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!

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!

Arielle and epic quests access for old Castle Age players

I had a surprise while using my new account to start again from level 0 with Castle Age. There are some kind of quests that are NOT available to older players. Those quests have skill points and a new general with the full armor set as final rewards. The new general is Arielle and is not a bad general at all. She can reach 18 Attack and 16 Defense (21/19  with full armor set) as stats and this is quite good for a starting player.
Looking around for information on these quests I learned that they are not available to older player but also that you can circumvent this fact by accessing the quests using direct links. This way I was able to obtain Arielle also with my higher level player profile.
Here are the direct links to use to access the Epic Quests that gives Arielle and her armor set:

• City of Jiraya: Skill points + Lands or Soldiers
• Kingdom of Earth: Skill points + Lands or Soldiers
• Kingdom of Mist: Skill points + Lands/soldiers + Arielle
• Kingdom of Water : Docks: Skill points + Lands/soldiers + Shield of Arielle
• Kingdom of Water : Underground Caves: Skill points + Lands/soldiers + Armor of Arielle
• Kingdom of Water : Dark Tower: Skill points + Lands/soldiers + Blade of Arielle

Also here are a Couple of good walkthroughs about the Epic Quests:

• Arielle Quest and Gear
• Epic Quest Walkthrough 

Have fun!!

free castle age favor points

Now this is a nice surprise!
You are playing Castle Age like every day and have a look at your facebook news stream and find someone saying they've got 20 free favor points by clicking a link!
Now I just thought it was a scam of some kind, as there's plenty of this around...
Then I had a look at the link and noticed it was a CastleAge regular link...
So I tried it and, big surprise, it really worked!! Even though it works only once, it gives you 20 favor points for free. I would not give them away.

I want to share the link with you. Use this cheat, trick, bug or whatever you want to call it and tell your friends to use it too before CastleAge developers fix it!!!

Get FREE 20 Favor Points!

autoaccept friends request facebook bookmarklet

Now, say you want to start playing Castle Age (or Mafia Wars or Knighted or similar games) from scratch with a new Facebook profile because now you know the game very well.
First thing you need is friends. Many of them to build up your army to get fast to the 501 limit.
So you go and subscribe to all these Facebook AddMe, GrowYourArmy, FastAdd group and start writing "add me" everywhere and asking for friendship.
Then you come back after a while and have hundreds of friend requests pending in your facebook.
Clicking on each one of them is a pain. Normally you'd use JgrabAllGifts for such a thing but I just recently found out that its friend request accept feature is now broken.
So, scratching my own itch, I developed a new bookmarklet that does the job of accepting all the friend requests in your account for you. It is still a bit buggy but I want to release it anyway as I don't think I'll work on it again anytime soon.

Here it is, the facebook friends autoaccept bookmarklet script:
Facebook Friend Requests Auto Accept

To use it, bookmark the link, go to your Facebook requests page and click on the bookmark. It will accept a friend request every 2 seconds. Just let it work for you. It will show an alert when it's done.
Some friend requests will remain unaccepted, both because it still has some bugs, and also because it is limited to accepting at most 50 friend requests at time.
If you still have friend requests to accept, simply reload the requests page and click on the bookmarklet again until you are done.

Let me know what you think about this new bookmarklet!!
Have fun!

fixed autojoin bot for castle age after facebook broke it

In the last couple of days Facebook (or the Castle Age developers, I don't know) has put some changes online that broke my last EliteGuard autojoin bookmarklet bot. The problem is that iframes are not allowed anymore.
So I just fixed this problem by making a new Elite Guard auto join bookmarklet that uses the old code that opens new windows/tabs but chooses guard members from your own army. That guarantees that you will have your elite guard filled every time you use it. Also this technique isn't traceable from Facebook or Castle Age developers so you can use it without worries.

Usage is the same: bookmark the link, click on it, if you are redirected click on it again and it should start working. If it doesn't, check your browser permission to open popups (for chrome you have to give permission to [*.]apps.facebook.com). The recommended browser for this one is Firefox.

Let me know if this works for you. If you report problems it is more likely that I fix them, if I can.

Here is the fixed EliteGuard AutoJoin Bookmarklet Bot:

Elite Guard Auto Join Bookmarklet Bot

Have fun!

autojoin castleage eliteguard bot

Hello.
As in the past days the news feed from Castle Age wasn't working, I have come with a bookmarklet bot that does autojoin Elite Guard using the people in your army instead of those published in the news feed.
I also have used all the new techniques of the other recent bookmarklet I made.
This autojoin bot features:

• works with every browser
• no need to install extensions or other programs
• the requirement of the additional tab/window has gone by using iframes
• simple to use, just bookmark it
• undetectable as it uses your browser to do actions like it was you
• it will fill your elite guard

So here it is. Instructions are the same: bookmark it then click on it, wait for redirect and click on it again. Very simple.

AutoJoin Elite Guard bookmarklet bot

Let me know if this works for you!

Have fun!

Automatically send bulk gifts to friends on Castle age

Hello everybody.

With the recent additions to the CastleAge facebook game, it is pretty useful to have unused alchemy stuff. I'm talking about the goblin emporium where you are able to trade 10 unused alchemy item with a random object. This is really a good idea from the Castle Age staff to give importance to otherwise unused items.

What I'm about to describe is a nice hack (or cheat as some of you may call it) to gift a friend a very large number of objects automatically. You could also do it for yourself by using an additional Castle Age account but this is not recommended as it is against game policies to have more than one account per person.
I used for testing this hack two browser so that I could have two facebook accounts open at the same time, mine and that of my friend who helped me.

Before starting I installed this extensions on the browsers:

• Chrome Refresh for Chrome (a new refresh icon will appear on the right of the address bar)
• ReloadEvery for Firefox. Restart Firefox after installation (this extension adds a menu that actives when you right-click somewhere on the page)

The procedure is somewhat similar to what I described in a previous post.

Now take Firefox with facebook logged with your friend's account and go to Castle Age, then Army and Send Gifts tab. Choose the gift you want to bulk send (I suggest that you choose one that the Goblin Emporium accepts) and choose your own facebook account from the list. Proceed to send the gift until the answer from the game is "1 request sent".

Now keep Firefox like this and start up Chrome. Log in to your own Facebook account, head up to the friend request page and accept the gift your friend has just sent. Now comes the hack part: click on the Chrome Refresh extension icon, set 30 seconds and click start. Leave it refreshing like this.

Go back to Firefox, click on the arrow next to the reload icon, choose 30 seconds there too. Watch this reload process. Firefox will ask if you want the request data to be sent again with the refresh event. Say yes. Then it will ask again if you want the data to be sent at every refresh, say yes again.

The trick is done. As long as you keep both browsers like this you'll have a constant flow of gift from one account to the other. Just try to keep the volume low or else the developers could get suspicious and decide that what you do is against the policy and delete the accounts. You have been warned.

Have fun!

Autojoin your elite guard on Castle Age

Hello all.

When playing CastleAge on Facebook, you have to get back to the game very often.
Also, at least once a day you have to browse the Castle Age newsfeed for elite guard requests to populate your elite guard so that you are stronger in fights with the other players and deal more damage to monsters. This is quite boring and repetitive, also because if the other players elite guard is already full, you can't join it and have to look for other players.
As I play CastleAge every day, I had enough of this boring repetitive clicking. So I wrote a little javascript bookmarklet that could do the job for me. It's code it's pretty simple, and all it does is scan the page for elite guard join links and open them in new windows. It is a very rough hack so don't expect much from it. But it gets the job done.
Using it is very simple. Just bookmark this AutoJoinEliteGuard link with your favorite browser and go to the Castle Age Facebook newsfeed, elite guard section (or just click here: http://apps.facebook.com/castle_age/army_news_feed.php?type=guard). It won't work if you're not at that page. When the page has finished loading, just click on the AutoJoinEliteGuard bookmark and it will click on the links for you.
Warning, the script opens a new window for each elite guard join link it finds, so don't be scared. It usually opens more than twenty pages for me.
Wait for the pages to load and close them.

I'll try to get a more polite version as soon as I have some free time to work on it.

Let me know what you think of it!

Have fun

Castle Age auto attack and auto defend cheat

Hello.

While playing Castle Age on facebook you often choose a monster/dragon to fight and want to use all your stamina or energy in this fight. This can be a tedious task that requires a lot of clicking (depending on your energy/stamina) and also a lot of time as the game doesn't allow you to click too fast.
There is a simple trick that allows you to just set it up and come back after all your energy/stamina has been used.
First you have to install an auto reload extension in your browser:
if you use Google Chrome click here
if you use Firefox click here (you might have to restart your browser)

When you have the auto reload extension installed successfully go to Castle Age, choose your monster and do the attack if you want to use the stamina or dispel magic/defense/whatever if you want to use the energy.
After the first attack/defense you should see a link with the text "Attack again" or "Defend again" just below the attack result. Right click on that link and choose open in new tab or in new window as per your likings.
This new tab/window will have a full url that specifies the attack/defense action. Just set up this tab/window to be reloaded every time interval (be sure to use 10 seconds or more) and your character will fight the monster for you!!

Enjoy!

Auto accepting all requests and gifts in Mafiawars Castleage and others

Hello all.
When playing a lot of games on facebook and having a big army/neighbors number/whatever you often login to facebook to see dozens of request from each game. Accepting them all is a very time consuming process as it requires you to click, go to the game page, do something and get back to the request page and start again.

A way to automate this process exists and actually works really well. It supports a lot of applications on facebook (I think I actually never found an app that can not be handled this way) including Mafia Wars, Castle Age, Farmville, Cafè World. It is a bookmarklet from Josh Miller and can be found here.
It is really easy to use.
First point your browser to the bookmarklet page. Scroll down till you see the JGrabAllGifts box. Then bookmark this link (or drag it to the bookmarks bar if you are using Chrome).
After this, go your facebook home, click here to go to your facebook requests page. This steps is important because JGrabAllGifts works only if invoked from the requests page.
Now click on the bookmark you did before. The interface of JGrabAllGifts will appear on the right of the page. Now first click "scan page for apps I use". This will produce a list of application identifiers. Copy the ones you are interested in to the above box, select the max number of gifts to accept and click start. It is better to try just one gift first to see if it is working. It usually requires you to allow popups for the facebook site since it opens new windows to work. If you don't allow it, the gifts will be lost.
It is also a good idea to manually accept some gifts if they give you bonuses, like those of Mafia Wars do. When you got the daily bonuses, start JGrabAllGifts.

In the end, you'll enjoy JGrabAllGifts a lot. It is a great timesaver and it is updated often from the author. A very good tool!

Tips and Tricks for Castle Age Facebook

Hello.
These are a couple of websites with very good information on how to play the Castle Age on Facebook game.
First one is a collection of tips and you can find it at:

http://www.squidoo.com/castleagetips

The other one is a complete wiki created by Castle Age users. You can find it at:

http://castleage.wikidot.com/

This site really has everything you wanted to know about the game. It is also always up to date.

I'm working on a cheat to auto add people to your Elite Army. Be sure to get back from time to time to see if I was able to complete it.

Cheers