It's been a long time since I played some game on Facebook and thus updated this page. But things have been changing lately and I needed some play time so I started playing Castle Age again.
Wow, I was impressed by the number of things that changed in the game and all the additions they made. And I'm not that strong anymore. Not surprising, given that I did not play for a while.
I am still wondering what happened of the Elite Guard and how to get it back, if it is still possible. Anyone has some clue about it?



So how to make up with the lost time? But with a "cheat" obviously! And it's not really a cheat as they are not allowed in the game. But as Castle Age is already taking away so much time, I've come up with a way to save some with a friend. We're still experimenting with it but so far we were able to automate the gift sending process. This allows us to get lots of gifts for our armies or for Kobo, the Goblin Emporium, which will change ten of your items into a random (hopefully high level) item.
So far, we've been able to stock enough item to leverage Kobo for several days (he only allows for ten rolls
each day).

We will polish the technique and will post it when it's ready, hopefully in a few days time. For the moment, here are some preliminary instructions to have the tools you need so that you can be ready for next post!

In this sample setup, you will be using one computer and two Facebook Castle Age accounts. One for you and the other for your friend. The gift sender profile needs to use the Firefox browser. While the gift receiver one will use Google Chrome browser. If you don't have them, you can download them for free from here:

• Firefox
• Google Chrome

After you installed both browser, next step is to install some tools in each one of them. In Firefox, install the iMacros tool that you can download from here:

iMacros per Firefox

To install it, just click on the link and then on "Add to Firefox". Then restart Firefox after installing.

In Chrome, you need the Auto Reload extension that you can download from here:

Chrome Auto Reload extension

To install it, just click on the link and then on "Add to Chrome"

Now we have the basic tools ready for next post!

Let's get in touch again in a few days. Cheers

Castle Age Elite Guard AutoFill updated

Finally I found some time to update one of the bookmarklets I use often. It is the Castle Age EliteGuard AutoFill (AutoJoin was the old name). For those who don't use it, it helps CastleAge players that need the bonuses given by having the Elite Guard full.

Basically the bookmarklet parses the list of the player friends that have sent a "join my elite guard" request and accepts them automatically up to a max of 40 requests.

This new version has been updated to be less invasive (the previous version opened way too much windows) and more accurate.

The bookmarklet needs to be invoked twice. The first will relocate you to the Castle Age game homepage on Facebook. The second invocation will start the true work.

It will open two other windows and you have to keep the three windows open, but you can minimize them without problem. At the end, the windows will close automatically and your EliteGuard will be full.

Here is the bookmarklet:

 Castle Age Elite Guard Auto Fill

As usual, to use it, you have to bookmark that link by right clicking on it or by dragging it to the bookmarks bar (depends on your browser).

Have fun!

Farmville autoclick for Linux script

And yes, I finally got caught by Farm Ville game from Zynga. It is a very addictive game, no wonder there are millions of player.

Now as a good fan of automation scripts and a Linux operating system user, I have searched around for an existing program to cheat with Farmville to automatically click all the fields and plant or harvest all that huge number of fields without buying fuel from the game.
There are many bots and programs around that can automate these actions, but nothing for Linux.

So I decided to write my own and after a day of hacking around, I now have a working prototype of the bot. It is very work in progress but it is actually useful. You might want to try it and send some feedback or correction or improvement, that would be really appreciated.

I plan to release updates to this tool soon as I already have ideas on how to improve the program but not enough free time to do it right now.

Now to the technical part. This program is a Python script and to use it you have to install the python-xlib and python-gtk modules. If you are using a Debian/Ubuntu distribution, this command will do it for you:

sudo apt-get install python-xlib python-gtk2

You can download the script from this link:

FarmVille-autoclicker.py 

To use it, login to Facebook and point your browser to the Farmville game page. Be sure there are no open dialogs in the game window (like offers, gift from friends, etc..) and select the tool you want to automate (plow or plant, for example). Keep this browser window open and open a new terminal window, change to the directory where you downloaded the bot and execute this command:

sleep 5; python FarmVille-autoclicker.py

Immediately after you run the command, switch to the Farmville browser window and wait. After the five second timeout, the mouse cursor will turn into a cross and will allow you to select a rectangle from the Farmville game window. Click on the Farmville game, keep the button pressed, drag the cursor to define the area you want clicked and release the mouse button when you're done. The autoclicker will click all the selected area for you.

This script is still in its early stages, so you might have to try more than one time to have it working.

Be sure to subscribe to this blog if you want to automatically receive updates when new versions are released. To do so, use the Follow link at the top right part of the blog page.

Feedback, bug fixes, suggestions, whatever are really appreciated.

Mandatory warning: autoclicking is against Farm Ville terms of service and using this cheat might have you banned from the game (although I think it should be pretty difficult to discover). Use at your risk.

This tool might also work with other operating systems such as Windows and Mac Os X as I used standard python modules, but I don't have them at hand and could not test it.

Have fun!!

Castle Age Apprentice link gone

It has been a while now that the apprentice link from the homepage of CastleAge has gone.
But I still had to get some rewards from my apprentices and did not know how to get them. It was not nice, because there are some valuables between the apprentice rewards. Mostly are small energy refills and temporary attack and defense boosts, but there are also skill points and favor points too! There is also the general Chase, but you there are other ways in the game to get him, so that doesn't count that much.
Here is the Full list of apprentice rewards

Searching around, I was able to find an old link pointing to the Masters and Apprentice section of the game. And luckily, it is still working! It seems the removed just the link in the homepage but left all the logic working in the game.
That has been a good news.
Now go get any reward you have left: Castle Age Master and Apprentice

It seems to be working for successive rewards too!

Have fun!