kuwaz

@Valorous

 

If I had to guess, most of your expenses are for the servers, so why not just outsource the hosting to the end user and let people host the webapp themselves? Maybe charge people a one time fee for software itself and offer free updates, then charge for premium version updates.

 

Regardless of what happens, you'll be making some money on just the code itself. Even if people decide to pirate the software, you'll still make some money on the premium version updates. This is better than a net loss just to run some DRM on the software.

 

Basically the same model that most open-source software startups use, the software itself is free, but the enterprise features, updates, and support are not.

Thank you so much for clarifying this for me, kuwazome!

I'm getting out of using a VPN and changing to proxies so I can use ValorSuite, so your information will be a great help to me as I try to figure out the best locations to buy proxies from.

 

The proxy can also be used manually as a means to completely separate your regular IP from the bot.

I have an old laptop with a virtual machine that I use when I go on neopets manually for that bot account.

 

For bot control

ValueSuite Server > Your Proxy Server > Neopets Server

It's been discussed above in this thread that your proxy location has a great impact on latency / speed of connections, which to me would translate into your ability to successfully AutoBuy.

I'm still a bit confused trying to grasp the way the connections work, so I would appreciate a clarification on this question ...

 

If I was trying to improve my AB times by the location of the proxy (not by changing any settings in ValorSuite) - would I be better off buying a proxy in or near Atlanta (where the servers for VS are) or a proxy in or near New York (where I believe the servers for Neopets are - please, jump in and correct me if I am wrong about this.)

I would *guess* the answer is Atlanta?

Also I've read the servers for Neopets are in New York but it's a big state ... does that mean New York City, or elsewhere? For example, if the servers were in Niagara Falls NY would Cleveland Ohio be a good nearby proxy location?

 

Thank you in advance for any clarifications.

 

 

 

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ETA Clarify: Originally, I posted a question then figured out the answer later.

Rather then double post, I'm editing this original post to add a new question that I have.

 

It goes like this:

ValueSuite Server > Your Proxy Server > Neopets Server

 

Its best to have the proxy somewhere between the location of ValueSuite and Neopets. There will be some latency regardless of where you choose, simply because theres 3 servers involved. As for latency within the same state, its pretty much not a concern, latency only becomes a problem once the distance is much greater.

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Hi,

 

Here's a guide to setting up your own full anonymous proxy.

 

I personally use Google Cloud Platform - Compute Engine, it has a pretty decent always free (not just 1 year like AWS) option. Worse case you'll spend less than a dollar a month, I setup a $1 budget to get alerts on the service.

See: https://cloud.google...ts#compute_name

 

Squid Proxy Setup

• Create a Virtual Machine (VM) on a cloud provider
  • For GCP you will need a f1-micro
  • Make sure to use one of these regions: us-east1, us-west1, us-central1, zone doesnt matter for you, thats for high availability
  • Egress (outbound traffic) is only 1GB per month free, so stick to using valor only on this. Traffic to non-Americas is not included in the free plan
  • Ignore the $4.28 per month estimated, you should get 700+ hours free credit, varies depending on days in the month
  • Make sure to read both of these documents: https://cloud.google.com/free and https://cloud.google...559#always-free
  • Make sure to set the billing budget and alert, it wont stop it but will let you know if its costing you money.
  • Stop the vm to stop the cost from rising, keep in mind disk space still count even if the vm is stopped.
• Create firewall rule for origin 0.0.0.0/0 TCP port 3128 inbound to your VM instance
• Choose Container-optimized Linux for your image, or a generic VM and install docker
• SSH into your VM
  • For GCP you can just use Cloud Shell
• Run the following command

docker run -d --name proxy -p 3128:3128 kuwaz/proxy entry (username) (password) ;

 

• Please test your proxy is working before using, you might get frozen otherwise
• To use the proxy, it needs to be formatted like this:

http://{username}:{password}@{external-ip}:3128 # for normal use

{username}:{password}@{external-ip}:3128 # for valorsuite use

 

• Get the IP from your VM, usually ip addr works, but for GCP the external IP is actually in the web console
• To test your proxy, run this command locally or from some other machine
• If you're on windows you will need to install git bash (https://git-scm.com/download/win)

export https_proxy="http://{username}:{password}@{external-ip}:3128" && curl "https://api.ipify.org?format=json"

# response should be proxy's ip

 

Thanks

Ghetto++

 

So this is my 3-minute-effort "script" for adding a bunch of super ghetto links to your neo shop...

I made this cuz I got so tired of copying and pasting shit to looking on shop wiz and trading post,

and at the same time didnt care enough to make it properly.

 

How safe is it? NO IDEA. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!

But I'm assuming if you dont spam click links its at the same risk rate of refresher

 

This is a bit of a DIY, so that you can see for yourself this aint some phising script.
Only tested in chrome tempermonkey, probably same thing in greasemonkey obviously.

 

1. Install tempermonkey:

https://chrome.googl...ejmpbldmpobfkfo

 

2. Go get jQuery and copy the source

http://code.jquery.c...y-1.10.2.min.js

 

3. Make a new script in tempermonkey

4. Paste in this crap below into your new script

// ==UserScript==
// @name       Neopets
// @namespace  http://www.neopets.com/
// @version    1.000
// @description  Neopets Usershop Wizard?
// @[member="match"]      http://www.neopets.com/market.phtml*
// @copyright  2013
// ==/UserScript==

/////////// PASTE JQUERY HERE /////////

/* OOOOO */
$(document).ready
(
	function()
	{
		var $rows =
		$("form[action='process_market.phtml'] > table tr") ;

		$rows.each(function()
		{
			var $this = $( this ) ;
			var $cell = $this.find( "td:first" ) ;
			var htmls = $cell.html() ;
			var texts = $cell.text() ;

			if( !htmls.match( "input" ) )
			{
				$cell
				.append
				(
					"<br/>" +
					"<a class='wizardz' href='#' >Wizardz</a><br/>" +
					"<a class='tradez' href='#' >Tradez</a><br/>"

				)
				.on
				(
					"click",".wizardz",function()
					{
						var form =
						"<form id='Wizardz' " +
							"method='POST' " +
							"action='//www.neopets.com/market.phtml' " +
							"style='display:none;' " +
							"target='_blank' >" +
							"<input name='table' value='shop' />" +
							"<input name='type' value='process_wizard' />" +
							"<input name='shopwizard' value='"+texts+"' />" +
							"<input name='feedset' value='0' />" +
							"<input name='criteria' value='exact' />" +
							"<input name='min_price' value='0' />" +
							"<input name='max_price' value='99999' />" +
						"</form>" ;

						$( "#Wizardz" ).remove()
						$( "body" ).append( form ) ;
						$( "#Wizardz" ).submit() ;
						return false ;

					}

				)
				.on
				(
					"click",".tradez",function()
					{
						var form =
						"<form id='Tradez' " +
							"method='POST' " +
							"action='//www.neopets.com/island/tradingpost.phtml?type=browse' " +
							"style='display:none;' " +
							"target='_blank' >" +
							"<input name='search_string' value='"+texts+"' />" +
							"<input name='criteria' value='item_exact' />" +
							"<input name='sort_by' value='newest' />" +
						"</form>" ;

						$( "#Tradez" ).remove()
						$( "body" ).append( form ) ;
						$( "#Tradez" ).submit() ;
						return false ;

					}

				) ;

			}

		}) ;

	}

) ;

5. Replacing

 

/////////// PASTE JQUERY HERE /////////

 

With that jQuery 1.10 you just copied

 

6. Save it and it'll run on market.phtml*

7. Now you should have a bunch of random links beside every item in your shop, clicking it just submits a form to the appropriate linkz

8. Enjoy my shitty 3 minute code

 

It's about -5 to -10 here. Not nearly as cold as where I was born... which is -20 to -30... my grandma says its -20 lately.

PROOF:





REQUIREMENTS:

1) IQ of less than 100
2) Played neopets for more than 31,536,000 seconds
3) Have less than 500 posts



HOW TO:

In order to learn how to dupe, you must send me a private message as follows:



I, YOUR NAME HERE, hereby acknowledge
the fact that I am a creature of lower intelligence and by admitting such a fact I will
better prepare myself to learn the master arts of duplication-jutsu.



Good luck!

I'm getting RS banned every day I use Abrosia after maybe 3 hours total. Whether it's 3 hours in a row or 2 on, one off, then one on. It doesn't seem to matter how many breaks I take. I've started it up and been rs banned within 10 minutes before.
What am I doing wrong?

My settings are:

Wait delay: 9.3-13
Pre-haggle delay: 1.2-1.9
OCR page delay: 1.1-1.4

Haggle Algorithm: Smart
Haggle Percentage: 5%

Profit margin: 6,000

Use more than one shop.

I used a proxie to make it..

You have to use a proxy to make, and proxy needs to be
used while accessing the account at all times.

Which doesn't sound reasonable because anonymous proxies
are insanely slow to play on.

Rep me bastards.

Okay, this is what I don't get, why is childish to collect Pokemon figures?
I mean Otakus collect eroge/anime figures, and since they're more "adult" it's
just geeky and not childish. It's just figures... I mean, if he collected
Warhammer figures would that still be childish?

I collect magic cards, does that make me a childish person or geek? No, I just
like the art on magic cards, and I'm a designer, so that's my reasoning.
I also find the game very mentally challenging, more fun than playing chess.

I don't think it's right to call him childish for liking to collect something,
its the same as any other collector, just because he doesn't collect stamps
or coins, doesn't means he needs to grow up.

I'm 19 and I read doraemon because its good, nothing to do with childishness,
I've been reading it since I was 7, and I still like the series because its
creative and innovative, and certainly better than 18+ manga that just revolves
around senseless killing that really does get old... For your information,
I read pretty much EVERY genre and age group; I read ero too, because its got
the best art despite having really shallow and sadistic stories (which I avoid).

Don't know if you've played Prototype, but that game is violence to the max,
sure loved hacking people apart for awhile, then it got boring. I mean, things that
are classified as "grown up" can get boring real quick. Perhaps I should
go to a shooting range? I'm pretty sure I'd get bored of that eventually too.

Let me use a more practical example, camera "freaks", I know many of them
that don't use it for a professional use, and spend 10 grand easy on camera+lenses,
now these people are probably more fanatic than a pokemon figure collector. I use
my camera for professional uses, and spent 2000 for my most expensive lens, does
that somehow justify this that so called hobby because I'm using it for pro?

Be a little more open-minded and don't just others just because of some
hobbies they got, you probably have hobbies and habits you don't want to talk
about, in fact, everyone has some sort of hobby, maybe not collecting things.
I think hes better off brave enough to announce his hobbies without shame,
that's my take on that.

Um what?

I would if I had the attention span to, I doubt I would get half way through before I would just give up, I did that with Brotherhood only 10 episodes in.

Hell, the last manga I remember reading in full from start to finish was Chobits a few years ago, I've grown incredibly lazy over the years and just can't read that much unless it's over a long period of time.

Chobits was alright, I don't really like Clamp, they're women doing shounen,
which sometimes end up a little strange.

Brotherhood is starting to pick up, it was very bad because they redid everything
to catch up to the manga, and the original FMA series was good, but if you read the
manga you may not agree, since it really derailed big time. FMA is another one of
those female mangaka doing shounen, ending up a little different, but its pretty
successful, and I personally enjoy most of it. Except zero progress on Winry.

I'm reading books also ATM (non-anime related)

But once my reading schedule clears up, I'm going to jump on this series.

Looks pretty good from the wiki

It's like real life eroge lol, without the ero.

I need picture books, I'm confident my IQ isn't 80 but I still need picture books.
It's a pretty bad habit I developed, can't read real books without getting sleepy.

I don't know who messed up the english translation of the title, but the one they
have on wiki and other manga sites is grammatically incorrect.

It translates into: The World That Only God Knows

---

Eden of the East is one of my favorite animes lately, having actual americans voice
English roles is really something that struck me as right. I never watch dubbed stuff
and only believe in original of anything, be it anime, movie, products, so naturally
I want english roles to be played by actual english speakers.

I think anime in any other language other than Japanese is just terrible, american
voice acting is just not the same as a seiyu. Fansub all the way for me, or raw.

Sim date player eh? The 2-D girls must love him then...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBnAZ9oFtwY

*added to download queue... I mean rental queue*

Geass is isn't bad... it's mech, but it's not political like Gundam Wing... and I didn't even bother with the other Gundams ><... it's more about the characters than the mechs... I rather like it as original.

Battle Vixens is an action show that doesn't take itself too seriously and has the nice action/comedy/fanervice combo that many men need in their lives... what am I saying? The show is about 60% fanservice, 40% comedy, and 40% action. I know that's more than 100%, but the categories overlap, dammit.

A lot of people love Geass, but yeah, it's still influential due to
Gundam bringing light to the mecha scene, before then it was all about
punks and greaseheads. I've never been a big fan of sci-fi especially
mecha, so I really don't like anything mecha.

Kami-sama is a manga, no anime adaptation yet. It's a decent read
pretty cute art, and it's all about eroge, it's almost funny how sad
the guy is.



That makes me wonder, must be only in Japan you can get eroge on PSP.