreshes.

Here are the main issues of AB'ing:
1. Normality. It is reasonably safe to assume that the distribution of time it takes for a human being to refresh is approximately normal (this is a common phenomenon). However, my observations show that Abrosia apparently does not implement this; If I enter 8 to 10 seconds as the waiting time, it will wait a random amount of time between 8 to 10 seconds, with each time having equal probability.
2. Accuracy. Abrosia switches stores exactly every 300 refreshes - this is a pretty clear indicator that somebody is using a program. What kind of legit AB'er counts exactly how many times they refresh in one store then switches to another store after 300 refreshes? This is pretty ridiculous if you ask me.
3. Endurance. Many of us often leave Abrosia on for long periods of time, meaning that it's refreshing every few seconds, without breaks, for hours at a time. Regular human beings are incapable of doing this. There is just no way you can refresh at a screen every day for hours without getting bored or tired.
4. Fatigue. Even if you could refresh for hours a time, you're going to be tired at the end of that marathon, which will result in slower reflexes and longer refresh rates. Unless you're pumping red bull into your system the whole time, your speed will decline.

This is why it surprises me that TNT is so ineffective at catching AB'ers, even with all the dead giveaways.
Any input on this topic is appreciated. Discuss.

1. You assume that someone is going to do nothing but stare at their computer screen for hours at a time. If they did that, and were not distracted at all, then maybe the distribution would be normal. But people are going to do other things, and their refresh times are not going to be a normal distribution. The randomness is fine.
2. Advanced membership solves this problem. Scheduled your times and change the amount of time spent in one shop. Problem solved.
3. Again, scheduler.
4. I agree with this, but only to a certain point. If you turn the ABer on for an hour or two and just let it run (which is how most people probably do it), then yeah, this could be suspicious and unrealistic. However, in the past couple of days I've had the time to monitor the shop(s) that I was restocking in while playing Neopets legit, and only when I saw that there were free item slots for a restock did I load up Abrosia for ~15 minutes max. Alternatively, you could schedule that, but you would be less accurate in coinciding with shop restocks. You have a point here, but again, scheduling can help quite a bit.