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

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!