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

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!